Managing Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) can be complex, but at Ardoq, we're driven to make it clear and actionable. Our GRC offering is a flexible, interconnected suite designed to give customers a complete, actionable picture.
This package combines three core Ardoq solutions: Regulatory Compliance, Compliance Assurance, and Application Risk Management. You can start with what's most critical for you and expand as your needs evolve.
Ardoq GRC Solutions: Purpose & Application at a Glance
This table provides a quick overview of each Ardoq GRC solution, its core purpose, and when it's typically used.
GRC Solution | Purpose | When to Use It |
Regulatory Compliance | Helps organizations address and model specific, mandatory government regulations. | When required to comply with legally binding regulations (e.g., EU DORA, GLBA, CPS230). |
Compliance Assurance | Enables organizations to implement and demonstrate compliance against industry frameworks and standards. | When your organization needs to follow best practices or prove adherence to frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO). |
Application Risk Management | Provides a dynamic, holistic method to manage and mitigate risks associated with business-critical applications. | When managing risk registers and ensuring key applications are assessed for risk and tied to controls. |
Full GRC Suite | Unifies all aspects of compliance, control, and risk into one connected platform. | When a complete, 360° view of risks, regulations, and frameworks is required to drive strategic decisions. |
GRC: Integrated Solution
Our GRC solutions help organizations model regulatory relationships, assess compliance frameworks, and holistically manage application risks. This highly interconnected suite allows for step-by-step implementation. A customer can start exactly where they need Ardoq most, expanding their capabilities with confidence, without feeling pressured to deploy everything at once.
Diagram 1 - The Ardoq GRC Suite: Three Components, One Unified Platform.
The entire GRC solution is modular, meaning organizations can implement one aspect at a time. It's comprised of five core workspaces and one supporting workspace: Assessments.
Here’s a concise look at the core workspaces that form our solutions:
Application Workspace: Your central hub for managing an organization's application portfolio.
Risk Registry: Where all identified risks find their home.
Control Library: A central repository for controls designed to address regulations, framework requirements, and mitigate risks.
Framework Workspace: Contains requirements outlined by relevant industry standards or compliance frameworks.
Regulation Workspace: Dedicated to managing specific regulations and their unique requirements.
Assessments (Optional): Used for formal assessments, often vital for regulatory needs (like EU DORA, GLBA, and CPS230) or broader initiatives (such as the EU AI Act).
Let’s take a closer look at each individual solution.
Regulatory Compliance
Part of the Ardoq GRC Suite to navigate rules with confidence
For most organizations, compliance lives in fragmented tools, static spreadsheets, and time-consuming manual reviews. It’s high-stakes, hard to track, and constantly changing.
What is a Regulation? Regulation refers to the use of rules, incentives, and penalties by a government or authority to control or guide the behavior of organizations. Critically, regulations are mandatory.
Ardoq Regulatory Compliance solution offers a way to map regulatory obligations to your architecture and prove compliance with confidence. This solution assists organizations in modeling the relationship between their requirements and frameworks (such as NIST/ISO/ETC), controls, internal policies, and assessing capabilities, applications, and other relevant components.
How it Works
While we quickly addressed specific urgent regulations like DORA previously, Regulatory Compliance provides a generic, consistent, and scalable method for handling any regulation going forward.
The colored parts of this scheme show workspaces and components of this solution available in Ardoq.
Diagram 2 - Regulatory Compliance Solution in focus.
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Compliance Assurance
Part of GRC to provide adherence and build trust
Ardoq’s Compliance Assurance solution designed to support risk and compliance stakeholders in identifying and assessing compliance framework requirements, helping to strengthen the organization's overall enterprise risk management program. It allows customers to model specific framework requirements (like NIST CSF, ISO 27001, or NIST 583) within a dedicated workspace.
What Are Compliance Frameworks?
Simply put, a compliance framework is a structured system – policies, procedures, and controls – that organizations use to ensure they operate within legal and ethical boundaries and meet industry standards.
How it Works
The solution requires compliance stakeholders to model framework requirements in a separate workspace. At the same time, it uses survey functionality to create internal controls and risks that may relate to the framework.
The colored parts of this scheme represent workspaces and components of this solution available in Ardoq.
Diagram 3 - Compliance Assurance Solution in Focus.
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Application Risk Management
Part of GRC to secure core systems
Application Risk Management transforms how organizations understand and address risks tied to their applications. We move beyond static spreadsheets, offering a dynamic, actionable way to manage risk registers.
The Challenge: Organizations spend considerable time and resources on risk management, yet this effort is often challenging and resource-intensive. It’s challenging to maintain up-to-date and actionable risk registers using static spreadsheets. Corporate risk tools are typically standalone, lacking information about the range of controls available, the technologies used, or which business processes depend on key applications.
How Ardoq Helps: Armed with Ardoq and the Application Risk Use Case, the Enterprise Architect can bring significant value to the CIO by addressing these challenges. We offer a joined-up approach to Application Risk Management. This holistic approach greatly assists other corporate stakeholders, including Information Security, Corporate Risk, Audit, Governance, and Compliance teams.
Diagram 4 - Application Risk Management Solution in Focus.
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