Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Make sure your organization is meeting all requirements and minimizing risks

Fortis governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) services help your organization determine its current risk posture, navigate security and compliance requirements, as well as better align people, processes, and technology with overall business goals. Our experienced and highly certified consultants understand the challenges associated with maintaining a strong and secure environment that meets ever-changing regulatory standards. As a result, we offer an objective, data-driven perspective focused on identifying potential weaknesses and compliance gaps.

Benefits

  • Create, track, store, and manage all digital assets across business units and departments through discovery and classification methodologies
  • Lower costs by eliminating inefficiencies, redundancies, and duplication of work
  • Measure, predict, and reduce risk through data management and analytics
  • Establish, execute, monitor, manage, and streamline workflows across competencies and functional areas
  • Organize information and simplify processes for conducting and managing internal audits
  • Enable management to make informed decisions on resource allocation and risk mitigation
  • Improve business agility and rapidly develop strong plans to respond to market changes

Fortis recommends organizations take a streamlined and integrated approach to their governance, risk, and compliance initiatives. This reduces the “siloing” of systems that often create duplicate or contradictory processes by making things easier to manage and understand, while saving a significant amount of time, effort, and money. Our engagement methodology includes eight distinct focus areas intended to provide a comprehensive look at how your technology aligns with current GRC standards and organizational initiatives.

  • Organize and oversee – Outcomes, roles, responsibilities, and approach
  • Assess and align – Identify, analyze, and optimize risk mitigation
  • Prevent and promote – Code of conduct, policies, controls, awareness, and requirements
  • Detect and discern – Notification, inquiry, and detective controls
  • Respond and resolve – Internal or third-party reviews, corrective controls, crisis response, and recovery
  • Monitor and measure – Context and performance monitoring, evaluation, and systematic improvement
  • Inform and integrate – Information management and documentation, internal/external communication, technology and infrastructure
  • Context and culture – Incorporate internal and external business context, culture, value, and objectives