In today’s hyper-regulated environment, senior risk and compliance professionals face mounting pressure to stay ahead of complex requirements. Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), Data Protection Officers (DPOs), risk managers, and cybersecurity service providers alike juggle ever-evolving laws, standards, and internal policies on a daily basis. At Enactia, we recognize these challenges – and we’re excited to announce the launch of two groundbreaking modules, Compliance Universe and Policy Management, designed to simplify and elevate your Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) program.

These new modules expand Enactia’s all-in-one GRC platform, delivering powerful capabilities that solve real-world compliance headaches. Below, we introduce each module, explain how they integrate into Enactia’s full suite, and highlight why Enactia is emerging as a leading GRC solution in Cyprus and the overall EMEA region – outshining even Gartner Magic Quadrant vendors on price, quality, and overall user experience!

Introducing the Compliance Universe – Revolutionizing Compliance Monitoring with Intelligent Automation

Modern organizations must comply with a universe of regulations: GDPR, ISO 27001, CCPA, PDPL, NIST CSF, NIS2, DORA, PCI-DSS, and countless others. Traditionally, this meant managing siloed audits and spreadsheets for each framework. Enactia’s new Compliance Universe module consolidates all these requirements into one cohesive system, giving you a 360° view of compliance across jurisdictions and standards.

What is Compliance Universe? It’s a centralized compliance management engine that allows you to assess and monitor your organization’s conformity against multiple laws and frameworks simultaneously. Using dynamic questionnaires and AI-based control mappings, Compliance Universe lets you evaluate compliance with regulations like GDPR, CCPA, PDPL, DORA, EBA ICT, DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, and more – all in one place. You can identify gaps and partial gaps instantly through an intelligent dashboard, ensuring continuous oversight of your compliance status across the board.

Key capabilities of Compliance Universe include:

• Multi-Regulation Coverage: Perform compliance assessments based on multiple frameworks in parallel, using a rich library of preloaded templates. For example, a single assessment can cover GDPR principles, ISO 27001 controls, and CCPA requirements, enabling you to spot overlaps and streamline efforts. This eliminates duplicate work and ensures no regulation falls through the cracks in your compliance program. You can reduce your manual compliance efforts by over 80%, freeing resources to focus on strategic initiatives.
• Real-Time Gap Analysis & Monitoring: Enactia provides state-of-the-art dashboards that aggregate results from all your assessments into an overall compliance scorecard. Compliance officers can quickly pinpoint areas of non-compliance (gaps) or partial compliance, prioritize remediation actions, and track improvement over time. The platform’s Conformity Monitoring features enable continuous insight into your organization’s compliance level at any given moment.
• Integrated Risk Management: Non-compliances identified in the Compliance Universe don’t live in isolation – they can automatically feed into Enactia’s risk register. This risk-based approach means that every compliance gap is linked to business risk, allowing CISOs and risk officers to evaluate and treat it via the central Risk Management module. The result is a unified GRC strategy: compliance findings inform your risk mitigation plans, and risk assessments help prioritize compliance efforts.
• Collaboration and Flexibility: Like all Enactia modules, Compliance Universe supports multi-user collaboration with fine-grained access control. Subject matter experts from different departments can log in to answer questionnaire sections relevant to them, greatly simplifying cross-functional compliance audits. The module is also kept up-to-date with evolving regulations – new laws or standards can be integrated through updates, ensuring your “universe” of obligations is always current.
• Evidence Management: Evidence used to satisfy compliance in one area is automatically recommended and reused for related controls in other frameworks, improving consistency and efficiency.

In short, Compliance Universe gives you a single source of truth for regulatory compliance. Instead of scattered tools or manual matrices, your team gains one intuitive platform to manage all compliance requirements with precision and confidence. This holistic approach directly addresses the pain of fragmentation and constant regulatory change, empowering you to stay compliant with far less effort.

Introducing the Policy Management Module – Streamline Your Policy Lifecycle

Internal policies and procedures are the backbone of any effective GRC program. However, managing the lifecycle of corporate policies – from authoring and approval to distribution, training, and periodic review – can be an overwhelming task, especially as organizations scale. Enactia’s new Policy Management module is purpose-built to simplify this critical process and ensure your policies truly support your compliance goals.

What is Policy Management? It’s a centralized, collaborative solution to manage every stage of your organization’s policy lifecycle. Enactia’s Policy Management provides a single platform for creating, editing, approving, distributing, and tracking policies, standards, and procedures across your enterprise. No more version confusion over email or isolated Word documents – all policy work happens in one secure, organized repository.

Key capabilities of Policy Management include:

• Centralized Policy Repository & Editing: Draft and edit policies collaboratively with multiple stakeholders in real time. The module allows multiple users to jointly create and refine policy documents with full version history and change tracking. You can maintain an up-to-date repository of all policies (e.g. security policies, privacy notices, IT procedures) with clear ownership and status. This ensures that everyone is always referencing the latest approved version of each policy.
• Workflow Automation – Approval through Distribution: Enactia streamlines the policy approval process by routing drafts through the proper management approvals digitally. Once approved, policies can be published to relevant staff with a click. Automated notifications and reminders ensure employees review and acknowledge policies by required deadlines, addressing the common challenge of policy awareness. The system tracks the acceptance status of each policy (who has read/signed off) and can send reminders for pending acknowledgments, so you never miss a compliance requirement for staff training or attestation.
• Lifecycle Management & Audit Readiness: The module sends alerts for periodic policy reviews (e.g. annual updates), helping you keep policies continuously up-to-date. All historical versions are retained, creating an audit trail of changes over time. Come audit time, you can readily show regulators or auditors the entire lifecycle evidence – from initial issuance to the latest revision and staff attestations – demonstrating strong governance over your policies. This end-to-end traceability greatly eases compliance audits and certifications.
• Mapping Policies to Compliance Requirements: Uniquely, Enactia’s Policy Management doesn’t operate in a vacuum – it links your policies to your compliance “universe.” You can map each section of a policy to specific regulatory controls or standards, illustrating exactly how your internal rules support external compliance obligations. For example, you might map an “Access Control Policy” to ISO 27001 control A.9 or GDPR Article 32 requirements. The platform makes these linkages easy to create and visualize.
• Mapping compliance controls (e.g. ISO/IEC 27002:2022 requirements) to an internal policy using Enactia’s Policy Management module: By linking policies to frameworks and laws, you gain assurance that every policy is purposeful and up-to-date with current regulations. It also means when a regulation changes, you can quickly identify which internal policies might need adjustment.
• Enterprise Scope & Granular Applicability: The Policy Management module supports complex organizational structures. You can define which policies apply to which departments, business units, or even geographies – critical for companies operating across multiple jurisdictions. For instance, a global company might have a core set of policies and additional local procedures; Enactia lets you manage both common and location-specific policies in one system, with proper scope tagging. This flexibility ensures each employee sees the policies relevant to them, and compliance teams maintain oversight of policy implementation enterprise-wide.

With these capabilities, Policy Management directly tackles the challenges of policy governance: it eliminates uncertainty about policy status, improves staff engagement with compliance content, and saves countless hours in coordinating updates. Your organization can confidently prove that it has not just written policies, but that those policies are disseminated, understood, and updated as living documents – closing the loop between policy and practice.

Enhancing Enactia’s Full GRC Platform – Integration & Synergy

Enactia was already a comprehensive GRC platform covering privacy, cybersecurity, risk and compliance needs. The addition of Compliance Universe and Policy Management further strengthens Enactia as an end-to-end solution where all GRC elements work in concert. These modules are not standalone point tools; they are fully integrated into Enactia’s ecosystem, enriching the functionality of other modules and vice versa.

How do the new modules integrate with and enhance the platform? Here are a few examples:

• Closed-Loop Compliance Management: Compliance Universe identifies regulatory gaps, and with a simple click you can generate remediation tasks in the Ticketing & Task Management module to address those gaps. Those tasks can be tracked to completion, and evidence of fixes (documents, screenshots, etc.) can be stored in the Document Repository & Evidence Management module. Once resolved, you’ll see the compliance status update in the Compliance Universe dashboard – creating a closed feedback loop from identification to resolution, all within Enactia.
• Policy-Compliance Alignment: The new Policy Management module naturally complements Compliance Universe. As shown above, you can map policies to compliance controls; conversely, when conducting a compliance assessment, you can reference the relevant internal policies as mitigating controls or proof of compliance. For example, if a GDPR compliance assessment asks “Do you have a data retention policy?”, you can directly link to your policy record in the Policy Management module as evidence. This cross-module linkage means your compliance assessments are evidence-backed and your policies are impact-driven.
• Risk and Governance Integration: Enactia’s Enterprise Risk Management module works hand-in-hand with both new modules. Compliance Universe findings (like a score of 60% compliant with ISO 27001) can translate into risk entries (e.g. “risk of non-compliance with ISO 27001 controls”) in the risk module, where you can analyze impact and decide on treatment. Likewise, your corporate policies managed in Policy Management can be tied to risk controls; for instance, an “InfoSec Policy” can be marked as a control mitigating certain cybersecurity risks in the risk register. This ensures that risk mitigation strategies are backed by formal policies, and any gap in policy can raise a risk alert.
• Holistic Incident Response and Vendor Management: The platform’s other modules also benefit. A policy on incident response can trigger workflows in the Incident & Data Breach Management module when an event occurs. Vendor risk requirements captured in Vendor & Third-Party Management can be supported by policies (like a Third-Party Security Policy) and compliance checks (like ensuring vendors meet specific standards). All modules share a common data backbone – organizational assets, processes, departments, etc. – so information flows seamlessly. No more data silos: Enactia links your compliance universe with your policies, risks, vendors, incidents, and more in one unified interface.

By integrating these pieces, Enactia delivers a synergistic GRC experience that is greater than the sum of its parts. You get centralized visibility and control: one login to manage everything from high-level risk dashboards to the granular status of a policy document or a GDPR assessment. The learning curve for your team is reduced as well – the consistent, user-friendly Enactia interface ties all modules together, so once you know one module, you can navigate others easily.

Enactia’s Existing GRC Modules: With Compliance Universe and Policy Management joining the fold, let’s take a quick look at the full suite of modules Enactia offers (existing modules available on our platform):

• Compliance Assessments – Perform multi-framework compliance audits and questionnaires (the foundation of the new Compliance Universe concept).
• Record of Processing Activities (ROPA) – Maintain your GDPR-mandated ROPA and similar records of data processing activities, integrated with other privacy tasks.
• Asset Management – Centrally record and manage your assets, not limited to systems, applications, and software—regardless of whether they are on-premise, cloud-based, or provided by third parties.
• Enterprise Risk Management – Identify, assess, and monitor risks across your enterprise with a centralized risk register and analytics.
• Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) – Conduct structured DPIAs for processes or systems handling personal data, and manage privacy risks.
• Vendor & Third-Party Management – Assess and track risks posed by vendors/partners, with questionnaires and monitoring for third-party compliance.
• Incident & Data Breach Management – Log, investigate, and report security incidents or data breaches, including notification workflows for regulators and individuals.
• Data Subject / Consumer Requests – Track and fulfill GDPR DSARs or consumer rights requests (access, deletion, etc.) within statutory deadlines.
• Ticketing & Task Management – Coordinate GRC-related tasks and projects (assign actions, set deadlines, monitor progress) in an integrated ticketing system.
• Document Repository & Evidence Management – Store and organize all compliance evidence and documentation (policies, reports, certificates) in one repository, linked to relevant modules.
• Whistleblowing Management – Enable anonymous reporting of unethical behavior and manage whistleblower cases, fostering ethics and compliance culture.

With these modules working together on one platform, Enactia delivers complete coverage of cybersecurity, data protection, and GRC needs. The addition of Compliance Universe and Policy Management plugs remaining gaps, particularly in compliance oversight and policy governance, making Enactia one of the most comprehensive yet cohesive GRC solutions available.

Enactia – A Leading GRC Solution in Cyprus and Across EMEA

Founded in Cyprus, with a presence in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Enactia has rapidly emerged as a leading GRC platform in the region, serving clients across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. We are proud to be a solution that makes a global impact. In recent years, Enactia earned prestigious EU and domestic innovation awards for our cutting-edge platform, validating our commitment to excellence. Enactia was even recognized with the Cyprus Digital Champions Award for innovation in 2019 – a testament to our forward-thinking approach in GRC technology.

Our focus on data protection and cybersecurity compliance has made Enactia an “award-winning” cloud software in the GRC domain. Today, organizations from banks to tech firms trust Enactia to manage GDPR, ISO 27001, and other compliance initiatives efficiently. Being based in the EU has its advantages – Enactia was built in the GDPR era, with deep understanding of European privacy regulations, while also covering Middle East frameworks like UAE’s DIFC and ADGM laws, Saudi Arabia’s PDPL, SAMA and more. This regional expertise sets us apart from generic one-size-fits-all solutions.

Enactia’s footprint is expanding across EMEA through strategic partnerships and a growing client base. For example, leading advisory firms in Cyprus have partnered with Enactia to deliver technology-enabled GRC services to their clients, underscoring the platform’s strong reputation in the professional community. Our presence in multiple locations (Cyprus, KSA, UAE, and beyond) enables us to support customers with local knowledge and timely updates on emerging regulations.

In short, Enactia is proud to be pioneering GRC innovation available to the rest of the world. Our emergence as a regional leader comes from our relentless focus on customer needs and our agility in evolving the platform (as evidenced by these new module launches). We’re not just keeping up with global competitors – we’re leapfrogging them with a solution tailored to the unique regulatory landscape and business culture of EMEA.

Why Enactia Stands Apart from Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Vendors

In the GRC and cybersecurity software market, there are the well-known giants often featured in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant – and then there’s Enactia’s approach. Our philosophy from day one has been to truly understand practitioners’ needs and deliver a solution that is accessible, high-quality, and continuously improving. Here’s how Enactia differentiates itself from the typical “big name” GRC vendors:

• 💲 Better Pricing & Value: Enterprise GRC solutions from global vendors often come with prohibitive costs, putting them out of reach for many mid-sized organizations. In fact, GRC software can range from just a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on the vendor. Enactia breaks this trend with fair, flexible pricing that offers full functionality at a fraction of the cost of the “big players.” We believe robust GRC tools shouldn’t be a luxury – our pricing is designed to deliver ROI from day one for businesses of all sizes, without hidden fees or costly add-ons.
• 🌟 Higher Quality (Built for Depth, Not Buzzwords): Enactia may not have the decade-old brand name of some competitors, but our quality speaks for itself. We have attained certifications like ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 to demonstrate our security and reliability. More importantly, our platform’s quality lies in its depth of features that actually solve problems. Every module, from DPIA to Policy Management, is crafted with input from experienced DPOs, CISOs, and risk consultants. Unlike some large vendors who tout endless feature lists (many of which offer superficial value), Enactia focuses on doing the important things exceptionally well. This translates to a more reliable, effective GRC program for our clients – one that covers all bases without the bloat.
• 🎨 Superior User Experience: One of the biggest complaints about traditional GRC software is poor usability – clunky interfaces and steep learning curves that frustrate users. Enactia was born with a user-centric design ethos. Our platform is clean, modern, and intuitive to navigate, even for non-technical users. Customers regularly praise how quick it is to onboard and get value from Enactia, compared to legacy solutions that require weeks of training. As one reviewer of a legacy GRC tool noted, it was a “great tool but poor user experience” with complexity that only paid off after a long struggle. In stark contrast, Enactia delivers immediate clarity and simplicity, whether you’re a seasoned CISO or a new compliance analyst. We know that if software is easy to use, it actually gets used – and that drives better compliance outcomes.
• 🧠 Designed by GRC Experts for Real-World Challenges: Enactia’s founders and product team come directly from the trenches of cybersecurity, privacy, and risk management. We built this platform because we lived the daily challenges of DPOs and CISOs and saw where other tools fell short. As our company mission states, our “WHY” is to simplify the work of data protection, security, compliance, and risk specialists by truly addressing their significant daily challenges. This means Enactia is not an ivory-tower product – it’s designed to solve practical problems (like keeping up with regulation changes, or collaborating across departments on an incident) in a way that makes your job easier. We don’t chase features for the sake of marketing; we develop capabilities that matter on the ground. Every new module (like Compliance Universe and Policy Management) is a direct response to needs voiced by professionals in the field.
• 🤝 Customer-First Philosophy & Agile Innovation: At Enactia, we see our customers as partners. We listen intently to user feedback and continuously update the platform with enhancements that clients actually want. Many of our best features started as customer suggestions during a demo or support call. This customer-first approach means Enactia is highly responsive and flexible – far more so than large vendors who might take years to tweak their roadmaps. For example, our introduction of the Policy Management module came from client feedback that managing internal policies was a growing pain point. We delivered a solution within months, not years. Our clients know that when they choose Enactia, their voice will be heard. We add new templates, integrations, and adjustments frequently (and often at no extra cost) to ensure the platform keeps getting better for those who use it. In contrast, the Magic Quadrant vendors often focus on satisfying analysts’ checklists; Enactia focuses on delighting customers and adapting to their evolving needs.

In summary, Enactia distinguishes itself by combining enterprise-grade GRC capabilities with a nimble, customer-centric approach. You get the best of both worlds – all the critical functionality and reliability you’d expect from a top-tier solution, without the exorbitant price or notorious user frustration. We’re proving that a young, expert-driven company from Cyprus can outperform the traditional incumbents by being closer to the customer and unencumbered by bureaucracy. Our vision is to redefine GRC software by making it powerful yet approachable, and these new modules are a major step in that direction.

Conclusion: A Visionary Step Forward in GRC

The launch of Compliance Universe and Policy Management marks an exciting milestone for Enactia and our users. We are not just adding features – we are reinforcing our vision of a unified, intelligent GRC platform that empowers organizations to navigate the complex world of cybersecurity and data protection compliance with ease. By integrating comprehensive compliance oversight and agile policy governance into Enactia, we continue to push the boundaries of what GRC technology can do for you.

To our fellow CISOs, DPOs, risk officers, and service provider partners: we invite you to explore these new modules and see how they can transform your programs. Imagine having complete visibility into every compliance requirement your company faces, and the ability to tie those requirements directly to internal policies, risks, and actions – all seamlessly. That’s the power of Enactia’s enriched platform. It’s about working smarter, not harder, and ultimately staying ahead of threats and regulations rather than reacting to them.

Enactia is proud to be your partner in this journey. We remain committed to innovation with purpose, quality without compromise, and a relentless focus on solving the real challenges you encounter. Together, let’s elevate GRC from a checkbox exercise to a source of strategic advantage and trust.

Thank you for being part of the Enactia community. Here’s to building a more secure, compliant, and ethical future, one module at a time!

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