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GRC Tools Help Manage Regulations
by Diana Kelley & Ed Moyle
Issue: Jun 2008
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Modulo's Strengths
Risk Manager allows enterprises to categorize themselves into one or more "organizations" that are represented by a tree view in the client. It auto-populates this view by importing information from a variety of sources, such as Active Directory, asset spreadsheets/ databases and manual entries.

Its real power lies in its ability to categorize every asset in the organization--processes, applications, technical components and facilities--associate a risk level to each, and keep track of the controls that ar...



e implemented on an asset-by-asset basis. The tool also facilitates keeping track of personnel associated with the assets and threats to it.

Risk information is collected using one or more questionnaires applicable to different assets, based on their categorization. For example, data centers can be assigned one or more data center-specific questionnaires to appropriate personnel. Risk Manager gathers information about all the assets in a particular scope and quantifies the associated risk, keeping track of controls' status on an asset-by-asset basis.


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