What the GRC Module Does
ActiveERM's GRC Cloud is an eGRC platform — one governance backbone that risk, compliance, audit, business continuity and ESG all plug into, rather than a set of modules sharing a login page.
That distinction is testable. In an integrated platform, a single control is tested once and satisfies every framework it maps to; an audit finding lands against the risk and control it concerns without re-keying; a third party assessed by security, procurement and sustainability resolves to one record; and the board report is generated from live data rather than assembled from exports.
The Control Library
The control library is the centre of the platform. Each control carries an owner, a test frequency, a defined evidence artefact, and its mappings to every framework it satisfies.
That mapping is where the effort savings come from. Most organisations comply with several frameworks that overlap heavily — access control, change management, incident response and vendor due diligence appear in nearly all of them under different names. Typically 40–60% of controls satisfy three or more frameworks. Define the control once, test it once, and the evidence counts everywhere it is mapped.
Frameworks supported out of the box include ISO 27001 and ISO 27002, SOC 2, NIS2, ISO 31000, ISO 22301, GDPR and ISO 27701, SOX, PCI DSS and DORA, and CSRD, GRI, SASB and TCFD. Custom frameworks and internal control sets are configured the same way.
Evidence Collection
The operational problem in every compliance programme is demonstrating that controls operated continuously, with evidence an auditor accepts.
ActiveERM schedules evidence collection rather than leaving it to memory: owners are notified, overdue items escalate, and each artefact is retained with a timestamp and the control it belongs to. Evidence can be attached manually or pulled from connected systems — identity providers, cloud platforms, ticketing and HR — through the API and integrations layer.
This matters most for SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 surveillance audits, where evidence must exist across a past period. Retrospective assembly is expensive and frequently not accepted at all.
Policy Management
Policies are versioned, with approval workflow, scheduled review dates, and attestation campaigns that record who acknowledged which version and when. Attestation evidence is retained against the policy, so the question "can you show me that staff accepted the current information security policy" has a one-click answer.
Risk, Audit and Continuity in the Same System
Because GRC Cloud shares its data model with the other modules:
- Risk Management — controls attached to a risk drive its residual score, so strengthening a control visibly moves the register.
- Audit Management — findings link to the control and risk they concern, and remediation is verified against the original finding.
- Business Continuity — continuity controls live in the same library, so ISO 22301 and ISO 27001 requirements that overlap are tested once.
- ESG — sustainability controls sit beside security controls, which is what makes CSRD assurance tractable.
Multi-Tenant Isolation and the AI Sandbox
Each client runs in its own environment with its own database and row-level security, rather than sharing tables with other customers. Every tenant also gets a built-in AI sandbox — an isolated environment where you can query your own GRC data in natural language, draft mitigations, and generate board reports. Personal data is scrubbed from AI-accessible query output by design. See AI integrations for how it works.
Who It Suits
ActiveERM fits organisations that carry several overlapping frameworks and are currently maintaining them in parallel — typically financial services, insurance, healthcare, professional services and regulated SMEs in the 50–2,000 employee range.
It is a poor fit for a single-framework, single-team need. If you want SOC 2 and nothing else, forever, a point solution will be simpler. The value here appears at the second framework and compounds with each one after.
Getting Started
Consolidation is a scoping exercise with a software component, not the other way round. The order that works:
- Agree the risk and control taxonomy and the assessment scales, before configuration.
- Build the control-to-framework mapping matrix — this is where the duplicate effort is found.
- Migrate open items only; retire dead registers rather than preserving them.
- Automate evidence collection once the control library is stable.
- Report from the system, not from slides.
Our GRC implementation guide sets out the phase-by-phase rollout, and how to simplify GRC processes covers the consolidation method in detail.
Ready to see it? Request a demo and we will set up a dedicated environment with your own frameworks loaded.