Cyber Risk Register
Maintain decision-ready risk scenarios with ownership, treatment, dependencies, evidence, and review cadence.
On this page · 4 sections
Applicability & intent
A risk register is not a vulnerability backlog. Each entry should express a plausible cause, event, consequence, affected objective, controls, residual exposure, and decision.
- Document why cyber risk register applies, what is in scope, and who is accountable.
- Translate obligations into owned, testable outcomes with proportionate evidence.
- Track exceptions, residual risk, changes, and corrective actions through governance review.
Governance lifecycle
- 01
Confirm scope, context, interested parties, legal or contractual basis, and authoritative sources.
- 02
Identify desired outcomes, owners, dependencies, existing controls, and evidence sources.
- 03
Assess design and operating effectiveness using representative, time-bound evidence.
- 04
Record gaps, risk, interim protections, target dates, and approval decisions.
- 05
Verify remediation, report residual risk, and schedule reassessment when context changes.
Evidence & assurance
| Evidence family | Assurance question |
|---|---|
| risk scenario and business consequence | Does governance establish accountable direction? |
| control and treatment evidence | Does the process operate consistently? |
| acceptance, review, and change history | Can the claimed outcome be independently verified? |
Evidence should be attributable, current, protected, reproducible, and linked to an accountable owner. A document alone does not demonstrate that a control operates effectively.
Readiness decisions
- Write scenarios in cause-event-impact form.
- Name one accountable risk owner.
- Close risks only after verification or explicit acceptance.