Glossary
The terms that show up in Norrsent — defined.
Plain definitions of the standards, frameworks, and architectural concepts used across the platform. Practitioner-direct, no marketing prose.
Risk
Bow-tie analysis
A risk visualisation showing causes, preventive controls, the risk event, mitigative controls, and consequences as a single connected diagram.
ISO 31000:2018
The international standard for risk management. Defines principles, framework, and process for identifying, assessing, treating, and monitoring risk across an organisation.
Sustainability
Double materiality
A two-axis assessment under CSRD/ESRS that weighs both the financial impact of sustainability matters on the company and the company's impact on people and the environment.
ESRS — European Sustainability Reporting Standards
The standards that operationalise CSRD disclosure. Twelve standards: two cross-cutting (ESRS 1, ESRS 2) and ten topical (E1–E5 environmental, S1–S4 social, G1 governance).
Compliance
Schrems II
The 2020 Court of Justice of the European Union ruling that invalidated the EU–US Privacy Shield, requiring additional safeguards before EU personal data can be transferred to non-EU jurisdictions.
GDPR Article 22
The GDPR provision restricting solely-automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects on a person, with limited exceptions and rights of intervention.