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Region Module for Risk Assessment Management Application

User Guide: Region Module for Risk Assessment Management Application Welcome to the Region Module of our Risk Assessment Management application! In a Risk Assessment product, this guide will walk you through the functionality and capabilities of the Regions in detail. Regions in Risk Assessment systems are essential for ensuring tailored approaches to diverse regulatory requirements, optimizing Risk Assessment management, and mitigating regional risks.

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What is the Region Module for Risk Assessment Management Application module in RiskWatch?

User Guide: Region Module for Risk Assessment Management Application Welcome to the Region Module of our Risk Assessment Management application! In a Risk Assessment product, this guide will walk you through the functionality and capabilities of the Regions in detail. Regions in Risk Assessment systems are essential for ensuring tailored approaches to diverse regulatory requirements, optimizing Risk Assessment management, and mitigating regional risks. It sits inside the RiskWatch risk workspace and shares its data with assessments, the evidence vault, and the audit-pack export so a single change updates every downstream view.

How do I use the Region Module for Risk Assessment Management Application screen?

Open the RiskWatch app, navigate to the Region Module for Risk Assessment Management Application module from the main menu, and apply the filters or actions described in the guide below. Permissions follow your role profile, so admins see configuration, assessors see workflow actions, and viewers see read-only data. Saved views and filters persist per user across sessions.

Key concepts in this module
Region ModuleRegionDescriptionSave the RegionHow to Delete RegionEvents

User Guide: Region Module for Risk Assessment Management Application

Welcome to the Region Module of our Risk Assessment Management application! In a Risk Assessment product, this guide will walk you through the functionality and capabilities of the Regions in detail.

What is Region?

Regions in Risk Assessment systems are essential for ensuring tailored approaches to diverse regulatory requirements, optimizing Risk Assessment management, and mitigating regional risks.

Region typically refers to a geographic area or jurisdiction that plays a role in defining the regulatory, operational, or business context for facilities, processes, or products.

How to create a Region in Risk Assessment:

Creating a Region in Risk Assessment is a Direct approach, the below steps followed by screenshots will guide you how to create a Region.

  1. Landing into Region screen:
  2. Navigate To Facility on Main Menu and will get a Drop down Having Facility(S), Facility types and Region(s) Modules.
  3. Click on Region(s), It will Take you to The Region page.
  4. Click on Add Region Button on the Top Left
  1. Fill The Required Details to create Region
  2. Region: Here we can enter the name of the Region, for example: “General”. And here Region is mandatory field, we can’t skip it to create a Region and we can enter any Text here like Alphabets, numbers Alphanumeric, special characters and everything. Make sure it should accept till 255 characters.
  1. Description: Here We can Describe the complete information of a Region., Enter the text it can be any alpha numeric and make sure it should not cross 3000 characters max.
  2. Save the Region:
  3. After filling all the details click on save button which is present at the Right bottom to create the Region. it will give you the success message for confirmation and That region will display in Grid at the top.
  1. If you click on Cancel button, it will navigate back to Regions Grid page.

Edit Region

We can edit or view the Region details by clicking on Pen icon in Action column or by clicking View details icon in 1st column in the Region grid.

We can edit the Region name and description at any time and in N no. of times by adding changes into the fields and clicking the save button.

Name and Description will update immediately to entire application where you are having Region information.

How to Delete Region:

  1. We can delete the Region by clicking on Delete icon in Actions column, you will get delete pop up which says Are you sure you want to delete the region? With Yes or No buttons.
  2. If you click No, Pop up will close and if you click yes, the Record will be deleted.
  3. You will get Region Deleted Successfully message once you delete it, the record will be removed from the grid.
  4. Make sure if the Region is already mapped to any Facilities, then you can’t delete Region until you remove the mapping and it will display the alert message as Region already in use please remove mapping when you try to delete.

How to search the specific Region from the Grid

  1. You can get the specific record from the grid by using search field and also from the Filter feature available in every column as shown below.
  1. We can filter the records by using Region, description and Facility count
  2. You can get the data by clicking Filter button in filters drop down in individual columns grid so you will get the required details in data table.
  3. If you want to get rid from the filter, click on clear button, so it will remove the specific search and will show you the whole information in grid.

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You can get all the Region details into excel data by clicking export icon at the Top right. And also you can Hide or see the columns by clicking columns button beside the export icon.

In Regions Grid, you have a column called Facility count, If the region is mapped to any facility, it will display the count of facilities mapped to this region.

And it is displaying as clickable count, when you click on it, it will display a pop up and it shows the all mapped facilities to this region with view details icon.

And you can go to that particular facility by click on view details icon. It will navigate you to facility screen.

Events: Events or logs are the excellent features in applications for tracking and auditing user activities and system operations. They provide a detailed record of actions performed, helping to ensure transparency, traceability, and Risk Assessment. Here's an overview:

Purpose of Events

  1. Action Tracking: Record user actions such as creating, updating, or deleting records.
  2. Audit Trails: Maintain a history of changes for Risk Assessment and accountability.
  3. Performance Analysis: Log metrics to analyze application performance and usage.
  4. Security: Detect unauthorized access or suspicious activities.

User Activities

    • Login/logout events.
    • Data creation, modification, or deletion.
    • Accessing sensitive modules or information.

Benefits of Events/Logs

  1. Improved Troubleshooting: Quickly identify issues by analyzing error logs.
  2. Risk Assessment Support: Meet regulatory requirements by maintaining detailed audit trails.
  3. Enhanced Security: Detect anomalies such as unauthorized access.

How to get the Events in Region module?

  1. Open Regions
  2. Click on events Dropdown at the Bottom Left of the screen.
  3. It will show you the all captured events for the Region Module.
  4. This feature will show you the Events table along with filters option in the gird, search, sort and export options.

Events Table is having the following columns

  1. Action Performed
  2. Performed By
  3. Module
  4. Action date
  5. Action Info and
  6. View details columns

Action Performed: It will describe what action could be performed

Performed By: It will display the user mail Id who performed the action.

Module: The part or section of the application where the action occurred

Action date: It tells about the Timestamp the exact date and time of the event.

Action Info: It tells about the Region, which Region is effected for the update.

View Details: When you click on this icon, it will display complete information of the action, like create, update and delete with detailed information like what is the before change of the Region and what is after change of the Region and which field is effected under that Region

You can get the Specific log by search the record or filter the record by using filters in each column of the grid and search field.

Filter feature give you the all column options to get the exact record.

You can download the all logs data into excel sheet, there you see, what is the before change and what is the after change.

Common questions about Region Module for Risk Assessment Management Application

What does the Region Module for Risk Assessment Management Application module integrate with?+

The Region Module for Risk Assessment Management Application screen shares records with the rest of the RiskWatch risk suite: Region Module, Region, Description, Save the Region, plus the cross-mapping engine that connects risk controls to other frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, and PCI DSS. There is nothing to wire up, the integrations are native.

Where does the Region Module for Risk Assessment Management Application fit in the RiskWatch risk workflow?+

It is one of 27 screens that make up the Risk module. Most teams reach it from the risk dashboard while running an assessment or reviewing posture. See the related-topics sidebar for the workflows it feeds into and the upstream screens that feed it.

References and related standards

Standards and references the Region Module for Risk Assessment Management Application module aligns with, plus related RiskWatch documentation.

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