Regulatory Compliance & Security Framework Integration
A certificate is useful evidence. It does not answer every question about how your controls work. Connect requirements to daily processes, check the gaps and build evidence you can stand behind.
Map your controls to the frameworks you use, find what is missing and build evidence into daily work. Give audit and leadership teams a clearer view of progress.
Why this matters
Compliance means meeting the rules that apply to your organisation. A security framework is a structured way to organise the work. Financial firms may face different UK and EU requirements, so we begin with your activities, customers and services. We then connect each duty to practical safeguards and evidence.
UK data protection law covers personal information. UK financial-services rules may also apply. DORA is an EU law covering defined financial firms and technology-related risks. These are not interchangeable.
We help establish the relevant scope with your compliance and legal teams. We separate legal duties from voluntary standards, such as ISO 27001, so priorities are clear.
A control is a safeguard, such as checking access, testing backups or reviewing a supplier. It needs an owner who knows what must happen and when.
We map duties to the safeguards already in place, identify gaps and agree who will address them. Teams can see how their work supports the wider requirements.
Evidence shows what happened in practice. It might be a completed access review, a recovery test or a record showing an audit issue has been fixed.
We help organise records and track actions so teams can find what they need. This makes it easier to answer questions from leaders, customers and regulators.
Systems, suppliers and ways of working change. An annual certificate or a completed audit cannot by itself show that every safeguard still works today.
We build regular checks into normal work and help teams act on the results. The aim is an approach that stays useful between formal reviews.
UK data protection: choose safeguards suited to the risk to people, keep personal data secure and check that those safeguards work.
UK financial services: firms covered by the FCA’s operational resilience rules must identify important services, set limits for disruption and map and test their ability to stay within those limits.
DORA: covered EU financial firms must manage technology risks, report major incidents, test resilience and oversee technology suppliers. DORA does not replace the UK rules.
ISO 27001 is a management standard, not a guarantee that every legal duty is met or that a breach cannot happen.
Read the ICO’s security guidance, FCA resilience requirements and our DORA explanation.
How we help
Explore the support available. We shape the work around your organisation, priorities and existing team.
A framework is a structured way to organise security work. Standards such as ISO 27001 and guidance such as NIST can overlap, but they are not all laws or interchangeable certificates.
How we help
We help map the standards and sector requirements relevant to your organisation. The same safeguard may support several requirements, reducing repeated work while making gaps easier to see.
Teams get a shared view of which requirements apply, how they are addressed and what evidence is needed. This supports more consistent reviews and better-informed compliance discussions.
Discuss your prioritiesA control is a safeguard, such as checking access, keeping backups or requiring approval for a payment change. Writing it down does not show that it works reliably.
How we help
We help identify weak controls, agree practical changes and assign responsibility for the work. Checks focus on the risks that matter to the business and its customers.
Teams can track the improvement and collect evidence of how the control operates. That gives leaders a stronger basis for decisions than simply marking a policy as complete.
Discuss your prioritiesGRC stands for governance, risk and compliance. A workflow is the set of steps used to record an issue, assign an owner, agree an action and check the result.
How we help
We help make those steps clear and repeatable. Reviews, reminders and evidence records support the teams doing the work, while unresolved issues remain visible to decision makers.
Your organisation gets a clearer picture of what is outstanding and who needs to act. The process should support real decisions, not add paperwork for its own sake.
Discuss your prioritiesAn audit examines evidence against agreed requirements. Preparation means knowing what is being reviewed, who owns the evidence and whether it reflects current practice.
How we help
We help organise records, identify missing evidence and track findings through to corrective action. Teams can rehearse how to explain a process and show that it is being followed.
You get a repeatable approach to reviews and follow-up. Good preparation supports a clearer audit, but it is not a promise of certification or a finding-free result.
Discuss your prioritiesHow we help
Build on the work you already have. Focus effort where it can make the most useful difference.
Compare the safeguards already in place with the standards and requirements relevant to your organisation. Identify where one control supports several requirements and where the evidence is missing or weak. The aim is a clear picture of what applies, who owns it and what needs attention. This reduces repeated checking and gives teams a practical starting point for improvements, rather than a separate checklist for every framework.
Use the assessment to agree which safeguards need strengthening. A control might involve access approval, backup checks or another step that protects information or services. Give each improvement an owner and a way to show that it works. Update the supporting instructions and evidence as the change is made. Teams should be able to explain the practical improvement, not simply say that a document was updated.
Make it clear how a risk or finding moves from being recorded to being resolved. Define approval steps, owners, reminders and the evidence needed to close an action. Dashboards and suitable automation can help teams keep track, but the process must remain understandable. People need to know what is expected of them and how to raise a concern when a deadline or safeguard is not being met.
Review progress regularly with the people responsible for risks and actions. Reporting should explain the current position, the important gaps and the decisions needed from leaders. Connect the information to business impact and supporting evidence. This gives the Board and reviewers a clearer account of how requirements are being managed. It also helps identify when priorities, resources or the approach itself need to change.
West Brom Building Society · In practice
The business need
West Brom Building Society needed to connect security controls, compliance evidence and audit actions.
What changed
Mapped controls, named owners and a shared compliance workflow gave teams a clearer way to track actions and show progress.
Mapped controls to NIST and relevant industry regulations.
Introduced a central governance, risk and compliance workflow.
Assigned control owners and closed historic audit gaps.
Supported Cyber Essentials certification and regulatory alignment.
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Free practical guides
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If you decide why and how personal data is used, you are the controller. A supplier using it on your instructions is a processor. Under UK GDPR, the UK’s data protection rules, you must:
TPRM is a way to manage risk, not one law for every supplier. Duties depend on the data, relationship and sector. Logica helps you turn these checks into practical work.
Get the free supplier risk guideFor financial firms within its scope, DORA sets legal duties across technology risk, incident reporting, testing and supplier oversight. Your firm remains responsible when services are outsourced.
DORA is not a blanket UK rule. EU operations or supplying EU financial firms may bring duties or contract requirements. Logica helps you assess the gaps and plan the work.
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