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Risk Reporting

What is Risk Reporting?

The communication of risk information to stakeholders through reports that summarize risk levels, trends, incidents, and the status of mitigation activities.

Risk Management

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

What the standards actually require on risk reporting

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

BCBS 2391 control

Risk data aggregation capabilities and risk reporting practices must sit under strong governance consistent with the Committee's other principles (SRP36 now points to the Corporate governance principles for banks, July 2015).

bcbs-239::P1 · Principle 1: governance of risk data aggregation and risk reporting →

The principles apply to systemically important banks at both group and solo level, to all risk management data, to key internal models including Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 capital models and value-at-risk, and to outsourced processes (SRP36.4 to SRP36.8).

basel-iii-international-banking-framework::SRP36 · Meet the risk data aggregation and risk reporting principles (systemically important banks) →

Providers must manage the people responsible for security appropriately, in particular by establishing and regularly reviewing a security policy that includes incident management at varying severities, a standard way of categorising incidents, channels for rep...

uk-telecommunications-security-act-2021::r10 · reg.10 Govern security from board level: policy, incident categorisation, risk reporting, post-incident review and insider risk →

Management develops an IT risk reporting process that assembles and reports IT risk information in a timely, complete, transparent and decision-relevant way, with periodic risk-based reports to senior management, the board and stakeholders who have the authori...

ffiec-it-examination-handbook::MGT-III.D.7 · III.D.7 Reporting (Management) →

The project specifies, builds or acquires the security solutions for the designed mechanisms, applying secure practices to all development and specifying every security configuration parameter in the implementation representation (code, products, network diagr...

canada-itsg-33-it-security-risk-management::A2-3.7.3 · 3.7.3 Specify, develop and test security solutions →

Cyber risk reporting is presented and discussed at the independent risk management meetings.

ffiec-cybersecurity-assessment-tool-cat::D1.TC.Cu.Int.3 · D1.TC.Cu.Int.3 Culture (Intermediate 3) →

Questions people ask about risk reporting

What is Risk Reporting?
The communication of risk information to stakeholders through reports that summarize risk levels, trends, incidents, and the status of mitigation activities.
Why is Risk Reporting important for compliance?
Risk Reporting is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding risk reporting 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 Reporting?
Risk Reporting appears in the requirement text of BCBS 239, Basel III International Banking Framework, UK Telecommunications (Security) Act 2021, FFIEC IT Examination Handbook, Canada ITSG-33 - IT Security Risk Management. Across these standards we have identified 7 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Risk Reporting?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how risk reporting 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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