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Risk Treatment Option

What is Risk Treatment Option?

The different approaches available for addressing a risk, including avoidance, reduction, sharing, transfer, and acceptance.

Risk Management

What the standards actually require on risk treatment option

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

ISO 27005:20222 controls

Input: prioritised risks with the scenarios leading to them. Action: choose treatment options. Trigger: no treatment plan exists or it is incomplete. Output: prioritised risks with their chosen options.

iso-27005-2022::8.2 · Selecting appropriate information security risk treatment options →

Decide how each risk will be treated: by retaining it, reducing it, avoiding it or transferring (sharing) it. Outcomes 4 and 5; outputs: risk treatment (08-55) and risk status (15-09).

automotive-spice-for-cybersecurity-pam-v2-0::MAN.7.BP4 · MAN.7.BP4 Define risk treatment options →

Guidance: choosing treatment options balances the benefits for the objectives against the cost, effort and disadvantages of implementing them. Options are not mutually exclusive and not all fit every situation;

iso-31000-2018::6.5.2 · Selection of risk treatment options →

Choosing treatment weighs what an option gains against its cost, effort and drawbacks, and options can be combined (ISO 31000:2018, 6.5.2). They are: not starting or stopping the activity so the risk is avoided;

iso-iec-23894-2023::6.5.2 · Selection of risk treatment options →

Carries ISO 31000:2018 6.5.2 into privacy risk: choose options by weighing benefit against the cost and effort of putting them in place.

iso-iec-27557-2022-organisational-privacy-risk-management::6.5.2 · 6.5.2 Selection of risk treatment options →
IEEE 70001 control

The project shall set out at least one EVR, each a socio-technical statement describing risk treatment options (technical, organizational or social) that promote and protect the prioritised core values and realise the value demonstrators, with at least one EVR...

ieee-7000::9.3(a) · Formulate and record ethical value requirements →

Questions people ask about risk treatment option

What is Risk Treatment Option?
The different approaches available for addressing a risk, including avoidance, reduction, sharing, transfer, and acceptance.
Why is Risk Treatment Option important for compliance?
Risk Treatment Option is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding risk treatment option 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 Treatment Option?
Risk Treatment Option appears in the requirement text of ISO 27005:2022, Automotive SPICE for Cybersecurity PAM v2.0, ISO 31000:2018, ISO/IEC 23894:2023, ISO/IEC 27557:2022 - Organisational Privacy 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 Treatment Option?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how risk treatment option 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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