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Last reviewed and updated | October 20, 2026

Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)

The policies, processes and technologies organizations use to align IT, privacy and cybersecurity with business objectives.

Glossary

Compliance
Control
Continuous controls monitoring (CCM)
Control effectiveness
Control coverage
Control mapping
Control gap
Finding
Traceability
Continuous assurance
Point-in-time audit
Compliance drift
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
Compliance
Cybersecurity
Frontier AI
AI-accelerated threat
Exposure management
Continuous threat exposure management (CTEM)
CVSS
Exposure scoring with business context
Asset criticality
Application owner attribution
Remediation validation
Zero-day vulnerability
AI governance
Risk prioritization
Exposure
CVE
Data Management
Entity resolution
Data lineage
Identity and Access
User access review (UAR)
Access certification
Entitlement
Identity governance and administration (IGA)
Disconnected application
Mainframe access review
Reviewer rubber-stamping
Joiner, mover, leaver
Access removal time
Non-human identity
Security Data Fabric
Security data fabric
Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)
Data federation

Why it matters

  • Gives programs a shared structure for managing risk and compliance.
  • Connects security and IT work to business objectives.

How it works

  • Policies
  • Risk assessment
  • Controls
  • Monitoring and reporting
  • Supporting technology