Corporate Governance and GRC Operating Model
Establish clear responsibilities, consistent decision-making, and effective oversight across your governance and compliance programme.
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Build Stronger Governance. Manage Risk. Simplify Compliance.
Make technology risk easier to understand, prioritize and manage across teams.
OVERVIEW
Governance, Risk & Compliance for your business
Organisations must manage an increasingly complex combination of regulatory expectations, cybersecurity risks, operational dependencies, privacy obligations, and third-party relationships. Managing these responsibilities through disconnected spreadsheets and manual reporting can make it difficult to maintain reliable evidence, identify control gaps, and communicate risk to leadership. HANOSYS helps organisations build structured, sustainable GRC programmes through control design, risk assessment, policy management, compliance mapping, evidence coordination, remediation tracking, and management reporting. Our approach can draw on recognised frameworks and standards such as ISO/IEC 27001, NIST, SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR, and other requirements relevant to your organisation. The objective is to make governance more effective, risk decisions more informed, and compliance activities easier to manage and demonstrate.
WHAT WE DELIVER
Our capabilities
Explore the specialist capabilities available within this service.
HANOSYS helps organisations define the policies, processes, committees, and reporting structures needed to manage risk and compliance responsibilities.
- Corporate IT and cybersecurity governance framework development
- GRC operating model design and implementation
- Roles, responsibilities, and RACI matrix development
- Risk committee and security steering committee structures
- Policy, procedure, standard, and guideline development
- Policy approval, review, and acknowledgement workflows
- Enterprise control framework and control library development
- Regulatory obligation identification and tracking
- Executive and board-level governance reporting
- GRC staffing, accountability, and competency planning
- Governance process maturity assessments
- Management oversight and escalation procedures
Enterprise Risk Management and Technology Risk
Identify, evaluate, prioritise, and manage risks across business operations, information technology, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.
HANOSYS helps organisations develop risk management processes that connect technical findings with operational consequences and business priorities.
- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework implementation
- Enterprise IT and cybersecurity risk assessments
- Risk register development and maintenance
- Risk scoring methodologies and risk appetite definition
- Qualitative and quantitative cyber risk analysis
- Financial cyber risk modelling using approaches aligned with FAIR
- Control effectiveness assessment and assurance mapping
- Risk mitigation planning and remediation oversight
- Key Risk Indicator (KRI) and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) development
- Risk acceptance, exception, and waiver management
- Technology project and transformation risk reviews
- Artificial intelligence and emerging technology risk assessments
- Risk reporting dashboards and management reviews
- Residual risk evaluation and treatment tracking
Regulatory Compliance and Standards Advisory
Navigate regulatory obligations and industry standards with a structured compliance programme designed around your business, technology, and operating environment.
HANOSYS supports organisations with gap assessments, control mapping, remediation planning, documentation, implementation guidance, and audit preparation.
- ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS)
- ISO/IEC 27701 privacy information management
- ISO/IEC 27017 and ISO/IEC 27018 cloud security and privacy controls
- ISO 22301 business continuity management
- ISO/IEC 20000 IT service management
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework alignment
- NIST SP 800-53 control mapping
- SOC 1 and SOC 2 readiness support
- PCI DSS v4.x gap assessment and remediation planning
- GDPR and applicable data protection requirements
- HIPAA security and privacy readiness, where applicable
- DORA and NIS2 compliance readiness, where applicable
- CIS Critical Security Controls implementation support
- Regulatory gap analysis and compliance roadmaps
- Audit preparation and evidence coordination
- Ongoing compliance monitoring and improvement planning
- Certification preparation and coordination with appropriate independent assessors
Data Privacy and Information Governance
Build privacy practices that address how personal information is collected, processed, stored, transferred, retained, and deleted.
HANOSYS supports the development of privacy governance processes and technical controls that help organisations manage personal data responsibly.
- GDPR, UK GDPR, and CCPA/CPRA programme support, where applicable
- Privacy governance framework development
- Data inventory and data flow mapping
- Records of Processing Activities (RoPA)
- Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)
- Consent and preference management processes
- Data subject request management workflows
- Cross-border data transfer risk assessments
- Data retention and secure disposal policies
- Privacy notices, internal policies, and contractual documentation
- Data Protection Officer (DPO) support services, where available and appropriate
- Personal data breach response procedures
- Privacy incident reporting and notification readiness
- Privacy awareness and employee training
- Privacy control assessments and remediation planning
Third-Party Risk and Supply Chain Compliance
Manage the risks introduced by suppliers, service providers, outsourcing partners, cloud platforms, and other external relationships.
HANOSYS helps organisations establish repeatable vendor assessment and monitoring processes that reflect the level of risk associated with each relationship.
- Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) framework design
- Vendor classification and risk tiering
- Inherent risk assessment and due diligence questionnaires
- Supplier cybersecurity and privacy assessments
- Vendor evidence reviews and on-site assessment coordination
- Cloud outsourcing and supplier compliance reviews
- Contractual security and privacy requirement development
- Vendor onboarding and approval workflows
- Periodic supplier reassessment and continuous monitoring
- Fourth-party dependency and concentration risk analysis
- Supply chain resilience assessments
- Vendor issue tracking and remediation management
- Third-party risk reporting and escalation procedures
- Supplier exit planning and risk reduction
GRC Automation and Compliance Technology
Reduce manual compliance administration and improve visibility through appropriately selected governance, risk, and compliance technology.
HANOSYS helps organisations evaluate, implement, configure, and improve GRC platforms based on their processes, reporting requirements, and technology environment.
- GRC platform evaluation and requirements definition
- Technology selection and business case development
- GRC implementation and configuration
- CyberArrow platform implementation support, subject to availability and suitability
- Risk register and control library configuration
- Policy management and approval workflow automation
- Compliance evidence collection and management
- Audit planning, task assignment, and finding tracking
- Compliance dashboards and management reporting
- Integration with SIEM, ITSM, IAM, and cloud systems
- Employee awareness and compliance training workflow integration
- Automated reminders and control owner notifications
- GRC platform administration and maintenance
- Managed GRC operations, where offered
- Process optimisation and user adoption support
OUTCOMES
What you gain
- Improved Regulatory Readiness: Understand applicable obligations, identify control gaps, and develop a prioritised plan for addressing compliance requirements.
- Consistent Control Management: Map shared controls across multiple frameworks to reduce unnecessary duplication while preserving framework-specific requirements.
- Better Risk Visibility: Provide leadership with structured risk information, accountable owners, treatment plans, and meaningful reporting.
- More Efficient Audit Preparation: Organise policies, evidence, findings, and remediation activities in a repeatable process that supports audit readiness.
- Stronger Third-Party Oversight: Improve visibility into vendor risks and establish consistent processes for due diligence, reassessment, and corrective actions.
- Sustainable Compliance Operations: Move from occasional compliance exercises towards regular control reviews, evidence updates, and continuous programme improvement. *Results depend on the organisation's starting position, selected scope, available resources, implementation, and applicable regulatory requirements.*
WHY HANOSYS
How we add value
- Business-Aligned Recommendations: We help connect governance and compliance activities to organisational objectives, operational needs, and risk priorities.
- Integrated Risk and Compliance Management: Bring governance, risk assessment, control ownership, evidence management, and remediation tracking into a more coordinated programme.
- Practical Implementation Support: Move beyond high-level recommendations with defined activities, documentation, implementation guidance, and clear responsibilities.
- Flexible Framework Alignment: Organise controls around the frameworks and regulatory obligations that are relevant to your business, reducing avoidable duplication where requirements overlap.
- Technology-Aware Delivery: Evaluate automation opportunities and GRC platforms based on your workflows, integration requirements, and reporting needs.
- Transparent Project Scope: Agree on deliverables, assumptions, dependencies, responsibilities, milestones, and commercial terms before work begins.
ENGAGEMENT
How we engage
01
Understand
Discuss your business priorities, regulatory environment, current governance arrangements, and target outcomes.
02
Assess
Review relevant policies, risk registers, controls, evidence, processes, and technology to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
03
Define the Roadmap
Develop a prioritised plan that establishes responsibilities, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and estimated effort.
04
Implement Improvements
Support the agreed control changes, documentation updates, risk management processes, and compliance workflows.
05
Validate and Report
Review agreed deliverables, track remediation progress, organise supporting evidence, and prepare management reporting.
06
Maintain and Improve
Establish recurring reviews, control monitoring, policy updates, knowledge transfer, and ongoing GRC support where contracted.
The technology behind this service
HANOSYS GRC services focus on advisory, programme design, implementation, and operational improvement. If you are evaluating GRC platforms and technology capabilities, explore our GRC Solutions to understand the tools and implementation options relevant to your requirements.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What are Governance, Risk and Compliance services?
GRC services help organisations establish governance structures, identify and manage business risks, implement controls, and demonstrate alignment with relevant regulatory and industry requirements.
What is the difference between GRC and cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity focuses on protecting systems, networks, applications, identities, and information. GRC provides the governance, risk management, control oversight, and compliance processes that help guide and measure security activities. The two disciplines work together.
Which frameworks can GRC consulting support?
Depending on the organisation's needs, a GRC programme may address ISO/IEC 27001, NIST CSF, SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 22301, and other relevant frameworks or regulations.
Can HANOSYS help prepare for ISO 27001 certification?
GRC consulting can support gap assessments, ISMS documentation, risk assessments, control implementation, internal audit preparation, and corrective action planning. Formal certification is performed by an appropriate independent certification body.
How can GRC automation improve compliance?
GRC automation can centralise policies, controls, evidence, risk registers, assessment workflows, and remediation activities. Depending on the platform and integration, it can reduce repetitive tasks and improve reporting consistency.
Does every organisation need a dedicated GRC team?
Not necessarily. GRC responsibilities can be distributed across risk, IT, security, legal, compliance, and operational teams, provided ownership and accountability are clearly defined. The appropriate structure depends on the organisation's size, risk profile, and regulatory obligations.
How do we start a GRC engagement?
Contact HANOSYS to discuss your compliance objectives, current challenges, and target timelines. An initial discussion can help determine whether a gap assessment, risk review, framework implementation, or GRC automation project is the most appropriate starting point.
Make Governance and Compliance Work for Your Business
Effective GRC helps organisations make informed decisions, improve accountability, manage uncertainty, and demonstrate how risks and compliance obligations are addressed. Whether you are building a governance framework, preparing for an audit, improving third-party oversight, strengthening privacy management, or automating compliance activities, HANOSYS can help you plan a practical way forward. Ready to strengthen your governance, risk, and compliance programme?
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