Solutions

Regulated organisations

Maintain a defensible record where the question is not only what you did, but how you can prove it.

What this solution solves

In a regulated environment the standard of proof is higher. It is not enough to operate a control well; the organisation must be able to demonstrate, after the fact, who was accountable, what was decided and on what basis.

Evidence must survive scrutiny

Artefacts need provenance, dates and a reviewer, not just a file name.

Decisions must be attributable

Risk acceptance and scope exclusions require a named decision-maker.

Multiple oversight audiences

Regulators, internal audit, boards and customers each ask differently.

Change must be governed

Undocumented change is the most common source of findings.

How NOVA helps

Accountability cannot be delegated to software. NOVA supports the readiness decision. Final launch and risk decisions remain human decisions.

Reviewed evidence with retained provenance
Explicit risk acceptance records
Policy approval history per version
Auditor Portal for scoped external review

Workflow

A practical path

Establish the governance record

Controls, policies and risks carry named owners, approval history and review dates.

Enforce reviewed evidence

Evidence counts only after a person validates it against the control expectation.

Record decisions explicitly

Acceptance, exclusion and treatment are recorded actions with accountable people.

Report to each audience

Produce the view each oversight audience needs from the same underlying record.

Implementation

What the rollout looks like

Establish

Define scope, ownership and the evidence standard the organisation will hold itself to.

Operate

Run control testing, evidence review and risk cycles on a fixed cadence.

Demonstrate

Use scoped auditor access and reporting for each oversight audience.

NOVA supports the readiness decision. Final launch and risk decisions remain human decisions.

Frameworks

Relevant frameworks

ISO/IEC 27001

The international standard for an information security management system, certified by an accredited body.

SOC 2

Service organisation reporting against the Trust Services Criteria, used widely in enterprise procurement.

ISO/IEC 42001

The management system standard for artificial intelligence, covering governance of AI systems across their lifecycle.

Capabilities

Capabilities that matter most

Controls and control testing

Define what each control is expected to do, who owns it, how often it is tested, and whether the last test passed.

Risk management

Record risks with owners, assess them consistently, assign treatment, and capture acceptance as an explicit decision.

Auditor Portal

Give auditors and assessors scoped access to the evidence for an engagement, with requests and findings tracked in one workflow.

Next steps

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