The Security Risk Assessment Tool (SRAT) from Open Briefing is an essential free resource for experienced security managers and those new to risk assessments.
Staff should complete a security risk assessment before travelling or starting a new project or programme. The process helps them understand and mitigate risks, while supporting their organisation to meet its duty of care responsibilities.
Key features of the tool include:
- Instructions and tooltips to guide users through the process.
- Questions to help organisations set their risk threshold, where needed.
- Automatic calculation of risk ratings and other parameters.
- Support in choosing an appropriate risk strategy for each threat.
- Clear indication of which risks may be acceptable and which require further mitigation.
- Automatic generation of risk matrices for both inherent and residual risk.
- Pre-formatted reports that can be printed or saved as PDFs.
Open Briefing developed SRAT for its own consultants to use. However, it proved so useful that we made it freely available to the wider community.