Governance, Risk, and Compliance, operated as one program, not three binders.
Fortellar runs GRC as a unified, technology-enabled framework connecting accountability, frameworks like NIST RMF and HITRUST CSF, and continuous live evidence. Audits become simple formalities, giving your board real-time visibility into your security posture.
Failed audits aren't intentional. They're the product of scattered binders and outdated evidence.
Most organizations run Governance, Risk, and Compliance as three disconnected workstreams: a board that gets a quarterly slide, a risk register that lives in someone's laptop, and a compliance team scrambling for evidence the week before fieldwork. The auditor doesn't see three programs, they see one set of controls. So does your regulator, your customer, and your board.
Fortellar operates GRC as a single program built on the NIST Risk Management Framework (NIST 800-37), HITRUST CSF, and the OIG's Seven Elements of an Effective Compliance Program. One control set, one evidence base, one narrative, running quarter after quarter, instrumented for the technology environment your business actually operates in.
Three services: Ready, Sustain, Advise.
Most clients start at audit readiness when a deadline is visible, move to continuous compliance once the program is clean, and bring us in for regulatory advisory when the rules change under them.
Compliance Audit Readiness
A focused engagement targeting your specific audit or framework, including SOC 2, HITRUST, HIPAA, PCI, and NYDFS. We help you define scope, close gaps, build live evidence, and step into the audit knowing exactly what to expect.
Continuous Compliance
Run GRC as an ongoing program rather than an annual project. Domain owners manage their specific risks, real-time metrics capture compliance drift immediately, and one central evidence base satisfies all your reporting frameworks.
Regulatory Advisory
When rules change through new state laws, federal regulations, or customer requirements, we analyze the impact, translate what it means for your controls, and help you take action long before the deadline.
Three moments bring people here.
Each one has a different first step.
Find the sentence that sounds like your situation and start there.
An audit date is on the calendar
“The SOC 2 window opens in ten weeks and we don't know what we'd fail.”
A deadline turns every open gap into a finding. Remediation done inside the audit window costs more and still shows up in the report.
The program passes, then decays until next year
“We cleared the audit. Six months later nobody can find the evidence.”
Point-in-time compliance drifts the week after sign-off, and the next cycle reopens findings you already paid to close.
Working groups, live indicators, one evidence base that stays current.
A new rule just landed on your desk
“Legal sent us the new state law. What does it actually change for us?”
New obligations arrive with a date attached. Reading them late means rebuilding controls under time pressure instead of mapping them into the ones you have.
The rule read, translated into your controls, ahead of the enforcement date.
One operating model across the practice.
Whether we're running at a deadline, sustaining a program, or translating a new rule, the discipline is the same: one governed control set, live evidence, and a narrative you can defend.
Govern
Forum structure, executive sponsorship, and board-facing reporting, so risk is visible to the people who own the remediation decisions. Governance, risk, and compliance share one control set and one risk register from day one.
Scope
We align to the specific frameworks, auditors, and customer obligations you actually carry, mapped to NIST RMF and HITRUST CSF, not a generic checklist. Processes are prioritized and risk is categorized so effort lands where exposure is.
Diagnose
Consistent assessments and controls reviews that produce objective diagnostics, the kind that drive an accept, transfer, mitigate, or avoid decision rather than a list of generic findings.
Close
Real gaps get real remediation. Policy, control, and evidence built to the standard your auditor uses, not your consultant's template.
Monitor
A live evidence base on one secure platform, with KPIs, KRIs, and KCIs owned by the working groups closest to the work. Drift surfaces in the quarter it happens, and leadership reads one view instead of three.
Defend
We stay in the room when the auditor or regulator shows up. Program owners are trained, not left holding a binder.
What we report against, and where the evidence comes from.
The standards the program is mapped to
Controls are cross-mapped to every framework you carry, so one control set and one evidence base answer several audits instead of one each.
Where the evidence is collected
Evidence is pulled from the systems that already produce it, including the ones inherited through acquisition, rather than assembled by hand before fieldwork.
The expertise behind this practice.
GRC Program Design
One control set, one risk register, and one place a leader can look, designed by people who have run GRC functions inside regulated organizations.
See expertiseAudit Coordination & Mock Audits
A mock cycle before the real one, with sample sets prepared in the form fieldwork accepts, so the first test of a control is not by your auditor.
See expertiseEvidence Automation & AI
Collectors run on a schedule against your live systems, so a stale artifact shows up as a failed check rather than a surprise during fieldwork.
See expertiseLogging & Audit Trails
Evidence is easier to produce when the operation watching your estate is already collecting it, with retention aligned to the frameworks you carry.
See expertiseThe next audit isn't the problem. The six months of evidence you can't produce is.
Bring the framework, the deadline, or the new rule, we'll tell you what it takes to be ready.