Risk Controls & Policies Module
Control and Policy Management Software for ISO 27001, Risk Control and Compliance
A fully customisable platform to manage, assess, and monitor risk controls and policies across your organisation. Built for ISO 27001 compliance, with one-click Statement of Applicability, real-time updates, and seamless integration into your risk ecosystem.
From only £100 per module/month for unlimited users*
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Collaborative Risk Management
A Connected Controls and Policies Platform Built for Real Risk Management
Effective control and policy management software gives organisations a single, centralised platform to create, test, and monitor their risk controls, replacing outdated spreadsheets and manual processes, giving you confidence that your controls program is managing risk effectively.
With Symbiant, you can prove control effectiveness, simplify ISO 27001 certification, and reduce audit stress by linking controls directly to risks, incidents, and policies. Automated assessments, one-click Statements of Applicability, and real-time reporting ensure your teams stay compliant, accountable, and confident in every decision.
At Symbiant, we view controls as measures designed to reduce the likelihood of risks occurring and/or minimise their impact if they do occur.. Effective control monitoring allows you to:
- Maintain accurate, trustworthy risk data
- Identify weaknesses and failures early
- Demonstrate compliance to regulators
- Reduce risk through timely action and automation
GRC Risk Management
A Single Source of Truth for Controls, Risks, and Policies
Built to simplify control management and strengthen risk oversight, these features give you the visibility, automation, and connectivity needed to manage controls effectively at scale.
Centralised Policy Management
Centralise Policies for Smarter Control Management
Attach policies directly to each control for easy access, better organisation, and structured compliance. Create logical groupings to simplify management, audits, and updates across your organisation.
Control Visibility & Prioritisation
Identify and Manage Active & Key Controls
Quickly identify critical controls and monitor their status in real time. The built-in active switch automatically responds to failed assessments, giving you immediate visibility and stronger control over your risk posture.
Connected GRC Ecosystem
Seamless Module Integration
Connect controls with other Symbiant modules to enhance visibility and efficiency. Perform Risk Control Self-Assessments (RCSA) through Questionnaires, and link directly to the Risk Register to support control effectiveness reporting and dynamic risk scoring.
Single Source of Truth
Unify Risks, Incidents, and Controls
Link controls to associated risks and incidents to gain a complete, connected view of your risk landscape. This enables real-time updates, improved decision-making, and stronger risk control alignment.
Automation & Alerts
Automated Notifications and Reminders
Stay informed without manual follow-ups. Automated email alerts notify teams of changes, while reminders ensure assessments and actions are completed on time—reducing delays and missed tasks.
Flexible & Scalable Configuration
Fully Customisable to Your Organisation
Adapt the system to your processes, terminology, and methodology. From layouts to workflows, Symbiant is designed to fit your organisation—not the other way around.
SYMBIANT AI ASSISTANT
Empowering Risk Managers with
Optional AI-Assisted Precision
Symbiant AI Assistant is fully integrated and trained on real-world risk, audit, and compliance challenges. It surfaces hidden threats and unidentified risks, identifies root causes, and predicts the consequences of control failures, showing how risks may cascade and where vulnerabilities exist. It connects your data securely.
Starting from just £100/month*
Unlimited users. Unlimited requests.
Streamlined Risk Management with Symbiant AI
Symbiant AI connects all relevant data across departments, functions, and modules within your organisation. It automatically links risks to business objectives and audit processes, uncovers root causes, and predicts consequences to deliver a unified, actionable risk view.
Actionable Insights with Symbiant AI
Generate detailed reports with AI-powered recommendations for controls, root causes, and consequences, enabling accurate, data-driven decisions. Audit teams can effortlessly review a specific entity and instantly access all connected risks, saving valuable time.
Beyond scoring risks, Symbiant AI delivers deep insights into their causes and the potential impacts of control failures.
Maximise Time Efficiency
Symbiant AI Predicts & Protects
Ensure Privacy and Security
Symbiant’s AI-Powered Assistant is fully GDPR-compliant and built to protect your privacy. It does not collect or store your data. Instead, it creates a temporary cache folder to fulfil each query and immediately deletes the information once the task is complete.
Your data always stays securely within your environment, giving you full control and peace of mind while benefiting from AI assisted insights.
Symbiant Enterprise Risk Management Platform
Risk Controls and Policies Software That Connects the Dots Across Your GRC Framework
Gain full oversight of your controls by linking them to risks, incidents, and policies. With flexible assessments, real-time deactivation, and deep reporting capabilities, Symbiant empowers you to identify what’s working, fix what’s not, and maintain a resilient control environment backed by data.
Complete Control Visibility
The Symbiant Controls and Policies module gives you a centralised space to manage and assess all your organisation’s internal controls and policies.
As with all Symbiant modules, the layout is fully customisable to suit your specific requirements.
You can mark controls as Key or Active, with built-in logic that automatically deactivates a control if it fails an assessment, keeping your risk data current and accurate.
Connected Control Management
Understand how every control impacts your risk landscape.
Easily see which risks each control is linked to, and whether it reduces their likelihood or impact. View related incidents directly within the control to gain valuable context when reviewing performance or making updates.
Attach supporting documents and policies to each control, creating a complete and auditable record with full traceability.
Automated Control Testing and Assessment
Move beyond manual testing with structured, repeatable control assessments.
Schedule questionnaires to regularly test control effectiveness. If a control fails, it can be automatically deactivated, with real-time updates applied to linked risk scores—ensuring your risk profile always reflects current conditions.
Control Effectiveness Reporting
Identify which controls deliver the most value to your organisation.
By linking controls to risks, Symbiant enables detailed Control Effectiveness Reports that highlight high-impact controls and quantify the level of risk reduction they provide. This insight supports better decision-making and prioritisation.
Action Tracking and Remediation Management
Ensure every control issue is addressed with clear ownership and accountability.
Log control reviews, assign remedial actions with due dates, and track progress through to completion. Assignees can provide updates and attach supporting evidence, creating a transparent and audit-ready record.
RCSA and Real-Time Monitoring
Monitor control performance continuously with built-in Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSA).
Track both key and sub-controls in real time using interactive dashboards and automated notifications. By linking controls to risks, you gain immediate visibility into changes in your organisation’s risk exposure.
Agile Risk Management That Scales With You
Built for ISO 27001 and Regulatory Compliance
Ensure your controls framework aligns with recognised standards and stands up to audit scrutiny.
Symbiant Controls & Policies Software is designed to support ISO 27001 and broader regulatory requirements, giving you the structure, evidence, and visibility needed to demonstrate compliance with confidence. From control definition through to testing and reporting, every step is documented, traceable, and audit-ready.
- One-Click Statement of Applicability – Instantly generate your ISO 27001 SoA with linked controls and supporting evidence
- RCSA Support – Perform structured Risk and Control Self-Assessments to validate control effectiveness
- Evidence-Based Audits – Maintain a complete audit trail with linked documentation, assessments, and reviews
- Continuous Assurance – Monitor controls in real time with automated testing, alerts, and updates
Risk Management Software
Controls and Policies Software for Risk Management – Automate Testing, Ensure ISO 27001 Compliance, Strengthen Audit Readiness, and Build Business Resilience
How to build a controls management framework that strengthens risk management, improves compliance with iso 27001, supports audit readiness, enhances business resilience, and integrates seamlessly with your enterprise risk management system
FAQ
Common Questions About Symbiant’s Risk Controls and Policies Module
Explore answers to the most asked questions about Symbiant’s GRC and Audit Management software with an optional AI-Assistant, from features and benefits to pricing and integration.
What is the Symbiant Controls and Policies Software?
The Symbiant Controls and Policies Software allows you to centrally manage and assess your organisation’s controls and policies. It supports individual users and teams in managing risks effectively and simplifies compliance with ISO 27001, including one-click generation of the Statement of Applicability.
You can customise the layout to capture exactly the data you need, mark controls as key or active, and automatically deactivate controls if they fail an assessment. The module links to questionnaires for regular control testing, and failed tests can dynamically adjust the residual risk scores of associated risks.
Users can log reviews, assign remedial actions with due dates, and track progress with supporting documentation. You can also link controls to relevant risks, policies, and reported incidents. Control Effectiveness Reports show how much risk reduction each control provides, helping you understand and prioritise control value.
Does the system provide reporting on control effectiveness?
Yes. The control effectiveness report will show you the most valuable controls and how much of a reduction they provide for each risk. This is a useful report to help determine the value of each control.
Why risk controls are essential for effective risk management, compliance, and protecting your organisation from threats
Risk controls are the foundation of every strong risk management framework. They act as the mechanisms that identify, limit, reduce, or modify risks, protecting organisations from operational, financial, information security, and reputational threats. Effective controls and policies management not only mitigates the likelihood of risks occurring but also minimises their impact when they do. Without a structured controls management framework, businesses leave themselves vulnerable to ISO 27001 compliance failures, audit readiness gaps, regulatory breaches, and costly business disruptions.
What Are the Different Types of Risk Controls?
Risk controls are typically categorised into four main types, each designed to manage risk at different stages:
- Preventive controls – Stop risks from occurring (e.g. access controls, approvals)
- Detective controls – Identify issues when they happen (e.g. monitoring, alerts)
- Corrective controls – Fix issues after they occur (e.g. remediation actions)
- Directive controls – Guide behaviour through policies and procedures
Using a combination of these control types ensures a balanced, proactive risk management framework, aligned with ISO 31000 and ISO 27001.
How Can You Ensure Controls Remain Effective?
Maintaining effective controls requires continuous monitoring, testing, and improvement—not a one-time setup.
Organisations should:
- Regularly review controls to ensure they remain relevant
- Perform automated control testing to validate effectiveness
- Track and assign actions to resolve control failures
- Continuously align controls with risks and incidents
By embedding these practices into daily operations, organisations can achieve continuous assurance, audit readiness, and stronger compliance outcomes.
What aspects of risk does a control modify?
In risk management, risks are typically assessed based on two core characteristics: likelihood (the probability of an event occurring) and impact (the severity of the outcome if it does occur). A risk control works by modifying one or both of these dimensions.
For example:
A bicycle lock reduces the likelihood of theft by acting as a deterrent.
A disaster recovery plan reduces the impact of a system outage by restoring services quickly.
Another often-overlooked aspect is risk velocity, the speed at which a risk develops from cause to consequence. A control such as a bilge pump on a sinking ship does not prevent the risk but slows its velocity, giving people time to respond and mitigate damage.
Pricing Disclaimer
Risk Control Self Assessment – RCSA
Learn about the importance of risk and control self-assessment and how Symbiant’s risk management software can help you implement a successful RCSA program.
Want to know more about risk and control self-assessment? Symbiant offers a comprehensive and advanced control management module that allows you to monitor in real-time, Controls and policies with dashboards with email notifications.
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