Risk you can defend.
Most of your risks are already written down, in SOC 2 exceptions, scan results, and last year's assessment. TruOps turns them into a register you can act on and explain.
| Risk | L | I | V | Exposure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R-114 Public bucket, prod data | 4 | 5 | 4 | $1.2M |
| R-121 Backup restore untested | 3 | 4 | 2 | $640K |
| R-130 Vendor SOC 2 exception | 2 | 3 | 2 | $180K |
TruOps keeps a live risk register where each entry is rated on likelihood, impact, and velocity, can carry a dollar value, and traces its score back to the evidence that justified it. Risks arrive from assessment findings, documents, and scans; the same issue found twice becomes one entry; and residual risk updates as fixes take hold.
- The register is stale, duplicated, or unexplained
- Findings, SOC 2 exceptions, and scans never become risks
- You need heatmap and dollars from the same records
The actual challenge
If the register is updated in a workshop, it is a report, not a management system. Risks have to arrive from the work you already do.
- The current tool starts empty, or only works for one framework.
- Evidence, vendors, and risk do not share a record.
- AI, if it exists, suggests; it does not do the work with sources.
What you are probably using today
This module is usually replacing a folder, a suite module, or a point tool, not a blank page.
| What you use now | Where it breaks | With TruOps |
|---|---|---|
| Spreadsheets, shared drives, and email | The program lives in folders named after last year's audit. Owners paste screenshots the week before fieldwork. Nothing is dated, so you cannot show what was true last quarter. | Upload those same files. TruOps pre-fills the assessment from them, cites every answer, and keeps technical checks running so evidence exists for the whole period. |
| Enterprise GRC suites | They can model almost anything. That flexibility usually comes through implementation partners and administrators, so a change can become a project. | AI reads your existing documents and sets up the program. The first assessment opens pre-filled from them, with sources. Changes are a request in plain language, not a project. |
| Point tools that do not talk | A TPRM portal here, a risk register there, findings in the ticketing tool, the board pack in slides. Each is true in its own world. Leadership gets three answers. | One assessment engine, one evidence layer, one register. A document uploaded once, an answer given once, or a control checked once counts everywhere it applies. |
Bring one real document. Watch the program get set up from it.
More than a color
Out of the box, each risk is rated on three factors:
- Likelihood: how likely the issue leads to harm.
- Impact: how bad the harm would be.
- Velocity: how fast the harm would arrive.
A risk can also carry a dollar figure, such as expected loss, so risk can be quantified for leadership. The same register can be viewed as ratings, a heatmap, or dollars, because different teams prefer different views.
Your method, AI-assisted
Set your own factors and formula. The agent helps configure the method and suggests a rating from the evidence for a person to confirm, so you get a defensible methodology that is still easy to change. Every score is explained, down to the sentence that justified it.
A register that stays honest
When two assessments find the same issue, it becomes one register entry keyed by control and scope, with both assessments linked. Grouped findings update their register entry as scopes are fixed and close when all are clear. Duplicates are merged, and un-owned and overdue entries are surfaced.
- Inherent and residual risk tracked
- Treatments: mitigate, accept, transfer, avoid
- Accepted risks carry a reason and an expiry date and reopen when it passes
- Linked to the controls that mitigate them and the vendors or assets they touch
How TruOps helps
- Risks from documents
- SOC 2 exceptions, scan output, and assessment reports become draft register entries.
- Explained scores
- Likelihood and impact trace back to the evidence behind them.
- Dollar values
- Quantify risk for leadership when a color is not enough.
- Three views
- Ratings, heatmap, or expected loss from the same register.
- Industry risk library
- Start with risks drafted for your sector, each explaining why it applies.
- One entry per issue
- Findings from different assessments merge into one risk.
Questions
What is a risk register?
A risk register is the list of an organization's identified risks with their ratings, owners, treatments, and status. See What is a risk register?
Can I use my own risk scoring method?
Yes. Likelihood, impact, and velocity come out of the box; you can set your own factors, scales, and formula, and the agent helps configure it.
Can TruOps quantify risk in dollars?
Yes. A risk or finding can carry a dollar value such as expected loss, and the register can be viewed in dollars.
What is the difference between inherent and residual risk?
Inherent risk is the exposure before controls; residual risk is what remains after them. See Inherent vs. residual risk.
Do we have to rip out the tools we already use?
No. Connectors are read-only: they observe cloud, identity, endpoint, vulnerability, and code tools; they do not change them. Spreadsheets, prior reports, and policies upload into the Data Room. If you are on a SOC 2 automation tool or an enterprise GRC suite, you migrate the program (frameworks, evidence, vendors, risks), not the business.
Can we bring our existing assessments, control lists, and vendor files?
Yes. Upload workbooks, reports, policies, and vendor exports. TruOps turns them into structured questionnaires, controls, and register entries, each cited back to the file they came from, for you to review.
Related
A live, explained register built from what you already know.
→LearnRisk registerWhat a risk register is and what goes in it.
→LearnRisk quantificationExpressing risk in dollars, not colors.
→PlatformFindings & remediationFifty servers, one finding, and a fix sized to the risk.
→RolesRisk managerA live register you can explain, down to the sentence.
→See it run on your own data.
Thirty minutes with a GRC expert, not an SDR. Bring one real document (a SOC 2 report, a risk register, a vendor list; redacted is fine) and watch TruOps set up a live program from it, with an assessment already pre-filled.