A risk register that stays alive.
Most registers are spreadsheets updated once a quarter. TruOps builds yours from the findings and documents you already have, and keeps it current.
- 01agentDraftRisks from findings, documents, and your sector's library.
- 02agentRateLikelihood, impact, velocity, and dollars, suggested by AI and confirmed by a person.
- 03agentLinkRisks tied to controls, vendors, and assets.
- 04youTreatMitigate, accept, transfer, or avoid, with owners and dates.
- 05agentUpdateResidual risk recalculates as controls change.
TruOps builds and maintains a risk register by drafting entries from assessment findings, SOC 2 exceptions, scan results, and an industry risk library; rating each on likelihood, impact, and velocity with an optional dollar value; merging duplicates found by different assessments; and updating residual risk as fixes take hold.
- The register is a quarterly spreadsheet
- Security, vendor, and operational risk disagree
- Ratings cannot be explained in the room
The problem
Registers drift out of date, duplicate each other across teams, and carry ratings no one can explain.
The actual challenge
If the register is updated for the meeting, it is not a register. Findings, exceptions, and scans should become owned entries without a workshop. Dollar values belong on those same records — TruOps is not a FAIR modeling product.
- Three lists, three owners, one board question.
- Every finding became a risk, or none did.
- The dollars are from the last workshop.
Bring one real document. Watch the program get set up from it.
What you are probably using today
Registers usually live in Excel, a GRC risk module, or a quant tool that is disconnected from findings.
| 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. |
| A FAIR or quant model fed by hand | The dollars are only as current as the last workshop. | Findings, exceptions, and scans draft register entries. Dollar values sit on the same live records. |
How it works in TruOps
- DraftRisks from findings, documents, and your sector's library.
- RateLikelihood, impact, velocity, and dollars, suggested by AI and confirmed by a person.
- LinkRisks tied to controls, vendors, and assets.
- TreatMitigate, accept, transfer, or avoid, with owners and dates.
- UpdateResidual risk recalculates as controls change.
What you end up with
- One register across security, vendor, and operational risk.
- Every rating explained.
- Views in ratings, heatmaps, or dollars.
If this is your situation
Bring the current register. TruOps will draft entries from findings for you to confirm, with sources on the ratings.
How TruOps helps
- Industry risk library
- Start with risks drafted for your sector.
- Duplicate merging
- One entry per issue, with all sources linked.
Questions
What should a risk register include?
At minimum: the risk, its owner, likelihood and impact ratings, the controls that mitigate it, its treatment, and its status. See What is a risk register?
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 register rated on likelihood, impact, velocity, and dollars.
→LearnRisk registerWhat a risk register is and what goes in it.
→LearnInherent vs. residual riskRisk before controls, and risk after them.
→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.