At DefinedGRC, we’ve dropped the “Self” from Risk Control Self Assessments.
Why?
Because risk isn’t something you complete once a year and leave to gather dust. It moves, shifts, evolves — and assessments need to do the same.
Instead, we’ve created dynamic Risk Control Assessments:
- Every event triggers a review of the associated concerns
- Risks are properly defined
- Controls are checked
- Assessments are challenged
- Second line gets real-time insight on what’s working (and what isn’t)
- No more static scoring. No more “self-declared” comfort.
Every organisation reduces risk differently, so our platform supports multiple paths from inherent to residual risk — including lowest-score and control-effectiveness models. And if controls are meant to be effective, they need to be tested. If incidents keep coming through (or there’s contagion), the second line sees that too.
It’s a more honest, dynamic, and collaborative view of risk — one that reflects how organisations actually operate.
Risk isn’t self-assessed anymore.
It’s continuously understood.