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Proposing High Residual Risk Rating for clean Very High Inherent Risk Vendors

Ty Dilbeck requested to merge resriskupdates into main

Why is this change being made?

Currently, Very High (RED) and High (Orange SaaS) Inherent Risk vendors are assigned a Moderate Residual Risk if they meet Security Requirements. I am proposing that clean Very High Inherent Risk vendors are assigned a Residual Risk of High rather than Moderate. Logic as follows:

  1. Very High Residual Risk vendors (such as AWS) will always be more risky to GitLab than Orange SaaS vendors (such as Workday) even if they meet our requirements
  2. Stratification in our vendor population will aid reporting and allow us to quickly isolate our riskiest vendors
  3. Dropping residual risk one level for clean vendors will create uniformity and potentially enable us to avoid confusion related to a two level bump down for RED vendors

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