Compliance, made doable — no GRC expert required
You don’t need a compliance team or a hired CISO. Answer a few plain-English questions in a chat and MerlinAI drafts your policies. Scanners find your risks from the outside and the cloud, and AI maps them to the right controls, drafts the fixes, and collects the evidence — your team reviews and approves. Small businesses do it themselves.
Built by operators who ran a Security Operations Center for banks and governments — not a template vendor.
Author: Menachem Tauman — Co-Founder & CEO, former CISO, 28 years in IT & cybersecurity. Written to our editorial policy.
Protecting 200,000+ assets in production.
MerlinAI — your compliance assistant
The hardest part of compliance is knowing what to write and where to start. So we made it a conversation. MerlinAI asks plain-English questions — one at a time — and drafts your policies, assessments, and evidence for you to review. No jargon, no consultant, no blank page.
Why GRC feels impossible
Every business now needs a security program and audit-ready compliance. But the way GRC is done today assumes you have an expert — and buries whoever’s doing it in manual effort before anyone gets to the part that actually reduces risk.
Copying findings into a register. Filling out the same questionnaire for the fifth framework. Chasing screenshots to prove a control works. Hand-mapping a vulnerability to the right ISO and SOC 2 controls. It’s slow, error-prone, and it never ends — so GRC gets skipped until an audit forces it.
A small business can’t afford a CISO, and a junior team member stares at a blank policy template with no idea what to write. So compliance stalls — or a business pays a consultant by the hour. Either way, the knowledge barrier, not just the workload, is what stops it getting done.
The AI does the heavy lifting
Same outcome — a defensible risk program and a passed audit. The difference is who does the work. Fortress moves the manual load off your team and onto the scanners and the AI.
Risk you find, not risk you ask about
A questionnaire tells you what you think is true. Fortress scans for what’s actually exposed — from the attacker’s side of the internet and inside your cloud — and turns every finding into a tracked, mapped risk.
External reconnaissance maps everything you have exposed to the internet — including the assets you forgot about. No agent, no questionnaire. Just live recon against your real footprint, on a schedule.
Continuous scanners inspect your cloud and SaaS against hundreds of security-posture checks — then log the result as evidence. No one screenshots a config; the scanner records it and proves the control.
What Fortress GRC gives you
The scanners and AI feed a complete GRC platform — the register, the frameworks, the plan, the report — everything a virtual CISO delivers, in one place. No new hires, no stitched-together tools.
Scanner findings land here automatically — scored, owned, and tracked, inherent vs. residual, with a clear treatment status for each one.
One control set mapped across every major standard. Satisfy one control, advance several frameworks at once.
The board-ready view: one screen showing posture, top exposures, and readiness — ready to present.
Turn every open risk into a prioritized work plan — sequenced by risk reduced per dollar, with a 1/2/5-year roadmap.
The hub everything wires to. Each asset carries its criticality, data, findings, and the controls that protect it.
Continuous control monitoring collects the proof as you go, so audits become an export instead of a fire drill.
From zero to audit-ready in three steps
Sign up, then let Fortress scan your attack surface, cloud, and vendors. Assets, findings, and controls populate on their own — no questionnaire required.
AI ties every finding to the right controls across NIS2, ISO 27001, SOC 2 and more, drafts the treatment plans, and collects evidence. You review and confirm.
Present the CISO Dashboard, work your treatment plans, and export board and auditor reports on demand — with evidence collected continuously in the background.
Frameworks supported
Also mapped: HIPAA · DORA · CIS Controls · CMMC — one control satisfied advances every framework it touches.
Primary sources: NIS2 · ISO 27001 · SOC 2 · GDPR · NIST CSF 2.0 · PCI-DSS
One risk story, not two
Your risk doesn’t stop at your own perimeter — it runs through every vendor you trust. Fortress scans and assesses those third parties too, so vendor risk lands in the same register as everything else. Your own posture and your supply chain, one unified picture, one CISO Dashboard.
Explore third-party risk management (TPRM) →In plain terms
A virtual Chief Information Security Officer — outsourced access to senior security leadership (strategy, compliance, risk decisions) without a full-time executive hire. Fortress delivers vCISO-level guidance through AI plus human review.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance — the practices an organization uses to meet regulatory obligations (e.g. ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR), manage security risk, and prove it to auditors.
Questions small teams ask
Compliance without the expert
Answer a few questions and watch your first policy draft, your scanners surface real exposures, and your CISO Dashboard build itself. See how far Fortress gets you without hiring a compliance team.
COMPLIANCE AUTOMATION
Mapping continuous controls to SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and DORA without a GRC team.
vCISO AS A SERVICE
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