Regulation, translated into controls your operators can actually run.
EU cyber and data regulation moves quickly — NIS2, DORA, GDPR, sector-specific mandates. DataExpert helps you translate that pipeline of obligations into a programme that fits the way your organisation actually works: documented controls, evidence that satisfies an auditor, and operational practice that survives contact with your day-to-day teams.
Most GRC engagements fail because they produce binders of policies that no one operates against. We start at the other end — with the controls and the evidence — and work backwards into policy. The framework you end up with is one your internal teams recognise, your auditors accept, and your regulator can see actually being applied in practice.
Our GRC practice is grounded in the operational side of cybersecurity. The same firm that runs your detection engineering and your incident response writes your control narratives. That means your evidence is real, your reporting matches what is actually happening in your environment, and your compliance posture is defensible — not theatre.
We support the full lifecycle: regulatory gap analysis, control design, policy and procedure development, evidence-collection programmes, internal-audit support, and remediation planning. For clients facing a specific deadline — a new regulation, a contractual obligation, a supervisor request — we can stand up a focused acceleration team for the duration of the work.
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Yes. Both NIS2 and DORA are core to our GRC practice. We run gap analyses against the operational and reporting requirements of each, help in-scope organisations design the controls and incident-notification workflows the regulations require, and support our clients through internal-audit and supervisor-engagement processes. We work alongside your legal counsel — we do not provide legal interpretation ourselves.
No. DataExpert does not issue ISO 27001, NEN 7510, or other formal certifications — those are issued by accredited certification bodies. We help organisations prepare for certification audits, design the underlying control programme, and remediate findings. We are independent of any certification body, which we believe is the right posture for honest gap analysis.
Big-4 advisory firms typically separate their GRC practice from their cybersecurity-operations practice. DataExpert does not. The same firm that writes your control narratives also runs the detection content, the incident response, and the forensic investigations. That keeps documentation grounded in real operational practice — and reduces the gap between what is on paper and what is actually happening in your environment.
Yes. We support clients in advance of regulator inspections by helping them assemble evidence packages, rehearse interview formats, and identify likely findings before they happen. During an inspection, we can sit in as technical advisors to the responding team. Final responses to supervisors are always reviewed and signed off by your own legal counsel.
A focused gap analysis runs four to eight weeks. A full control-design programme runs three to six months. Ongoing GRC retainers — annual reviews, evidence-collection support, regulator-readiness checks — run continuously. The right shape depends on your starting position and the regulatory pressure on your timetable. We are happy to scope this in one call. [VERIFY: typical engagement lengths]
Successful GRC engagements involve your security lead, your compliance or risk officer, an internal-audit representative, and a sponsoring executive who can unblock decisions. We do not need to embed inside every team — but we do need named points of contact who can answer process questions and approve control language. Time commitments are kept light and predictable.
We start from your existing policies wherever they exist, and we update them rather than replace them. Where new policies are required, we draft them in plain language and in the structure your governance committees already use. The goal is policy your operators read and follow — not policy that lives untouched in a SharePoint folder.
Vendor and third-party risk is integrated into our GRC programmes. We help clients design assessment questionnaires, run technical due-diligence reviews on critical vendors, and integrate third-party findings into the overall risk register. For organisations with regulated supply chains, we map the vendor programme directly against NIS2 and DORA requirements.
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