Assign residual-risk acceptance authority: Which control is missing?
Residual risk requires an identified decision-maker with authority to accept, reject, or condition deployment.
The question
A public benefits agency has mapped purpose, affected people, impacts, applicable requirements, mitigations, monitoring, and escalation. Those prerequisites are satisfied. Residual error risk remains after controls, and the team has not established who may decide whether that residual risk is acceptable. Which control is missing?
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- Add an appeal pathway for applicants affected by decisions.Appeals can address affected-person recourse, but they do not identify who authorizes residual-risk acceptance before deployment.
- Expand the model’s validation sample across benefit categories.Broader validation may improve evidence, but it does not assign decision authority for accepting residual operational risk.
- Create a recurring dashboard for post-deployment error trends.Monitoring supports ongoing management, yet the stated gap is authority to decide whether remaining risk is tolerable.
- Assign residual-risk acceptance authority. ✓A named authority is needed to make and document the deployment decision when material risk remains after mitigation.
The trap
When residual risk remains, look for authority and accountability rather than another generic mitigation. How to remember it
Residual risk requires an identified decision-maker with authority to accept, reject, or condition deployment.
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