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Use case · Regulatory readiness & evidence assurance

Connect requirements, owners, actions, evidence, and assurance outputs

Requirement → owner → action → evidence → review → assurance.

STREAM® Cloud helps risk, compliance, audit, supplier assurance and operational teams connect recurring regulatory, contractual and customer-imposed requirements with the owners, controls, evidence, actions, reviews and assurance outputs that support them — in one configurable workspace.

The regulatory readiness and evidence challenge

Regulatory, contractual and customer requirements are often scattered across documents, trackers and team-specific spreadsheets. Owners are implied rather than recorded, and the link between a requirement, the control that supports it and the evidence behind it is rebuilt from memory each cycle.

Evidence ages quietly. Reviews and re-attestations slip. Audit packs, regulator updates, board reporting and customer assurance responses are frequently reassembled by hand, with no single view of what is current, what is open and what is overdue. Supplier-imposed and outward-facing supplier assurance requirements add another layer that rarely lives in the same place as the internal control evidence.

Risk, compliance, audit and assurance teams need a practical place to hold the requirements they have to meet, the owners accountable for them, the actions in flight, the evidence behind them and the assurance outputs that draw on them — without starting from a blank page each cycle.

What evidence-backed regulatory readiness looks like

Moving from scattered requirements and rebuilt assurance packs to evidence-backed readiness is about traceability between requirements, owners, actions, evidence and review — and a current view leaders can trust.

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Requirements held as structured records

Recurring regulatory, contractual and customer requirements captured as linked records — not buried in documents, slides or shared drives.

02

Clear ownership and accountability

Each requirement has a named owner, scope and review cycle, so accountability is visible rather than implied.

03

Actions tracked through to closure

Actions linked to the requirements they support, with owners, due dates, status and blockers visible in one place.

04

Evidence freshness and sufficiency

Evidence is connected to the requirement and control it supports, with visible status, age and sufficiency cues.

05

Reviews and re-attestation

Periodic reviews, attestations and management updates are recorded against the requirements and evidence they cover.

06

Gaps and exceptions made visible

Open gaps, exceptions and overdue actions surface in the same workspace as the requirements they relate to.

07

Assurance packs rebuilt from current data

Audit, regulator, board and customer assurance outputs reflect the current state — not a point-in-time snapshot assembled by hand.

08

Leadership view with evidence behind it

Concise readiness views for risk, compliance, audit and assurance leaders — with the underlying requirement, action and evidence chain available.

How STREAM® Cloud helps

STREAM® Cloud gives risk, compliance, audit and assurance teams practical structure for the work behind regulatory readiness — structured records, linked registers, dashboards and an audit history of what has changed. It supports recurring evidence cycles for ISMS and cyber control assurance, supplier and third-party assurance obligations, material controls oversight (including continuous control monitoring-style review cycles), and requirement mapping against common frameworks.

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Configurable record types for regulatory requirements, contractual obligations, supplier-imposed requirements, controls, evidence, actions, reviews, attestations and exceptions

02

Configurable fields, with mandatory fields where required, so each register captures what your risk, compliance, audit and assurance teams actually need

03

Linked records that connect requirements to owners, controls, evidence, actions, reviews and assurance outputs

04

Search across structured data so teams can find the relevant requirement, control, evidence item, action or exception quickly

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Dashboards and reports that update as data is entered, giving leaders a current view of readiness across requirements and obligations

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Exports for audit packs, regulator updates, board reporting, customer assurance responses and supplier evidence summaries

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Permissions and controlled visibility so risk, compliance, audit, procurement, security, finance, ESG and operational teams see what is relevant to them

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Audit history of changes to support scrutiny, oversight and re-attestation cycles

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Action tracking with owners, due dates, status, blockers and evidence trails through to closure

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A guided product walkthrough so teams can see how the model fits their existing requirements and assurance approach

STREAM® Cloud works alongside document, audit, procurement, security, finance, ESG and operational systems as a configurable evidence, follow-through and assurance workspace.

In practice

Recurring requirements teams hold in STREAM® Cloud

Different teams arrive with different starting points. The underlying shape — requirement, owner, action, evidence, review, assurance — is the same.

Provision 29 / Material Controls

Provision 29 of the UK Corporate Governance Code requires premium-listed boards to declare, for financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2026, whether their material controls were effective at the balance sheet date. Track material controls, owners, evidence, weaknesses, actions and reviews so that declaration draws on a current, evidenced view rather than a manually rebuilt deck.

DORA Vendor Readiness

Connect critical ICT third-party requirements, supplier evidence, contractual obligations, residual risk and follow-through actions in one workspace.

NIS2 Evidence Readiness

Connect NIS2 risk-management measures, incident-reporting evidence and management-body accountability records so audits and supervisory requests draw on current evidence, not a rebuilt pack.

ISO 27001 ISMS Evidence Readiness

Hold ISMS requirements, controls, evidence, internal audit findings, corrective actions and management reviews as linked records, ready for surveillance and re-certification cycles.

Public Sector Supplier Assurance

Capture recurring public-sector supplier assurance requirements, the evidence supplied, the gaps identified and the actions agreed — without rebuilding the response each cycle.

ESG Supplier Evidence Tracking

Track ESG-related supplier requirements, declarations, supporting evidence, review status and follow-through actions in the same workspace as wider supplier assurance.

Who it is for

Risk, compliance, audit, supplier assurance and operational teams

  • Head / Director of Risk and Compliance
  • Head of Audit / Internal Audit Lead
  • Compliance Manager
  • ISMS / ISO 27001 Lead
  • Third-Party Risk / Vendor Assurance Lead
  • Supplier Assurance Manager
  • Operational Risk Manager
  • ESG / Sustainability Assurance Lead

Teams responsible for recurring regulatory, contractual, supplier and customer-imposed requirements, the controls and evidence behind them, and the assurance outputs that draw on them.

Pathway

When STREAM® Classic may be needed

STREAM® Cloud is the right starting point for most regulatory readiness and evidence assurance work. Some organisations later need capabilities that sit in STREAM® Classic.

STREAM® Classic is the pathway for:

  • Configurable automations
  • Messaging and alerting
  • APIs
  • Advanced modelling
  • Quantitative analysis
  • Complex data sets
  • Enterprise-scale cyber GRC

Foundation

Built on STREAM® Cloud

Structured records, configurable record types and fields, registers, linked records, search, dashboards, exports, permissions, audit history, action tracking, evidence and controlled visibility — the foundations risk, compliance, audit and assurance teams need to connect requirements, owners, actions, evidence and assurance outputs.

Assurance Insight

The Board Declaration Was Ready, But the Evidence Was Not

See a synthetic scenario showing how assurance statements can outpace the current, reviewed and traceable evidence behind them.

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