Intelligent GRC: Building a clearer compliance picture with connected registers

TL;DR

6clicks brings key GRC records together with connected compliance registers, a foundational capability of Intelligent GRC (iGRC). With dedicated registers for controls, tests, files, and tasks that centralize evidence and automatically link them to relevant records, teams can spend less time maintaining connections and more time acting on them, improving traceability and simplifying day-to-day compliance management, especially for complex organizations across government, defense, and critical infrastructure. 

Maintaining defensible assurance depends on more than keeping records. Teams need to understand how controls are tested, which evidence supports them, and what work still needs to be done. But when controls, tests, files, and tasks sit in separate places, those connections become difficult to maintain. Teams spend valuable time chasing submissions, manually linking evidence, and piecing together the context they need for an audit. Intelligent GRC introduces connected compliance registers to make it easier to connect compliance activity with the assets and systems it relates to, giving teams a clearer view of how their assurance work fits together.

What are connected compliance registers?

In 6clicks, dedicated registers bring key GRC records into a shared operating model. Rather than managing controls, tests, evidence, and tasks in isolation, teams can connect them to one another, making it easier to trace how compliance work supports assurance.

The capability brings together four core registers:

• Controls register: Manage controls and link them to framework requirements, tests, evidence, assets, risks, and tasks. Import your controls and eliminate manual data entry with Hailey AI analyzing and extracting control details from existing policy documents.
• Tests register: Manage manual and automated tests in one place, with validation status and Hailey-generated guidance on what good evidence looks like. A single test, evidence, or control can support requirements across multiple frameworks, helping reduce repeat assessments.
• Files and evidence register: Maintain a structured, searchable inventory of compliance evidence. Records are created automatically from task submissions and linked back to the relevant task, test, and control, reducing manual re-linking.
• Tasks register: Bring compliance work into a centralized view, including tasks generated from controls and tests. Teams can organize and track work using register views, filters, permissions, and recurring tasks.

Together, these registers help teams see not just what records they hold, but how those records connect across their compliance program.

How connected registers help GRC teams strengthen assurance

Connected compliance registers help GRC teams spend less time assembling records and more time understanding and demonstrating what those records show. By connecting controls, tests, evidence, and tasks, organizations can streamline audit preparation, support defensible decisions, and maintain an accurate and complete view of compliance.

These benefits are especially valuable for complex, highly regulated organizations, including:

• Government and defense: Ensure traceability across controls, tests, evidence, assurance activities, and associated requirements. Maintain consistent audit readiness with supporting evidence readily accessible and explainable.
• Critical infrastructure: Organize evidence, tests, incidents, and other custom data into connected registers to support regulator-ready reporting. This helps teams prepare for obligations and evolving regulations such as the EU’s NIS2 Directive, Australia’s SOCI Act, the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, and Kuwait’s National Cybersecurity Resilience Bill.
• Multi-entity organizations: Track local compliance implementations while maintaining centralized oversight through the 6clicks Hub & Spoke model. Connected records support entity-level assurance activities while roll-up reporting helps group-level teams understand progress and identify gaps across the organization.
• Advisors and MSPs: Establish a consistent operating model for managing cybersecurity readiness, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience across clients and industries. Connected registers help organize each client’s compliance ecosystem while accommodating their specific requirements.

Overall, connected registers create a unified view of controls, evidence, and action, enabling organizations to move from structured compliance toward intelligent, continuous assurance.

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