Keywords: Risk Movement, inherent, residual, target, cycle history, heat map, impact, likelihood, BoardX, admin
Risk Movement is BoardX's way of showing how a Risk has changed over time. It plots a Risk's Inherent, Residual, and Target scores on the same heat map and draws an arrow showing how far the Risk moved from "before mitigations" to "after mitigations" — so you can see at a glance whether your mitigations are working.
Where you'll see Risk Movement
Risk Movement surfaces in two places.
On the Risk side panel's Overview tab, the View Risk Movement button (alongside Export Risk Report and Edit Risk details) opens the Risk Movement modal — the dedicated visual view of the Risk's scores across cycles.
Opening the Risk Movement modal
Open the Risk side panel from the Heat Map, Charts view, or GRC List > Risks section.
On the Overview tab, click View Risk Movement in the row of action buttons below the Current cycle strip.
To close it, click the X in the top-right.
Reading the heat map
The left side of the modal is a 5 × 5 heat map. Impact runs up the Y-axis (1 - Very Low through 5 - Very High); Likelihood runs across the X-axis (1 - Extremely Unlikely through 5 - Extremely Likely). Each cell is colored from green (low risk) through yellow and orange to red (high risk).
Plotted on top of the heat map are up to three pins:
Inherent — where the Risk sits before mitigations.
Residual — where the Risk sits after mitigations are linked.
Target — where you want the Risk to end up. Only appears when a Target has been set.
A dashed arrow runs from the Inherent pin to the Residual pin, making the journey easy to see — the steeper the drop into the green zone, the more your mitigations have moved the needle.
Show or hide a cycle on the heat map
Each cycle card has a toggle button on the right:
Show cycle — adds that cycle's Inherent and Residual pins to the heat map.
Stop showing cycle — removes them.
Use the toggles to focus on a single cycle, or turn multiple cycles on at once to compare how the Risk has shifted across them.
Need help?
If you get stuck, click the chat bubble in the bottom-right corner of any Risk page.