Evaluating GRC software?
Are you looking for GRC software or evaluating GRC software vendors? This guide is for you to help you find the best GRC software on the market - feature by feature.
GRC software tool evaluation guide
... feature by feature
Contents
- Platform & Integration
- Audit & Assessment
- Risk Management
- Issues and Incidents
- Compliance Management
- Control & Policy Management
- Social Risk News Network
- Vendor Management
- Asset Management
- Custom Registers
- Documentation & Evidence
- Vulnerability Management
- Dashboard & Reporting
- Content and Framework Support
- Integration
Platform, Hosting and Security
| Platform Capabilities | |
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Platform cloud host
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Microsoft Azure (including Government cloud options)
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Data storage and sovereignty
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Australia, United States, United Kingdom or UAE (you choose)
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Access security
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Single or multi factor
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Data encryption
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In transit and at rest (AES 256-bit)
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Role-based access control (RBAC)
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Yes
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User interface
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Mobile & web app
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Check out further information about trust, security and the 6clicks platform.
Integration
| Integration Capabilities | |
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Multi-factor authentication
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Okta
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Google Authenticator
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ADFS (Azure)
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Analytics and reporting
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In-built reports, dashboards, stories and presentations
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Asset Management
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ServiceNow
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API
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Platform enabled API (custom support)
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Zapier
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Integration with 4,000+ apps
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Social Risk Network
6clicks Pulse is the ultimate social media network for you to devour all risk and compliance related news and current affairs, giving you an integrated employee social network experience for real-time risk news and better risk awareness across the enterprise.
| Features | |
|---|---|
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Access global news updates relevant to risk topics of your choice
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Yes
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Interactive internal communications system for your team
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Yes
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Select from over 50 risk domains to ensure you receive relevant updates
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Yes
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Post, comment and share items within your team, accessed anywhere via 6clicks mobile app
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Yes
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Audits & Assessment
Assessments are core to the 6clicks platform and can be used for internal (self) assessment or assessments of your third-parties/vendors.
| Features | |
|---|---|
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Assess against a specific authority document or control set
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Yes
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Predefined questionnaires for common standards, laws and regulations
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Yes
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Customize questionnaires (questions, answers, scoring, risk ratings and weighting)
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Yes
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Ability to customize templates (domains and control/provision references)
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Yes
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Assessment question skip and conditional logic
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Yes
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Ongoing assessment scheduling
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Yes
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Assessment question assignment for answer and review
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Yes
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Reopen or copy completed assessments
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Yes
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Automated risks and issues
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Yes
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Risk Management
| Features | |
|---|---|
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Risk identification and assessment
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Yes - leverage built-in risk libraries
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Risk appetite definition
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Yes
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Risk registers
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Yes
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Risk management
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Yes - manage the full lifecycle of risk
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Risk treatment plans
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Yes - create, assign and manage treatment plans
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Risk metrics
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Yes
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Automated risk metrics
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Yes
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Risk workflow definition
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Yes - define custom stages
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Custom fields
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Yes - including multi-level relationships
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Discover how 6clicks can help support your operational or enterprise risk management needs.
Vendor & Third-Party Management
| Features | |
|---|---|
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Vendor assessment questionnaires
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Yes
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Vendor risk profiling
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Yes
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Manage controls and renewal dates
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Yes
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Custom fields
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Yes
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Learn more about protecting your supply chain with our vendor risk management solution.
Asset Management
| Features | |
|---|---|
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Asset identification
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Yes
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Asset classificaiton
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Yes
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Integration with ServiceNow
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Yes
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Link assets to risks
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Yes
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Link assets to issues
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Yes
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Custom fields
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Yes
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Custom Registers
| Features | |
|---|---|
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Create any register you need
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Yes
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Trigger workflows and actions via Zapier
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Yes
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Custom fields
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Yes
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Document & Evidence Management
| Features | |
|---|---|
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Evidentiary artifact collection
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Yes - optional or mandatory
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Easily download evidence and artifacts
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Yes
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Custom report generation
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6clicks Pixel Perfect
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Dashboards, Analytics & Reporting
| Features | |
|---|---|
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See recent assessments at a glance
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Yes
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See trending risks and issues
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Yes
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Run reports and produce graphs
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Yes
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Export reports and graphs
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Yes
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Leverage Microsoft Power BI with native 6clicks integration
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Yes
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Compliance Management
| Features | |
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Custom registers to support gifts, travel etc.
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Yes - unlimited
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Compliance attestations against controls
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Yes
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Manual provision mapping
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Yes
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Automatic provision mapping with Hailey
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Yes
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Record and track remediation of compliance issues
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Yes
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Policy Management
| Features | |
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Access to industry standard controls or create your own to meet every unique requirement for your business
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Yes
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Allocate owners and members to individual records to track internal performance
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Yes
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Define responsibilities associated with controls to track performance
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Yes
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Map controls to underlying risk and compliance requirements
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Yes
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Vulnerability Management
Import and manage your cybersecurity vulnerabilities, link with your information assets and associate risks and issues to better manage your cybersecurity program.
| Features | |
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Ingest vulnerabilities from Nessus & Qualys
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Yes
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Create custom import mappings to custom tools
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Yes
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Link, sort and manage vulnerabilities
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Yes - link vulnerabilities to information assets
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Manage the full remediation lifecycle
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Yes - link vulnerabilities to risks and issues
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Issues & Incidents
We don't stop at assessments - use 6clicks to ensure remediation takes place.
| Features | |
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Track issue and actions
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Yes
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Third-party issue assignment
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Yes
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Link issues and incidents to assets, risks, controls and compliance requirements
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Yes
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Content Library
The 6clicks content marketplace is famous for its completeness and relevance supporting jurisdictions and disciplines around the world.
| Includes | |
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Standards, laws, regulations and frameworks
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Yes
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Policies and control sets
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Yes
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Assessment and audit templates
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Yes
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Risk libraries
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Yes
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Issue libraries
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Yes
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Incident playbooks
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Yes
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Project checklists
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Yes
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Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
What does GRC stand for?
GRC stands for Governance, Risk, and Compliance. It is a capability for aligning the strategies for corporate governance policies, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
What is GRC software?
Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps a company manage its governance, carry out the risk management program, and ensure compliance with standards and regulations. It is an integrated software suite with capabilities for implementing a GRC program and managing it.
What is a GRC tool?
A GRC tool can be defined as an instrument to observe policies, regulations, and potential issues, and for defining the process to manage GRC. GRC tools can be integrated with an automation platform like 6clicks to significantly reduce the time spent in monitoring controls and reporting their performance.
What is ERM software?
Enterprise risk management (ERM) software is software that helps to have a systematic approach to managing risks in an enterprise. It helps to understand the organisation’s risk exposure to plan for risk management, risk treatment, incident response, and incident recovery.
What is a GRC audit?
A GRC audit is an assessment of an organisation’s GRC program, however, it is not a formal audit. Internal audits can be carried out on a regular basis to review and improve GRC. An external annual audit by a third-party auditor assesses reports generated from security and compliance systems that support GRC.
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