Description
From Security Compliance to Continuous Trust Assurance
Executive Summary
Trust has become a business requirement that must be proven continuously, not claimed periodically. Customers, regulators, partners, auditors, boards, and executive teams increasingly expect organizations to demonstrate that security, compliance, privacy, resilience, and operational controls are not only documented, but functioning in practice. Yet many organizations still manage assurance through fragmented evidence repositories, manual screenshots, spreadsheet trackers, email follow-up, disconnected control owners, and audit preparation cycles that surge only when a deadline approaches. This creates a widening gap between what the organization believes it can prove and what it can actually demonstrate at any given moment. As obligations multiply across frameworks, jurisdictions, customers, and business units, organizations need a more disciplined operating model for trust: one that connects risks, controls, evidence, ownership, monitoring, validation, and reporting into a living architecture of continuous assurance.
GRC 20/20 evaluated Strike Graph as a next-generation trust assurance and security compliance platform that enables organizations to move beyond fragmented, manual, and reactive compliance processes toward structured, auditable, and scalable continuous assurance. Through demonstrations, strategy discussions, supporting solution materials, and client reference calls across manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, roadside assistance, and software environments, GRC 20/20 found that Strike Graph provides the control-centric architecture, multi-framework mapping, evidence management, automated reminders, dashboard visibility, internal audit support, federated compliance capabilities, and emerging AI-assisted evidence validation required to operationalize trust assurance at enterprise scale. Strike Graph’s ability to support frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-171, CMMC, HIPAA, PCI, TISAX, NIS2, and related requirements within a unified control-and-evidence model positions it as more than a security compliance tool. GRC 20/20’s analysis concludes that Strike Graph enables organizations to make trust executable by embedding controls, evidence, accountability, monitoring, and audit readiness into day-to-day business operations, improving efficiency and confidence, reducing reliance on manual coordination, and helping security, compliance, audit, risk, and business leaders sustain continuous trust assurance with greater structure, scalability, and resilience.
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Table of Contents
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The New Landscape of Trust, Risk, and Compliance
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From Point-in-Time Compliance to Living Assurance
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Extending Trust Across the Business Ecosystem
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Strike Graph
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From Security Compliance to Continuous Trust Assurance
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Strike Graph Client Experiences
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Continuous Trust Assurance in a Control-and-Evidence Architecture
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Benefits Organizations Have Received with Strike Graph
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Considerations in Context of Strike Graph Continuous Trust Assurance
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About GRC 20/20 Research, LLC
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Research Methodology
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