Organization exposure to compliance risk is rising at the same time the cost of compliance soars. An ad hoc or reactive approach to compliance brings complexity, forcing business to be less agile. Organizations in the past have addressed compliance as singular issues or obligations, which often resulted in multiple initiatives working in isolation. Isolated compliance initiatives tend to rely on…

The GRC software space is vast with numerous vendors.  In fact, in my market models there are over 400 GRC software providers that span 28 primary categories (with numerous sub-categories) of GRC related software.  Nine of these categories encompass components of an enterprise GRC platform (though no vendor does all nine components), 19 of the categories are focused in specific…