What is risk assessment software?

Risk assessment software is a tool that helps organisations identify, score, treat and review risks against a defined methodology — typically ISO 27005, ISO 31000 or NIST — and produce the evidence an auditor or regulator expects.

Do I need risk assessment software for ISO 27001?

ISO 27001 does not mandate software, but clauses 6.1, 8.2 and 8.3 require a documented risk assessment, treatment plan and Statement of Applicability. Spreadsheets can pass — they just rarely survive contact with a UKAS Stage 2 audit at any reasonable scale.

How does ISO-STANDARD.app compare to Vanta or Drata?

Vanta and Drata are broad GRC suites with risk as one tab among many. ISO-STANDARD.app is built around the ISO risk-and-controls workflow itself — no implementation project, no per-seat sales call, and the SoA writes itself from your treatment decisions.

Can I import an existing risk register?

Yes. Risks can be imported from CSV with the standard columns (title, owner, likelihood, impact, treatment, target residual, review date) and linked to Annex A controls on import.

Does it work for non-ISO frameworks?

Yes. The 5×5 methodology is framework-agnostic and the controls catalogue ships with ISO 27001 Annex A, ISO 42001, ISO 20000-1, ISO 31000 and ISO 9001 mappings out of the box.

Risk assessments buyers trust — not spreadsheets that sink deals.

Enterprise procurement wants to see how you rank, treat and monitor risk. A version-controlled spreadsheet won't cut it. ISO-STANDARD.app is the SME- and consultant-friendly risk assessment platform with a 5×5 register, ISO 27001 Annex A control mapping, treatment workflow and audit-ready exports pre-wired — built by a founder with 25+ years of IT governance and information security.

Why most risk assessment tools disappoint

Teams searching for risk assessment software usually land in one of two places. Spreadsheets — fast to start, impossible to audit once you cross a dozen risks and two reviewers. Or enterprise GRC suites — six-figure contracts, a four-month implementation, and a tool where the risk register is a tab inside a tab.

Neither matches what ISO 27001, ISO 27005 or ISO 31000 actually expect: identify the risk, score it, pick a treatment, map it to a control, document the decision, review it on a cadence. That is a workflow, not a content-management system.

What ISO-STANDARD.app gives you

5×5 risk register

Inherent and residual scoring, owner, treatment decision (the four Ts), target residual and review date — in one editable view that exports cleanly.

Annex A:2022 control mapping

Every risk links to the controls that treat it. Statement of Applicability assembles automatically from your decisions.

Treatment workflow

Treatment actions, owners, due dates and status tracked alongside the risk — not in a separate Trello board nobody opens.

Live heatmap & reports

5×5 heatmap, treatment status, by-category and by-owner views. Configurable report views you can save and share.

Risk → control → policy traceability

Auditors stop asking "where is the evidence?" — every risk is one click from its control and its policy.

Audit-ready exports

Management-review pack (ISO 27001 clause 9.3), risk register CSV, full SoA — branded PDFs ready for the auditor.

Full audit trail

Every change to every risk is logged with who, when and what. Required for Growth-tier plans and above.

Multi-framework

Ships with ISO 27001 Annex A, ISO 42001, ISO 20000-1, ISO 31000 and ISO 9001 control catalogues — adopt one or several.

Who it's for

SaaS teams chasing ISO 27001 certification

Pain: Procurement is gating an enterprise deal on a certificate and the CTO is the de facto ISMS manager.

With ISO-STANDARD.app: A 60–90 day path to a Stage 2 audit with the register, SoA, treatment plan and policies the auditor expects already in place.

Operations leaders moving off spreadsheets

Pain: Three risk spreadsheets, two control logs, none of them reconcile and nobody owns the master copy.

With ISO-STANDARD.app: One canonical workspace where risks, controls, treatments and evidence are linked — drift becomes visible instead of hidden.

Consultancies running multiple client ISMSs

Pain: Every client gets a bespoke spreadsheet stack; handovers are painful and audits look different every time.

With ISO-STANDARD.app: A repeatable workspace per client with the same exports, the same catalogue and the same review cadence.

See the competitive landscape

We track the risk assessment software category openly. See who currently ranks for "risk assessment software", our side-by-side comparison vs Vanta, SafetyCulture, Hyperproof and Drata, and the most-asked buyer questions.

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