Introducing Custom User Fields in Risk Management to Assign Multiple Team Members Beyond Owner and Approver Roles
Open the door to more team members who need it
TLDR
You can now create custom fields with a User data type in Risk Management, allowing you to assign multiple team members to risks beyond just the Owner and Approver roles.
Why it matters
Many risks require collaboration across multiple stakeholders—from the person conducting remediation work to technical reviewers, compliance approvers, or business unit leads. Previously, you could only formally associate two users (Owner and Approver) with each risk, making it difficult to track everyone involved. Why make your jobs difficult when we can make them easier???? 
With custom User fields, you can now:
Track all relevant stakeholders for each risk with custom labels like "Technical Lead," "Business Owner," "Security Reviewer," or any role that fits your workflow
Improve accountability by clearly documenting who's responsible for specific aspects of risk remediation
Streamline collaboration by making it easy to identify and notify the right people
Customize to your needs with custom User fields tailored to your organization's risk management process
How it works Simply create a new custom field in your Risk Management settings, select "User" as the field type, and give it a meaningful label. When creating or editing risks, you'll be able to select any Vanta user from a dropdown for that field. Availability: Enterprise Risk Management