AI Risk Register
An AI risk register is the maintained catalog of AI-specific risks an organization faces, documenting each risk's scenarios, controls, ownership, quantified exposure, and current mitigation status.
What the AI Risk Register Contains
An AI risk register captures more than a list of risks. Each entry typically includes the specific AI systems involved, the risk category (security, governance, compliance, operational), the modeled loss scenarios, the applied controls and their effectiveness, the ownership assignment, and the quantified exposure.
The register is where AI risk becomes tractable, where discovered assets, assessed impacts, applied controls, and quantified exposure come together into a single view.
Why AI Risk Registers Are Emerging
Every AI regulation and framework that has emerged, the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, assumes an AI risk register or equivalent exists. Without one, the organization cannot demonstrate which risks it has identified, which controls it has applied, or how it is monitoring for changes.
The register also serves the operational purpose of connecting AI governance to enterprise risk management. Cyber, operational, and compliance risk functions increasingly expect an AI risk register they can consume alongside their own registers.
AI Register vs. AI Inventory
The AI asset inventory catalogs the AI systems themselves. The AI risk register catalogs the risks those systems introduce. The two are connected but distinct: one AI system usually appears in multiple risk register entries, and one risk can involve multiple AI systems.
How Kovrr Approaches AI Risk Register
Kovrr's AI Risk Register is populated automatically from discovered AI assets and modeled loss scenarios, with quantified exposure and control effectiveness updated continuously rather than at audit intervals. Users can also map new scenarios manually via the free scenario mapping tool.
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