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title: Risks
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  The Process Owner records and assesses risks and opportunities on their
  process. The Risk Manager or BPM Manager publishes the analyses and evaluates
  them for the entire Process Space.
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With risk management in Bpanda, you record opportunities and risks within processes and keep them under control. A **risk** is an event that may occur and can have a negative effect on the process or its results; an **opportunity** is one that can have a positive effect. **Controls** ensure that the material risks and opportunities are reviewed regularly. You record a risk or an opportunity for the entire process or for an individual process element. Bpanda displays the entry there with a uniform symbol. The reason can be, for example, a new technology or a legal requirement.

The **Process Owner** creates a **risk analysis** for a published process version and assesses risks and opportunities in it using a matrix of probability of occurrence and extent of damage. However, this analysis only becomes visible to the other users once the **Risk Manager** or the **BPM Manager** publishes it.

- **Assessing risks and opportunities** describes the work on the individual process: recording, assessing, assigning, saving as a template and defining a risk control.
- **Managing risks and opportunities** describes the work across the entire Process Space: publishing, using the dashboard, comparing control assessments and maintaining templates.

As a **Process Owner**, you start **assessing risks and opportunities** on the process page with ⋮ **Analyze Risks**. The **Risk Management** page in the main menu under **Risks** is only visible to **Risk Managers** and **BPM Managers**.

See also: [Roles and authorizations](/en/getting-started/roles-and-authorizations)