IT Governance, Risk, & Compliance

Managing risk in your organization’s technology ecosystem is getting more complicated, which leads to increased costs and time wasted on fixes instead of innovation.

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Business Benefits

IT GRC helps businesses strike the right balance between leveraging the benefits of technology and managing associated risks. It helps organizations align their IT activities with business objectives, manage IT-related risks effectively, and ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards. Implementing an IT GRC program can offer several business benefits: 

  • Enhanced Risk Management: With an IT GRC framework, organizations can identify, assess, and manage IT-related risks more effectively, reducing the likelihood of costly incidents and disruptions. 
  • Improved Compliance: A comprehensive IT GRC program ensures businesses stay compliant with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards. 
  • Stronger Data Security: Implementing security controls and measures reduces the risk of data breaches and unauthorized access. 
  • Increased Business Resilience: Ensure critical IT systems and processes can continue functioning even during adverse events. 
  • Enhanced Decision Making: IT GRC processes provide valuable information which enables informed decision-making, helping executives and stakeholders make strategic choices that align with business goals.

Common Challenges

Implementing and maintaining an effective IT GRC can be challenging for businesses. Some common challenges organizations face include:

  • Evolving Technology: The advancement of technology introduces new risks and challenges regularly. Organizations must continuously update their IT GRC practices to address emerging threats. 
  • Complex IT Environment: Modern businesses often have complex IT infrastructures with a mix of on-premises and cloud-based systems, making it challenging to maintain a holistic view of IT risks and compliance requirements. 
  • Lack of Awareness and Understanding: Many organizations struggle with the awareness and understanding of IT risks and compliance requirements. This can lead to inadequate risk assessments and ineffective controls. 
  • Resource Constraints: Implementing and managing an IT GRC program requires dedicated resources, including skilled personnel and technology. 
  • Balancing Security and Business Objectives: Striking a balance between strong security measures and enabling business agility can be difficult. Overly restrictive controls may impede business operations, while weak controls may expose the organization to higher risks.

Infinitive's Capabilities & Solutions

Capabilities

Infinitive brings a unique mix of experience across technology, risk management, and business transformation. Our solutions leverage each of these areas to drive comprehensive and effective solutions to secure your digital assets and remain compliant. Our capabilities include: 

  • Cloud Architecture and Governance Expertise: Infinitive’s brings deep and broad experience in cloud architecture and governance to clients for crafting robust, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructures. With certifications from AWS, Azure, and GCP, we navigate the intricacies of diverse cloud environments to meet your specific needs.
  • Risk Management Excellence: Count on our CRISC certified experts to steer your cloud strategy with meticulous risk management. We seamlessly integrate risk assessments and mitigation strategies, drawing from leading information security frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, ISO 27001) to fortify your cloud operations against potential vulnerabilities.
  • Data Privacy Expertise:  Infinitive provides guidance and solutions to navigate the intricate landscape of data privacy regulations. With a keen understanding of evolving compliance standards and extensive experience, we enable clients to safeguard sensitive information, establish robust privacy frameworks, and cultivate a culture of data protection.
  • Cloud Resiliency: Infinitive helps clients to protect cloud-based workloads against disruptions. We design and implement strategies to enhance and test application availability and scalability, enabling businesses to thrive in the dynamic cloud environment.
  • Developing Scalable & Sustainable Approaches: The best solution is the one that works. Drawing from industry best practices and over 20 years of experience in business transformation, Infinitive knows how to develop and implement effective cloud risk solutions that endure and can be scaled with the organization.  
Solutions
  • Cloud Risk & Controls Suite: A suite of solutions providing a structured approach to managing the risks associated with operating in the cloud, enabling organizations to harness the full potential of the cloud while safeguarding their data and operations. Learn more…
  • Data Privacy: Implement process, compliance, and risk management best practices to identify issues, provide greater visibility into data quality, and reduce overall risk through a scalable and adaptable framework. Learn More...
  • Governance Policies, Standards, and Procedures: Establish robust policies, standards, and procedures to govern cloud environments effectively, ensuring security, compliance, and optimal performance.
  • Information Security Framework Assessments: (e.g., NIST 800-53, ISO 27001) Conduct process, risk, and control assessments to identify and remediate security gaps.
  • Control Automation Assessment and Roadmaps: Identify opportunities for automation, to streamline processes and improve effectiveness to ensure compliance.
  • Cloud Resiliency Testing Maturity Program: Evaluate cloud resiliency testing efforts and create a roadmap to harden cloud workloads to ensure business continuity and protect against loss.

Contact an expert

Michael McCormick

  • 25+ years of Project/Program Management, 15+ years in PMO Executive Leadership
  • Program Executive for multiple Risk/Controls/Compliance initiatives at a Top 10 U.S. Bank (Resiliency, SDLC, Cloud, Cyber, Asset Management, Change Management, Identify and Access Management)
  • Former CIO in Consumer and Mortgage Lending

How We’ve Done it

Infinitive collaborates with our clients to bring about meaningful change. We know there is not a cookie-cutter approach to improving IT GRC. Frameworks and industry standards are a great place to start and have proven to be effective. Infinitive leverages innovative solutions to develop a path to improving IT GRC that will work in your organization. Our experience includes: Project Case Studies 

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Why Work With Infinitive

With over two decades of experience, Infinitive has established itself as a reliable partner for prominent enterprises across diverse sectors. Our mix of technological acumen, risk management proficiency, and transformation expertise sets Infinitive apart from others and enables us to bring impactful and comprehensive solutions to our clients.

Our accomplished experts seamlessly merge their extensive knowledge of cloud architecture and IT governance frameworks with adept change management strategies, resulting in enduring transformation while operating securely and compliant with industry standards and regulations (e.g., HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR and CCPA). 

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