Risks you can show, quantify, and link to what you're doing about them.
Risk Heat Map brings your risk register, heat map, radar chart, and euro quantification together in one environment, and connects every risk directly to the controls that mitigate it and the findings that affect it.
The challenge
Six obstacles every risk manager recognizes
Most organizations manage risk in disconnected spreadsheets, with a qualitative score and no link to the controls and findings that actually say something about it. That turns risk management into a yearly exercise instead of a continuous process.
The risk register lives in Excel
Disconnected spreadsheets, different versions per department, manual updates. No one is sure the overview on the table is still current.
Red-amber-green doesn't convince the board
A qualitative high/medium/low matrix says little about actual financial impact. Boards want to know: what does this risk cost us, in euros, if it materializes?
Groupthink in the boardroom
Whoever speaks loudest often sets the score. Without anonymous, individual input, the spread in risk perception, and the information it carries, disappears.
Risks, controls, and findings live apart
The risk register is disconnected from the framework library and from the findings register. Every review means manually working out which controls cover a risk and which actions are still open.
A register without a trend over time
Risk estimates are redone every quarter with no basis for comparison. Demonstrating that the risk profile is improving, or not, is hard to substantiate.
Periodic risk review takes too much prep
Gathering data from scattered files, manually aggregating scores, and building a presentation takes days. That time doesn't go into the actual conversation about risk.
What Risk Heat Map offers
One environment for risk register, quantification, and prioritization
Risk Heat Map combines visualization, financial quantification, and team prioritization, and connects risks directly to controls and findings.
Interactive heat map
Drag risks to their position on the likelihood × impact matrix. Adjust colors and scales and see the full picture at a glance. Ideal for workshops with management.
Radar chart for multiple dimensions
Compare risks across several axes at once, or place the current risk profile next to the desired one. Patterns hidden in a matrix become visible in the radar chart.
FAIR-lite Monte Carlo quantification
Translate likelihood and impact into a concrete euro range with a simplified FAIR methodology and Monte Carlo simulation: a substantiated estimate instead of an educated guess.
Anonymous voting, an honest picture
Let participants score individually and anonymously from their own device, via the connected Risk Voter. The tool aggregates automatically and shows the spread, so the loudest voice doesn't decide the outcome.
Linked to controls (CRAFT)
Every risk points to the controls in the CRAFT framework library that mitigate it. You immediately see whether a risk is adequately covered, or whether there's a gap between risk and control.
Linked to findings (Action Tracking)
Findings from audits and assessments point back to the risk they affect. One risk picture, fed from multiple assurance sources, instead of disconnected silos.
Secure collaboration
Data strictly separated per organization, hosted in Europe. Multiple team members work together at the same time, with roles and permissions per risk register.
How it works
From risk register to boardroom report in six steps
Risk Heat Map guides you from the first entry to reporting to the board and supervisory body.
Build your risk register
Record risks with an owner, category, and description. Import an existing Excel register or start from scratch.
Quantify with FAIR-lite Monte Carlo
Enter a likelihood and impact range per risk. The Monte Carlo simulation calculates a distribution of the possible financial impact in euros.
Visualize in heat map and radar chart
View the risk landscape in the classic heat map or compare risks across multiple dimensions in the radar chart. Switch effortlessly between both views.
Let the team vote anonymously
Run a voting session via Risk Voter: participants score individually from their own device, the tool aggregates and shows the spread in risk perception.
Link to controls and findings
Connect each risk to the controls in CRAFT that mitigate it and the findings in Action Tracking that affect it. One coherent risk picture emerges.
Report to the board and supervisory body
Generate a boardroom presentation with heat map, quantification, and the status of underlying controls and actions, ready for the meeting.
Risk governance
The risk governance cycle
Risk Heat Map supports more than a snapshot: it supports the continuous cycle of risk management, from first identification to recalibration based on new assurance signals.
Identify & register
Record risks with an owner, category, and context in the risk register.
Quantify
FAIR-lite Monte Carlo translates likelihood and impact into a euro range.
Prioritize
An anonymous voting session via Risk Voter reveals the team's actual risk perception.
Link & recalibrate
Connect risks to controls (CRAFT) and findings (Action Tracking), and recalibrate periodically as new signals come in.
At a glance
Risk Heat Map at a glance
What the tool does, in four points.
Heat map plus euros
Likelihood × impact on the heat map, plus a FAIR-lite Monte Carlo range in euros.
Three perspectives
Heat map, radar chart, and risk register in one environment. Switch effortlessly between views.
Anonymous voting
Anonymous, individual voting sessions via Risk Voter prevent groupthink.
Controls and findings
Every risk linked to the controls (CRAFT) that mitigate it and the findings (Action Tracking) that affect it.
Connected
Risks, controls, and findings in context
Most risk tools stand alone. Risk Heat Map is built inside the Audirium platform, where risks, controls, audits, and findings are automatically connected to each other, instead of living apart in separate systems.
Risk to control: every risk points to the controls in the CRAFT framework library that mitigate it.
Risk to finding: findings from Action Tracking point back to the risk they affect.
One risk picture, multiple sources: audits, self-assessments, and periodic reviews feed the same risk, instead of living apart.
Changes propagate: update a control's status or a finding, and the risk picture changes with it immediately, no manual update needed.
Gaps visible at a glance: instantly see which risks are insufficiently covered by controls or actions.
Risk Heat Map at a glance
Ready to make your risks visible, measurable, and connected?
Request a demo or contact us for more information about Risk Heat Map for your organization.