Who’s Accountable: Clarifying Ownership Across Tools, Auditors, and Broadgrail
There’s often confusion between tools, auditors, and operators. That confusion becomes risk when no one is accountable for integrating those components into a functioning program.
Broadgrail exists to close that gap. We operate the function. We provide leadership, implementation, and continuity across cybersecurity and compliance domains. Without that, most firms end up with uncoordinated activities, unclear responsibility, and systems that look compliant until tested.
We implement and manage the platform as part of your security and compliance program. We coordinate the audit. But most importantly, we operate the system that aligns both with regulatory, investor, and business requirements.
Where the Platform Stops—and Leadership Begins
We deploy and manage the compliance automation platform on your behalf. It’s a powerful tool for evidence collection, control monitoring, access management, and posture reporting. But on its own, it’s incomplete.
The platform reports what’s configured. It doesn’t determine what should be configured. It doesn’t set the system boundary, interpret control applicability, or resolve conflicting requirements across frameworks. It doesn’t distinguish between critical risk and procedural noise.
We do. We govern the platform’s implementation in your environment, align it to your scope, and ensure that what it reports is complete, material, and mapped to actual audit or regulatory standards. Without this oversight, the tool produces activity—not outcomes.
What the Auditor Does—and What They Expect
An auditor’s role is to independently assess whether your stated controls are designed and operating effectively. They do not help you design your program, define your boundaries, or prepare your environment for fieldwork.
We do.
Broadgrail manages audit readiness: gap analysis, remediation tracking, evidence validation, scope documentation, and audit liaison. We ensure your program is not only operating but defensible—and that the materials submitted withstand external testing.
You don’t achieve a clean opinion because software says you’re “green.” You achieve it because someone ensured that every control you’re relying on is actually implemented, monitored, and provable.
How Broadgrail Defines—and Operates—Your Security and Compliance Program
Broadgrail doesn’t just operate your cybersecurity and compliance program—we design it.
We align your policies, controls, and evidence collection strategy with your risk profile, operating model, and external obligations. We translate frameworks like SOC 2 and HITECH into a program that fits how your organization works.
This requires interpretation: what belongs in scope, what can be compensated, and what needs to be elevated to executive attention. We work with your leadership to make those decisions, then implement and enforce them.
When the system is tested—by auditors, insurers, or investor diligence teams—we’re the ones responsible for ensuring it holds up.
What Broadgrail Owns
We provide the capability that neither tools nor auditors deliver:
- Program leadership. We define, operate, and update your cybersecurity and compliance functions.
- Control enforcement. We implement and monitor controls across cloud platforms, identity systems, endpoints, and SaaS.
- Posture management. We manage continuous risk scoring and maturity assessment across your environment.
- Audit facilitation. We coordinate directly with your auditors to prepare system descriptions, documentation, and scope clarifications.
- Evidence integrity. We ensure what’s collected is relevant, traceable, and accurate—not just complete.
In many client environments, Broadgrail replaces the need to build and manage an internal security function.
What Remains Yours to Direct
We don’t set your business strategy or risk appetite. You do. But we ensure your controls, tooling, and reporting accurately reflect that strategy—and are enforced consistently.
When something is ambiguous—scope decisions, policy exceptions, third-party risks—we raise the issue, explain the tradeoffs, and document the resolution. You make the call. We make it work.
Why Broadgrail Is Essential
If you’re asking, “Why do I need Broadgrail if I already have a platform and an auditor?”
Here’s the answer:
- The platform shows what’s happening.
- The auditor tests what happened.
- Broadgrail is responsible for what happens—every day, across every control, with traceability and accountability.
We are not just a vendor or a tool provider. We design, operate, and maintain the programs—end to end, with full accountability.
Let us know when you’re ready to hand it off with confidence.
