GRC Automation

What is GRC Automation? GRC automation is the automated deployment of software and artificial intelligence (AI) to automate governance, risk and compliance processes without manual friction. The formal discipline of GRC was invented around 2002-2003 by the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) - what is now known as automated GRC software and Integrated Risk Management (IRM) platforms. When organisations deploy the latest GRC technology, they can reduce manual assessment costs by up to 80%, replace multiple disconnected spreadsheets, and implement centralised governance across multiple hybrid cloud data sources. As the most innovative GRC Software Solutions, controllo.ai is the global leader in delivering the next generation of GRC Automation.

Modern GRC Software Solutions enable real-time, continuous control validation. End-to-end automation and integrated monitoring in modern GRC technologies allow evidence to be collected and validated in real time against even the most complex, evolving regulatory controls. Spreadsheets and manual email exchanges create isolated, stagnant evidence that can become irrelevant before the end of an audit cycle. Controllo.ai offers modern GRC technology with built-in connections to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and collaboration tools to gather cryptographically verifiable evidence in real time.

Legacy compliance workflows rely heavily on periodic checks, creating blind spots between audit dates. Modern GRC Solutions use automated pipelines and Dynamic Risk Registers to guarantee persistent visibility.

Dynamic Risk Register continually pulls system telemetry to compute a Likelihood and Impact score in real time (not once a year, as with a traditional self-assessment). A Next-Generation Dynamic Risk Register correlates active misconfigurations, asset vulnerability notifications and third-party vendor reports based on NIST-aligned risk algorithms in real time. Instead of a group of unintentional results to an annual test, compliance managers are given contextual alerts, reminding them that their enterprise is at risk of an unencrypted database or an ill-configured access policy - outside the scope of infrequent tests conducted externally.

External assessments need timestamped evidence of continuously performing access reviews, remediating vulnerabilities and applying encryption for the duration of the assessment window. An automatically generated GRC report can give auditors role-based read access to a cloud-based audit control log to spot-check controls without back-and-forth emails. Controllo.ai creates an enterprise-wide GRC report that covers all active controls to reduce audit duration by weeks.

Grow your business by automating redundant compliance tests. Based on common controls, GRC software frameworks help companies leverage the same compliance tests for security, privacy, and artificial intelligence standards. Controllo.ai stands out as the best GRC software solution, making it fast and easy for teams to onboard new frameworks, like ISO 42001 or local privacy regulations, and associate that framework with cloud evidence that already exists. Ascom GRC Automation adds value to your operational security by managing the increase in regulations without the need for new compliance teams.