Risk management is an essential process in any business management model. This article analyzes this process within the model eTOM, main reference in the telecommunications sector, comparing it with three of the main international standards of risk management, going to do to the literature and the use of schemes harmonization used in similar purposes review. In conclusion, a low alignment is observed between the processes of risk management eTOM and international standards of risk management and must attend norms tighter with the approach developed by the model, its orientation towards control and not towards a methodology specific risk management. In this sense it goes to the ISO / IEC 27002: 2013, primary benchmark for information technology controls and communications, finding a level of alignment only 29%.