Governance Hierarchy

In today’s fast-changing regulatory landscape, organizations often struggle with managing multiple compliance frameworks.

Different frameworks come with overlapping control requirements, making compliance efforts repetitive and inefficient.

GRC for Jira addresses this challenge by providing a structured governance area that simplifies compliance operations.

The Power of Mapping Compliance Requirements

The governance area in GRC for Jira allows organizations to:

• Manage Authority Documents, which represent regulations, compliance frameworks, or industry standards.

• Breakdown and link Authority Documents into Compliance Requirements.

• Link Compliance Requirements to relevant Control Objectives.

• Associate Control Objectives with Control Templates, ensuring consistency in compliance assessment.

By structuring compliance data this way, organizations gain a centralized view of requirements and controls, leading to increased efficiency and reduced redundancy.

Relations between Compliance work item types

Assess Once, Apply to Multiple Frameworks

One of the most powerful features of GRC for Jira is the ability to map the same Control Objective across multiple Compliance Requirements. This means that when a Control is assessed once, its results can be applied to different Authority Documents.

This approach significantly reduces compliance workload and helps teams focus on continuous improvement rather than redundant control testing.

Example Use Case

Imagine an organization that needs to comply with ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, and SOC2. Many of these frameworks share similar control objectives, such as access control or incident response.

Instead of testing these controls separately for each framework, GRC for Jira enables a single assessment to satisfy multiple compliance requirements, eliminating duplicated efforts.

Benefits of a Unified Compliance Approach

Increased Efficiency

Reduce time spent on repetitive control assessments.

Better Visibility

See how different requirements align with common control objectives.

Lower Audit Fatigue

Ensure teams are not overwhelmed with redundant testing.

Take Compliance Management to the Next Level

With GRC for Jira, organizations can move beyond reactive compliance and adopt a proactive, streamlined approach to governance.

By centralizing Authority Documents, linking Compliance Requirements, and leveraging shared Control Objectives, teams can work smarter, not harder.

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