Meeting Singapore's growing compliance demands with AI-powered, sovereign GRC

Singapore’s cybersecurity and compliance landscape is evolving fast, but are organisations keeping up?

The latest Singapore Cybersecurity Health Report by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), which surveyed close to 2,000 organisations, found that businesses had implemented only 70% of cybersecurity measures across the five key categories of CSA’s Cyber Essentials. This partial adoption exposes organisations to cyber risks and highlights gaps in their cybersecurity posture. At the same time, regulatory expectations are growing more complex, from new mandates and sectoral guidelines to national cybersecurity initiatives.

With all of these developments, Singaporean enterprises, government agencies, and regulated entities must rethink their compliance approach. Let's explore Singapore’s latest compliance shifts and how 6clicks can help organisations stay ahead with AI and sovereign GRC.

Singapore’s regulatory landscape: Strengthening cyber resilience and data governance

As digitisation deepens across sectors, Singapore is advancing its regulatory frameworks to counter sophisticated threats and safeguard critical infrastructure.

In the financial sector, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) updated its TRM (Technology Risk Management) Guidelines in 2021, placing greater emphasis on enhancing data and infrastructure security through secure coding and application security testing, system impact assessments based on threat intelligence, third-party risk management, and more. This has introduced additional measures and obligations for MAS-regulated entities, from banks and insurers to payment service firms.

Meanwhile, enforcement under the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) has become more stringent, with the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) increasing financial penalties from a cap of SGD 1 million to up to 10% of an organisation’s annual turnover, following recent amendments to the PDPA and updates to the Advisory Guidelines on Enforcement.

Beyond safeguarding technology infrastructure and personal data, the CSA’s Cybersecurity Strategy 2021 sets out Singapore’s intent to enhance critical infrastructure protection and strengthen the nation’s digital defences, with initiatives such as the Cyber Essentials and Cyber Trust marks encouraging higher security standards across the country.

For organisations navigating this landscape, compliance is no longer just a checkbox exercise. It demands scalable systems that provide consistency, efficiency, and assurance backed by sovereign operations to maintain control over sensitive data.

The power of 6clicks: Revolutionising compliance with AI-powered, sovereign GRC

Traditional compliance approaches — including manual spreadsheets, disconnected tools, or off-the-shelf platforms with limited local alignment — can’t keep up with the pace or depth of regulatory change. 6clicks offers an integrated, AI-powered platform built for modern compliance, risk, and audit teams in high-security environments. Here’s how:

AI-driven compliance for efficiency and local alignment

6clicks equips organisations with next-generation AI to eliminate the burden of manual compliance tasks like control mapping and responding to assessments; delivering faster, more accurate outcomes. Harness the power of Hailey AI to simplify cross-framework alignment, fast-track audit readiness, and enable proactive risk management. With Hailey, teams can:

• Instantly align requirements across PDPA, MAS TRM, ISO 27001, and other standards and regulations

• Map security controls to frameworks and identify gaps within seconds

• Generate contextually-aligned assessment responses based on uploaded documentation or previous data

• Capture risks and issues directly from assessments and generate remediation tasks, streamlining the process from identification to remediation

• Reduce manual workload while improving consistency and accuracy

Together, these capabilities help organisations accelerate compliance, reduce human error, and maintain confidence across evolving requirements.

Meeting data residency needs with sovereign infrastructure

Compliance in Singapore often requires that sensitive information be stored within specific jurisdictions or infrastructure types. 6clicks supports these requirements through its Singapore instance, offering public, private, and dedicated deployment options with full isolation, access control, and auditability. This provides significant benefits to:

• Enterprises – Meet local compliance obligations while enhancing trust, transparency, and operational control

• Government agencies and regulated entities – Ensure data sovereignty by keeping sensitive information within Singaporean jurisdiction

• Advisors and managed service providers (MSPs) – Support high-assurance use cases across government, finance, healthcare, and other regulated sectors

Whether serving government clients or operating in highly regulated sectors, you stay in control of your data environment.

Federated deployment for multi-entity management

6clicks’ unique Hub & Spoke architecture enables centralised governance while supporting autonomy across departments, subsidiaries, or clients. This makes it ideal for organisations and service providers that need to maintain oversight and consistency across multiple entities or clients while allowing each unit the flexibility to manage its own compliance activities. With this deployment model, you can:

• Maintain visibility across all entities or clients from a central “Hub”

• Set up isolated environments for each entity called “Spokes,” all connected to the Hub

• Standardise frameworks, controls, and best practices and seamlessly distribute across Spokes

• Roll up risk, compliance, and audit insights at the Hub

This federated approach ensures both control and agility, making it easier to scale GRC programs, maintain consistency, and support diverse operational needs across your organisation or client base.

Turnkey content for instant deployment

With ready-to-use content, organisations can streamline implementation while ensuring alignment with local requirements. 6clicks’ integrated Content Library provides you with unlimited access to pre-configured frameworks, standards, and other compliance content tailored to Singapore’s regulatory ecosystem. This includes:

• CSA content including Cyber Trust and Cyber Essentials

• Assessment templates and control sets aligned with PDPA, MAS TRM, and more

• Global standards like ISO 27001 and NIST CSF

• SOC 2, PCI DSS, and other industry-specific frameworks

• Risk and issue libraries to kickstart your risk management processes

This speeds up deployment, ensures consistency, and eliminates the need to start from scratch.

Full-stack cyber GRC capabilities

Lastly, 6clicks replaces fragmented GRC tooling with a unified platform that spans risk management, compliance, third-party risk management, issue & incident tracking, and audit & assessment. With a full-stack cyber GRC platform like 6clicks, organisations can:

• Centralise risk, compliance, and audit functions in one system

• Easily track key metrics and surface insights with real-time dashboards and one-click reports

• Navigate the platform and retrieve data faster with AI-assisted guidance and responses
  

• Leverage complete cyber GRC modules and content under one licence

• Eliminate tool sprawl and reduce total cost of ownership

Whether your goal is PDPA compliance, TRM audit readiness, or proactive cyber risk oversight, 6clicks provides the foundation to get there faster with less cost and complexity.

TL;DR – Take control with AI-powered, sovereign GRC

With the current regulatory landscape in Singapore, organisations need smarter, scalable, and locally aligned approaches to bolster security, foster compliance confidence, and minimise overhead. By streamlining GRC operations and reducing reliance on costly manual tools and disconnected systems, 6clicks delivers on that need with:

• AI automation to drive efficiency, accuracy, and insight

• Ready-to-go compliance content for faster, more consistent implementation

• Built-in support for data sovereignty through secure local hosting

• Federated deployment for centralised control with entity-level flexibility

• Integrated functionality for risk, compliance, and audit readiness

• Real-time visibility and reporting to demonstrate assurance

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Take the complexity out of compliance. Discover how 6clicks can help you automate, align, and scale GRC with sovereign, AI-powered capabilities, tailored for Singapore’s evolving regulatory environment.