Assessing Multiple Risks Simultaneously
You can assess several risks simultaneously via an interactive heatmap.
To assess several risks simultaneously:
1. In the navigation bar, click Assessment > Direct Assessment > Risk Multiple Assessment.
2. Click New Assessment.
3. In the window that appears, select the Assessment template:
• Risk Assessment by Entity and Process
• Assessment of risks by application
4. In the displayed tree, select the objects that define the assessment context (entity or application, depending on the selected template).
A risk is assessed in the context of elements of the branch from the risk up to the root.To help you choose the risks to be assessed, the following information is displayed in columns:
• Risk types
• Last assessment
• Residual risk
• Open Incidents
• Forecast risk
This information is also available in the risk dashboard. For more details, see Risk Overview. 
In the example below, if you select the “Procurement Department”, the following objects are also selected:
- all the risks and context objects at a lower level
- all parent context objects up to the root of the tree.
- all the risks and context objects at a lower level
- all parent context objects up to the root of the tree.
If you deselect a node of a branch, only the child elements of this branch are deselected.If assessments have already been carried out, the most recent assessment values are presented in columns.5. Click Next.
A summary of the assessment appears, enabling you to have an Overview of the objects you are going to assess.
6. Click OK.
A heatmap appears. It enables to assess risks visually.
7. (first screen) Position the risks on the heatmap so as to specify:
• the Impact (from very low to very high), vertically
• the Likelihood (from rare to certain), horizontally
Values entered during the last assessment are displayed.
8. Click Next.
9. Specify the Control Level (from effective to inexistent).
Vertically, you find the Inherent risk, which was computed in the previous screen.
10. When done, click Submit.
You may also choose to close the questionnaire to come back to it and resume the assessment later on (Save for later). In this case, the questionnaire is saved in the Ongoing direct assessments list.
For more details, see Using Heatmap Questionnaires in the Common Features section.When submitting, an assessment is created in the Assessment page of the risk properties.
Click below to view the procedure as a video: