HRM-MEAS-17Term
Key risk indicator
A metric with a threshold agreed by leadership that signals when human risk exceeds appetite. Key risk indicators are few, trended and reported to the board.
Example
A board member sees the share of privileged accounts on weak MFA cross its threshold and asks for the remediation date.
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"Key risk indicator" (HRM-MEAS-17), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/terms/key-risk-indicator
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