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Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) services 

A cybersecurity solution that provides services across people, processes and technology

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Automate and manage your GRC tools

IBM GRC services integrate key cybersecurity and organizational data points into a centralized solution across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments. These services provide organizations with key capabilities across people, processes and technology, covering: 

  • Collaboratively perform automated cyber risk, industry and maturity assessments to support the development of cyber strategy and resilience programs aligned to enterprise business objectives.
  • Deploy cyber risk reduction strategies that are monitored and managed through automated workflows and analytical reporting, including policy, compliance and audit support.
  • Operationalize cyber risk, resiliency and compliance across the enterprise through tailored approaches that provide visibility to executive management, regulators, stakeholders and auditors.
  • Provide a multi-layer approach to cybersecurity awareness, transformation and simulation education to promote an elevated cyber-aware culture within the organization.
  • Establish governance structures that optimize cybersecurity maturity with an integrated governance, risk and compliance (GRC) approach.
Capabilities
Governance, risk and compliance data integration

Extract and update reports related to control performance from a wide range of IT and security systems and on‑premises clouds. Send data to other systems to trigger proactive tasks and relevant business processes.

Control mapping for governance, risk and compliance

Maintain control content and map controls to various security frameworks and compliance standards to support governance, risk management and compliance efforts. Activities include control logging, control mapping and control gap identification.

Scoring, alerts and insight reporting  

Calculate collected metrics and data to support governance, risk management and compliance objectives. Present the results in summary and graphical form to enable timely, information-rich dashboards and reporting capabilities that enhance decision-making and proactive risk response.

Use cases

Cyber risk and resilience transformation

Understand the current state process and technologies of internal and external threats to advise clients on a strategy through the IBM Garage® workshop. This collaborative, hands-on approach helps maintain a security posture and establish a cyber resiliency program for business impact analysis (BIA), risk assessment, disaster recovery, business continuity and governance.

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Enterprise risk and GRC management

Categorize, classify and identify business impact while providing task management through GRC solutions. Provide cross-functional visibility to identify, prioritize and respond, through qualitative and quantitative enterprise risk management methodologies and risk registry failures.

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Real-time regulatory compliance and monitoring

Proactively track the regulatory compliance horizon to support agile planning for critical regulatory changes. Use automated scanning and intelligent workflows that operate in real time. Automate the ingestion of compliance telemetry and vulnerability scans into a single source of truth.

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Accelerated audit and compliance controls

Proactively assess controls and mitigation plans to improve audit performance and meet regulatory requirements. Clearly differentiate issues from observations to develop and communicate priorities at every level. Automate evidence collection through issue management.

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Enterprise data visualization and insights

Integrate with business intelligence software to provide enhanced data visualization, reporting and analytics, such as PowerBI and Tableau, with extensible document generation and online dashboards available for enterprise view.

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Enterprise security education program

Educate all levels of the organization on cybersecurity through awareness training, experiential learning, upskilling and executive level crisis simulation training as part of the risk management program.

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