GRC Advisory Services

GRC advisory services can be a valuable resource for organizations of all sizes. By working with A-KAR GRC consultants, your organization can improve its security posture, reduce the risk of a data breach or other security incident, and comply with relevant regulations within your industry.

Key goals of a GRC engagement include, Identifying and assessing risks, Developing and implementing risk management plans, managing compliance with regulations, and helping to build a culture of compliance.

What is a Governance, Risk, and Compliance?

Governance, Risk and Compliance, or GRC, is the collective strategy and process for defining and managing an organization’s governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance. While GRC activities are often part of an overall organizational strategy, they play important parts in IT and IT security strategy and planning.

Governance ensures IT management goals and objectives map into overall organizational or business strategy. For instance, do leaders have access to the right information in order to make the best decisions possible?

Risk management involves identifying areas that could impede or harm business objectives. These findings need to be well documented and understood to determine how they negatively (or positively) affect overall business strategy.

Compliance seeks to prove that IT systems and processes are being operated in ways that meet local laws and regulatory requirements.

GRC services overview

Align your IT operations and security with organizational goals.

1

Identify business processes and best practices

A-KAR GRC Team will work with your organization to identify your current business processes and review them for best practices, and offer opportunties for improvement.

2

Meet compliance requirements

Risk assessments are a crucial component of numerous regulatory compliance requirements.

3

Lower your risk

Documenting and continuously revisiting risk will ensure time and resources are spent on the correct priorities, reducing the likelihood that they’ll be disrupted and negatively affect your organization.

RMF assessments that go deeper

Trusted risk management experts

Expertise with some of the most heavily regulated industries and most secure environments in United States.
Our knowledge and experience with many Risk Management Frameworks and compliance requirements across industries allows us to see where there might be gaps in your existing security posture.
We specialize in cybersecurity. We have the skill sets to go beyond a traditional “check the box” assessment, digging deeper to ensure you understand your risk so that it can be corrected.

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Features overview

Risk Assessment & GRC engagement features

Interviews and document creation

We conduct interviews with customer stakeholders in management and information technology roles to better understand day-to-day operational security. From there, we review documentation on policies, procedures, diagrams, and supporting evidence must be provided to ensure that we can effectively evaluate the security control implementation status and effectiveness.

Interviews and document creation

Remediation

Once the risks are properly identified and assessed, our team of experts make recommendations on specific remediation options minimize risk moving forward.

Interviews and document creation

Results and findings

eam A-KAR documents and reports on assessment results, findings, and associated risks to provide an accurate reflection of your security posture and related risks. We submit our report in draft form to your key stakeholders for review and comment before it’s finalized and formally delivered.