RA-7 — Risk Response
Organizations have many options for responding to risk including mitigating risk by implementing new controls or strengthening existing controls, accepting risk with appropriate justification or rationale, sharing or transferring risk, or avoiding risk. The risk tolerance of the organization influences risk response decisions and actions. Risk response addresses the need to determine an appropriate response to risk before generating a plan of action and milestones entry. For example, the response may be to accept risk or reject risk, or it may be possible to mitigate the risk immediately so that a plan of action and milestones entry is not needed. However, if the risk response is to mitigate the risk, and the mitigation cannot be completed immediately, a plan of action and milestones entry is generated.
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NIST CSF 2.0 informative references
These CSF Subcategories list this base control or one of its enhancements in the imported NIST informative reference.
NIST SP 800-171 and SP 800-172
SP 800-171 requirements sourcing this control
SP 800-172 enhanced requirements sourcing this control
MITRE D3FEND techniques
MITRE ATT&CK relationships
Curated mitigation mappings
Inferred behavior relationships
Experimental: These relationships are inferred through D3FEND and must be validated against architecture, telemetry, and threat context.
Use the map without overclaiming.
A CSF informative reference is not an equivalence statement. A source-control relationship is not proof of implementation. A D3FEND semantic relationship is not a product claim. An inferred ATT&CK link is a hypothesis for engineering analysis.
Bare Metal Cyber is an independent educational publisher and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or MITRE. Informative references and cross-framework relationships support navigation and analysis; they do not establish compliance, applicability, equivalence, control inheritance, or guaranteed mitigation effectiveness.