Empowering the Business of Cybersecurity

Our GRC Program Approach!

In developing and implementing a GRC program approach for its clients, SimpliGRC employs a methodical and well-structured approach to ensure an effective and supportable program.

The following are steps that SimpliGRC has follows in helping you be successful:

  1. Complete a preliminary scope assessment: Complete a high-level assessment of the organization to understand business goals/objectives and concerns. This helps focus the gap assessment to specific areas of concerns.
  2. Complete gap analysis: Conduct a gap analysis to assess the current state of your organization’s GRC current capabilities, activities and metrics against the requirements outlined in the client’s selected standard and identify areas that need improvement to achieve success.
  3. Assess the scope: Using the gap assessment information, determine the scope of your organization’s GRC program (i.e.: enterprise, selected business areas, operations, people, processes, technology, etc.) that fall within the purview of the selected standard.
  4. Assess the risks: Perform a comprehensive risk assessment to identify potential risks and vulnerabilities specific to the organization, and prioritize the risks based on their severity and potential impact.
  5. Develop metrics: Define and create client-specific metrics to measure GRC performance overtime.
  6. Identify opportunities to automate: What technology can be leveraged to ensure consistent operations with minimum impact to the organization.
  7. Provide training and awareness: Provide training to employees, contractors, and relevant stakeholders to raise awareness about the GRC program, their roles and responsibilities, and the importance of compliance.
  8. Mature the GRC program: Ongoing compliance, maturity program capabilities through continuous improvement activities.
  9. Implement to production: Methodically implement the program with client staff to reinforce learning/training and confirm metrics tracking and reporting.
  10. Assess for readiness: Complete an internal or external audit to evaluate the organization’s compliance with selected standard.
  11. Obtain formal certification: If selected standard has formal certification process, complete an external compliance audit.

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