Athereon GRC

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IT-Grundschutz is a demanding standard with clear requirements for structure, verification, and risk transparency. Athereon GRC supports you in its complete, compliant implementation within an integrated, audit-ready system, from the assessment of protection requirements through audits to ongoing data maintenance.
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Shaping

Model information networks, define protection requirements

Structured mapping of information networks forms the basis of IT-Grundschutz—but in practice, clarity, consistency, and a uniform approach are often lacking. Spreadsheets, Visio files, or decentralized lists quickly lead to gaps or duplication.
Athereon GRC offers intuitive, visual modeling functionality that allows you to structure your organizational units, processes, applications, and systems in accordance with standards. Dependencies and protection requirements are captured directly in the system—transparent, auditable, and centrally documented.

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Assessing

Assessing protection needs: structured and comprehensible

Assessing confidentiality, integrity and availability is essential, but many companies struggle with unclear criteria, subjective assessment, and a lack of comparability.
With Athereon GRC, the protection needs assessment is guided, standardized, and consistent across all assets. Predefined evaluation criteria, help texts, and inheritance systems facilitate the assessment and ensure that the process remains both efficient and transparent.

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Implementing

Model requirements, implement measures

The BSI's catalogue of measures is extensive and without central control there is a risk of media disruption, redundant tasks and a lack of implementation transparency.
Athereon GRC automates the assignment of relevant compendium blocks to your assets and enables the structured derivation of target actions. These can be assigned directly to the responsible parties as a lived compliance activity, including clear workflows, traceability, and progress monitoring.
Implementation evidence such as guidelines, operationalized measures or other relevant objects can be flexibly linked and managed centrally.

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Certifying

Prepare for certification: audit-ready with one click

If evidence is only prepared shortly before the audit, the effort increases enormously and important details are lost. However, continuous traceability is a central component of ITG.
Athereon GRC generates all relevant reports, action overviews, and supporting documents at the touch of a button. Logs and audit trails are maintained automatically. This ensures you have access to information at any time, whether for internal review or external certification.

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Why Leading Companies Prefer Athereon GRC

Organizations relying on our technology.

„Die Zusammenarbeit mit Athereon GRC war sowohl in der Projekteinführung als auch in der laufenden Nutzung sehr unkompliziert. Es gab immer einen kompetenten Ansprechpartner. Auftretende Probleme wurden und werden nach Meldung zeitnah beseitigt und Fragen zu bestimmten Funktionen von Athereon GRC wurden immer schnell beantwortet. Außerdem werden Ideen für neue Funktionen oder Verbesserungsvorschläge mit großem Interesse aufgenommen und dann in einem zukünftigen Release veröffentlicht. Als größten Vorteil bzw. Stärke haben wir die unbürokratische, kundennahe Zusammenarbeit schätzen gelernt, die wir bei anderen Anbietern doch mitunter vermissen. Besonders gefallen uns auch die seit einiger Zeit veröffentlichten Videos zu Athereon GRC. Das Produkt Athereon GRC kann für Verwaltungen des öffentlichen Dienstes unserer Größenordnung durchaus weiterempfohlen werden.“

Gunnar Herbst
Information Security Officer

Reliable protection

Meet all relevant ITG requirements with BSI license partner Athereon GRC.

Step by Step to BSI ITG-certification

Your journey to IT-Grundschutz with Athereon GRC.

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1. Define Scope

First, you determine which parts of the organization (e.g., business processes, IT systems, locations) fall within the scope of certification.
With Athereon GRC, you can model the information network flexibly, visually, and in compliance with regulations right in the tool.

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2. Determine protection needs

The next step is to assess how critical individual components are in terms of confidentiality, integrity and availability.
Athereon GRC platform guides you step by step through the protection needs assessment and automatically derives the right requirements.

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3. Choose model

Depending on the scope and objective, the appropriate ITG model is selected: basic, core or standard protection.
With Athereon GRC, you simply select the desired model and automatically receive the appropriate implementation support.

4. Analyze risks

For areas requiring particular protection, a supplementary risk analysis is required. This will result in specific additional measures.
Athereon GRC offers an integrated, ITG-compliant risk analysis with a direct link to the catalog of measures.
Athereon GRC also supports the automatic creation of risks based on mapped threats.

5. Document measures

The technical and organizational measures are now being implemented and fully documented. This is a central part of the certification.
With automated workflows, task allocation, progress monitoring, and evidence generation, Athereon GRC supports you in efficient implementation.

6. Pass certification

Finally, an internal audit or external readiness assessment is conducted in preparation for certification by an accredited body. Athereon GRC delivers audit-proof protocols, audit trails, and reports at the touch of a button—ideal for internal auditors and auditors.

IT-Grundschutz with Certainty and Athereon GRC

Your benefits with Athereon GRC.

Always up to date

Always up to date

As a license partner of BSI, Athereon GRC always provides the latest version of the IT-Grundschutz Compendium, fully integrated. New features are highlighted accordingly, and automated workflows are triggered for implementation.
Athereon GRC will also fully support the future Grundschutz++.

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Standardized reports

Athereon GRC supports all BSI standard reports (e.g. A1 - A6) to always generate relevant formats at the touch of a button.

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Multiframework setting

By integrating and linking other standards (the ISO 27001 cross-reference table for ITG is included in the software), you can automatically map multiple standards, norms, and laws in parallel. Other legal frameworks, such as the BSI Kritis Regulation and many others, are also fully integrated into Athereon GRC.

Customer's `Success Stories`

Learn how we simplify compliance for businesses like yours.

We particularly value the way in which requirements are discussed and implemented in a competent, open, critical, and solution-oriented manner. In our experience, this is not something to be taken for granted.

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Olaf Reimann
Head of Enterprise Architecture and Cyber Security Governance
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Our collaboration with Athereon GRC was a complete success. The team's high level of expertise and outstanding support helped us progress and achieve success in the TISAX® assessment. The implemented software includes numerous features and an intuitive user interface that meets all our requirements to our complete satisfaction. Athereon GRC facilitates our tasks efficiently and reliably at all our locations.

Thorsten Kohlstock
IT Manager
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"With Athereon GRC, we overcame the challenges of TISAX® certification. The software's ease of use and comprehensive functionality helped us meet all requirements efficiently and in a coordinated manner across our various locations. The support we received from Athereon GRC was outstanding and helped us successfully complete the project."

Christian Kaiser
Head of IT Consulting
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Construction Line

For Bayard, we made exactly the right decision by selecting Athereon GRC for our initial certification. The cockpit is particularly user-friendly; you always have a complete overview of all ISO requirements and processes and know exactly where you are. The software itself always covers the latest regulatory requirements, so you are well prepared for audits. Help from the team was also always reliable, competent, and unbureaucratic. We particularly appreciated the personal support and the straightforward, solution-oriented approach for our company.

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Inga Kramer
Lead HR & Projects
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"By using Athereon GRC, we were able to link the requirements of the various standards (ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, BSI C5, ISO 27701) and thus process them in just one place.

The effort required to maintain the respective requirements of these standards and norms and the complexity that normally accompanies them have been significantly reduced through the use of Athereon GRC.

I would like to highlight two points in particular:

1) Open communication regarding customer requests and feature requests at all times. These are usually implemented very promptly.

2) The always fast and competent support from the support team.

Many thanks to the Athereon GRC team for the collaboration!

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Torsten Zinke
Information Security (ISB) & Compliance Manager
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"The implementation of the ISMS according to BSI IT-Grundschutz with Athereon GRC has exceeded our expectations. Centralized management and control gave us a comprehensive overview of the security status and compliance with regulations. The real-time monitoring of GRC activities and the adaptation to legal requirements proved particularly helpful. Overall, Athereon GRC has helped us improve our security standards and effectively manage risks."

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Matthias Totzauer
Group Chief Information Security Officer - CISO
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Construction Sites

For Bayard, we made exactly the right decision by selecting Athereon GRC for our initial certification. The cockpit is particularly user-friendly; you always have a complete overview of all ISO requirements and processes and know exactly where you are. The software itself always covers the latest regulatory requirements, so you are well prepared for audits. Help from the team was also always reliable, competent, and unbureaucratic. We particularly appreciated the personal support and the straightforward, solution-oriented approach for our company.

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Inga Kramer
Lead HR & Projects
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People that are planning something

Collaboration with Athereon GRC was very straightforward, both during project implementation and ongoing use. There was always a competent contact person. Any issues that arose were resolved promptly after reporting, and questions about specific Athereon GRC features were always answered quickly. Furthermore, ideas for new features or suggestions for improvements are received with great interest and then published in a future release.

We've come to value the unbureaucratic, customer-focused collaboration as our greatest advantage and strength, something we sometimes miss with other providers. We also particularly like the videos on Athereon GRC that have been published recently.

Athereon GRC can definitely be recommended for public sector administrations of our size.

Gunnar Herbst
Information Security Officer
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IT Room

Collaboration with Athereon GRC was very straightforward, both during project implementation and ongoing use. There was always a competent contact person. Any issues that arose were resolved promptly after reporting, and questions about specific Athereon GRC features were always answered quickly. Furthermore, ideas for new features or suggestions for improvements are received with great interest and then published in a future release.

We've come to value the unbureaucratic, customer-focused collaboration as our greatest advantage and strength, something we sometimes miss with other providers. We also particularly like the videos on Athereon GRC that have been published recently.

Athereon GRC can definitely be recommended for public sector administrations of our size.

Gunnar Herbst
Information Security Officer
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Fast and easy onboarding

`3 Steps` to Better Compliance

Your digital transformation can be this fast.

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1. Noncommittal consultation

Experience the difference of excellent customer support, tailored to your individual requirements. We're always there for you, offering exciting insights into implementation and in-depth insights into our software.

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2. Free demo account

After an initial consultation, we would be happy to set up a demo version of our software for you, allowing you to click around independently and experience the benefits of Athereon GRC in practice and at your leisure.

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3. Efficient implementation

With our comprehensive range of services covering onboarding, migration, and customization, you'll be ready to digitalize your GRC processes with Athereon GRC in just a few weeks. A dedicated, expert onboarding manager is available to assist you at all times.

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Make it to the top in compliance

Finally ensure smooth processes and regulatory clarity in all areas of your company.

`News` from Athereon GRC

Learn from others' best practices or simply stay up to date.

Whitepapers

Our whitepapers offer a selection of informative documents addressing the latest developments and challenges in GRC. Download our whitepapers to gain valuable insights and stay up to date.

Blog

On our blog, you'll always find the latest articles on relevant guidelines, legal changes, and current developments in compliance. We also offer interesting insights into our company.

Webinars

Our webinars offer regular training sessions on general compliance topics, regulatory updates, and updates to our software. Always relevant, always up-to-date.

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