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How does Cognni define "Risk"?
How does Cognni define "Risk"?
Updated over 6 months ago

Each event in Cognni receives a Risk Severity "No Risk", "Low", "Medium", or "High" risk based on three parameters; the sensitivity of the relevant files, the trust of the contacts involved, and the severity of the risk profile.

Each event is assigned a Risk Severity "Low", "Medium", or "High" risk based on the following:

Information Sensitivity

Every event is comprised of a file / set of files, each of which is classified into a Cognni category with an associated "Sensitivity" - "Low", "Medium", or "High" .

Information Sensitivity can be customized to impact the risk. See the following article on how to Customize Information Sensitivity:

Trust Management

Each contact has a dynamic trust score assigned by Cognni, this score is adjusted based on the volume, sender, and recipients of various information categories associated with each contact.

It answers, for example, "Should Johnny from the HR department be associating with Financial Reports?"

Every Employee/Department/Organization/Contact's trust can be manually assigned from the Trust Management tab. See the following article on how to Customize Trust Management:

Risk Severity

Finally, each event receives a variety of risk profile based on the trust of the sender, recipient, and sensitivity of the information involved in an event.

Example:

Highly Sensitive HR Information, Shared to Untrusted Organization

See the following article on how to Customize Risk Severity:

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