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Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) services 

Active Governance Services (AGS) is a cybersecurity solution that provides services across people, process, 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. IBM’s GRC services provide organizations with key capabilities across people, process and technology, covering:

  • Collaboratively perform automated cyber risk, industry, and maturity assessments to support the development of cyber strategy and resilience programs in support of enterprise business objectives.

  • Deploy cyber risk reduction strategies that are monitored and managed through automation with analytical reporting, including policy, compliance, and audit support.

  • Operationalize cyber risk, resiliency, and compliance across the enterprise that are tailored to provide visibility to executive management, regulators, stakeholders, and auditors.

  • Provide a multi-layer approach for cyber 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.

 

Benefits
Governance, risk and compliance data integration

Extract and update reports that are related to control performance from a wide range of IT, 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.

Capabilities IBM GRC services operationalize cybersecurity compliance and regulatory risks across the enterprise. Cyber strategy and resiliency  

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

Cyber risk management

Categorize, classify, and identify the business impact, provide task management with GRC solutions. Provide cross-functional visibility to identify, prioritize and respond; use qualitative and quantitative enterprise risk management methodologies and risk registry failures.

 

Cyber policy and compliance management 

Proactively track the regulatory compliance horizon for agile planning of critical regulatory changes with automated scanning and intelligent workflows in real-time and automate ingestion of compliance telemetry and vulnerability scans into a single source of truth.

Cyber audit support

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

 

Cyber AI and analytics

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

 

People risk  

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

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Every organization must meet compliance, regulatory, contractual, and privacy obligations(…). However, individual organizations have different risk appetites, tolerance levels, missions and goals. AGS helps take the guesswork out of managing cybersecurity risk and compliance.
Dimple Ahluwalia VP & Global Managing Partner IBM
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