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Controls, Evidence & Assurance

Turn controls into evidence you can prove

FORTEIA helps organisations rationalise controls, establish clear ownership, define evidence requirements, assess control effectiveness and prepare for assurance — creating a practical bridge between regulatory obligations, frameworks, policies, operational controls and the evidence needed to demonstrate they are designed, implemented and operating as intended.

Book a Controls & Evidence Readiness Assessment

Controls need to be demonstrable — not merely documented.

Organisations often have policies and control catalogues but struggle to show that material controls operate effectively. Evidence is fragmented, ownership is unclear, frameworks create duplication, and assurance requests become recurring manual exercises.

“Can we consistently demonstrate that our controls operate as intended?”

“Are ownership, evidence and review expectations clearly defined?”

“Can we reuse controls and evidence across frameworks and audits?”

Engagement Journey

A journey to demonstrable assurance

Five stages turn controls into evidence-backed, executive-ready assurance — each one building on the outputs of the last.

Understand applicable obligations, frameworks, assurance stakeholders, existing controls, evidence sources and recurring pain points.

Evaluate control design, ownership, operating effectiveness, evidence quality, duplication, findings and assurance readiness.

Define the integrated control model, evidence standards, accountability, review mechanisms and reporting architecture.

Create assurance-ready evidence packs, define testing and review plans, and strengthen findings, corrective-action and closure governance.

Establish ownership, review cadence, exception handling, executive reporting and a roadmap toward sustainable continuous assurance.

What changes

Business outcomes, not more services

01

Traceable, Reusable Controls

Clear linkage from obligations and risks to controls, owners and evidence — reused across frameworks and assurance activities rather than duplicated.

02

Reliable, Effective Controls

More repeatable evidence collection against clear standards, with real visibility into whether key controls actually operate as intended.

03

Faster, Accountable Assurance

Faster preparation for audits, certifications and regulatory scrutiny, backed by clear ownership of findings and corrective action.

04

Sustainable Executive Oversight

Better visibility of control health and material assurance risk, and a reusable foundation for increasingly continuous assurance.

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How we accelerate delivery

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Accelerator

Control Design & Effectiveness Assessment Model

Distinguishes control design, implementation and operating effectiveness in a structured assessment.

Accelerator

Integrated Control Catalogue

Provides a coherent, reusable control structure across multiple governance and regulatory requirements.

Accelerator

Controls-to-Evidence Catalogue

Connects material controls to expected evidence, sources, frequency and ownership.

Accelerator

Executive Assurance Dashboard Template

Provides decision-oriented visibility of control health, evidence gaps, findings and assurance risk.

What you receive

Typical deliverables

01

Controls & Ownership

  • Control Framework & Rationalisation Assessment
  • Integrated Control Catalogue
  • Control Ownership & RACI Matrix
02

Evidence & Effectiveness

  • Controls-to-Evidence Matrix
  • Evidence Catalogue & Evidence Standards
  • Control Design & Effectiveness Assessment
03

Findings & Assurance

  • Findings & Remediation Register
  • Control Health Dashboard
  • Executive Assurance Report

Why FORTEIA

Distinct by design

Evidence first

FORTEIA focuses not only on what a control says, but on how its operation can actually be demonstrated.

Controls-to-assurance thinking

Requirements are translated into controls, evidence, review and executive confidence — not left as static documentation.

Advisory independence

FORTEIA strengthens readiness without positioning itself as the independent certification or statutory audit body.

Cross-Cutting Capability

Third-Party & Supply Chain Assurance

Where critical suppliers or service providers form part of the control environment, FORTEIA extends the same controls-to-evidence model to third-party requirements, evidence requests, assurance reviews and remediation tracking.

Supporting Technology Context

Technology supports the governance model

FORTEIA defines the operating model, information needs and decision processes before recommending automation or tooling.

01

Microsoft Purview

Supports data governance, information protection, compliance and risk management.

02

Microsoft 365

Enables secure collaboration, controlled documentation and coordinated governance activities.

03

Power BI / Microsoft Fabric

Transforms governance and risk data into actionable dashboards and executive insights.

04

Microsoft Defender

Provides threat protection, security posture insights and incident visibility.

05

Microsoft Entra

Supports identity governance, secure access and Zero Trust-aligned controls.

06

Microsoft Sentinel

Centralises security monitoring, threat detection, investigation and response.

07

Microsoft Power Platform

Automates governance workflows, approvals, assessments and remediation tracking.

08

Microsoft Security Copilot

Uses generative AI to support security analysis, investigation and informed decision-making.

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