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ROAR Quarter 1 Updates:
Key Innovations:
- Custom Dashboards and Views: Dive into a world of data at your fingertips, with the new drag-and-drop functionality, expanded download options, custom colors, and new chart types.
- Elevate Your Risk Management: Utilize Custom Risk Objects and Risk Registers to integrate risk management practices deeper into your business strategy, allowing for precise risk analysis and robust mitigation strategies.
- Policy Approvals: This new workflow is designed to automate policy approvals. You can schedule tasks to start on a future date and set up a recurring schedule, complete with automatic notifications, escalations, and dynamic due dates!
- Automated Gap Analysis: Get a clear picture of your cybersecurity controls against new compliance frameworks with our automated gap analysis tool. Our comprehensive backend automation reveals how your controls match up with any other SCF-supported framework, giving you a reliable estimate of your existing coverage.
- Control Assessments: Utilize control assessments to evaluate how effective a control is in satisfying all mapped requirements. Aligning controls with the underlying business objects and applicable requirements solidifies an organization's compliance and security posture.
Technical Advancements:
- Security Scorecard & GitHub Custom Fetchers: Starting with Security Scorecard and GitHub, we expanded our suite of integrations to include Custom Fetchers. Fetchers introduce a targeted approach to data collection, focusing on precision, enhanced security, and unmatched scalability.
- AI Authoring Assistant: Using information about each Framework combined with our internal expertise in GRC, we’re leveraging the power of Artificial Intelligence to provide tailored implementation descriptions, ensuring controls are well-documented and properly written to satisfy applicable requirements.
- Expanded Jira Integration: Our Jira connector now supports Jira Data Center, broadening our integration capabilities. In addition, the connection process for Jira Cloud was streamlined to improve the user experience.
User-Centric Additions:
- Streamlined Evidence Management: Our latest updates make gathering, accessing, and reusing evidence more intuitive than ever before, ensuring consistency and eliminating the need to repeatedly collect the same evidence for various audits.
- Evolution in Evidence Handling: We've introduced editing capabilities right within the evidence library, along with advanced search functionalities to swiftly pinpoint the exact piece of evidence you need.
- Elevated Task Management: Assignees and Owners can now update tasks directly via email, streamlining communication and ensuring the ROAR system stays up to date without the need to log in.
- Customize and Save Your Views: No more resetting your list view every time you navigate away. With 'My Views', you can now save your customized settings on business objects, including column visibility, order, width, filters, and sorting.
- Reference Controls: Access an internal library of Secure Controls Framework (SCF) controls to explore detailed information about each control.
Miscellaneous Enhancements:
- Rich Text Comments and @ Mentions: Communicate more effectively with our new commenting capabilities. The rich text functionality and @mentions foster clear, collaborative discussions directly linked to your workflows.
- Streamlined Navigation (Left-Hand Navigation Update): Our updated navigation interface aligns perfectly with your primary workflows, offering an intuitive experience that simplifies the management of your GRC activities.
- Enhanced Task Management (Task List Grid Update): Manage your tasks with unprecedented ease thanks to our improved task list grid, now with powerful searching and sorting that puts you in control.
- Workflow Updates: To reduce the number of automatic notifications and to increase customization, we are no longer creating automatic tasks by default for evidence review and implementation assessments. Instead, we’ve empowered organization admins to choose when these tasks should be created and sent out to other platform users.
In summary, Q1 of 2024 was a period of rapid-innovation and solution enhancements, making risk management and compliance not only more efficient but also more integrated and customizable to specific organizational needs.
ZenGRC Quarter 1 Updates:
Notable Updates:
- Questionnaire Scoring: Elevate your questionnaire analysis with our new Answer Scoring feature. This addition brings a structured and color-coded evaluation system directly into the questionnaire response table, allowing for an intuitive and immediate assessment of each response.
Integration and Management:
- Bidirectional Sync for Attachments and Comments: Attachments and comments between Jira and ZenConnect now sync in both directions, ensuring seamless communication and documentation flow.
- Enhanced "Tasks" and “Risks” Integration: Synchronize both standard and custom attributes, and manage "Requests," "Risks," and "Tasks" with bidirectional creation, deletion, and synchronization between Jira and ZenConnect.
Enhancements for Efficiency:
- Introducing 'Request' as a New Workflow Object Type: Dive into even more customization with the ability to add "Request" as an object type in the "Object" dropdown for Workflow Steps. This enhancement allows for greater flexibility and specificity in managing your workflow tasks, allowing you to add workflows when Request transition to Complete, Review, or Submit statues.
- New Workflow Action - Send Email: Say hello to seamless communication with our 'Send Email' action! Automate your workflow communications with custom templated emails. This new feature enables you to trigger emails for any workflow action, perfectly blending efficiency with user engagement. Whether it's status updates, reminders, or follow-ups, keep your team informed and connected with ease.
- Elevated Task Management: Assignees can now update tasks directly via email, streamlining communication and ensuring ZenGRC stays up to date without the need to log in.
User Experience Focused:
- Default Homepage is Now Audit! To enhance your ZenGRC navigation experience, we've updated the default homepage to focus on audits, placing critical oversight at the forefront of your entry into the platform. Users with previously set custom homepages will see no change, ensuring your tailored ZenGRC experience remains intact.
- Enhanced Group Filtering: When filtering by owner, you can now include groups, providing a more comprehensive view of risk ownership across different segments of your organization.
ZenGRC's updates in Q1 of 2024 underscore its dedication to evolving with user needs, enhancing flexibility, integration, and overall user experience in the GRC arena.
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