Tracecat
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GV.RM

Risk Management Strategy

The organization's priorities, constraints, risk tolerance and appetite statements, and assumptions are established, communicated, and used to support operational risk decisions

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Stand up a living risk register

Build me a risk register in Tracecat. Create a table with a standardized scoring method: likelihood, impact, inherent and residual risk, owner, and review date. Add an intake path so a risk can be raised from a Tracecat case or a Slack message, scored with the same rubric, and routed to the right owner. Open a Jira ticket for any risk above our review threshold. First help me understand how this maps to GV.RM-06 and why a standardized calculation method matters more than the scores themselves. Ask me what scoring scale we use today, if any. Talk me through keeping the register honest: review cadences, stale-risk flags, and who can accept a risk.

Enforce risk appetite in triage

Build me an automation in Tracecat that encodes our risk appetite statements as triage rules. When a case involves a critical asset, regulated data, or external exposure beyond the stated tolerance, escalate it automatically, require a documented decision, and record who accepted what. Post a monthly summary of accepted risks and tolerance breaches to the leadership channel. First help me understand how this maps to GV.RM-02 and how appetite statements become operational rules instead of shelf documents. Ask me what our current appetite statements say, and help me sharpen them if they are too vague to encode. Talk me through which decisions must stay human and which the automation can apply.

Feed security risks into enterprise ERM

Build me a monthly workflow in Tracecat that translates our security risk register into the enterprise risk format. Pull the top risks by residual score, convert them to the ERM categories and scales used in ServiceNow, attach the trend since last month, and have an agent draft the one-page narrative in Notion for the risk committee. First help me understand how this maps to GV.RM-03 and why cybersecurity risk loses influence when it stays in its own silo. Ask me what format and scales the enterprise register uses. Talk me through handling risks that do not translate cleanly into enterprise categories.

Open lines for risk communication

Build me a risk communication digest in Tracecat. Each week, collect new and changed risks from the register, including supplier and third-party risks, group them by business area, and send each area's digest to its owner in Slack with a reply path that records questions and decisions back to the case. Send the executive version by email monthly. First help me understand how this maps to GV.RM-05 and what good two-way risk communication looks like in practice. Ask me which business areas and owners should receive digests. Talk me through tuning frequency so the digest stays read instead of muted.

Controls

  • GV.RM-01
    PM-9
    RA-7
    SR-2

    Risk management objectives are established and agreed to by organizational stakeholders

  • GV.RM-02
    PM-9

    Risk appetite and risk tolerance statements are established, communicated, and maintained

  • GV.RM-03
    PM-3
    PM-9
    PM-30
    RA-7
    SA-24
    SR-2

    Cybersecurity risk management activities and outcomes are included in enterprise risk management processes

  • GV.RM-04
    PM-9
    PM-28
    PM-30
    SR-2

    Strategic direction that describes appropriate risk response options is established and communicated

  • GV.RM-05
    PM-9
    PM-30

    Lines of communication across the organization are established for cybersecurity risks, including risks from suppliers and other third parties

  • GV.RM-06
    PM-9
    PM-18
    PM-28
    PM-30
    RA-3

    A standardized method for calculating, documenting, categorizing, and prioritizing cybersecurity risks is established and communicated

  • GV.RM-07
    PM-9
    PM-18
    PM-28
    PM-30
    RA-3

    Strategic opportunities (i.e., positive risks) are characterized and are included in organizational cybersecurity risk discussions

Control text and SP 800-53 Rev 5 references from the official NIST CSF 2.0 and OLIR releases.

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