Risk Register template

This Risk Register template is an easy-to-use, flexible and centralised way to identify, score and track risks across your organisation. Configure key attributes like likelihood, severity and CIA impacts, link risks to affected assets, and manage mitigation plans with owners, statuses and completion dates. Simply edit and adapt to suit your needs.

Use a Board Screen to view risks by action (e.g. ‘Accept’, ‘Requires Treatment’, ‘Treatment Advised’), or a Calendar Screen to see mitigation completion dates lined up. Add Workflows for real-time notifications—like when a high-scoring risk is added, a mitigation moves to ‘Approved’, or a due date is approaching.

Understanding risk registers

Risk management sounds straightforward: spot the risk, decide what to do, move on. In practice, it’s easy for details to scatter—scores in one place, owners in another, actions somewhere else. A centralised risk register keeps every risk—and its history—in one source of truth.

With this template, each risk is clearly described, consistently scored (likelihood × severity), linked to the assets it could impact, and connected to the mitigation work that reduces exposure. The result: faster reviews, better accountability, and fewer surprises.

Gridfox is here to help you manage risk at a high standard—with structure that’s opinionated enough to work on day one, and flexible enough to grow with you.

Why Gridfox Risk Register?

We pride ourselves on making Gridfox intuitive and accessible. This Risk Register template reflects that ethos. Install it and you’ll have a set of preconfigured entities—Risks, Mitigations, Assets, Likelihoods, Severities, and Notes—so you can start capturing and acting on risks immediately.

The real win? It adapts to you. Add fields, tweak scales, or extend relationships without fighting rigid tooling. While the defaults are ready to go, nothing is set in stone.

The Breakdown

• Risk table (with scoring): Capture Risk ID, Name and a narrative Threat to Business. Score each risk with linked Likelihood and Severity values—automatically calculating a Score = L × S. Tag Impacts across the CIA triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) and assign an Owner. Choose an Action such as Accept, Requires Treatment or Treatment Advised. Link to affected Assets and any planned Mitigations. Use External Reference to point to standards, tickets or docs.
• Likelihood & Severity scales: Maintain consistent, auditable scoring with dedicated lookup tables—each with a numeric Value and clear Description. Update scales once; the changes flow everywhere.
• Mitigations (with workflow): Track risk treatments as first-class records: Mitigation ID, Name, Plan, Owner, Status (Draft, In Progress, Approved, Applied, Abandoned, On Hold) and Completion Date. Link each mitigation to the Risks it addresses (and optionally to the Likelihood/Severity assumptions it influences). Add a running trail of Mitigation Notes for decisions and updates.
• Assets (and notes): Keep an inventory of Assets with Type (Data, Staff, Suppliers, Customers, Intangible, Hardware, Software), Description, Owner and related Risks. Use Asset Notes to capture context, changes or dependencies that inform impact assessments.
• Dashboard: Get an at-a-glance view with charts—risks by Action, risk Score distribution, risks by CIA impact, mitigations by Status, and top assets by linked risks. Add a mini grid for quick triage of high-score items.
• Board: Visualise flow on a Kanban board—e.g., group by Action for decision-making, or by Mitigation Status to track delivery. Drag and drop to update.
• Calendar: Plot Completion Dates for mitigations so owners can plan delivery and reviewers can see what’s landing this week or month.

Who’s going to love it?

Anyone accountable for risk. Whether you’re a project manager, delivery lead, security/compliance owner, or part of an operations team, you’ll get clear visibility of what could go wrong, what’s being done about it, and when.

It’s ideal for teams that need to standardise scoring, show progress on treatments, and connect risks back to the assets that matter most.

Think of this template as your leg-up to a mature, auditable risk practice—without heavy setup.