What it means
A risk register records what an organisation believes could go wrong, how serious each item is, who owns it and what is being done. It is the most common artefact in risk management and the most commonly abandoned: registers are built for an audit or a board paper, then not revisited, and within two cycles they describe an organisation that no longer exists.
The register is not the discipline. What makes it useful is whether anything moves as a result — whether owners are real, actions close with evidence, and someone notices when they do not.
Where MyRISK fits
What we do about it
MyRISK Essentials is built on the view that a register nobody refreshes is a document rather than a control. It produces a First Risk Baseline from material you already have, then a monthly rhythm that reports what closed, what aged and what is blocked. One condition applies to every sale: a named person on your side keeps it current.
Is this the thing you are actually trying to fix?
A definition rarely settles it. Tell us what happened — the request, the finding, the challenge or the incident — and we will say where to start, or that it isn't us.