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Risk Management Plan

What is Risk Management Plan?

A documented plan describing how risk management activities will be structured, resourced, and performed throughout a project or program.

Risk Management

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as risk management plan. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on risk management plan

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

FedRAMP High2 controls

Develop a C-SCRM plan for managing supply chain risks for systems, components, and services; review and update at defined frequency.

SR-2 · Supply Chain Risk Management Plan (SR-2)

Develop a C-SCRM plan for managing supply chain risks for systems, components, and services; review and update at defined frequency.

SR-2 · Supply Chain Risk Management Plan (SR-2)

Requires a plan for managing supply chain risk covering the full life of the defined systems, components or services, from research, design and manufacture through purchase, delivery, integration, running and maintenance to disposal, reviewed and updated at a...

NIST800-SR-2 · Supply chain risk management plan

Cybersecurity supply chain risk management plans include provisions for activities that occur after the conclusion of a partnership or service agreement

NIST-CSF-GV.SC-10 · Cybersecurity supply chain risk management plans include provisions for activities that occur after the conclusion of a partnership or service agreement

Requires a plan for managing supply chain risk for the system, reviewed and updated and protected from disclosure.

161R1-SR-2 · Supply Chain Risk Management Plan

Develop a plan for managing supply chain risks associated with the development, acquisition, maintenance, and disposal of systems, system components, and system services; update the plan on defined frequency.

03.17.01 · Supply Chain Risk Management Plan

Questions people ask about risk management plan

What is Risk Management Plan?
A documented plan describing how risk management activities will be structured, resourced, and performed throughout a project or program.
Why is Risk Management Plan important for compliance?
Risk Management Plan is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding risk management plan helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Risk Management Plan?
Risk Management Plan appears in the requirement text of FedRAMP High, FedRAMP Moderate, NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1. Across these standards we have identified 9 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Risk Management Plan?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how risk management plan 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 686 frameworks.

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