# Unowned Risk

> A defect in which a risk is never identified, or is identified and has no owner, severity, mitigation or review date.

Record: `architecture:unowned-risk`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Enforcement Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/enforcement-core.md)
Severity: discouraged
Scope: architecture_evolution
Aliases: Unknown/Unowned Risk
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology#architecture-unowned-risk

Listed in [Architecture principles](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/architecture.md), after [Opaque Runtime Behavior](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/opaque-runtime-behavior.md) and before [Unobservable Failure](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/unobservable-failure.md).

## Repair

- Refactored by: assign_owner, classify_severity, define_mitigation, record_acceptance, schedule_review
- Detected by: risk_without_owner, ADR_missing_consequence_owner, security_finding_unassigned, known_gap_without_due_date, accepted_risk_without_expiry
- Violated by: Identify a risk without assigning owner, severity, mitigation, review date, acceptance status, or escalation path.
- Measured by: risks without an owner, reviews past their date
- Enforced by: a risk register whose entries are validated for owner, severity and review date

## Severity

- [discouraged](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/severity-discouraged.md)

## Category

- [Anti-patterns](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture-category/anti-patterns.md)

## Force

- [Architecture evolution](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/architecture-evolution.md)

## Negated by

- [Risk Management](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/risk-management.md)

## Linked from

- [Ask where it appears](https://banes-lab.com/disciplined-methodology/plan/ask-where-it-appears.md)
- [Anti-patterns](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-anti-patterns.md)
- [Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-security-privacy-compliance-governance.md)
- [Severity levels](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-severity.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)