Advisory & Data Protection
Compliance, risk and supplier assurance run continuously through the Clarity portal — expert-managed subscriptions that replace the annual audit panic.
Every compliance team knows the cycle: months of quiet, then the audit date looms and everything stops for evidence-hunting, chasing and last-minute remediation. Controls drift unnoticed between assessments; risk registers go stale; supplier checks stop at onboarding and never resume. The problem isn't effort — it's the model. Managed GRC services fix it by treating governance, risk and compliance as a year-round operating rhythm instead of an annual event, so the same ground never has to be re-fought.
Blackfoot's managed GRC services replace that cycle with a subscription model: your compliance frameworks, risk register and supplier assessments live in Clarity, our GRC portal, and our consultants keep the work moving all year. It's not a software licence and it's not a one-off project — it's a managed service, with the platform, the structured process and the expert oversight delivered together as one subscription.
Three subscriptions make up the practice. Compliance as a Service keeps frameworks like PCI DSS, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, NIST CSF and GDPR continuously maintained — controls tracked, evidence collected year-round, recurring requirements reviewed with expert oversight. Risk Management as a Service keeps your risk register live, with structured assessments, treatment tracking and consultant-led reviews. Third-Party Risk Management does the same for supplier risk, from onboarding questionnaires through tiered ongoing assurance.
Each service shares the same structure: the Clarity module with unlimited users for your team, expert enablement to configure it around your frameworks and ways of working, and programme oversight — regular consultant-led sessions that review progress, challenge stalled actions and keep the programme honest. You stay accountable for your risk and compliance decisions; we make sure the process never goes quiet.
The payoff is compound. Evidence collected continuously means audit preparation shrinks from months to days. Risks reviewed regularly means treatment actually happens. Suppliers reassessed on a cadence means assurance you can show auditors, insurers and customers on demand. And because it's the same Blackfoot consultants who deliver our advisory work, a gap analysis or certification project can hand straight into its always-on counterpart without losing context.
It's worth being clear about what these subscriptions are not. They don't replace formal audits or certifications, they don't take your risk acceptance decisions for you, and they aren't first-time readiness programmes — that groundwork belongs with our advisory team. What they do is make every one of those events cheaper, calmer and more predictable, because the underlying programme never stopped running.
Compliance activity, risk reviews and supplier assessments run to a year-round rhythm, so nothing drifts between audit dates.
Consultant-led oversight sessions review progress, challenge stalled actions and keep momentum — a managed service, not a portal login and good luck.
Frameworks, risks, suppliers, evidence and tasks in a single portal with dashboards your leadership can read at a glance.
Clarity subscriptions include unlimited users for your team, so ownership can sit with the right people instead of a licensing budget.
Evidence collected and organised continuously means assessments start from a known-good position instead of a three-month scramble.
Start with one subscription and add frameworks, risk or supplier coverage as your obligations grow — same platform, same team.
We scope which services you need — compliance frameworks, risk management, supplier assurance — and the level of oversight that fits.
Our experts configure Clarity around your frameworks, control sets, scoring approach and responsibilities, and onboard your team.
Recurring activity happens on schedule: evidence collection, control tests, risk reviews, supplier reassessments — tracked as tasks with owners and dates.
Regular consultant-led sessions review progress, examine what's stalled and adjust priorities, keeping soft accountability on the programme.
Dashboards and organised evidence mean auditors, insurers, boards and customers get answers from live data, not archaeology.
Straight answers to what prospective clients ask us most.
Governance, risk and compliance delivered as an ongoing managed service rather than software you operate alone or projects that end. Blackfoot provides the Clarity platform, configures it around your frameworks, and our consultants keep the programme active with regular oversight sessions year-round.
No — the platform is the vehicle, not the service. Every subscription includes expert enablement and consultant-led oversight, because tools without a managed process become the same stale spreadsheet in nicer clothes. It's not a software licence.
No, and you shouldn't want that: accountability for risk acceptance and compliance stays with your organisation. What we take on is the process — making sure assessment, treatment, evidence and review actually happen, with expert challenge along the way.
Yes. Many clients begin with Compliance as a Service for a single framework, then add risk management or supplier assurance as the value proves itself. Everything runs in the same Clarity portal, so each addition compounds rather than fragments.
Managed GRC keeps a working programme healthy; it doesn't replace first-time readiness. If you're starting from scratch, our advisory team delivers the initial gap analysis or certification project, then hands into the subscription — same consultants, no lost context.
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