Risk tolerance
nounverified·updated Aug 28, 2026
The level of risk an entity is willing to assume in order to achieve a potential desired result.
MWENIST Cybersecurity Framework
Senses
ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary
The acceptable level of variation that management is willing to allow for any particular risk as the enterprise pursues its objectives
CPMI-IOSCO Guidance on Cyber Resilience for Financial Market Infrastructures
The amount and type of risk that an organisation is willing to take in order to meet its strategic objectives (may also be referred to as “risk appetite”).
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 2 pending review
The defined impacts to an enterprise’s information systems that an entity is willing to accept.
NIST AI RMF 1.0
Risk tolerance refers to the organization’s or AI actor’s ... readiness to bear the risk in order to achieve its objectives. Risk tolerance can be influenced by legal or regulatory requirements.
Classifications
Entity Type
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Sensitivity
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Information Class
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Variants
- synonym
- acceptable level of variation
- alternatephrasing
- Risk Tolerance
- plural
- Risk tolerances
- possessive
- Risk tolerance's
- pluralpossessive
- Risk tolerances'