Governance, Risk & Compliance

Manage risk &
Stay continously
Compliant

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, managing cybersecurity risks while maintaining compliance isn't just a point in time checkbox exercise, it's a critical business imperative. Our comprehensive Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) services help you navigate this complex landscape with confidence

Essential Eight Security

We help you implement and maintain the Essential Eight security strategies to achieve and maintain the right security maturity level for your organisation. Our team works with you to assess your current maturity level, plans improvements, and monitors progress across all eight strategies.

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Understand your risk

We take a structured approach to identifying and managing risks in your cloud environment and treatments strategies aligned to industry-leading ISM and NIST standards. Our team helps enterprises work through cyber risk assessment processes, ensuring that risks to the organisation are understood how to mitigate them effectively.

Risk Model

We transform lengthy security standards into clear, manageable & actionable strategies that protect your organisation. Our structured approach helps you understand, measure, and manage risks across your entire cloud environment.

Threat Model

We help you keep up to date with emerging cyber threats, with our comprehensive threat modelling service. We map out potential security risks to your cloud systems and propose treatments before they become real problems.

Streamline Compliance with Continuous monitoring

Launchpad leverages automation to ensure consistent and compliance deployment of cloud resources. This desired state approach enables the ability to determine drift in your environment to quickly identify configuration that is not desired. Combined with Azure policy, we are able to continuously verify and report on your cloud environments compliance status. Any deviations allow quick identification and reporting of issues that need attention, allowing you to address issues before they escalate.

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FAQs

Find answers to your questions about using Launchpad GRC to ensure continuous compliance of enterprise cloud environments with regulatory frameworks.

What is Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC)? 

GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) is an integrated approach to managing organisational risks, security compliance, and regulatory requirements. In today's digital landscape, it's essential because it helps protect your organisation from cyber threats while ensuring you meet regulatory obligations. Our GRC services provide a structured framework to identify, assess, and mitigate risks while maintaining compliance with relevant standards.

What services does GRC include?

Our GRC service offering includes a comprehensive suite of integrated components:

  • Cyber Threat Intelligence: Continuous monitoring and analysis of cyber threats, vulnerability assessments, and actionable intelligence for cloud environments
  • Risk and Threat Modelling: Development and maintenance of threat models for cloud workloads, identifying attack vectors and appropriate controls
  • Compliance Framework Alignment: Ongoing mapping and validation of controls against ISM
  • Control Implementation and Monitoring: Management of security controls, including continuous monitoring and effectiveness validation
  • Essential Eight Maturity Management: Implementation, assessment, and improvement planning for Essential Eight controls
  • Audit Support: Comprehensive assistance for annual security audits, including evidence collection and response coordination
  • Monthly Compliance Reporting: Detailed reports on control effectiveness, compliance status, and risk assessment
How do you implement a risk-based approach to cybersecurity?

Our risk-based approach to cybersecurity starts with developing a comprehensive risk model that examines your business context, critical assets, and operations. This helps identify and  understand what needs to be protected and the potential business impacts of security incidents. We help you develop and understand a threat model that identifies potential attack vectors, analyses your attack surface, and evaluates specific threats to your environment. This combination of risk and threat modelling gives us a clear picture of what we're protecting against and why.

Launchpad as a platform has already many considered controls built in that mitigate a large portion of typical risks for digital services. However, it is still crucial to assess your specific situation leveraging the risk and threat models to select and implement controls to suit your business context and directly address your identified risks and threats.

Launchpad is a flexible and adaptable platform that doesn't assume a one-size-fits-all solution. We work with you to choose controls that are proportionate to your specific risks and align with industry frameworks like ISM and NIST. This ensures that every security measure we implement serves a clear purpose in protecting your business, making your security investments more effective and targeted.

Why is continuous compliance important?

In today's digital landscape, it's essential because it helps protect your organisation from cyber threats while ensuring you meet regulatory obligations. Point in time manual assessments carry large amounts of unknown risk as enterprise systems are ever changing to meet business needs. Proactive continuous reporting on your cloud environment combined helps identify and address compliance gaps before they become critical issues.

How does automated monitoring enhance compliance?

Automated monitoring detects compliance deviations in real-time, reducing manual effort and ensuring faster remediation. This minimises risk exposure and enhances operational efficiency.

How do you handle compliance violations?

We provide immediate notification to the relevant development and cyber teams of any compliance violations through our continuous monitoring system. Our team assists in compliance analysis, provides remediation guidance or policy update recommendations. We help you document the response process for audit purposes.

Can your service adapt to changes in compliance requirements?

Yes, we actively monitor changes in Government security standards such as PSPF as well as cyber guidance updates in ISM and NIST. We work with your organisation to adjust controls and processes accordingly. We provide impact analysis of changes and develop adaptation plans to maintain a secure cyber posture.

How does your GRC service support external audits?

Our GRC service provides comprehensive audit support through a proactive, evidence-based approach. Throughout the year, we continuously collect and maintain compliance evidence, validation records, and control documentation. This means when an audit occurs, you're not scrambling to gather information – it's already organised and ready.

We map your security controls directly to ISM and NIST requirements, maintaining clear documentation of how each control fulfils specific compliance obligations. When auditors request evidence, we can quickly demonstrate your compliance through our detailed control framework mapping. Our monthly compliance reports provide a clear trail of ongoing compliance monitoring and any remediation activities.

What are the key features of the monthly compliance report?

The report includes:

  • Metrics on control effectiveness.
  • Details on compliance violations and remediation status.
  • Findings from audits and alignment with regulations.
  • Trending analysis and improvement recommendations.

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