# Risk Assessment Template

> Use this template for guidance and useful information for creating a formal change management policy that helps you plan for and communicate changes across your organization, prevent unauthorized changes, and meet compliance requirements.

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### Risk Assessment Template

Risk assessment is a process for identifying risks to organizational operations, assets, and individuals and assessing the likelihood they will occur and the harm that would arise if they did occur. Use the template below as a starting point for assessing risks. It is tailored for non-adversarial risk, but you can use it to assess adversarial risk by replacing “range of effects” with “threat source characteristics.”

What you'll get:

- Identify and track risks to your information assets 
- Use the built-in risk matrix to identify and prioritize risks
- Assign specific risk treatment and risk owners to each threat