Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) & Compliance Services

Align your security, manage systemic risk, and achieve bulletproof compliance with pragmatic consulting

Risk Crew removes the guesswork by identifying, eliminating, and streamlining duplication.

Our GRC consultants have extensive experience synchronising activity across corporate governance functions to enhance efficiency, break down silos, and enable clear information sharing and reporting.  

At Risk Crew, we do not treat compliance as a reactive “box-ticking” chore. We believe a strong GRC framework should act as a strategic business enabler. By aligning your operational security with industry-proven standards, we protect your digital assets, satisfy regulatory bodies, and build lasting trust with your clients and partners.

Strengthen Your Resilience with Best Practice GRC Frameworks

Select the standard, regulation, or framework that aligns with your business goals. We design, implement, and audit your controls to guarantee compliance.

Establish, implement, and maintain a robust Information Security Management System (ISMS) aligned with the ISO/IEC 27001 standard. Our consultants guide you through scoping, risk assessments, Statement of Applicability (SoA) development, and internal audits to guarantee certification success.

ISO 27001 Consultants

Secure your artificial intelligence systems with the world’s first international standard for AI Management Systems (AIMS). We help you implement ethical AI governance, assess algorithmic bias, and satisfy emerging AI regulations like the EU AI Act.

ISO 42001 Compliance

Demonstrate your commitment to data security and operational integrity to prospective enterprise clients. We assist you in designing, testing, and documenting the Trust Services Criteria (Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy) required for SOC 2 Type I and Type II audits.

SOC 2 Compliance

Determine your alignment with the updated Network and Information Security (NIS 2) Directive for critical infrastructure and essential services. We implement the mandatory risk management measures, security hygiene standards, and incident notification workflows required to avoid severe non-compliance penalties.

NIS 2 Compliance

Protect your business against up to 80% of common cyber threats while qualifying for lucrative UK government and public sector contracts. We guide you through the Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus self-assessment questionnaires and verify your technical controls for official certification.

Cyber Essentials Certification

Navigate the strict demands of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) with expert operational planning. We assist financial entities and their critical ICT third-party service providers in refining risk management, reporting ICT incidents, and establishing mandatory testing regimes.

DORA Compliance

Ensure your customer and employee data handling practices fully align with the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. From gap analyses to managing Subject Access Requests (SARs) and data breach protocols, we safeguard your data processing workflows.

Data Protection Act 2018 Compliance

Secure your cardholder data environment and meet the stringent requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). We assist merchants and service providers in scoping, network segmentation, vulnerability scanning, and compiling Self-Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs).

PCI Compliance

The Risk Crew Approach to GRC

Whether you need to achieve regulatory compliance or implement a best-practice ISMS framework, Risk Crew delivers a streamlined, efficient, and fully supported process.

Our experts analyse your operating landscape to help you select the right compliance frameworks. We tailor the scope to meet your exact business objectives, regulatory demands, and budget. 

We perform a meticulous audit of your existing policies, technical controls, and processes. Our consultants identify precisely where your current practices fall short of your target standard’s requirements. 

We don’t just hand you a list of problems; we build the solutions. We write compliant policies, design workflows, and train your staff, delivering a 100% knowledge transfer so your team is fully equipped to maintain compliance. 

We run mock audits to verify your readiness before the official certification body arrives. Following successful certification, we provide continuous, on-call support to help you manage surveillance audits and framework updates. 

Professional from start to finish, Risk Crew helped enormously in overhauling our business' cyber risk management. From testing our systems, highlighting areas to improve on and assisting in helping us achieve ISO 27001 & Cyber Essentials. They transformed the way we work. If you're looking for experts in cyber risk management, look no further!

Managing Director

Insurance Industry

Compared to other Information Security consultancies; Risk Crew understand both (ALL) threats and governance from a top-down perspective and plugging in the necessary resources to achieve the task. It was a pleasure to have worked with Risk Crew both in the UK and Asia.

CIO

Banking Industry

Our relationship with Risk Crew started when they were hired to conduct Third Party Supplier audits on behalf of one of our large clients. We had been on our ISO27001 journey for a number of years and decided to work with RC to help us over the line. Since then, they have been our go to, for Cyber Essentials, 27001, GDPR compliance and Penetration testing services.

Head of IT

Media Production Industry

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FAQs

GRC stands for Governance, Risk, and Compliance. In cybersecurity, GRC is the strategic framework used to align IT security activities with business goals, manage operational risk, and ensure the company consistently meets regulatory and legal compliance requirements.

For most mid-market organizations, the timeline to achieve ISO 27001 certification ranges from 6 to 12 months. This timeline depends on the complexity of your scope, the maturity of your existing security controls, and the resource availability of your internal teams.

While both are European cyber-resilience frameworks, NIS 2 is a broad directive covering essential and important entities across multiple critical infrastructure sectors. DORA is highly specialized, focusing strictly on the financial sector and its direct ICT third-party vendors. DORA acts as a ‘lex specialis’, meaning its financial requirements override NIS 2

Cyber Essentials Plus is not universally mandatory, but it is highly recommended and actively required for many UK government supply chains, public sector contracts, and Ministry of Defence (MoD) tenders. It is also widely used by private companies as a trusted metric to verify vendor security.