Remediate an issue in AI Risk and Compliance

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated March 12, 2026
  • 2 minutes to read
  • After an issue has been created, reported, identified, triaged, and investigated, you can remediate it.

    Before you begin

    Role required: sn_grc_ai_gov.ai_risk_and_compliance_admin, sn_grc_ai_gov.ai_risk_and_compliance_manager, sn_grc_ai_gov.ai_risk_and_compliance_business_user, sn_ai_case_mgmt.ai_case_analyst

    About this task

    Remediating an issue marks an intention to fix the underlying issue causing the control failure or risk exposure. Accepting an issue marks an intention to create an exception for a known control failure or risk. Controls that are Accepted remain in a non-compliant state until the control is reassessed. In this way, the issue can be used to document observations during audits.

    Procedure

    1. Open the issue you want to remediate.
    2. Select the Remediation Tasks tab.
      Note:
      You have two options for creating a remediation task:
      • Select Suggested Remediation Tasks and select Copy to use an existing task as a basis for creating this task. A copy of the selected remediation task is created with certain information from that task copied to the new task. You can manually complete the other fields.
      • Selecting New and manually creating the task.
    3. On the form, fill in the fields.
      Table 1. Remediation task form
      Field Description
      Number Unique identification number.
      Assigned to Select the user responsible for working this task.

      You can configure a hierarchy of users to access the remediation task. For more information, see User hierarchy access control for issue and remediation task records.

      Issue The issue for which this task was created.
      State The current state of the task.
      Priority Select the priority or sequence this task needs to be resolved, based on its impact and urgency.
      Watch list Select users who want to be notified when changes occur.
      Created/Updated Displays the date/time when the task was created and updated.
      Name Brief description of the task. This will appear in lists of tasks.
      Description Enter a complete description of the task.
      Notes and Comments
      Additional comments As needed, enter any customer-facing comments related to this task.
      Work notes Enter any non-customer-facing notes related to the remediation of the issue.
      Task Schedule
      Planned duration Estimated amount of work time. Calculated using the Planned start date and Planned end date.
      Planned start date Date and time that work on the task is expected to begin.
      Planned end date Date and time that work on the task is expected to end.
      Actual duration Amount of actual work time. Calculated using the Actual start date and Actual end date.
      Actual start date Time when work began on this task.
      Actual end date Time when work on this task was completed.
      Confidentiality
      Confidential Option to enable confidentiality of the record. Only the assigned confidential users or confidential groups of users can access the record.

      For more information on confidential option, see Confidentiality flag for audit and compliance records.

    4. Select Submit.