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DigitalXForce reads evidence from the systems an organization already runs through 250+ technology integrations, tests each control against that evidence and maps every result once to 50+ compliance frameworks. Failures become ranked work, and the results roll up into the Digital Trust Score, the number a board follows over time. The pages below explain each part of that process in the same format.

Continuous Control Assurance (CCA) uses evidence, monitoring and validation to determine whether controls continue to operate as expected. Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM) monitors conditions, evidence and signals associated with controls. CCM is a capability within CCA.

Each page is written so a buyer, an auditor or an answer engine can check how the platform works. Some pages document one part of the platform, and others answer a question buyers ask about the category, such as how cyber risk connects to business risk, and then say what DigitalXForce does about it. Every page gives a direct answer first, names the modules, integrations and frameworks involved, says what a person decides and where the limits are, and lists its sources. The terms are defined in the DigitalXForce glossary, and the products page shows how the 15 modules fit together.

Trust, Risk, Security and Compliance Management (TRiSCM™) and how to run it

TRiSCM, or Trust, Risk, Security and Compliance Management, is a category of enterprise software defined by DigitalXForce that converges automated governance, risk and compliance with security posture management into a single real-time system, replacing periodic control validation with continuous control assurance. Enterprise TRiSCM connects control assurance to Trust, Risk, Security and Compliance across the enterprise.

DigitalXForce sums up the whole model in four sentences. Monitoring detects. CCA validates. Enterprise TRiSCM connects. Digital Trust translates.

What is Trust, Risk, Security and Compliance Management (TRiSCM)?

The What is TRiSCM page defines the category, explains what each of the four words covers and sets out how TRiSCM differs from GRC.

DigitalXForce builds the platform on a Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture, so it connects to the tools an enterprise already runs and works across them, rather than replacing them.

Continuous Control Assurance (CCA) and the evidence behind it

These questions cover how a control is tested and validated, and what evidence stands behind each result.

How does Continuous Control Assurance (CCA) work?

Continuous Control Assurance is the strategic level of control assurance. The page sets out its operating chain from control requirement to Digital Trust, how it differs from monitoring and what it does not replace.

How does Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM) work?

Continuous Control Monitoring is the capability within Continuous Control Assurance that watches the evidence behind each control. The page covers what it reads, how often, the controls a machine cannot test and where it stops.

In the platform, controls are tested in AI-Powered Risk Management and Automated GRC, which runs three assessment modalities, C-Assess, X-Assess and A-Assess, and policies, standards and plans are reviewed and generated in AI-Powered Policy and Compliance Management.

Third-party risk

Third-party risk work covers how suppliers are assessed, tiered and watched, and what people still decide about them.

In the platform, this work runs in AI-Powered Third-Party Risk Management, which scores each vendor from questionnaire answers, evidence and external signals and sorts it into a three-tier risk model, and in External Risk View, the outside-in engine.

Risk operations, business risk and Digital Trust

A risk operations center is an operating model for continuously measuring, prioritizing and reducing risk, in the way a security operations center handles threats; DigitalXForce’s implementation is X-ROC, the XForce Risk Operations Center. X-ROC is the operations layer of the DigitalXForce TRiSCM platform, where control failures, risk changes and vendor events are alerted, triaged, escalated and reported.

Digital Trust translates connected assurance and risk evidence into an enterprise-level view for decision-makers. The Digital Trust Score is DigitalXForce’s composite score from 300 to 850, computed continuously from live control evidence across seven sub-postures: security, compliance, audit, resilience, third-party, AI and risk.

In the platform, this work runs in X-ROC, the XForce Risk Operations Center, AI-Powered Enterprise Risk Management and KPI and KRI Management, and the glossary gives the five bands of the Digital Trust Score.

AI risk

AI risk work covers how AI systems are found, governed and tested against policy.

In the platform, this work runs in AI TRiSCM and AI Risk Governance, which discovers AI assets across cloud, code, pipelines, containers, model endpoints and RAG stores, assesses LLMs, copilots, agents and models, and maps them to the NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, the OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS.

Choosing a platform

A platform decision goes better when the requirements are written down before the demos start, and when the buyer knows where a product does not fit.

The FAQ says when DigitalXForce is not the right choice, and DigitalXForce Lite is the full platform hosted in the cloud for any organization that prefers cloud hosting, with the same functionality and a faster deployment.

How these pages are kept current

Each page in the knowledge center carries the name of the DigitalXForce leader who wrote it. A page changes when the product changes. Where DigitalXForce is not the right answer for a situation, the page says so.

What this looks like in practice.

Reading about continuous evidence is one thing. Watching a control get tested against live data from your own stack is another. A 30 minute walkthrough on your frameworks shows the difference.

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