Inherent risk

Advanced Risk assessment rating labels

The Xanadu Advanced Risk release notes say risk assessment column labels were renamed to avoid confusion from duplicate names. Examples: Inherent risk became Inherent rating, Residual risk became Residual rating, Computed inherent risk became Computed inherent rating, and the generic Comments fields gained specific names such as Comments for inherent risk. Field names in the database did not change.

Family: Security and Risk
Status: Current name since Xanadu, September 2024
Acronyms: ARA
Verified: 18 October 2026, docs release notes

Name history

Newest first

Xanadu, September 2024Inherent riskInherent ratingLabelSource Xanadu

Xanadu, September 2024Residual riskResidual ratingLabelSource Xanadu

Xanadu, September 2024Target riskTarget ratingLabelSource Xanadu

Xanadu, September 2024Control effectivenessControl effectiveness ratingLabelSource Xanadu

Source: docs release notes, www.servicenow.com

Where the old name still lives

Column names such as summary_inherent_risk and summary_residual_risk

Connections

Integrated Risk Management, Security and Risk
Third-party Risk Management, Security and Risk, Store 17.0.4, August 2023
Threat Intelligence Security Center, Security and Risk, GA 9 May 2024
Unified Security Exposure Management, Security and Risk, Store, 11 December 2025
Operational Sustainability Management, Security and Risk, Australia, 2026
Business Continuity Management, Security and Risk, Washington DC, 2024

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