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Risk Treatment Plan

Risk ID Description Inherent Score Selected Treatment Control(s) / Action(s) Owner Target Date Residual Score
R-001 Credential stuffing attack on customer-facing APIs leads to account takeover 16 Mitigate • AWS WAF rate-limiting
• MFA required for employee/admin access; customer MFA encouraged via SSO (not mandatory)
• Credential monitoring service
SRE Lead 2025-07-31 6
R-002 Single-region cloud outage impacts all services 20 Mitigate • Automate restore and infrastructure provisioning (Terraform/Ansible)
• Documented cross-region restore drills using replicated data (eu-central-1 -> eu-west-1)
Head of Product 2025-09-30 8
R-003 Insider exfiltration of customer data 15 Mitigate • DLP rules in GSuite
• Endpoint EDR
• Bi-monthly access reviews
Security Manager 2025-06-30 5
R-004 Key supplier (email delivery) suffers breach 12 Transfer / Mitigate • Add contractual security clauses
• Implement dual-provider routing
Procurement 2025-08-15 4
R-005 Non-compliance with GDPR due to incomplete privacy notice 9 Mitigate • Update privacy notice – retention periods clarified (marketing data deleted 2 years after consent withdrawal; logs retained 365 days; backups retained 30–365 days per policy) DPO 2025-05-31 3

This plan is reviewed bi-monthly during ISMS meetings. New risks are appended; completed actions are archived.