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FortifyData’s Cyber GRC Platform: Features & Benefits

Ever feel overwhelmed trying to manage cybersecurity risks, compliance, and governance simultaneously? Or frustrated trying to get a “legacy GRC” provider to accommodate cybersecurity specific use cases?

You’re not alone. That’s precisely where FortifyData comes in.

FortifyData’s Cyber GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) platform helps organizations simplify identifying, tracking, and reducing cyber risks such as the research firm Gartner recenlty identified “automate and streamline various aspects of cyber GRC processes, such as IT-asset-based cyber-risk register, cyber-risk assessment workflows, cybersecurity-related frameworks and standards management, cyber incidents response, continuous controls monitoring, and cyber-risk prioritization through quantification.” Instead of jumping between tools and spreadsheets, you get one clear, easy-to-use platform.

IBM reports that 40% of data breaches involve shadow data stored across unknown environments, and these incidents cost over $5 million on average.

data breaches involve shadow data

With FortifyData, you can monitor risks, automate assessments, and make faster decisions. It’s flexible enough to fit into any security setup and not the same costs that legacy GRC providers tout.

In the following sections, we’ll explore the key features and benefits that make FortifyData a wise choice for modern cybersecurity needs.

Key Features of FortifyData’s Cyber GRC Platform

Curious how FortifyData works? Let’s break down the standout features that make this platform smarter, faster, and more effective than the rest.

1. Dynamic Risk Assessment Capabilities

FortifyData provides next-generation Risk Assessment services, for external, internal and cloud, that continuously update based on your environment. Starting with just a simple fully qualified domain name, the platform does the rest to discover additional domains and the associated assets, their vulnerabilities, enriched with threat intelligence to give you the visibility you require and the remediation recommendation prioritization to improve your security posture and automate your threat exposure management program. All this data is continuously analyzed and distilled down to a cyber risk rating score which is the most accurate as it is based on direct assessments and is updated across assets, vendors, and internal systems in real time.

Source: FortifyData Cyber GRC Enterprise Management Dashboard

Organizations that extensively implement security automation and AI save an average of $2.2 million per breach compared to those that don’t.

Visual dashboards help prioritize actions, automatic reassessments trigger when conditions change, and everything is aligned to support audits and third-party reviews. According to Gartner, companies using continuous risk assessments can reduce incident costs by up to 30%.

Visual dashboards help prioritize actions, automatic reassessments trigger when conditions change, and everything is aligned to support audits and third-party reviews. According to Gartner, companies using continuous risk assessments can reduce incident costs by up to 30%.

2. Streamlined Policy Management

With FortifyData’s intuitive Policy management software, organizations can manage policies efficiently and effectively. You’ll get pre-built templates that align with NIST and ISO, easy version control with distribution, automated acknowledgment tracking, and real-time alerts if a policy is overdue or unacknowledged.

This removes the hassle of emails and manual tracking. It also ensures everyone stays informed and accountable, reducing policy violations and improving audit readiness. Your entire policy lifecycle is now centralized and fully transparent.

3. Compliance Automation That Scales

FortifyData simplifies audits with powerful Regulatory compliance automation. It automates evidence collection, matches controls to frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, and CMMC, runs real-time control gap analysis, and lets you customize workflows by team or department.

The platform grows with your organization and reduces human error along the way. Whether you’re a startup or an enterprise, the platform scales effortlessly and adapts to evolving compliance needs without disrupting your operations.

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Source: FortifyData compliance automation, identify gaps in your compliance program.

4. Third-Party & Vendor Risk Management

FortifyData’s Cyber GRC platform empowers organizations to proactively manage third-party and vendor risks through continuous monitoring, AI-report analysis, customizable assessments, and automated workflows.

Let’s break that down a bit, FortifyData will:

  • Assess the external attack surface of your chosen vendors
  • Provide framework/control assessment questionnaires and link the data between the two so you get a ‘Trust AND verify’ service to know if the responses in the questionnaire reflect the findings in the questionnaire.
  • AI-report analysis. The FortifyData AI allows you to drop in a completed SOC 2, HECVAT or other report to analyze it for exceptions, findings and map it to the framework for a visualized gap assessment. You can then ask questions of the report through the AI to get the answers you need to understand the report and make a decision about the vendor based on the report analysis generated by AI.

It provides a centralized view of vendor cybersecurity postures, enabling faster risk identification and mitigation.

Source: FortifyData Third-Party Risk Management Vendor Portfolio Dashboard

With real-time risk scoring, AI report querying, customizable questionnaires, and seamless integration into procurement workflows, organizations can ensure that all vendors meet compliance. It enhances operational resilience and reduces exposure to third-party cyber threats.

 

5. Integration with Regulatory Standards

Designed for modern compliance teams, FortifyData integrates seamlessly with the most common frameworks, and your customized questionnaires, through its Regulatory risk and compliance module. This level of integration helps reduce duplicate efforts and ensures that every compliance activity is aligned with your overall risk strategy. Align your company, subsidiary or third-party to a specific framework and you can manage to those compliance requirements through uploading applicable evidence, policy management and aligning the technology assessment findings to the applicable controls for a continuous compliance monitoring approach.

Real-time updates keep you aligned with changing standards, risks are mapped to appropriate mandates, audit requirements are synced to your risk registry, and your compliance calendar stays on track.

FortifyData offers many of the common frameworks like NIST based compliance (800-53 r5, 800-171, 800-60, etc.) ISO 27001, ISO 42001, PCI DSS, GLBA, DORA, NIS 2, etc. To accommodate most industry compliance pursuits.

 

6. Threat-Informed Governance

FortifyData links governance to live threat data, giving leadership meaningful insights. Threat feeds are integrated into risk scoring, board reports deliver actionable recommendations, dashboards highlight business risks in real terms, and controls are prioritized by actual exposure.

It brings context to every real-world threat decision. That means your governance efforts are not just theoretical. They’re based on the current threat landscape, making your security posture more adaptive and intelligent.

FortifyData: Platform Vision & Mission

FortifyData’s mission is to help businesses of all sizes defend against cybercrime with a comprehensive risk management platform. Its vision is to deliver real-time cyber risk insights across the entire digital environment. The platform integrates smoothly into existing systems to make cybersecurity proactive and unified.

It provides complete visibility by assessing external assets, internal networks, cloud infrastructure, and third-party systems. Automated discovery and continuous monitoring ensure nothing is missed. Custom risk scores offer current, relevant insights tailored to each organization.

Core Values for Strategic Impact

Core values like adaptability, impact, innovation, and transparency drive the platform’s design. These ensure it remains flexible, effective, and trustworthy. FortifyData’s Cyber GRC helps organizations move from reactive security to strategic, data-driven risk management.

Adaptability allows FortifyData to embrace the latest trends that can deliver time and cost savings (efficiency), such as integrating AI as well as serving various industries and their unique compliance needs without sacrificing usability. These values create a foundation for long-term success and meaningful transformation in cyber risk management.

Benefits of Using FortifyData’s GRC Platform

Here’s how FortifyData delivers real-world value, from saving time to improving decision-making.

1. Faster Risk Response and Decision-Making

With intelligent alerts, dynamic dashboards, and context-based recommendations, FortifyData’s Risk Assessment services help security teams respond up to 40% faster during incidents. It automates what used to take hours while weeding out false alerts, letting your team act on the most critical risks without delay.

This agility leads to quicker threat containment and remediation, minimizing potential damage. Thanks to data-rich insights presented in real time, security leaders can also confidently make informed decisions.

2. Simplified Compliance Management

Compliance automation within the risk and compliance module make not only audit prep simple, but continuous controls monitoring do-able. You get one-click reports, real-time compliance scorecards, and evidence collection. This saves time and reduces the likelihood of audit findings or non-compliance penalties. Imagine a world when your audit starts and the only thing you’re waiting on is the audit to complete – with FortifyData, we help you continuously monitor and highlight gaps in your control and risk assessments so you save time with audits.

FortifyData also stays updated with changing regulations, so your framework remains aligned with the latest requirements and makes new regulations availabe such as DORA, NIS 2, ISO 42001.

3. Improved Collaboration Across Teams

FortifyData’s built-in collaboration tools make cross-team work smoother. Research on teamwork shows that well-coordinated, collaborative teams are 50% more efficient at completing tasks.

Shared task views, integrated comments and approvals, and real-time sync with your task management software, like Jira, a central hub for your entire governance workflow.

 

4. Increased Visibility Across the Organization

FortifyData offers visibility with role-based to the data and dashboards specific users require, cross-team KPIs, and executive-friendly summaries. Trends are easy to visualize, and every user can see how their duties and responsibilities contribute to the overall cyber risk of the organization.

This transparency boosts accountability and security culture across the board. Leadership gains a clear view of risk posture at any time, improving strategic decision-making and risk forecasting.

 

5. Cost and Time Efficiency

By combining Attack Surface Management, Risk Assessment services, Policy management software, Third-party risk management, and Regulatory compliance automation, FortifyData helps reduce manual work by up to 50%.

Teams save time, tools are consolidated, and compliance (and auditor) costs are lowered. Budget justification becomes visible, forecasting becomes easier, and resources can be reallocated to strategic initiatives instead of repetitive administrative tasks.

FortifyData vs. Legacy GRC Tools

See how FortifyData compares to legacy tools and why switching could transform your risk and compliance strategy.

 

1. Automation vs. Manual Effort

Surprisingly many people start with a manual, spreadsheet-based effort which is affordable but not automated and prone to errors. Most traditional platforms involve spreadsheets, email trails, and manual reporting. FortifyData simplifies this through end-to-end Regulatory compliance automation, handling evidence collection, control mapping, and audit readiness with minimal human input. This automation reduces the risk of human error and accelerates compliance timelines significantly.

 

2. Unified Policies vs. Siloed Documents

Legacy systems often scatter policies across shared drives and documents, making version control and tracking a nightmare.

FortifyData’s Policy management software centralizes all policy tasks from creation to acknowledgment, making governance seamless and trackable. It ensures stakeholders consistently access the most updated version.

 

3. Real-Time Risk Assessment vs. Periodic Reviews

The trend in cyber risk management is for organization’s to move towards continuous assessment (or more frequent than an annual risk assessment) whereas legacy GRC tools struggle to accommodate this increased frequency as they relied on static or periodic risk reviews, often updated manually. FortifyData provides continuous, real-time risk assessment services, automatically adjusting scores and alerts as your environment changes and can link this to your compliance management program to enable continuous controls and compliance monitoring. This dynamic approach enables teams to prioritize risk mitigation efforts instantly and proactively.

 

4. Built for Scale vs. Struggling with Growth

As organizations grow, legacy tools become more complicated to manage. FortifyData is built for scale, adapting to new teams, regulations, and risk profiles without slowing down performance. Its modular architecture supports enterprise-level complexity while remaining user-friendly for smaller teams.

 

5. Proactive Threat Intelligence vs. Reactive Incident Response

Legacy GRC tools often focus on responding to incidents after they occur, when data, documents or evidence are updated and lacking integrated threat intelligence.

FortifyData cyber grc platform incorporates proactive threat intelligence feeds to enrich findings, enabling early detection of emerging risks and faster mitigation. This shift from reactive to proactive strategy drastically reduces response time and enhances overall resilience.

 

FortifyData vs. Legacy GRC Tools

FortifyData is redefining how organizations manage risk, policies, and compliance with speed and intelligence. Its modern approach, powered by real-time Risk Assessment services and seamless Regulatory compliance automation, makes it the go-to platform for agile cyber governance, risk and compliance.

So, are you ready to modernize your GRC strategy?

Request FortifyData’s demo today and see how it can help your team stay secure, compliant, and ahead of threats without being overwhelmed.

FAQs

The FortifyData Cyber GRC platform offers integrated Risk Assessment services, attack surface management, seamless Policy management software, and scalable Regulatory compliance automation. They are all enriched with cyber threat intelligence and operational context for risk-based decision making all while being easy to deploy and delivering a ‘quick time to value’.

The days of $1M GRC and yearlong implementations are over. It’s modern, intuitive, and ready for today’s cyber challenges.

Most organizations get started within 1 to 4 weeks. FortifyData’s setup includes pre-built templates, guided onboarding, and fast configuration, without requiring significant changes to your existing setup.

Yes. FortifyData works well with vulnerability scanners, XDR tools, ticketing systems, cloud providers, and communication tools. Whether you’re using Microsoft, AWS, Crowdstrike, or ServiceNow, the platform is designed to plug right in to your tech stack and deliver quick time to value by incorporating various data sources, so you get a comprehensive/aggregate view of your cyber risk.