Create a new RSK.

POST

/v1/risks

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.adversarial.com/api/v1/risks \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{ "assigned_to_id": null, "closed_date": null, "control_statement": null, "description": "", "discovered_date": null, "due_date": null, "expected_date": null, "impact": null, "impact_reasoning": null, "initially_reported_urgency": null, "likelihood": null, "likelihood_reasoning": null, "remediation_task": null, "source": null, "status": null, "threat_objectives": null, "title": "", "type": null }'

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Request Body

Media typeapplication/json

One of:

null

null

object

The required properties of a request to POST /risks

object

assigned_to_id

string | null format: uuid

closed_date

string | null format: date-time

control_statement

string | null

description

string

""

discovered_date

string | null format: date-time

due_date

string | null format: date-time

expected_date

string | null format: date-time

impact

One of:

null

null

string

string

Allowed values: Very Low Low Medium High Severe

impact_reasoning

string | null

initially_reported_urgency

One of:

null

null

string

string

Allowed values: Critical High Medium Low Info

likelihood

One of:

null

null

string

string

Allowed values: Remote Unlikely Possible Probable Imminent

likelihood_reasoning

string | null

remediation_task

string | null

source

string | null

status

One of:

null

null

string

The status of a risk

string

Allowed values: New Urgency Proposed Remediation Closure Proposed Closed

threat_objectives

Array<object> | null

A threat objective paired with how relevant it is to a risk.

Two relations are considered the same when the objective and its relevance match; created_date records when the relation was last changed and is not part of its identity.

object

created_date

The time that this relation was mutated

string | null format: date-time

relevance

One of:

null

null

string

The relevancy of the threat objective to the risk. Typically a value of 1, or 2. While the relevancy is null the the database, implementations of retrieving this from postgres should ignore null values.

string

Allowed values: Moderate Substantial

threat_objective

required

The threat objective type

string

Allowed values: Sabotage Data Disclosure Extortion Customer Targeting Resource Hijacking Fraud

title

string

""

type

One of:

null

null

string

string

Allowed values: Code Configuration Control Deficiency Policy Procedural Vulnerability Third-party

Responses

201

Risk created successfully

Media typeapplication/json

Register row for Organization Risks (RSKs). A Risk plus the relational data shown on the risk register: threat objectives, incident associations, tags, and comment count.

object

comments

required

Count of comments on this risk (not the comments themselves).

integer format: int64

incident_associations

required

Array<string>

linked_children_count

required

Number of risks linked under this risk (i.e. children pointing at it). A risk is itself a linked child when risk.parent_id is set.

integer format: int64

risk

required

The core view of an Organization Risk (RSK).

Relational data — threat objectives, comments, incident associations, and tags — is exposed on RiskRegisterEntry, not here.

object

assigned_to

One of:

null

null

object

A User as returned by the API.

Profile images are not embedded — clients fetch them from GET /api/v1/{icon} when icon is Some.

object

email

required

string

first_name

required

string

icon

Relative path to the user’s avatar endpoint, e.g. "users/{id}/avatar?v={hash}". None when the user has no avatar.

string | null

id

required

string format: uuid

last_name

required

string

closed_date

string | null format: date-time

control_statement

string | null

created_date

required

string format: date-time

deleted_date

string | null format: date-time

description

required

string

discovered_date

required

string format: date-time

due_date

string | null format: date-time

expected_date

string | null format: date-time

id

required

string

impact

One of:

null

null

string

string

Allowed values: Very Low Low Medium High Severe

impact_reasoning

string | null

initially_reported_urgency

One of:

null

null

string

string

Allowed values: Critical High Medium Low Info

likelihood

One of:

null

null

string

string

Allowed values: Remote Unlikely Possible Probable Imminent

likelihood_reasoning

string | null

opened_by

required

A User as returned by the API.

Profile images are not embedded — clients fetch them from GET /api/v1/{icon} when icon is Some.

object

email

required

string

first_name

required

string

icon

Relative path to the user’s avatar endpoint, e.g. "users/{id}/avatar?v={hash}". None when the user has no avatar.

string | null

id

required

string format: uuid

last_name

required

string

parent_id

When set, this risk is linked under the named parent risk.

string | null

remediation_task

string | null

source

string | null

status

required

The status of a risk

string

Allowed values: New Urgency Proposed Remediation Closure Proposed Closed

title

required

string

type

required

string

Allowed values: Code Configuration Control Deficiency Policy Procedural Vulnerability Third-party

updated_by

required

A User as returned by the API.

Profile images are not embedded — clients fetch them from GET /api/v1/{icon} when icon is Some.

object

email

required

string

first_name

required

string

icon

Relative path to the user’s avatar endpoint, e.g. "users/{id}/avatar?v={hash}". None when the user has no avatar.

string | null

id

required

string format: uuid

last_name

required

string

updated_date

required

string format: date-time

urgency

One of:

null

null

string

Derived from likelihood and impact. Null when either is missing.

string

Allowed values: Info Low Medium High Critical

tags

required

Array<object>

object

content

required

string

creator_id

required

string format: uuid

id

required

string format: uuid

org_id

string | null format: uuid

threat_objectives

required

Array<object>

A threat objective paired with how relevant it is to a risk.

Two relations are considered the same when the objective and its relevance match; created_date records when the relation was last changed and is not part of its identity.

object

created_date

The time that this relation was mutated

string | null format: date-time

relevance

One of:

null

null

string

The relevancy of the threat objective to the risk. Typically a value of 1, or 2. While the relevancy is null the the database, implementations of retrieving this from postgres should ignore null values.

string

Allowed values: Moderate Substantial

threat_objective

required

The threat objective type

string

Allowed values: Sabotage Data Disclosure Extortion Customer Targeting Resource Hijacking Fraud

Example

{
  "incident_associations": "INC-00001",
  "risk": {
    "id": "RSK-00001",
    "impact": "Very Low",
    "initially_reported_urgency": "Critical",
    "likelihood": "Remote",
    "parent_id": "RSK-00001",
    "status": "New",
    "type": "Code",
    "urgency": "Info"
  },
  "threat_objectives": [
    {
      "relevance": "Moderate",
      "threat_objective": "Sabotage"
    }
  ]
}

400

Validation failed (e.g. unknown source, inactive assignee)