See your organization’s risk exposure clearly and keep it inside the limits you set. Risk Management gives risk owners, security teams, and leadership a first-class risk register that sits right beside your frameworks, controls, and policies.
The challenge it solves
Risk registers usually live in a spreadsheet that goes stale the moment it is saved. Scores are inconsistent, reviews slip, and no one can tell which risks sit above the level the business is willing to accept. When an auditor asks how you treat and monitor risk, the answer is hard to assemble.
What you can do
- Score risks consistently: rate likelihood and impact on a 5×5 matrix, mapped to low, medium, high, and critical level bands.
- Track exposure at every stage: see inherent exposure before treatment, residual after controls, and the target you are working toward.
- Set and enforce risk appetite: define the highest residual level you will tolerate, override it per category, and flag anything above it automatically.
- Sign off risks formally: record acceptance with a rationale and expiry, with reminders before it lapses so approvals stay current.
- Map risks to their treatment: link controls, frameworks, tasks, incidents, and evidence for end-to-end traceability.
- Review on a schedule and read the big picture: set a monthly, quarterly, annual, or ad hoc cadence with due and overdue alerts, and view exposure on a color-coded 5×5 heatmap.
Popular use cases
- ISO 27001 risk assessment: run the risk assessment and treatment plan your certification requires.
- Vendor and third-party risk: track supplier risks, the controls that treat them, and residual exposure in one register.
- Operational risk: capture process and operational risks and keep them within the appetite you have set.
- Onboard an existing register: import your current risk spreadsheet with row-by-row validation, no re-keying.
- Board and leadership reporting: export the register and a Risk Treatment Plan, and review distribution by category, level, and acceptance.
- Close the loop on a realized risk: connect an incident back to the risk it realized to show cause and effect.
Works with the rest of ISO Mate
Risk Management lives inside the compliance module, so risks connect to the controls and frameworks that govern them and to the evidence that backs up each assessment. Track mitigation as Tasks, and connect an Incident back to the risk it realized to close the loop. ISO Mate notifies owners when a review is due or overdue and before a risk acceptance expires, so nothing quietly falls out of date.
Key benefits at a glance
- Consistent scoring: one shared 5×5 method across every risk.
- Appetite you can enforce: automatic flags when residual exposure runs too high.
- Audit-ready: formal acceptances, full review history, and a complete audit log.
- Fast onboarding and reporting: CSV import with validation, plus CSV and PDF exports.