GRC for government and public sector
A ministry is rarely one organisation. It is agencies, directorates, and shared services, each with its own risk and its own evidence, all reported upward as one position. Sentinel Unity models that structure directly rather than flattening it into a spreadsheet per department.
| Action | asset-viewer | asset-coordinator | asset-approver | asset-admin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| View | Allowed | Allowed | Allowed | Allowed |
| Create and edit | Not allowed | Allowed | Not allowed | Allowed |
| Submit for intake | Not allowed | Allowed | Not allowed | Allowed |
| Send to review | Not allowed | Allowed | Not allowed | Allowed |
| Send back | Not allowed | Allowed | Allowed | Allowed |
| Approve | Not allowed | Not allowed | Allowed | Allowed |
| Activate | Not allowed | Not allowed | Allowed | Allowed |
| Module settings | Not allowed | Not allowed | Not allowed | Allowed |
Every module ships bundles at this granularity. Segregation-of-duties conflicts are declared as rules, with logged exceptions.
Industry challenges
Public sector pressures
Mandatory baselines, citizen data at scale, and an oversight body that can ask for proof at any point.
A mandatory national baseline
Coverage is expected across every domain rather than the parts a team finds convenient, and the assessment is repeated on a cycle rather than done once.
Citizen data at scale
Personal data obligations sit alongside cyber obligations and reference many of the same controls, but are usually run by a different team.
Many entities, one position
Each agency carries its own risk register and its own maturity. Leadership needs a consolidated view without losing the ability to see where a number came from.
Procurement and supplier assurance
Suppliers have to be assessed before award and monitored through the life of the contract, with the obligations in that contract tracked individually.
Proof, not assertion
Oversight bodies want the trail: who assessed, on what date, against which control, with what evidence, and who accepted the residual risk.
Ownership that survives turnover
When people move, the record has to keep its owner, its history, and its next review date without a handover document going missing.
Platform value
Built for multi-entity public bodies
Platform
Legal structure and operating structure, separately
Entities, locations, departments, and functions are modelled as distinct things, because the body a regulator names and the team doing the work are usually not the same body.
Frameworks & Controls
Any authority, modelled as data
Jurisdictions, authorities, domains, and controls are records rather than hard-coded lists, so a national baseline is loaded and versioned like any other standard.
Access Control
Permissions at the step, not the module
A coordinator may submit and send for review while an approver may approve and activate. Neither inherits the other's rights just because both work in the same module.
Compliance
Evidence that passes review
Uploaded evidence goes through an explicit review step rather than being accepted on arrival, so an assessment is not quietly resting on the wrong attachment.
Findings
Remediation that respects dependencies
Findings carry severity, owners, and remediation plans, and a plan can depend on another so the sequence of work is part of the record.
Platform
An audit log that cannot be edited
Platform activity is written to an append-only log, with module trails alongside it for policy, findings, assets, and field assessments.
Frameworks for your program
Widely used for shared services and any entity that operates across borders.
View framework →An example of a national cybersecurity baseline held in the library. Any equivalent is loaded the same way.
View framework →Personal data obligations run against the same controls as the cyber programme rather than a separate spreadsheet.
View framework →Consolidate agency-level GRC without flattening the structure
Book a walkthrough with our GRC specialists and see the platform run against the frameworks you are held to.
No commitment required. A typical demo runs 45 minutes.