Benefits
ZenGRC addresses hardships surrounding audits and enables compliance teams to efficiently manage and report the results. Utilizing the application for audits fulfills three main functions:
Visibility into audit progress: How close is the team to completing audit-related assignments?
- Clarity on audit issues: What's broken? How can it be fixed, and what's the status?
- Exposure of compliance posture: How effective are my controls?
It is critical that your organization already has the framework for your compliance program set up in ZenGRC prior to conducting an audit. This allows you to select controls important to your organization and gather evidence in the audit stage to verify whether the controls are effective or ineffective. For more information, contact us at support@zengrc.com. ???Please verify this is correct. I'll put it on the "Creating an Audit" page, as well.
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For additional information regarding ZenGRC audit structure and process flow, see ZenGRC Diagrams.
Overview
The Audits module allows for the following activities:
- Evidence collection - Managing a Document Request List (DRL) is an extensive project management endeavor. ZenGRC allows you to import a DRL from your auditor, so you can collect, verify/decline evidence, and escalate the request if no action is taken.
- Testing and concluding on controls - Once evidence is submitted, it's straightforward to determine whether your controls are operating effectively.
- Issue management - Internal and external auditors often discover gaps, findings, and issues. ZenGRC allows you to set up workflows so you can remediate them and keep track of the process.
