In a year that has brought so many new features and enhancements, OneTrust is now launching Compliance Automation — a groundbreaking new capability designed to help businesses scale taxed resources, optimize processes, and drive efficiencies throughout the entire compliance lifecycle. With out-of-the-box content, automated project management, and measurable reporting, Compliance Automation will transform how your organization approaches compliance — making it easier, faster, and more efficient than ever before.
The journey behind compliance automation
The story of Compliance Automation begins in 2021 when OneTrust acquired Tugboat Logic, a pioneer in the InfoSec compliance and certification market. Tugboat Logic brought together regulatory intelligence and a user-friendly experience, crafted by a core team of ex-audit and security professionals. The key was their proprietary evidence framework that embedded regulatory guidance directly into the solution, which helped translate complicated and technical language into actional tasks for everyday business stakeholders. This further enabled teams to seamlessly collect evidence once and comply with multiple leading standards and regulations.
Fast forward to today, and we’re expanding on this technology with the launch of Compliance Automation. By leveraging Tugboat Logic’s proprietary evidence framework —now covering more than 50 frameworks — OneTrust Compliance Automation operationalizes compliance content into measurable capabilities. Whether it’s ensuring audit readiness or continuously monitoring compliance, our solution is built to meet the needs of compliance managers and business stakeholders alike.
This new layer of oversight integrates seamlessly with the OneTrust platform, providing users with the tools to automate best practices and enforce evidence operations. Additionally, it delivers guidance and continuous monitoring throughout your business and enhances our wider set of solutions for Privacy Automation, Consent and Preferences, Third-Party Management and more.
Solving critical compliance challenges
Compliance is essential for maintaining operations aligned with industry best practices and regulatory requirements. It is also critical for communicating your organization’s performance and internal controls to leadership, customers, partners, and regulatory authorities. However, managing compliance can be resource-intensive and complex.
Compliance Automation addresses these challenges by:
- Propelling teams from research to action: With more than 50 out-of-the-box frameworks, Compliance Automation streamlines the learning curve, reducing the burden on high-cost resources and allowing your team to stay ahead of evolving standards and regulations.
- Driving compliance efficiencies: By providing a powerful suite of tools and out-of-the-box regulatory guidance, businesses can effectively collaborate with stakeholders, automate evidence collection, and “collect once, comply many” with flexible precision to de-duplicate workstreams with tailored project management and dynamic reporting.
- Streamlining tools and processes: Say goodbye to inconsistent tools and ad hoc processes. Compliance Automation integrates project management and reporting into a cohesive, scalable solution that eliminates redundancy and ensures efficiency.
Key features of Compliance Automation
- Out-of-the-box compliance content and guidance: Access controls, evidence tasks, templates, and in-depth guidance across more than 50 privacy and InfoSec standards and frameworks.
- Implementation guidance: Break down complex requirements into actionable tasks, translating them into the language of your business.
- Framework scoping survey: Automatically generate required controls and evidence tasks based on your operations and framework needs.
- Compliance initiatives management: Centrally manage project plans with cross-mapped controls and evidence tasks, ensuring seamless compliance management.
- Proprietary evidence framework: Eliminate redundant workstreams and ensure precise, flexible control mapping across multiple frameworks.
- Issue management: Identify, remediate, and report on issues within your compliance initiatives to prevent gaps or deficiencies and better understand risk over time.
- Insights dashboards and reporting: Visualize and adjust your compliance program with dynamic dashboards and reports.
- Questionnaire Response Automation: Curate use-case or domain-specific answer libraries to auto-populate responses to inbound questionnaires powered by AI.
- Trust Profile: Consolidate your compliance details, certifications, completed questionnaires, and supporting documentation in a single Trust Profile