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Risk Treatment Plan

What is Risk Treatment Plan?

A documented plan specifying the actions, resources, timelines, and responsibilities for implementing risk treatment measures.

Risk Management

What the standards actually require on risk treatment plan

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

The report should set out the risk treatment plans prepared under 6.4.5: the option chosen per risk, the controls, the residual risk, the owners and the timing, and management's acceptance of the residual risk.

iso-iec-29134-2023::7.6 · 7.6 Risk treatment plan →

Communicate risk treatment plans to relevant stakeholders in clear reporting formats.

australia-guidance-for-ai-adoption-2025::3.3.2 · 3.3.2 Communicate risk treatment plans →
ISO 27005:20222 controls

Input: assessment results. Action: formulate the plan. Trigger: the need to treat risks. Output: the risk treatment plan. Plans treat sets of the prioritised risks so they meet the acceptance criteria of 6.4.2, either as a project plan for implementing control...

iso-27005-2022::8.6.1 · Formulation of the risk treatment plan →
COBIT 20191 control

An information security plan sets out how information security risk is managed and kept consistent with enterprise strategy and architecture. Recommendations for improvement rest on business cases that have been approved;

cobit-2019::APO13.02 · APO13.02 Define and manage an information security and privacy risk treatment plan →

Guidance: a treatment plan specifies how the chosen options will be implemented so that the people involved understand the arrangements and progress can be monitored;

iso-31000-2018::6.5.3 · Preparing and implementing risk treatment plans →

After selecting and implementing a treatment the organization should assess whether the residual risks (not necessarily legal) are acceptable and, if not, adjust or develop a new option and reassess until they are.

iso-31022-2020::5.4.4 · Development and implementation of the risk treatment plan →

Questions people ask about risk treatment plan

What is Risk Treatment Plan?
A documented plan specifying the actions, resources, timelines, and responsibilities for implementing risk treatment measures.
Why is Risk Treatment Plan important for compliance?
Risk Treatment Plan is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding risk treatment plan 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 Plan?
Risk Treatment Plan appears in the requirement text of ISO/IEC 29134:2023, Australia Guidance for AI Adoption (2025), ISO 27005:2022, COBIT 2019, ISO 31000:2018. Across these standards we have identified 10 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Risk Treatment Plan?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how risk treatment 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 1,016 frameworks.

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