Managing organizational risk can feel daunting, but Drata makes it simple. With our Risk Management Standard offering, you can jumpstart your risk register in minutes by answering just seven key questions.

A risk register is the central hub for identifying, assessing, and tracking risks within your organization. It provides visibility into the severity of each risk and outlines the actions needed to mitigate them. By automating this process, Drata helps you establish a strong foundation for ongoing risk management.

Note: The risk register setup survey is only available in Risk Management Standard. It is not included in Risk Management Pro.

If your risk register is empty, you have two options:

Keep in mind:

At the end of the survey, you'll be able to decide whether to automatically populate your register with the recommended risks.

The survey asks about seven key areas that commonly introduce organizational risk:

Based on your responses, Drata automatically generates a tailored set of risks in your register. From there, you can:

This flexibility ensures your risk register always reflects the unique needs of your organization while keeping risk management efficient and actionable.

✅ Pro Tip: Regularly review and update your register to ensure it evolves alongside your business and compliance landscape.

When setting up your Risk Assessment, you can answer seven simple questions to automatically populate your risk register, eliminating the need to manually add each risk into the register. A risk register is used to identify, assess, and manage risks associated with an organization. It serves as a log or database that tracks all identified risks, their severity, and the action steps to mitigate them. This automation enhances efficiency and streamlines risk management.

It is crucial to answer the survey questions accurately to ensure all potential risks are covered. This accuracy helps in building a robust risk management framework that enhances your organization's compliance and operational resilience.

When accessing Risk Assessment, if you do not have any risk added to your risk register, you can answer seven questions to automatically populate your risk register instead of manually adding risks into your risk registry.

By the end of the survey, you can either retake the survey, automatically build your risk register, or exit the onboarding process.

If you exit the survey and need to retake it, you must delete all risks from your register. However, users with the Risk Management Pro subscription tier cannot re-trigger the survey even after deleting all risks. Archiving a risk is different from deleting a risk and will not allow you to retake the survey. To delete risks, select all risks, then go to Actions > Delete.

Note: This is only for those who have Risk Assessment. Those who have Risk Management won't have access to this survey option.

To start the survey to automatically populate your risk register, follow these instructions. At the end of the survey, you will have the option to automatically populate your risk register or not.

Please Note: At this time, the risk assessment survey question can only be completed once. Users with the Risk Management Pro subscription tier cannot access the survey, and downgrading to Risk Management Standard to complete the survey and then re-upgrading to Pro is not officially supported and is generally not recommended.

After completing the survey, if you decided to build your risk register, your Risk Register will be automatically populated with the applicable risks based on your responses.

You can customize the Risk Register by adding or removing risks as needed. To add a risk, go to the Risk Library and view all of the available pre-populated risks, and add the desired risks you would like to manage into Risk Register. To remove a risk, you can easily remove the risk from the Risk Register.

Learn more about Risk Assessment at Risk Assessment overview.