GRCOPILOT Insights

Insights, guidance and product updates on cybersecurity, GRC and compliance.

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Essential Eight evidence checklist: what to have ready for each strategy

Essential Eight evidence checklist: what to have ready for each strategy

A strategy-by-strategy list of the artefacts an assessor will ask for, what makes each one sufficient, and the evidence gaps that most often turn a working control into a failed requirement.

EU AI Act compliance checklist

EU AI Act compliance checklist

A step-by-step checklist: inventory your AI systems, fix your role, classify by risk tier, then work the requirements that attach. Includes the staged application dates and the obligations that already bite.

Secure release checklist: gates worth having in the pipeline

Secure release checklist: gates worth having in the pipeline

Security checks that run before a release only work if they are automated, fast and rarely wrong. Which gates earn their place, which belong earlier, and what to check before a significant deployment.

Pre-audit evidence checklist: what to assemble before fieldwork

Pre-audit evidence checklist: what to assemble before fieldwork

Audits go badly when evidence is assembled during them. What to gather in advance, what cannot be produced late, and the dry run that finds gaps while you can still fix them.

SaaS approval checklist: a review fast enough that people use it

SaaS approval checklist: a review fast enough that people use it

If approving a tool takes six weeks, teams stop asking. A tiered checklist that clears low-risk tools in a day and reserves real scrutiny for the ones that matter.

Mobile and BYOD security checklist

Mobile and BYOD security checklist

Phones hold mail, chat, MFA tokens and documents, and travel everywhere. A practical checklist for corporate and personal devices, including what you can and cannot do on a device you do not own.

NIS2 readiness checklist

NIS2 readiness checklist

Ten required measures, incident reporting inside 24 hours, and personal liability for management. A practical checklist for essential and important entities and their suppliers.

DORA readiness checklist for financial entities

DORA readiness checklist for financial entities

Five pillars, a register of information the regulator will ask for, and incident reporting on a clock shorter than most teams expect. A practical checklist of what must exist before you are asked.

Employee offboarding security checklist

Employee offboarding security checklist

The most sampled control in every audit, and the one most often incomplete. Everything to revoke, collect and confirm - including the systems that sit outside single sign-on.

Incident response readiness checklist: what to have before you need it

Incident response readiness checklist: what to have before you need it

Everything that must exist before an incident, because none of it can be arranged during one. Contacts, authority, tooling, retainers, evidence handling and the decisions to pre-agree.

Cloud migration security checklist: the decisions that are expensive to reverse

Cloud migration security checklist: the decisions that are expensive to reverse

Most cloud security problems are migration decisions that were never revisited - account structure, identity, logging, residency. A phased checklist covering what to settle before, during and after the move.

Vendor onboarding security checklist: from request to go-live

Vendor onboarding security checklist: from request to go-live

A step-by-step checklist for onboarding a supplier securely - triage, tiering, due diligence, contract terms, technical setup and the offboarding plan you should write before go-live.

NCA ECC checklist: what to have ready for self-assessment

NCA ECC checklist: what to have ready for self-assessment

A practical checklist for the Essential Cybersecurity Controls, organised by the four main domains - with the evidence that turns a "partially implemented" score into "implemented".

SOC 2 checklist: everything to have in place before fieldwork

SOC 2 checklist: everything to have in place before fieldwork

A working SOC 2 checklist organised by phase - scoping, policies, controls, evidence and the observation window - with the specific artefacts auditors sample most often.

GDPR compliance checklist: the practical version

GDPR compliance checklist: the practical version

A working GDPR compliance checklist - lawful basis, records of processing, data subject rights, DPIAs, breach notification and international transfers - with the obligations that carry the hardest deadlines flagged.

ISO 27001 checklist: every step from scoping to certification

ISO 27001 checklist: every step from scoping to certification

A complete, practical ISO 27001 implementation checklist - the mandatory documents, the risk work, the Annex A controls and the audit stages - so you can see exactly what certification requires before you commit.