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Risk Management

Make risk management part of how your business makes decisions. Killer Logic helps identify what could disrupt your operations, prioritize practical responses and keep your risk program current as systems, vendors and business needs change.

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Recognize the friction?

When risks are known but decisions keep slipping

  • Teams recognize recurring risks, but nobody owns the decision or the next action.
  • Vendor changes and system dependencies introduce exposure that existing assessments miss.
  • Leadership receives technical findings without a clear explanation of business impact.
  • Risk registers become outdated spreadsheets instead of a guide to priorities and investment.
  • SOC preparation exposes gaps between documented risks, control decisions and supporting evidence.

What we work on

A risk program your business can use

Which risks matter most, and how do we manage them as the business changes? We connect technology, information security, operational dependencies and third-party risks to the decisions leadership needs to make. Our work fits into your broader risk program, with clear ownership, useful records and regular review. NIST CSF 2.0 and its enterprise risk guidance can provide a common language; we adapt the approach to your business and existing practices.

Business priorities and risk discovery

Start with business objectives, critical processes and the people, systems and vendors that support them. Interviews and reviews of existing practices uncover realistic disruption scenarios. Describe what could happen, why it could happen and which business outcome would be affected. Record assumptions and information gaps so an incomplete picture does not become a confident but misleading rating.

Assessment and leadership decisions

Evaluate likelihood and business impact using an agreed scale. Separate inherent risk, the exposure before safeguards, from residual risk, the exposure that remains after them. Help leadership explain risk appetite as the risks it is willing to accept, and tolerance as the limits guiding individual decisions. Compare findings consistently while preserving the reasoning behind each judgment.

A register tied to practical responses

Build a usable risk register with owners, current safeguards, planned actions and review dates. Work through response choices: reduce the exposure, avoid the activity, share or transfer part of the risk, or accept it through an explicit management decision. Connect policy and control improvements to those choices, with realistic action owners, dependencies and evidence of completion.

Vendors and operational dependencies

Review third parties according to the services, access and information entrusted to them. Examine available assurance material, dependency concentration, recovery arrangements and unresolved questions. Connect vendor findings to the register and procurement or renewal decisions. Establish follow-up triggers when a provider changes its service, experiences disruption or becomes more critical to your operations.

Ongoing reporting and program operation

Keep leadership informed through concise summaries of significant exposure, overdue actions and decisions needed. Track corrective work and reassess when systems, vendors or business commitments change. For SOC programs, connect risk decisions to relevant controls and examination evidence. Maintain records of review and acceptance so your team can explain why a response was chosen and whether it still fits.

Example Projects

A critical software vendor review

For a company relying on one software provider for daily order processing, map the dependency, review available assurance and recovery information, and identify unanswered questions. Turn the findings into a renewal decision, contingency actions and a schedule for reviewing changes.

A growing services company

For a services company expanding its systems and supplier network, establish its first practical risk register. Interview process owners, rank disruption scenarios, agree response owners and prepare a leadership review that connects technology spending to the risks the business wants to reduce.

How we engage

Identify, prioritize, act and review

  1. Agree objectives, assessment boundaries, decision makers and a practical method for describing likelihood and impact.
  2. Review critical processes, systems and vendors; document risk scenarios and assess existing safeguards with the people who operate them.
  3. Prioritize responses with leadership, assign owners and record accepted exposure, planned improvements and decision dates.
  4. Establish recurring reviews and reporting, follow actions through to completion and refresh the assessment as the business changes.

What you take forward

Practical deliverables.

  • A risk assessment explaining scenarios, likelihood, impact and the basis for each rating.
  • A prioritized risk register with owners, existing safeguards and residual exposure.
  • A response plan connecting decisions to corrective actions, dependencies and due dates.
  • A review calendar with reassessment triggers and leadership reporting responsibilities.
  • A leadership summary and records of risk acceptance, response decisions and follow-up.

Before we get started

Questions worth asking.

Can we start without a formal risk program?

Yes. We begin with your business priorities and the practices already in use. A clear assessment, a manageable register and named owners provide a useful foundation. The program can become more detailed as your responsibilities and reporting needs grow.

Can you use assessments we already have?

Yes. Existing security assessments, vendor reviews and internal findings are valuable inputs. We check their scope, age and assumptions, reconcile overlapping issues and identify gaps before incorporating them into a common view of risk.

How often should we review risks?

Use a recurring cadence that matches the significance and rate of change of your risks. Review sooner after major system changes, new vendors, incidents or new customer commitments. We help set review dates and triggers so reassessment becomes an operating routine.

How does this differ from cybersecurity work?

Cybersecurity work improves protection of systems and information. Risk Management helps leadership compare exposure, choose responses and track decisions across technology, security, operational dependencies and third parties. The two services connect when an assessment identifies a protection improvement that needs implementation.

How does this support a SOC program?

A current assessment helps explain why controls exist and where improvement is needed. We link risk decisions, control ownership and review records to SOC readiness and ongoing evidence collection, making it easier to keep the program current between examinations.

Connected services

When the next step connects.

SOC 1

Prepare for a SOC 1 examination and maintain the controls your customers rely on for financial reporting.

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SOC 2

Build and operate your SOC 2 program with practical controls, organized evidence, and support throughout the examination.

Explore SOC 2

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A useful next conversation

Make your next risk decision clearer.

Tell us which systems, vendors or operational changes concern you. We can help establish priorities and a risk program your team can maintain.