IT Risk Assessment Template
Stay secure and prepared by improving your risk visibility with Wrike’s IT risk assessment template. Better manage and mitigate the risks that impact your organization.
Difficulty in tracking risks
Gain a complete visualization of risks through Wrike’s IT risk assessment template. Easy-to-use RAID report forms also make it easy for your teams to track and update the status of each risk.
Non-standardized processes lead to security issues
Consolidate your IT risk management process by tracking reports and resolutions from a central dashboard.
Issues with resource allocation
Wrike’s IT risk assessment template offers improved visibility on issues across multiple teams with comprehensive table views. You can also tag other teams on relevant risk reports, making it easier for you to keep other departments up to speed on risks.
How to use the IT risk assessment template in Wrike
The IT risk assessment template features a pre-built template with two request forms that’ll improve the way you manage risks and resources. This guide will demonstrate how to:
- Submit new RAID reports.
- View and track reports from a unified table.
- Move reports through each workflow stage.
- Use a dashboard to manage and mitigate risks.
Step 1: Submit a RAID form
The IT risk assessment template includes ready-to-use request forms that’ll help you create new RAID reports.
The request forms require you to fill out necessary details like RAID type, descriptions of the RAID, the cost to the business, and whether or not it should be considered a risk.
Each risk can be rated through a conditional RAID form, which measures its impact, probability, and proximity. These factors determine the report’s overall risk score, which ranges from 3-15.
Once submitted, new RAID reports will be sent to the “RAID Intake” folder and can be viewed from a consolidated table view. This table view displays new incoming risks, along with relevant information like problem statuses and business costs.
Program and risk managers can use this table view to increase their visibility of incoming reports across different teams and projects.
You can also share each report with other teams to help keep them up to speed on important issues.
Step 2: Determine risks
Depending on the severity or urgency of each report, teams can then decide whether or not to classify each report as a risk.
Risks can be confirmed by changing the status of the report to “In Progress.” It’ll then be automatically sorted into the “RAID Log” folder.
There are four subfolders in the RAID Log folder:
- Risks
- Assumptions
- Issues
- Decisions
The status of each report in these subfolders can be moved through the RAG (red, amber, green) process as teams proceed with mitigation efforts. Once a problem is successfully addressed, the status of the report can be marked as “Completed” and resolved.
Step 3: Tracking reports
You can also access a RAID Manager dashboard, which is included in the IT risk assessment template.
This dashboard tool shows the RAG status of reports across five separate boards:
- New Entries
- All Risks
- All Assumptions
- All Issues
- All Decisions
As new entries are submitted and the status of reports change, managers can click-and-drag each report across these boards, providing an easy way to view and manage them.
Wrike’s IT risk assessment template helps your team better manage risk and resources. This template enables you to easily create and submit new RAID logs, visualize risks across multiple teams and projects, and distribute resources more efficiently.
Any team that regularly encounters risks can use this template effectively. The IT risk assessment template simplifies the reporting process for anyone experiencing risk, while providing risk managers with better visibility and detail into each report.
Enter your business email linked to your Wrike account to gain instant access to this template.
Yes, the IT risk assessment template is completely free.
You can only access this template when you create a new space. You can access the use case templates gallery through the space creation wizard. When you opt to create a new space, the template gallery opens by default.
- Click the “+” button in the upper-right corner of your workspace.
- Select “Space.”
- On the page that opens, hover over the use case you want and click “Preview.” Look for the “Risk assessment” template in the list (use the search bar if needed).
- Now, you can see more information about the use case. Click “Select” to create a space.
Yes, there are.
- To use this template, you need to have at least the Business plan or up. Check our plans here.
- You must have the required permission to create a public space in your account.
- If the template contains account-level custom fields, custom item types, workflows, request forms, or automation, you must have the permission required to create those items.
- This template is only available when the workspace language is set to English.
Check the prerequisites above. If you don’t match one of the prerequisites, talk to your space admin or your account owner. If you match all the prerequisites and you still can’t see the “Risk assessment“ template, feel free to reach out to the Wrike support team.
