Risk overview
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The Risk overview plots your risks on a matrix of likelihood and impact. Each cell shows how many risks sit there, so you can see at a glance where the heaviest ones are.
Why this protects your organisation
A long list of risks tells you little about where to start. A matrix shows straight away whether you mostly have small risks or a handful of large ones, and whether your measures are actually moving them into a lower square. That helps you set priorities, supports the conversation with management, and makes the outcome of your risk assessment (ISO 27001 clause 6.1) readable for everyone.
Steps
- Make sure your risk assessment method is established. Without an established method the overview stays empty.
- Give your risks a likelihood and an impact under Risks.
- Open Risk overview in the Risks group.
- Hover over a cell to see which risks sit there.
Likelihood runs from left to right, impact from bottom to top. The names of the levels come from your established risk assessment method. If you use Trustbird's default scales, you see them in your own language. If you have changed the scales, they appear exactly as you wrote them.
The colour of each cell follows the risk level for that combination: low in grey, medium and high in warmer shades. There is deliberately no red. The overview is there to help you decide calmly where to start, not to raise alarms.
The overview is read only. To change a risk, go to Risks.
If it does not work
The overview shows a message instead of a matrix
No risk assessment method has been established yet. Open Risk assessment method and establish it.
A risk is missing from the matrix
Only risks with both a likelihood and an impact are counted. Open the risk and fill in both under Assessment.
A risk sits in a lower square than I expected
If the risk has a residual likelihood and residual impact, that assessment counts. Otherwise the inherent assessment does.
Screens this is about
- Risk overview