What does it mean to make your risk management program first-line friendly?

While risk management is critical to an organization’s overall success and must be addressed holistically throughout a company, most risk programs are addressed from the top down. A first-line friendly approach takes a business centric approach to enable stakeholders across the business, most importantly first-line risk owners, to both understand, and act in best practice from the bottom-up. 

Pivoting your risk management program to be first-line friendly will enhance your overall security posture across the business and ensure a universal understanding of processes at all levels of the enterprise. 

Here are three ways that making your organization first-line friendly will help streamline your risk management process.