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Risk Landscape

What is Risk Landscape?

The overall picture of an organization's risk environment, including the types, sources, and interconnections of risks it faces.

Risk Management

What the standards actually require on risk landscape

Requirements naming risk landscape across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

DORA1 control

Financial entities other than microenterprises set up, keep and periodically review a robust, comprehensive programme of digital operational resilience testing within the ICT risk management framework, applied proportionately under Article 4(2), to assess inci...

DORA-Art.24 · General requirements for the performance of digital operational resilience testing →

The institution draws up an improvement plan and timetable to close every gap found, endorsed by management with the assessment results;

hkma-cyber-resilience-assessment-framework-c-raf::GEN.6 · Improvement plan and closure of gaps →

The governing body should give the organization a clear grasp of its intentions by setting well-defined strategic outcomes, together with guidance on the strategy for reaching them, that it has concluded will fulfil the purpose and the value generation objecti...

iso-37000-2021::6.3.3.1.1 · 6.3.3.1.1 Set strategic outcomes →

Indicators for strategy and for partnerships and collaborations should reflect the strategic outcomes the governing body has set and the context it considered in setting them (the value generation model, timescales, the risk landscape, the interdependence with...

iso-37005-2024::7.3 · Aspects related to strategy, partnership and collaborations →

Business continuity management is the process of implementing and maintaining the organization's capability to continue delivering its products and services at a capacity set in advance and within tolerable timescales while a disruption lasts (ISO 22313).

iso-iec-27031-2025::6.3 · Business continuity management objectives →

Beside the RDS returns, Lloyd's collects cyber aggregate exposure data from syndicates each year: for 2026 the Cyber Aggregates Data Collection, on a template issued with the RDS documentation in January 2026 (with minor changes from market feedback), is repor...

lloyd-s-of-london-cyber-insurance-requirements-and-underwriting-standards::D3 · Submit the Cyber Aggregates Data Collection and the Cyber RDS refresh data collections →

Questions people ask about risk landscape

What is Risk Landscape?
The overall picture of an organization's risk environment, including the types, sources, and interconnections of risks it faces.
Why is Risk Landscape important for compliance?
Risk Landscape is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding risk landscape helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Risk Landscape?
Risk Landscape appears in the requirement text of DORA, HKMA Cyber Resilience Assessment Framework (C-RAF), ISO 37000:2021, ISO 37005:2024, ISO/IEC 27031:2025. Across these standards we have identified 6 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Risk Landscape?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how risk landscape applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

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