Dashboards for IT Risk

An IT risk dashboard tracks the risks you’ve identified, the ones that actually materialized, and what managing them costs — so exposure stays visible instead of buried in a register. These are the metrics worth tracking on it.

Top 8 IT risk metrics

• Number of risks identified — how many risks are on the register, the baseline for everything else here.
• Volume of risks occurred — how many identified risks actually materialized, a reality check on likelihood estimates.
• Cost of risk management — what prevention, mitigation, and insurance cost, to weigh against the losses they avoid.
• Percentage of risks mitigated — the share of known risks with a completed mitigation, your coverage rate.
• Percentage of risks monitored — the share of risks with active monitoring, since unwatched risks surprise you.
• Risk tolerance vs exposure — current exposure against the level the business agreed to accept.
• Internal vs external vulnerabilities — where weaknesses originate, which determines who has to fix them.
• Uptime — service availability over time, the bottom-line measure of whether risk is being contained.