Definition of RiskRisk is the potential for a negative outcome or loss.
The first step in managing risks is to identify possible risks. The following database of common risk types may be useful for this purpose.
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Business Risk (21)
Organizational Risk (29)
Operational Risk (19)
Technology Risk (31)
Project Risk (23)
Financial Risk (18)
Personal Risks (23)
Economic Risks (13)
Environmental Risks (16)
Political Risks (14)
Political Risks (13)
Other Risks (19)
Access Control Risk | Application Risk |
Assumption Risk | Audit Risk |
Automation Risk | Benefit Shortfall |
Biodiversity Loss Risk | Brand Risk |
Budget Risk | Business Continuity Risk |
Business Interruption Risk | Capacity Risk |
Career Risk | Change Management Risk |
Civil Unrest Risk | Climate Change Risk |
Commodity Risk | Communication Risk |
Competitive Risk | Compliance Risk |
Concentration Risk | Conflict Risk |
Contract Risk | Corruption Risk |
Cost Risk | Country Risk |
Credit Risk | Crime Risk |
Crisis Management Risk | Cultural Risk |
Currency Risk | Customer Risk |
Cyber Warfare Risk | Cybersecurity Risk |
Data Breach Risk | Data Migration Risk |
Data Privacy Risk | Data Risk |
Debt Risk | Deflation Risk |
Deforestation Risk | Dependency Risk |
Desertification Risk | Design Risk |
Disability Risk | Disaster Recovery Risk |
Disaster Risk | Dread Risks |
Drought Risk | Economic Risks |
Education Risk | Election Integrity Risk |
Endangered Species Risk | Environmental Risk |
Estimation Risk | Ethical Risk |
Existential Risk | Facility Risk |
Financial Risk | Financing Risk |
Flooding Risk | Food Security Risk |
Force Majeure | Foreign Exchange Risk |
Foreign Investment Risk | Geographical Risk |
Geopolitical Risk | Goal Risk |
Government Instability Risk | Health & Safety Risk |
Health Risk | Heatwave Risk |
Housing Risk | Human Error |
Human Resource Risk | IT Risk |
Incident Response Risk | Inflation Risk |
Infrastructure Risk | Inherent Risk |
Innovation Risk | Insider Threat Risk |
Integration Risk | Intellectual Property Risk |
Interest Rate Risk | Internal Risk |
International Trade Risk | Interpersonal Conflict Risk |
Invasive Species Risk | Inventory Risk |
Investment Risk | Labor Strikes |
Legacy System Risk | Legal Risk |
Liability Risk | Liquidity Risk |
Malware Risk | Market Risk |
Market Volatility Risk | Marketing Risk |
National Security Risk | Nationalization Risk |
Natural Disaster Risk | Natural Hazards |
Network Risk | Operational Risk |
Outsourcing Risk | Overfishing Risk |
Partner Risk | Partnership Risk |
Passive Risk | Performance Risk |
Personal Financial Risk | Personnel Risk |
Phishing Risk | Physical Security Risk |
Political Risk | Pollution Risk |
Positive Risk | Process Risk |
Procurement Risk | Product Development Risk |
Product Liability Risk | Product Risk |
Professional Risk | Program Risk |
Project Planning Risk | Project Risk |
Property Risk | Public Relations Risk |
Purchase Risk | Pure Risks |
Quality Risk | Ransomware Risk |
Recession Risk | Refinancing Risk |
Regulatory Risk | Relationships Risk |
Reputational Risk | Residual Risk |
Resource Risk | Retirement Risk |
Revenue Risk | Safety Risk |
Sales Risk | Schedule Risk |
Scope Creep | Seasonal Risk |
Secondary Risks | Security Risk |
Social Responsibility Risk | Sovereign Default Risk |
Speculative Risk | Stagflation Risk |
Strategic Risk | Strategy Risk |
Succession Planning Risk | Supplier Risk |
Supply Chain Risk | Sustainability Risk |
System Availability Risk | Systemic Risk |
Taxation Risk | Technology Risk |
Terrorism Risk | Third-party Risk |
Trade Imbalance Risk | Trade War Risk |
Training Risk | Transportation Risk |
Travel Risk | Unemployment Risk |
Unknown Risks | Upside Risk |
Vendor Risk | Volatility Risk |
Water Scarcity Risk | Weather Risk |
Wellness Risk | Wildfire Risk |