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Cyber GRC

Automate and Enhance Cyber Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Processes

Organizations leveraging compliance automation see a direct impact: lower costs, improved resilience, protection against fines and reputational harm, and the ability to make strategic decisions that propel business growth.

FortifyData provides a convenient, centralized and automated Cyber GRC platform to manage cyber risk and compliance. By automating key processes, natively including risk findings from continuous assessments, and offering pre-built frameworks, we simplify audits, streamline reporting, and provide clear visibility into your security posture. Empower your team with intuitive tools and workflows, making compliance less burdensome and more efficient.

Make compliance easier with AI-powered automation and real-time control insights.

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Table of Content

Risk Assessments and Audit Readiness

Continuous Compliance Monitoring

Auto-validated Responses

Cyber Risk Quantification

Incident Management

Policy Management

Third-party Risk Management

Cyber GRC- Focused on Cybersecurity Use Cases

The FortifyData Risk & Compliance module in our Cyber GRC platform empowers organizations to conduct automated and manual risk assessments, audits, and compliance reviews. With support for multiple industry-standard frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2, HIPAA, and more), the module simplifies complex regulatory processes by streamlining workflows and providing actionable insights to close gaps quickly. It also includes gap assessments, internal audits, and a centralized dashboard to track compliance posture across the organization in real-time. This module enables organizations to maintain continuous compliance and strengthen overall risk management practices with reduced effort and cost.

The Risk and Compliance module works seamlessly with other FortifyData Cyber GRC platform modules – Attack Surface and Vulnerability Management, Threat Intelligence, Third-party Risk Management.

The result is a convenient experience that continuously assesses and monitors your cybersecurity posture, highlights key vendor risks, considers organizational context with asset and industry threat intelligence and monitors controls for continuous compliance.

Risk Assessment Platform
Many leading frameworks and requirements are in the FortifyData Cyber GRC Platform

CIS

CCM

CJIS

CMMC

DORA

Esquema Nacional de Seguridad (ENS) de España

GDPR

GLBA

GLBA Safeguards Rule

HECVAT

HIPAA

HITRUST

ISO 27001

NIS 2

NIST CSF

NIST 800-171

NIST 800-53

PCI DSS

Quadro Nacional de Referência para a Cibersegurança (QNRCS)

SIG

SIG LITE

SOC 2 Type II

Cyber GRC and Gartner

Gartner defined a category of ‘Cyber GRC’ in their 2024 Cyber Risk Management Hype Cycle, “to reflect the evolving landscape of GRC management, emphasizing specialized solutions. This integration aims to simplify the buying process by clarifying vendor offerings. While some vendors focus on either cyber GRC or assurance GRC (enterprise risk management compliance and audit), others provide comprehensive platforms across multiple GRC domains.

Many of those domains include Continuous Threat and Exposure Management.

Cyber GRC Critical Capabilities
Source: Gartner, Innovation Insight: Cyber GRC Streamlines Governance, August 2024

Why Cyber GRC now?

Given the rapid escalation of cyber risks and the sheer volume of security data, automation has become essential. Organizations must automate analysis across multiple data sources to enable swift and informed responses while considering their compliance obligations.

Effective cyber GRC is fundamental for safeguarding your business, meeting regulatory demands, and mitigating cyber threats. A contemporary GRC platform streamlines these critical processes, aligning security initiatives with your strategic goals. By providing actionable insights into cyber risks and enabling data-driven decisions, it strengthens resilience and protects your reputation. Real-time analytics empower you to respond swiftly, optimize security investments, and elevate your overall security posture.

Audit Readiness

Simplify compliance and audit prep with FortifyData’s integrated risk findings for validation, enabling faster, seamless management across multiple frameworks.

Risk Assessment Internal Audit

Continuous Compliance Monitoring

Proactively detect compliance gaps across your organization with FortifyData’s Continuous Compliance Monitoring, reducing risk and ensuring you’re always audit-ready.

Control Library Fortify Data

Auto-validated Responses for Continuous Compliance Monitoring

Quickly see if you are in compliance with technical controls with our auto-validated of responses. The platform leverages the live assessment findings of the environment – patching cadence, firewall management, etc. This provides you with the answers you need more quickly than a manual questionnaire process. Identify contradicting responses to technical findings and easily assign tasks and collaborate and track compliance progress with our task management capabilities.

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Cyber Risk Quantification

FortifyData’s assessments generate a comprehensive inventory of your IT assets and processes. This data is then leveraged by our Cyber Risk Quantification module to translate cyber risk into tangible business impact. By calculating financial scenarios like Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE), supporting cyber insurance diligence, and providing budgetary justification, FortifyData empowers leaders to make informed decisions on risk transfer, mitigation, and alignment between management and cybersecurity, ultimately optimizing your security program.

Incident Management

With Incident Management in the FortifyData Cyber GRC platform you get a centralized incident command interface with automated response and collaboration tools, enabling efficient coordination between security, IT, and risk teams. Users can log incidents, trigger automated escalations, and execute guided playbooks for common threats like ransomware and phishing. With features like integrated threat intelligence, KEV correlation, and robust compliance reporting, this ensures a proactive, data-driven approach, reducing operational risks and fostering continuous business resilience.

Unified IT and Cyber Policy Management

Centralize and simplify IT and cyber policy management across your entire organization with FortifyData. Establish a consistent approach to policy creation and distribution, whether by leveraging our intuitive system or uploading existing documents. Strengthen compliance by linking policies to critical assets, requirements, and controls for tracking and policy exception management. Automate review cycles and task assignments to ensure policies remain current and effective.

Cyber GRC Integrates to Gain Additional Context

Integrate Existing Tools to Fuel Your Cyber GRC Automation.

FortifyData’s ability to integrate with your existing security tools unlocks the power of comprehensive compliance analysis. Consolidating data from multiple sources expands your visibility into your security posture, enabling more informed decisions and efficient automation. IT and compliance managers can leverage this enhanced data integration to streamline workflows and concentrate on critical tasks.

Third-party Risk Management

Manage IT vendor risks effectively with FortifyData’s end-to-end solution, including active external assessments of third parties. Automate vendor registration and onboarding, conduct thorough risk assessments, and maintain continuous monitoring. Simplify due diligence with pre-defined questionnaires and gain valuable insights into vendor risks, compliance, and performance through robust reporting and analytics.

Frequently Asked Questions About Cyber GRC

What is Cyber GRC?

Cyber GRC, which stands for cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance, is a specialized discipline that applies GRC principles specifically to cybersecurity programs. Gartner formally defined the Cyber GRC category in their 2024 Cyber Risk Management Hype Cycle to reflect the evolution away from broad enterprise GRC platforms toward solutions purpose-built for cybersecurity use cases. Cyber GRC platforms consolidate risk assessments, compliance framework management, continuous monitoring, and audit readiness into one system, replacing disconnected spreadsheets, point solutions, and manual processes that create visibility gaps and consume analyst time.

Why do organizations need a Cyber GRC platform?

The volume and velocity of cybersecurity data, including asset changes, vulnerability findings, vendor risk signals, and compliance framework updates, has outpaced what security teams can manage manually. A Cyber GRC platform automates the collection, analysis, and reporting of this data, enabling teams to maintain continuous compliance rather than scrambling for evidence at audit time. Organizations with formal Cyber GRC programs see lower compliance costs, faster audit preparation, reduced risk of regulatory fines, and better alignment between security investments and business risk priorities.

What compliance frameworks does FortifyData’s Cyber GRC platform support?

FortifyData supports over 20 compliance frameworks including NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, HITRUST, GLBA Safeguards Rule, DORA, PCI DSS, CMMC, GDPR, NIS2, HECVAT, CIS, CCM, CJIS, and SIG. Risk findings from continuous asset assessments and vendor evaluations are automatically mapped to applicable framework controls, eliminating manual evidence collection and control mapping.

What is cyber risk quantification?

Cyber risk quantification translates technical risk findings into financial terms that executives and board members can act on. Rather than presenting a list of vulnerabilities or a risk score, cyber risk quantification calculates scenarios like Annualized Loss Expectancy, which represents what a specific risk exposure is likely to cost the organization annually. FortifyData’s Cyber Risk Quantification module uses live assessment data to produce financial impact scenarios that support cyber insurance diligence, budget justification, and risk transfer decisions.

How is FortifyData’s Cyber GRC platform different from traditional GRC tools?

Traditional GRC tools require manual data entry, meaning risk information is typed in by analysts rather than pulled from live technical sources. FortifyData’s Cyber GRC platform is built around continuous live data, with asset assessment findings, vulnerability scan results, and vendor risk signals feeding automatically into compliance reporting and risk quantification. This means compliance posture is always current, not a snapshot from the last time someone updated a spreadsheet. FortifyData also deploys significantly faster and at lower cost than legacy enterprise GRC platforms that require months of implementation and dedicated administrators to maintain.

What is compliance automation and how does it work in FortifyData?

Compliance automation is the use of technology to continuously monitor, collect evidence for, and report on compliance obligations rather than doing so manually at audit time. In FortifyData, compliance automation works by connecting live assessment findings directly to framework controls. When FortifyData identifies a misconfigured asset, an open vulnerability, or a vendor compliance gap, that finding is automatically linked to the relevant control in whichever framework applies, whether NIST CSF, HIPAA, DORA, or others. Security teams see their compliance posture in real time and can produce audit-ready evidence without manual evidence collection cycles.