SECRATO PLATFORM
Compliance Engine
The Compliance Engine is where Secrato manages compliance activity across every framework you carry, with requirements, controls, evidence, policies and status held in one working environment. Because the work runs against a single set of controls, progress on one obligation is visible against all the others.
Where compliance work usually fragments
Most teams run compliance across spreadsheets, shared drives and separate tools, then rebuild the picture by hand before each audit. Different frameworks ask for similar controls and similar evidence, so the same work gets repeated framework by framework. When an auditor asks where a requirement stands, the answer is spread across several places at once. None of it adds up to a single, current view of where the organisation stands, which is the view leadership and auditors both ask for.
HOW IT WORKS
One control set, kept current and defensible
unified control library
One control set behind every framework
A control assessed once evidences the matching requirements across every framework an organisation carries, through the Unified Control Library. Overlapping obligations stop generating duplicate work, which is the difference the Compliance Engine is built around.
CONTINUOUS COMPLIANCE
A current picture between audits
Status is tracked against each control as the work is done, and a framework can carry a target maturity level so the controls that need attention surface on their own. The state of compliance stays current between audits rather than being reconstructed for each one.
traceability
A traceable, defensible record
Each control keeps the evidence, policies, procedures and risks behind it, together with its owner and review status. When a control is questioned, the record already shows what was done, who owns it, what supports it and when it was last reviewed.
CAPABILITIES
What you can do in the Compliance Engine
Track control status
Each control is recorded as compliant, non-compliant, pending action or not applicable against its control question.
Work from within a control
Evidence and policies can be created or linked from a control, and a control-side link can be approved or unlinked without deleting the underlying record.
Map items to controls with labels
Evidence and policy labels map an item to Unified Control Library controls, and evidence to the frameworks it serves; default labels ship pre-mapped.
Work from shared libraries
Workspace-wide libraries hold controls, evidence and policies, with summary counts and a central inventory of owners, dates and status.
Connect controls to risk
Each control links to the risks it treats, grouped by risk register.
Reflect assessment outcomes in risk
A control-to-risk link can carry the control’s assessment outcome, so a control’s state shows where the risk it treats is managed.
CONNECTED ENVIRONMENT
The Compliance Engine runs on the same records as the rest of the platform. A change made in one place shows up everywhere it counts.
Dashboards & Reporting
Compliance status, risk posture and audit readiness from the same records.
FRAMEWORK COVERAGE
One control set, more frameworks over time
The Compliance Engine works across every framework on Secrato’s confirmed coverage list, with controls mapped through the Unified Control Library rather than tracked one framework at a time. Because a control is assessed once and reused, taking on another framework draws on control work already recorded.
EU DATA SOVEREIGNTY
GRC data is processed on self-managed infrastructure in a Belgian datacentre, within the EU legal and regulatory environment.
Belgium · EU
Common questions
We carry several frameworks. Does the Compliance Engine mean managing each one separately?
No. Every framework runs against a single set of controls in the Unified Control Library, so a control assessed once evidences the matching requirements across the other frameworks an organisation carries. Overlapping obligations stop generating duplicate work, and taking on another framework draws on control work already recorded.
How does the Compliance Engine keep our compliance status current between audits?
Status is tracked against each control as the work is done rather than assembled before an audit. A framework can carry a target maturity level, so the controls sitting below it surface for attention on their own, and the state of compliance stays visible between audits instead of being reconstructed for each one.
When an auditor questions a control, what does the Compliance Engine show?
The control’s record. Each control keeps the evidence, policies, procedures and risks behind it, along with its owner and review status, so the record already shows what was done, who owns it, what supports it and when it was last reviewed.
See the Compliance Engine on your own frameworks
Frameworks accumulate and audits recur. Readiness that is maintained continuously holds up better than readiness rebuilt for each audit. Book a demo to walk through the Compliance Engine with your framework set and your controls.
