Repeated evidence requests
Customers, auditors, and internal reviewers ask different teams for the same records, often with inconsistent answers.
Open Cybersecurity · Build
Run GRC as an operation, not an annual scramble
Connect obligations, controls, evidence, exceptions, and remediation in a working system your teams can actually maintain.
The business pressureName what must change.
Controls detached from daily work
Policies describe intent, but owners, source systems, review steps, and retained proof do not stay connected.
Exceptions that never close
Approvals, compensating measures, expiry dates, and remediation decisions disappear across tickets, email, and spreadsheets.
01 · What we deliver
What we build and leave working.
We begin with the risk or business result that must change. The engagement then produces technical work, named ownership, and evidence your team can keep using.
GRC service catalogue
Defined intake routes, request types, roles, handoffs, response expectations, and escalation criteria.
Obligation register
A maintained inventory of contractual, regulatory, customer, and internal requirements with sources and responsible functions.
Control and evidence library
Control statements linked to procedures, owners, evidence sources, review frequency, and applicable obligations.
Evidence operations workflow
Collection, quality review, approval, retention, reuse, and refresh steps embedded in existing tools.
Exception register and workflow
Rationale, approver, compensating measures, review date, expiry, and closure evidence for each exception.
Remediation portfolio
A governed queue of findings with priority, dependency, accountable team, status, and verification evidence.
Evidence you can use
Evidence your team can use after delivery.
Each output identifies its source, owner, review point, and next action so the work stays traceable after handoff.
What you receive
- GRC service catalogue
- Obligation register
- Control and evidence library
- Evidence operations workflow
- Exception register and workflow
- Remediation portfolio
How it stays useful
- Source
- Current source material
- Owner
- Named owner
- Timing
- Relevant period
- Status
- Review status and decision
02 · The Open method
From business pressure to working security.
Four stages connect the immediate need to implementation. Each stage ends with a decision, an owner, and a visible output.
Frame
Define the business objective, key risks, stakeholders, current state, and evidence already available. We agree what must change and how progress will be measured.
Design
Translate the objective into right-sized controls, technical priorities, ownership, and a sequence that fits how the organization works.
Execute
Work alongside accountable teams to build, configure, document, test, and resolve. Decisions and evidence are captured as part of delivery.
Sustain
Establish the review cadence, signals, handoffs, and evidence routines that keep the capability useful as systems, people, and requirements change.
03 · Clear roles
Keep authority clear at every handoff.
Open leads the agreed work. Your team keeps management decisions. Independent reviewers and qualified specialists retain the authority only they can hold.
Open leads the work
We lead the work, surface decisions early, and make progress easy to see. The mix of leadership, engineering, and program operations is tailored to the need.
Business decisions stay yours
Your leaders own risk choices, resources, systems, and approval of policies or controls. We bring context and make action easier.
Build and verify stay separate
When objective review is needed, delivery and assessment roles stay separate. We confirm that structure before we begin.
Business results
What changes after the work.
The result should change what the team can do next: reduce exposure, operate a stronger control, answer scrutiny, or make a decision with better evidence.
Less evidence rework
Teams can find current, reviewed proof and know when it can be reused.
Exceptions remain governable
Risk decisions retain their rationale, conditions, review dates, and closure status.
A predictable GRC service
Business teams know how to request support, what information is required, and where decisions sit.
Common questions
What to settle before work starts.
Direct answers on fit, timing, responsibilities, deliverables, and the next commercial step.
Where do you start when GRC work is spread across tools?
We trace real flows such as a customer request, new obligation, exception, and finding to locate records, delays, and the right system of record.
Can we keep our current GRC platform?
Yes. We use current tools when they support the required records, approvals, and reporting. A platform change needs a documented requirement.
How do you reduce duplicate evidence requests?
We link recurring requests to common controls and evidence sources, then define quality checks, refresh conditions, and reuse limits.
What happens to existing policies and controls?
We map them to current work, record duplicates, gaps, stale language, missing proof, and conflicting responsibilities, then revise in manageable sets.
Is this a certification or audit service?
No. Open Cybersecurity builds and operates internal GRC capabilities. Certification, attestation, and independent examination require separately scoped assurance work.
Open Cybersecurity
Remove the drag from GRC work
Show us where evidence, ownership, and remediation slow down. We will define a workflow your team can maintain.