The PRIMARY reason for communicating risk assessment results to data owners is to enable the:

While data owners may be involved in control design, the primary reason for communicating assessment results is to inform their decision-making on existing risks, which includes prioritization.

Industry benchmarking is a separate activity for evaluating control effectiveness, not the primary purpose of communicating specific assessment results to data owners.

Data owners, being responsible for their information assets, need to understand the assessed risks to make informed decisions and prioritize which risks require immediate attention and resource allocation for response efforts.

Classification of information assets typically occurs before or as part of the initial stages of a risk assessment, providing input for the assessment, not a result of it.