SUSAN Global Compliance & Trust helps organizations connect cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, risk and audit activities into one continuous assurance workflow.
Modern organizations often need to manage multiple frameworks at the same time, including ISO 27001, GDPR, India DPDP Act, NIS2, DORA, CIS Controls and EU AI Act. Without a unified compliance view, teams may duplicate evidence collection, miss control gaps, delay remediation and struggle to prove audit readiness.
Global Compliance & Trust helps security, privacy, GRC, audit and leadership teams map obligations, track controls, manage evidence and understand compliance status across frameworks.
What Is SUSAN Global Compliance & Trust?
SUSAN Global Compliance & Trust is a SUSAN module capability focused on framework mapping, control visibility, evidence management and audit readiness. It helps organizations manage compliance as an ongoing operational workflow rather than a last-minute audit activity.
The module supports:
Framework mapping
Control mapping
Compliance gap tracking
Evidence visibility
Audit readiness
Risk ownership
Remediation tracking
Continuous Assurance
Leadership reporting
Continuous Monitoring & Evidence
Why Global Compliance & Trust Matters
Organizations often operate across multiple regulations, standards, customer requirements and internal policies.
Common challenges include:
Control owners not clearly assigned
Poor leadership visibility into compliance posture
Duplicate evidence requested for multiple frameworks
Manual audit preparation
Weak visibility into control gaps
Delayed remediation tracking
Compliance evidence spread across emails, spreadsheets and shared folders
Difficulty proving continuous compliance
Global Compliance & Trust helps reduce these issues by giving teams a more structured way to map frameworks, connect evidence and track compliance progress.
Framework Mapping
Framework mapping helps organizations align controls and evidence across multiple compliance obligations.
SUSAN Global Compliance & Trust can support visibility across frameworks and regulatory areas such as:
ISO 27001
GDPR
India DPDP Act
NIS2
DORA
CIS Controls
EU AI Act
The purpose of framework mapping is to help teams understand which controls support which obligations, where evidence is already available and where gaps remain.
Unified Control Model
Many frameworks share similar control expectations across access control, incident response, data protection, risk management, governance, vendor oversight and audit evidence.
A unified control model helps reduce duplicate work by connecting related requirements to common controls.
For example:
Access control evidence may support ISO 27001, GDPR, DPDP and SOC-related expectations.
Incident response evidence may support ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA and breach readiness.
Vendor risk evidence may support DPDP, GDPR, DORA and supply chain governance.
Security monitoring evidence may support ISO 27001, NIS2 and cyber resilience requirements.
This helps compliance teams avoid managing every framework in isolation.
Compliance Gap Tracking
Compliance gaps appear when controls are missing, incomplete, outdated or not evidenced.
SUSAN Global Compliance & Trust helps teams track:
Missing controls
Weak evidence
Expired evidence
Overdue remediation
Unassigned control owners
Framework-specific gaps
Repeated audit findings
Control effectiveness concerns
This supports better prioritization and clearer ownership.
Audit Readiness
Audit readiness means the organization can show that controls are not only documented but operating in practice.
SUSAN Global Compliance & Trust supports audit readiness by helping teams organize evidence, track control ownership and maintain visibility across compliance requirements.
Audit-ready evidence may include:
Policies
Risk assessments
Access reviews
Control review notes
Vendor assessments
Security monitoring evidence
Data protection evidence
Remediation records
Incident response records
Compliance dashboards
Continuous Compliance
Compliance should not only happen during audit season.
SUSAN Global Compliance & Trust supports continuous compliance by helping organizations maintain ongoing visibility into control status, evidence freshness, remediation actions and framework alignment. This helps teams move from periodic compliance checks to Continuous Assurance.
Global Compliance & Trust Control Map
| Compliance Area | Common Problem | SUSAN Support |
|---|---|---|
| Framework mapping | Requirements are managed separately across frameworks | Map obligations and controls across multiple frameworks |
| Control ownership | Control owners are unclear or not tracked | Assign and review ownership for controls and remediation |
| Evidence management | Evidence is scattered across tools and folders | Organize evidence for audit readiness |
| Gap tracking | Compliance gaps are discovered late | Track missing controls, weak evidence and overdue actions |
| Audit preparation | Audit work becomes manual and last minute | Maintain audit-ready visibility continuously |
| Leadership reporting | Executives lack a clear compliance view | Provide compliance, risk and remediation visibility |
| Continuous assurance | Compliance is point-in-time | Support Continuous Monitoring & Evidence and continuous compliance workflows |
Who Uses Global Compliance & Trust?
SUSAN Global Compliance & Trust is useful for teams responsible for compliance, security, privacy, audit and executive reporting.
Primary users include:
CISOs
DPOs
GRC teams
SOC leaders
Audit teams
Cloud security teams
Risk managers
Compliance managers
Privacy teams
Executive leadership
These teams use the module to improve visibility into controls, risks, evidence, remediation and audit readiness.
How Global Compliance & Trust Supports Leadership
Leadership needs a clear view of cybersecurity and compliance risk.
Global Compliance & Trust helps leadership understand:
Which frameworks are in scope
Which controls are operating
Which risks affect audit readiness
Which gaps need attention
Which remediation actions are overdue
Whether compliance posture is improving
Which areas need investment
This helps turn compliance from a manual reporting exercise into a measurable governance activity.
How Global Compliance & Trust Connects with SUSAN
Global Compliance & Trust works with other SUSAN capabilities including AI Risk Scoring, Unified GRC Dashboard, Continuous Monitoring & Evidence, Evidence Management and Continuous Assurance.
Together, these capabilities help organizations connect:
Control mappings
Evidence records
Leadership visibility
Risk scoring
Remediation ownership
Framework requirements
Audit-ready reporting
This supports a more connected cybersecurity, privacy and GRC operating model.
Global Compliance & Trust Readiness Checklist
Use this checklist to assess whether your compliance program is ready for continuous assurance:
- Are all applicable frameworks documented?
- Are controls mapped to each framework?
- Are control owners assigned?
- Is evidence linked to controls?
- Is evidence freshness reviewed?
- Are compliance gaps tracked?
- Are remediation actions assigned and monitored?
- Are audit findings reviewed and closed?
- Can leadership see compliance status?
- Can teams reuse evidence across frameworks?
- Are privacy, security and GRC teams working from the same view?
- Is compliance monitored continuously rather than only before audits?
If several answers are no, the organization may need stronger Global Compliance & Trust visibility.
FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers
SUSAN Global Compliance & Trust is a SUSAN module capability that helps organizations map frameworks, track controls, manage evidence, identify compliance gaps and support audit readiness.
Global Compliance & Trust can support visibility across frameworks and regulations such as ISO 27001, GDPR, India DPDP Act, NIS2, DORA, CIS Controls and EU AI Act.
Framework mapping connects regulatory or standard requirements to controls, evidence and ownership so teams can understand what is covered and where gaps remain.
It helps organize evidence, track control ownership, monitor gaps and maintain compliance visibility so teams can prepare for audits more efficiently.
Continuous compliance means monitoring control status, evidence, remediation and framework alignment on an ongoing basis instead of only preparing before audits.
It helps leadership see compliance posture, control gaps, remediation progress, audit readiness and risk ownership in a more structured way.
Global Compliance & Trust connects framework mapping and control visibility with Continuous Monitoring & Evidence so compliance activity can be supported by ongoing evidence and assurance workflows.
Global compliance requires more than policies and spreadsheets. Organizations need framework mapping, evidence visibility, control ownership, remediation tracking and audit-ready reporting.
Explore SUSAN Global Compliance & Trust to improve compliance visibility, audit readiness and Continuous Assurance across cybersecurity, privacy and GRC workflows.
