risk
Critical talent loss, scarcity and succession gaps
Departure of key executives or irreplaceable specialists without succession or knowledge-transfer plans, plus inability to recruit/retain scarce skills (cyber, data, AI/ML), causing loss of institutional knowledge and execution capacity. Also covers loss of key personnel disrupting operations dependent on specialist knowledge.
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Attributes
- category
- people_hr
- domain
- Human Resources / Personnel Security
- Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
- taxonomy
- coso-erm-risk
- enterprise-risk
- iso-27005-threat
- iso-27005-vulnerability
- inherent_rating
- high
Details
- risk_id
- hr-talent-loss-succession
- category
- people_hr
- likelihood
- high
- impact
- medium
- inherent_rating
- high
- treatment
- mitigate
- taxonomies
- coso-erm-risk
- enterprise-risk
- iso-27005-threat
- iso-27005-vulnerability
Source
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Connections
- UC-BCDR-10 — Test recovery capabilities and train contingency personnel mitigates Critical talent loss, scarcity and succession gaps
- strength
- related
- rationale
- training all contingency-role personnel reduces single-person dependency for recovery execution
- UC-HR-06 — Embed security and competence in HR practices mitigates Critical talent loss, scarcity and succession gaps
- strength
- primary
- rationale
- Succession/contingency planning for security-relevant roles plus attracting and developing scarce skills directly reduces key-talent loss and knowledge-transfer gaps.