With numerous GRC platforms available today, selecting the right solution requires clarity on which outcomes deliver the greatest value to your organization. Regardless of which GRC platform you choose, it should deliver the following essential capabilities:
- Instill confidence that your risk decisions can withstand regulatory scrutiny and demonstrate thorough due diligence.
- Translate technical risks into a language that executives understand.
- Provide risk treatment roadmaps that prioritize the highest-level risks first.
- Provide trackable progress of security indicatives.
- Establish shared accountability.
- Ensure fast implementation and enablement to realize value quickly.
Let’s examine these desired outcomes more in depth.
A Legally Defensible Security Strategy
Let’s turn our attention to the “Risk” component of GRC. Whether facing an injury lawsuit, a contractual dispute, or a data breach-related claim, the plaintiff’s core argument typically hinges on proving negligence. The question to the court will be, “Did your company take reasonable, expected measures to prevent an incident from occurring?”
The truth is that even with limitless resources to design a robust security program, no organization can guarantee immunity from cyberattacks. Fortunately, the law doesn’t demand perfection. It does require a reasonable standard of care to mitigate known risks. The goal is not to achieve a flawless security posture but to apply legally defensible security controls and remediation measures that demonstrate due diligence. You may not be able to disarm every potential attacker, but you can disarm litigation attorneys by implementing a reasonably well thought out strategy that clearly demonstrates your duty of care.
What sets Reasonable Risk apart from other GRC platforms is the deep integration with the DoCRA (Duty of Care Risk Analysis) framework. DoCRA enables business leaders to align risk decisions with standards that courts and regulators recognize as demonstrating duty of care. By bridging technical risk management with legal accountability, it transforms compliance from a checkbox exercise into a defensible business strategy; one that weighs the interests of all parties affected by any risk decisions made by leadership.
A Common Language Component
An effective GRC platform translates cybersecurity risk into business language that drives decisions. After all, company leaders rely on business metrics as their common decision-making language, not technical jargon. Many GRC tools fall short by failing to bridge this gap, leaving technical risks disconnected from executive understanding. Reasonable Risk addresses this challenge by offering executive-level reporting tools that convert complex risk data into actionable insights. This empowers C-suite leaders to make informed decisions that reflect their own business priorities and the realities of their cybersecurity landscape.
Prioritized Security Mapping
Just like smart businesses invest into where they’ll deliver the most value to customers, organizations need to be just as strategic with their security efforts. You can’t fund every control at once, so it’s essential to focus on the ones that address your biggest risks first. A prioritized security roadmap ensures that limited resources are directed where they matter most to reduce exposure and demonstrate clear duty of care to stakeholders and regulators.
Expenditure Justification
Reasonable Risk includes data-driven roadmaps that show how a proposed effort will reduce overall risk exposure and tie it to business outcomes. By quantifying the cost-benefit relationship, it enables executives to assess the financial impact of each effort, monitor progress against expected ROI, and make confident investment decisions rooted in strategic value.
Shared Accountability
Whether you’re a sports organization or a business, success hinges on teamwork. With Reasonable Risk, executives and technologists both know their role in risk management and governance. When everyone agrees on the acceptable risk, governance can be more easily implemented. A culture of shared accountability is then fostered, making security successful over the long haul.
Contact us to schedule a Reasonable Risk Demo, or reach out to our integration partner, HALOCK Security Labs for more information on CIS RAM and/or DoCRA.