GRC Software Automating Compliance, Risk, and Vendor Assessment

Allgress builds governance, risk, and compliance software for security and compliance teams that must demonstrate regulatory posture without staffing a dedicated GRC function. The Dublin, California company was founded by Jeff Bennett and Gordon Shevlin, who had previously built SiegeWorks and SiegeWorks International before their acquisition by FishNet Security in 2006. Its stated mission is to move organizations past checkbox-style audit preparation toward a data-driven approach to managing risk.

The Insight Risk Management Suite is organized as a set of modules covering compliance assessment, policy management, a risk register, vendor management, incident management, vulnerability analysis, and exception handling, all sitting on a shared data model. The operating principle the vendor describes is assess once and report many times: evidence gathered for one control is mapped across other frameworks rather than recollected. API connectors pull from roughly fifty third-party intelligence, analytics, and content feeds, including scanners such as Qualys and Nessus, so raw scan output arrives already prioritized.

Two automation features carry much of the differentiation. Policy Gap Analyzer runs a quick or comprehensive assessment and returns a report with remediation suggestions, while AutoAttest ingests an inbound security questionnaire, auto-fills responses from approved policies and prior assessments, cites the supporting evidence, and flags gaps. Adjacent products address FedRAMP work, automated vendor assessment, and regulatory change monitoring via RegWatch. The company markets itself on cost and simplicity and sells largely through channel resellers, MSPs, and integrations with ServiceNow, Jira, Tenable, and Rapid7.