GRC/IRM
GRC enablement is transformational. It is not only time and resource-consuming but also requires
a long commitment to navigate through the risk and compliance complexity for unlocking the benefits of GRC
Overview
Policy
Risk
Compliance
Business Continuity
Third-party Risk
Health & Safety
Internal Audit
ESG
Overview
The business landscape is getting more complex with an ever-changing risk and compliance landscape i.e., ever-increasing regulations coupled with overlapping regulatory requirements, and a lack of insight into the cascading effect of enterprise risks on the organization.
GRC presents new ways to manage your enterprise risks and compliance obligations. It lays the foundation necessary for your organization to decode the map and connect the dots between the current and desired maturity to navigate the complicated risk and compliance landscape for achieving your goals and strategic objectives in the context of greater business complexity.
Further, it enables your organization to align people, processes, and technology to develop a unified framework and a common platform for enabling the three lines of defense to collaborate in managing risks and compliance obligations of your enterprise.
Challenges
Enterprise GRC enablement is challenging and time-consuming because the market space is congested withmultiple GRC tools with similar capabilities, making it harder for the companies to select the right tool
that meets the current and future GRC requirements.
In addition, often companies have the deal with challenges at people and process levels due t
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- varying levels of process maturity
- overlapping process automation requirements
- common GRC applications
- people readiness to embrace new technologies
- the complexity of business and IT environment
How Can We Help
We’re here to help you navigate the veritable ocean of GRC.
Strategy
- GRC Maturity Assessments
- GRC Program Development
- GRC Technology Evaluation & Selection
- GRC Strategy & Roadmap
Consulting
- GRC Framework
- GRC Data Model
- GRC Requirements and Use case Development
- GRC Program Management
Technology Enablement
- GRC Tool Installation
- GRC Solution Design and Implementation
Managed Services
GRC Tool Administration and Maintenance Support
Our Approach
Enterprise GRC enablement is both an art and science. It requires active engagement and collaboration
between key stakeholders and requires diligent consideration of GRC maturity and people, process and
technology complexities, and dependencies of the organization.
Shield Advantage
Our programmatic approach to Optimize Business Processes, Framework, and Content, enabling GRC/IRM technology
integrated into our Crawl, Walk, a Run methodology designed to help your organization improve maturity and achieve the desired state.
Tool agnostic and solution maturity approach
Prioritized implementation roadmap based on people, process, and technology readiness
Best of the process and out of box functionality convergence
Workarounds to address unique business requirements
Pre-built engagement and solution accelerators
Enhanced solution functionality to address growing risk and compliance demands
Policy
Policies layout a solid foundation for the internal control environment.
Policies are the lifeline of good governance and do reflect the organization’s commitment towards its customers, stakeholders and set expectations for the conduct of its employees.
Keeping policies relevant and up-to-date is critical because outdated policies may pose a risk and significantly impact the organization’s bottom line. However, many organizations are finding Policy management tedious and, in some cases, overwhelming too because it is often decentralized, distributed among various functional groups such as Human resources, Infosec, Privacy, Finance.
In addition, the policy life-cycle management is often manual making it difficult for the executives to make necessary policy changes and effectively enforce and monitor its compliance across the organization.
With extensive experience in leading GRC technology, domain, and industry expertise, Our consultants have been helping organizations implement a holistic policy management program by realigning and developing a more efficient system to manage an organization’s policies.
Challenges
The policy change management process often bogs down organizations through missed deadlines, duplicative work, and the significant efforts in merging policy changes into master copies.
Despite spending significant efforts to manage policies, Organizations struggle with outdated policies, inconsistent policy formats/templates, and multiple versions of policies floating around. On top of it, they spend significant efforts to create awareness, enforce, track, monitor, and report policy compliance/non-compliance due to but not limited to the following:
- Manual processes
- overlapping process automation requirements
- No single source of truth
How Can We Help
Our services and solutions can help you combat policy management issues ranging from developing policy
content to updating and automating your policy change management process. Using industry-leading GRC tools,
we can help you aggregate all the policies into a centralized location and automate the change management
processes to provide operational and sustainable value for you and your stakeholders.
Strategy
- Policy management program maturity assessments and strategic roadmap
- Policy program development, rationalization and optimization
- Policy governance framework
Consulting
- Policy content development and lifecycle management
- Policy awareness campaigns
- Policy attestation and compliance reviews
- Policy metrics reporting
Technology Enablement
- Policy management solution design and implementation
- Policy development workflow automation.
- Integrations
- Policy management dashboards/reports
Managed Services
- Policy management as a service (PMaS)
Shield Advantage
Our integrated approach can help you establish a robust policy governance framework and streamline
your regulatory content to develop business process execution aligned with the
risk and compliance management strategy. The benefits:
A better-organized policy repository
Saved time for directors and c-level employees
Reduced operating costs through consistent and efficient business operations and
Improved profit margins
Risk
Enterprise/Operational Risk
Risk Management is becoming a focal point of every boardroom conversation because senior leadership has to deal with many uncertainties in running a business, from day-to-day operational decisions to the boardroom’s business trade-offs.
However, managing enterprise risks is not easy as it may sound to be. If not appropriately implemented, risk management could be a deal-breaker rather than a game-changer. In other words, incorrect evaluation or rating of enterprise risks could lead to faulty strategies that result in lost opportunities or end in failed pursuits. Consequently, the senior leadership is blindsided by an outdated risk posture when making business decisions.
Challenges:
Boards and executive leadership often struggle to gain a holistic view of enterprise risks to understand the risk profile better, develop strategies, and make risk-informed decisions to achieve goals/objectives due to:
- siloed approaches to enterprise risk management
- lack of maturity of risk management practices
- restricted scope of enterprise risk management program
- incorrect identification of primary risks.
- manual risk management processes
Shield Advantage
With Templar Shield’s Risk Management expertise, you can ensure the establishment of a well-functioning Risk Management Program. Through tracking specific risks to particular sects to enterprise-wide risks, our risk management specialists can help you to improve your maturity and gain a clear, easily reportable perspective on your risk appetite and remediation posture.
- Improve control Risk Lifecycle
- Centralize and streamline remediation efforts
- Improve collaboration between Risk and Compliance Functions
- Enable adherence to existing risk frameworks (COSO, COBIT, etc.)
- Consolidate Risks into an easily trackable and reportable repository
- Systematically manage Enterprise Risks
- Correlate controls and compliance testing to impacted regulations
- Reengineer and automate Risk Scoring to create enterprise-wide scoring consistency.
How Can We Help
Our seasoned risk management specialists can help you define and establish the appropriate program and processes to create awareness, imbibe risk-aware thinking, monitor & measure the progress, and make continual improvements.
Strategy
- Risk Capability and Maturity Assessments and Strategic Roadmap
- Enterprise Risk Management Program Advisory
- Risk management Charter
- Risk Oversight Committee
- Integrated Risk Platform Selection Guidance
Consulting
Our Risk Transformation Consulting Services help you with:
- Risk Hierarchy
- Risk Registers/Catalogue management
- Controls-to-Risks mapping
- Control Procedures and Controls Testing
- Risk and Control Self-Assessments
Technology Enablement
- Risk Technology Enablement
- Automated risk scoring and rollup to Enterprise Risks
- Integrations with Policies and Standards to track Compliance Risk
- Integrations/Assimilation of Risk Frameworks
- Managed Key Risk Indicators
Managed Services
- Risk Assessment as a Service
Compliance
Organizations can no longer afford to take the traditional reactive approach to meet compliance obligations in an ever-evolving regulatory landscape.
Instead, they need to take a holistic, integrated compliance program approach to build the agility required to navigate through the complexities of ever-changing compliance requirements and bringing down the overall cost of compliance.
We provide comprehensive advisory and consulting services to help you prepare for and comply with the most pressing mandatory and voluntary regulations and frameworks, including but not limited to Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA, HIPAA, GDPR, NIST, COSO, CoBIT, ISO, GLBA, and PCI.
In addition, we integrate these compliance processes into your everyday business processes and decision-making and help your organization grow and mature an integrated risk and compliance program by leveraging People, Processes, and Technology.
Challenges
Despite the commitment, organizations struggle to comply with regulatory requirements and meet corporate obligations due to
- Over-lapping compliance requirements
- Inefficient manual processes
- Siloed approach to compliance
- Lack of common platform for collaboration & partnering between various compliance groups
On top of it, keeping pace with the ever-changing regulatory landscape and balancing between compliance with specific regulations, and addressing the more significant systematic risks of non-compliance that may span more than one regulation is challenging and cost and resource-consuming. Consequently, organizations face the risk of audit failures and suffer from compliance fatigue.
How Can We Help
Regulatory compliance is a fundamental principle of doing business today. Our seasoned compliance and
technology specialists will assist you in taking a proactive, systematic, and tenable course to compliance with
regulatory requirements and help your organization improve the effectiveness and sustainability of your compliance program.
Strategy
- Compliance Maturity Assessments and Strategic Roadmap
- Compliance Program Advisory
Consulting
- Common Control Framework
- Regulatory Intelligence and Change Management
- Compliance Reviews and Assessments
- Controls Testing
- Compliance monitoring and reporting
Technology Enablement
- Compliance Technology Enablement
- Compliance Solution Design and Implementation Management Automation
- Regulatory Intelligence and Change Management
- Integrations with regulatory content providers
Managed Services
- Compliance Management as a Service (CMaS)
Shield Advantage
With our extensive experience in defining compliance frameworks, developing compliance programs,
and enabling compliance management technologies, we can help your organization to :
Improve control Over Compliance Lifecycle
Centralize and streamline remediation efforts
Improve collaboration between Risk and Compliance Functions
Establish strong governance and compliance frameworks
Implement unified policies and controls
Systematically manage corporate obligations and regulatory research
Correlate controls and compliance testing to impacted regulations
Reengineer and automate Compliance processes, audits, testing, and remediation
Business Continuity
Business Continuity Management (BCM)
BCM is a robust program that helps the company react quicker to unplanned interruptions and includes processes to identify, prevent, and prepare for events that may disrupt business activities.
Automate your approach to business continuity and disaster recovery planning and execution, enabling swift response in crisis situations to protect your ongoing operations. Automate business impact analysis (BIA), business continuity plan management, disaster recovery, and incident response processes. Extend capabilities with world-class critical event communication, management, and collaboration.
Challenges
Business Continuity Management is vital to continue the critical processes of your organization when faced with disrupting business activities. Many organizations when it comes to business continuity, often take a reactive approach resulting in:
- Insufficient tools, technology, and resources
- Lack of collaboration between stakeholders in BCM, IT, and InfoSec teams.
- Unclear strategic plan and procedures
- Manual processes
Shield Advantage
Across an array of industries, Templar Shield provides extensive experience in defining and enabling business resiliency processes and technologies. Our solutions provide the following benefits:
Our Approach
Our seasoned business continuity professionals can help automate your BCP/DR program and extend capabilities with world-class critical event communication, management, and collaboration.
Strategy
- Improve business continuity maturity through process advisory, technology selection, and implementation.
- Business continuity program automation and optimization.
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Consulting
- Business continuity and disaster recovery plan review lifecycle
- Business continuity campaign, scoping, and historical archiving
- Business continuity plan and recovery strategy
- Business continuity reporting
Technology Enablement
- Determine the business criticality of assets and processes.
- Business continuity workflow automation
- View real-time reporting and dashboards of business continuity review progress and assignments.
Managed Services
- Business Continuity Management as a Service (BCaaS)
Third-party Risk
Service Description
Managing third-party risks is not only challenging but also time and resource consuming. It requires substantial investement of time to identify and mitigate third-party risks, most of which is spent on following-up with the third-parties.
With increasing trend of data breaches via third-parties, the criticality of managing third party risks has increased too and organizations are finding it challenging to scale their existing third-party program coverage due to -
- Limited resource availability
- Manual processes
- Limited budget
Shield Advantage
Our ‘Third-Party Risk Management’ as a Service is a unique managed service model that supports your growing third-party risk management needs. The model offers an opportunity to select from ala carte services required to meet the on-demand, short-term, and long-term risk management requirements.
Our Services provides you with
A flexible engagement model which allows you to the flexiblity to pick the options that suits you best. You can choose on-demand, fixed quantity, staff augmentation or a service model that is delivered in an onsite, remote, near shore or off-shore format.
Scalable Services where you can choose from services only or services & technology options to address your risk management needs across third-party lifecycle
Plug ‘n Play Model provides you with a ready to use assessment framework with a question bank mapped to regulatory frameworks and integrated with external tools for continuous monitoring
Our Approach
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Strategy
Our fit-for-purpose approach provides you with
- Enhanced risk coverage over the lifecycle of your third-parties
- Near real-time risk monitoring of business critical third-parties
- Tools to identify and prioritize of your critical vendors
- Efficient resource allocation
- On-going monitoring and remediation based on risk prioritization
We provide tiered services to meet your individual needs that cover one or more of the following phases in a standard third-party assessment lifecycle
- Third-Party Prioritization
- Pre-Assesssment Support
- Assessment Reviews
- Findings & Recommendations
- Remediation Follow-up
- Continuous Monitoring
Consulting
Our flexible TPRM framework where you own the data is bolted on your existing program and GRC/TPRM tools implemented (such as RSA Archer, IBM Open Pages, Servicenow etc.) to manage third-party risks.
The following activities are performed as part of each phase of the third-party lifecycle:
Technology Enablement
To provide you with the best service experience, we have partnered with the industry leading third-party data providers like RiskRecon, RapidRatings, CyberGRX, BlackKite.
With our tool agnostic approach we enable you to get up and running with your TPRM program no matter if you are just starting out or have mature TPRM processes established.
We provide pre-built plug ‘n play TPRM solutions that you can leverage as is or as the first building block for automating your TPRM program lifecycle. Managed Services
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Health & Safety
Health & Safety
Establishing a good health and safety practice can be a real challenge. Between maintaining compliance at the administrative level and the physical application and testing of the established controls, you have your hands full.
Templar Shield provides a holistic view of health and safety covering risks, regulatory compliance, and incident investigations by leveraging leading GRC Platforms. We strive to collaborate with your ever-changing business landscape and expanding global workforce to ensure and build a safety culture. Our goal is to empower you to reduce your incident count to zero.
Shield Advantage
Our holistic approach provides your executive management insight into your health and safety practice and equips you with the tools you’ll need to interact seamlessly with regulators. With our extensive industry experience, we can better arm you with the capability to meet your compliance obligations and avoid regulatory scrutiny and fines.
Our Approach
Our Consultants can help you build a sustainable Health & Safety program to track and report EHS risks and compliance
Strategy
We aid you in building a fully-integrated health and saftey practice through use of GRC Platforms, allowing you to track everything from Risk to Incident Investigations in a singular location. With Health and Safety management, you can better understand your risk and compliance posture and automate your internal processes, helping you to focus on creating/maintaining a health and safety culture.
Consulting
We partner with you to assist with identification of any health and safety risk or compliance gaps, aggregation of incident and investigation data and implementation of a GRC Tool solution that is tailored to your needs. With our in-depth knowledge of leading GRC technology and industry expertise, Templar Shield can help you build a holistic and integrated health and safety program.
Technology Enablement
Templar Shield partners with you to assess your current Health and Safety program in order to build out a solution that fits your needs and allows for program maturity.
Managed Services
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Internal Audit
Internal Audit
The executive leadership expectations of internal audit are changing from being an independent assurance provider to a trusted advisor of the organization.
The role of internal audit executives turning out to be more complex than ever before because they are now caught up in between balancing their fiduciary function and the increasing expectations of the executive leadership i.e. seeking the advice of internal audit to align the organization’s resources with business strategy for driving growth.
Moreover, Internal audit executives are realizing that the traditional audit methods/techniques and the audit team composition and skillsets are no longer sufficient to catch up with dynamic shifts in the business landscape due to the increased proliferation of technology and identifying the need to bring agility in the audit function to conduct effective audits.
We have been helping Internal audit executives to meet the changing role expectations, in addition to the fiduciary function by helping them to implement a technology-driven internal audit program transformation.
Shield Advantage
Our internal audit technology transformation practice consists of seasoned internal audit professionals bringing the depth and breadth of audit transformation experience of working with organizations of varying maturity across-multiple sectors and varying regulatory oversight/requirements.
With Templar Shield, you can expect:
- seasoned professionals with multi-sector internal audit experience
- a technology-driven framework and approach to enable audit transformation
- toolkits to drive your internal audit transformation
- pre-built audit management solutions to address your program automation needs
- pre-built accelerators to enable integrations between audit management and enterprise source systems
How Can We Help
We have been developing tech-enabled futuristic audit models and solutions to bring the agility required to transform your internal audit function.
Strategy
- Audit transformation readiness assessment
- Technology enablement strategy and roadmap
Consulting
- Audit program support
Technology Enablement
- Audit technology selection
- Audit management solution implementation
Managed Services
- Audit technology platform maintenance and support
- Internal Audit support as a service
ESG
Environmental, Social, and Governance
With increasing awareness, organizations are realizing the impact of industrialization on climate change and taking appropriate measures to minimize their negative contribution to the environment. In addition, sovereigns across the world are now enacting various regulations to preserve the planet’s ecosystem.
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is one such global initiative born out of that increased awareness requiring organizations to implement appropriate measures and demonstrate their commitment to preserving planet earth today.
However, many organizations are finding it difficult to demonstrate commitment and compliance because historically they have adopted a siloed approach to fulfill their corporate social responsibilities and as a consequence, these initiatives were never integrated and completely stand out of the corporate environment.
Shield Advantage
We have been helping organizations to adopt a technology-driven approach to navigate thru the challenging regulatory environment and demonstrate commitment and ESG compliance.
With Templar Shield as your strategic partner, you can expect:
- an integrated framework to collect, analyze and report on your sustainability data across the organization
- assess and monitor the sustainability efforts of your supply-chain/third-party ecosystem
- leverage technology as a lever to implement a metric-driven approach to continuously monitor and report on ESG compliance
Our Approach
Our integrated approach will help you develop and implement a tech-enabled strategy and an integrated approach to sustain your ESG initiatives.
Advisory
- ESG technology readiness assessment, enablement strategy, and roadmap.
Consulting
- ESG framework
- ESG enterprise technology architecture
- ESG policies, controls, and program metrics
Technology Enablement
- ESG program use case development
- ESG technology evaluation and selection
- ESG solution development and implementation
Managed Services
- ESG tech platform maintenance as a Service
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Our Partners
We have partnered with leading GRC/IRM vendors with cutting-edge technology to provide best-in-class services and solutions to manage your risk and compliance program needs.
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