RA-3 Risk Assessment
Conduct risk assessment annually (FedRAMP); document; review and update.
6
artefacts
0
held by a system
3
at each review
hard
to go live
Policy repository / GRC workspace
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Penetration test report with retest evidence · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling
- Risk acceptance memos signed by accountable executives · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Risk assessment methodology approved by leadership · Policy repository / GRC workspace
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Control implementation statement for RA-3 citing the system mission and inheritance from common controls · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Threat intelligence feed subscriptions and triage workflow · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Risk register with likelihood, impact, and treatment owners · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
This control is evidenced by people and documents, not systems. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date. Do not try to automate it.
Common gaps auditors find
- Risk register entries lack named owner or due date
- Penetration tests scope narrow and exclude key applications
- Scan coverage gaps for containerised and ephemeral workloads
- Threat intelligence consumed but not operationalised into detections
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheetRA-2 Security Categorization · RA-3(1) Risk Assessment | Supply Chain Risk Assessment. (a) Assess supply chain risks associated with [Assignment: organization-defined systems, system components, and system services]; and (b) Update the supply chain risk assessment [Assignment: organization-defined frequency], when