Risk management as a service.
The risk manager most companies never hired. Most organisations under 250 people have nobody whose job is risk, and the regulators expect a register, indicators, owners and evidence all the same. Venvera delivers risk management as a service: the Risk Management module drafts your register from ten questions about your business, assigns owners, collects the numbers each period and writes the board report. Your people review and decide.
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What is risk management as a service?
Risk management as a service (RMaaS) is a subscription that does the standing work of a risk function: it builds and maintains the risk register, defines and collects key risk indicators, assigns owners, gathers evidence and prepares board reporting. Traditional RMaaS is a consultancy retainer. On Venvera the platform carries the standing work, the judgment stays with the people who own the risk, and a named person is added only when you want one. It replaces the hire most companies never make, not the accountability the regulators place on management.
What risk management as a service includes on Venvera.
A risk manager builds the register, sets indicators, finds owners, watches suppliers and systems, chases evidence and reports to the board. The Risk Management module carries each of those six jobs.
Ten questions about what you do, where, for whom and on which systems. The module drafts the risks with inherent and residual ratings and the framework clauses each one maps to. You untick, edit and apply.
Key risk indicators with green, amber and red thresholds, drafted with the register. KRI Autopilot asks each owner for the value when a reporting period closes, reminds once and records the result against the thresholds.
Name who holds which role once. The responsibilities engine assigns requirement owners from those roles, routes evidence requests to the right person and keeps doing so as people change.
A third-party register with criticality and country and an ICT asset inventory with environment and classification, both drafted from your answers and kept next to the risks they belong to.
Evidence Autopilot sends collection and renewal requests to the requirement's owner, escalates to the domain contact and then to governance when nothing arrives, so the register stays backed by documents rather than opinions.
The board dashboard, risk snapshots and the executive report read from the same register. The pack you take into the meeting is the register as it stands, not a slide made the night before.
Risk management as a service vs hiring a risk manager.
Three ways to get a risk programme: hire, retain a consultancy, or subscribe. Each works; they differ in how fast the first register exists and what happens when people move on.
| Hire a risk manager | Retain a consultancy | RMaaS on Venvera | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to a first risk register | Weeks of interviews after a months-long search | Weeks, billed by the hour | A draft in under a minute, reviewed and applied within a week |
| Who does the standing work | One person, and their calendar | Consultants, at consultant rates | The platform, with your people deciding |
| When people leave | The programme restarts with the next hire | Depends on who the firm assigns | Register, owners and history stay in the system |
| Board reporting | A deck built by hand each quarter | A deck built by hand each quarter | Generated from the live register |
| Cost basis | Salary, recruiting and onboarding | Hourly or fixed fee per engagement | A flat monthly plan, unlimited users |
How risk management as a service works. The first step takes a minute.
Risk management as a service for DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001 and beyond.
Every regime Venvera covers asks for the same standing work under a different article number. The register, indicators, owners and evidence you keep once satisfy all of them through the crosswalk.
- DORA Article 6 requires a documented ICT risk management framework, and Article 5 keeps the management body responsible for it. Read the article-by-article guide.
- NIS2 Article 21 requires risk analysis policies among its measures, and Article 20 makes management bodies approve and oversee them.
- ISO 27001 clauses 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 8.2 and 8.3 require a defined risk assessment and treatment process, performed at planned intervals.
- SAMA CSF, NCA ECC domain 1-5 and UAE IA M2 require a cybersecurity risk management process for banks and regulated entities in the Gulf; NDPA asks Nigerian controllers for data protection risk assessment.
- SOC 2 CC3, NIST CSF 2.0 Identify and Govern, HIPAA risk analysis, PCI DSS 12.3 and CMMC RA practices expect a documented, repeated risk assessment in North America.
The method behind the register is one of the risk management frameworks compared here; the indicators the module drafts follow the KRI guide and the third parties land in the same register described in the vendor register guide.
Who buys risk management as a service.
- Payment and e-money institutions and other financial entities under DORA, and the ICT providers they depend on
- NIS2 essential and important entities, and ISO 27001 certificate holders keeping the register alive between audits
- SaaS and IT service providers whose clients audit them every year
- Banks and fintechs under SAMA CSF, NCA ECC and UAE IA, and companies under NDPA in Nigeria
- SOC 2, NIST CSF, HIPAA, PCI DSS and CMMC programmes in North America, on the same register and crosswalk
Risk management as a service for your clients.
The same module is how a consultancy stands up a client’s programme in an afternoon and runs it on a retainer. The partner programme covers referral, implementation and audit-firm partners, with a multi-client audit workspace included.
Risk management as a service: what people ask.
Ten questions.
Your register, this afternoon.
Start the trial, answer the ten questions and read your own draft register before deciding anything. If it is not right, untick it. If it is, you have a risk programme by tonight.
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