Introducing Risk Register: Centralized, AI-Powered Privacy Risk Management

Just a few years ago, when business leaders heard “data privacy risk,” they thought of high-profile GDPR fines aimed at a few tech giants and large enterprises. In 2025, data privacy is far more complex.

A stream of new regulations, rising consumer expectations, increasingly-complex data processes, and an explosion of decentralized AI are coalescing to expose brands of every size and industry to the very real risk of fines, enforcement actions, and lasting brand damage. 

Privacy teams must now manage a rapidly-evolving list of privacy risks that include ignored consent signals, sensitive data misuse, unmanaged AI workflows, third-party exposure, data breaches, human error, and more. It’s time for a connected, intelligent, and proactive privacy risk management approach. 

Risk Register: End-to-end AI-Powered Risk Management 

Executives want a clear picture of overall risk posture, privacy teams want efficient detection and resolution, and auditors want clear evidence. The new DataGrail Risk Register is built to provide all three.

Risk Register surfaces privacy risks across DataGrail into a single centralized hub to manage, identify and mitigate privacy risks from across the business. 

Risk Register harnesses DataGrail technologies like AI, patented system detection, privacy assessments, up-to-date metadata, and user reports to surface risks from across your business and recommend actionable, context-aware next steps. With Risk Register, it’s easier than ever to:

• Proactively identify, contextualize, and manage risks with AI-powered Risk Flagging
• Centralize, log, and score your privacy risks
• Prioritize mitigation based on impact without drowning in noise
• Take meaningful action on risk insight

Centralized Risk Management Hub for Privacy Teams

DataGrail centralizes risks from across your business into a single searchable hub, making it easier to track and mitigate all privacy-related risks. With proactive risk detection across assessments, system profiles and processes, your team can take action on high-impact risks, coordinate mitigation and maintain a defensible view of your privacy risk posture. 

• Instantly access your privacy posture to govern and safeguard sensitive information
• Create a single-searchable repository privacy-related risks
• Prioritize high-impact risks with customizable scoring
• Track progress, ownership, and timelines for clearer visibility
• Automatically surface risks where they appear (e.g. System Profiles, Risk Assessments, etc,)

Risk Prioritization Across Your Privacy Ecosystem

Connect your assessments and systems directly to Risk Register to capture and prioritize risks in the right context, where they occur. Risks flagged within assessments or systems automatically flow into your central register, streamlining workflows, eliminating blind spots and helping teams prioritize mitigation based on real business impact. 

• Identify risks at the point of discovery, directly in assessments.
• Automatically track flagged risks in the Risk Register for clear visibility.
• Navigate from a risk to its source assessment for deeper insights.

AI-Enabled System-Level Risk Detection

Managing system-level risks has become even more critical for privacy teams. As data spreads across SaaS, internal systems and AI-enabled workflows, privacy teams need a way to detect, assess, and act on risks without juggling disconnected tools. Risk Register integrates seamlessly with Live Data Map, combining unmatched integration, and automation while leveraging responsible, privacy-first AI to automatically detect and surface potential risks across your systems. Our proprietary AI agent continuously evaluates public data to detect third-party security and privacy threats, as well as potential high-risk AI systems, aligned with global governance standards for proactive compliance. 

View AI detected risks in your system profile

Automatically brings risks into scope by surfacing AI-detected issues directly in each system profile. With system-level visibility, privacy teams can understand where risks originate to take immediate action.

• Eliminate blind spots with built-in risk insights
• Reduce manual investigations with responsible AI-driven visibility
• Detect risks in context to improve accuracy and division making

Turn detected risks into actionable insights 

Quickly move from identifying risks to seamlessly managing them in structured mitigation workflows. Assign ownership, track progress and set automated reminders to reduce blind spots, improve follow-through to maintain control and transparency of your mitigation efforts.

• Add flagged risks directly to the central Risk Register
• Seamlessly launch PIAs/DPIAs from detected issues
• Streamline triage to reduce remediation time and improve outcomes

Your Proactive Approach to Risk Management

Risk Register is more than a centralized hub for risk management, it’s your foundation for a proactive, defensible privacy program in the age of AI. By centralizing risk in a single platform, providing AI-powered insights, and streamlining mitigation, DataGrail’s complete privacy platform helps you meet evolving demands of GDPR, CCPA, and global compliance with confidence.

This launch lays the foundation for the future of privacy risk detection and management,  one that’s connected, intelligent, and defensible by design. DataGrail brings together automation, discovery, assessment, and risk management into one intelligent platform to  help privacy teams stay ahead of emerging risks, cut through noise, and gain actionable guidance into your organizational risks from day one. 

If you’re ready to transform your risk management and deliver defensible compliance, get a demo of DataGrail’s AI-Powered Privacy Risk Register today. Get a demo

📅 Join our virtual summit : “The Privacy Risk Summit” on October 21st. This half-day virtual event brings together expert insights, peer-driven discussion, and actionable tactics to help you future-proof your privacy program.