A-GRC
Overview of A-GRC
GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) is a set of rules and procedures that enable firms to achieve their business goals, deal with uncertainty, and behave with integrity.
A-GRC (Aspire Governance, Risk, and Compliance) is a cost-effective, integrated enterprise risk management solution designed specifically for security professionals burdened by the cumbersome, time-consuming, manual process of using spreadsheets and documents to manage governance, risk, and compliance, who don’t want to wrestle with the complicated setup and workflows inherent with costly GRC software.
Key Features of A-GRC
A-GRC is designed to equip a company with the essential Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance skills it requires to get started with its program. The following is a list of some of the most important features found in A-GRC. However, this is not meant to be a comprehensive list of components, as new features and functionality are regularly introduced to each new release.
Governance
Governance ensures that all organizational activities (such as IT operations and training) complement and promote the organization's overarching goals and objectives. Typically, Governance involves senior decision-makers within a company, such as board members or high-level executives. It specifies and enforces acts such as:
- Board composition
- Corporate disclosure
- Executive compensation
Compliance
The A-GRC offers the flexibility to define an unlimited number of tests across all of the Governance frameworks and controls. This includes auditing at the framework, control, and test levels. You can actively manage audits, filter, and track associated documentation and proof, and restrict access to testing efforts and findings to authorized personnel. Additionally, past audits can be accessed.
Customizable Risk Assessment
With the customizable risk assessment feature, users have the flexibility to:
- Define contacts
- Create questions (including logic)
- Assemble multiple questions with a questionnaire template
- Create questionnaires and send them to contacts
- Add risks based on those results
- Compare results over time
- Import and export externally customized assessments
- Review the risk assessment audit trail
Risk Access Restriction by Team
To encourage collaboration and allow team members to focus on risks relating to their area of responsibility, the Team-Based Separation Extra allows a risk to be allocated to a specific team or teams. Simultaneously, Team-Based Separation restricts access to those who do not require knowledge of the risk's contents.
Encrypted Database
The encrypted database feature is essential for various sectors including, financial services, healthcare, government agencies, eCommerce, and any other organization handling sensitive data. In recent years, database encryption has become a necessity to comply with regulatory standards such as PCI/DSS, HIPAA, or FIPS. It serves as an effective precaution to secure data at rest.
Risk Mitigation Controls
Risk mitigation is a corporate strategy aimed at planning for and mitigating the impact of hazards. Risk mitigation, like risk reduction, aims to lessen the impact of risks and disasters on business continuity (BC). Threats such as cyberattacks, weather occurrences, and physical or virtual damage can jeopardize a company. Risk mitigation is a crucial component of risk management, with implementation varying from one organization to the other.
Email Notification
With the Email Notification Extra, you can easily send email notifications to risk owners and key stakeholders regarding mitigation strategies and ongoing reviews. Action-based or scheduled email notifications make it simple and timely to notify stakeholders about risk status updates and any actions that may be required.
Simplified Administration
A-GRC offers unlimited risks and users, eliminating the need to track users or a number of risks entered into the system. This simplifies administration, eliminating ongoing administrative and budgetary hassles.
Advanced Search
By entering free-form text and/or quantitative data into a search bar, users can do more specific searches in the risk database with the Advanced Search Extra. For example, if you want to find any hazards containing phrases like "attack, "spoofing," or "sequel injection," simply type those words into the search window, and all instances where the keywords appear will be displayed.
Import and Export
By mapping fields in a CSV file to fields in the A-GRC database, the Import-Export Extra allows you to import data into A-GRC. A-GRC CSV files including Risks, Mitigations, Reviews, or a Combination report of all three are also available via the Extra.
Language Translation
Currently supported languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Integration with ITSM Tools
It's the process of integrating your ITSM platform with other apps via a third-party tool that utilizes their application programming interfaces (APIs). Once connected, the apps may be kept in sync whenever an event or data changes in one of them.
It's worth noting that ITSM integration has applications that go beyond data synchronization. You can then implement end-to-end workflow automations to complete a particular process in a seamless manner.
Available in SaaS
This is a SaaS (Software as a Service) Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) platform that allows you to identify, rank, monitor, and track risks throughout their life cycle of mitigation, while also providing continuous measurement of your cybersecurity program's overall progress.
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A-GRC Specially Developed For
Available Risk Scoring Methods
The Risk Scoring Methods offer a way to classify detected vulnerabilities and assign a numerical value to their potential severity. The following are examples of available Risk Scoring Methods:
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Available Control Frameworks
A control framework is a data structure that organizes and categorizes an organization's internal controls, which are policies and procedures designed to add value to the business while reducing risk.
Why Is A-GRC Important for Your Business?
Through an integrated and unified strategy that avoids the negative effects of organizational silos and redundancies, efficient GRC implementation helps the business decrease risk and increase control effectiveness, security, and compliance.
- Simple - The system is designed to be user-friendly, encouraging widespread adoption.
- Effective - Makes it simple to prioritize risk mitigation measures across the life cycle.
- Affordable - A-GRC is thousands of times less expensive than other GRC software.
Deployment Models
A-GRC offers two deployment options:
1. A-GRC On-Premise allows you to install software in your data center. This allows you to integrate the platform with your security measures, but you are still responsible for all monitoring, backups, and upgrades.
2. A-GRC Hosted combines the power of our A-GRC software with the ease of a fully managed hosting service. This Software-as-a-Service platform (SaaS) is unique to A-GRC and leverages all of the Microsoft Azure cloud's inherent security benefits.
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