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DigitalXForce is an AI-native platform for Trust, Risk, Security and Compliance Management (TRiSCM™). It connects to the systems an organization already runs, tests security controls against live evidence, maps each result once to every framework the organization reports against, and shows the outcome as a posture that a board, an auditor, a regulator or a customer can rely on.

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. The platform has 15 modules that share one data layer, one control library and one evidence store, and the products page describes each of them.

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. All four words are part of the term, and the C is Compliance.

Enterprise TRiSCM connects control assurance to Trust, Risk, Security and Compliance across the enterprise. The full definition, and how the category differs from GRC, is on What is TRiSCM, and every platform term is defined in the DigitalXForce Glossary.

TRiSCM is not an industry standard term. It is a term DigitalXForce defined for the category its platform belongs to, and TRiSCM is a US trademark application, serial 99884359, filed 14 June 2026.

Buyers and analysts more often use the older terms GRC and security posture management, and TRiSCM brings the two together on one evidence base. What is TRiSCM explains how the category differs from GRC.

A traditional GRC program documents controls and relies on people to attest that they work, while DigitalXForce tests controls against live data from the security and IT stack and keeps security posture, third-party risk and risk operations on the same record.

The established platforms now describe automated control testing of their own. The useful question for any platform is which controls it tests against live data and which still rest on an attestation.

DigitalXForce connects through 250+ technology integrations, maps each control once across 50+ compliance frameworks and produces a security posture view alongside the compliance view. The DigitalXForce AI-Powered Risk Management and Automated GRC module runs three assessment modalities, C-Assess, X-Assess and A-Assess, and reuses the evidence collected for a control wherever that control is mapped. Vanta and Drata describe themselves as compliance automation platforms, and their own sites list 35+ and 30+ frameworks. The comparisons with RSA Archer, ServiceNow, MetricStream and Drata go through each platform in turn.

DigitalXForce is built for organizations that must prove their controls work across several frameworks, many vendors and a board or a regulator. A startup or small company preparing its first SOC 2 report can start with DigitalXForce Lite, which runs the same platform in the cloud with the same functionality and a faster deployment.

An organization that only needs outside-in ratings of hundreds of suppliers may also start with a security ratings service. DigitalXForce reads cyber ratings as one of its outside signals through External Risk View, so the two can work together.

Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture is Gartner’s term for a security design in which separate tools share one integration and policy layer rather than working in isolation. The DigitalXForce platform is built on one: it connects to the tools an enterprise already runs and works across them, rather than replacing them.

For governance, risk and compliance, the design means a control is tested where its evidence lives, in the identity, cloud, endpoint and ticketing tools, and every module that needs the result reads the same one. The Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture page explains the model, its layers and how it differs from Zero Trust.

The 3 terms describe steps in one chain, where monitoring detects a change and assurance validates whether a control still works. Continuous Monitoring observes relevant systems, telemetry, signals and changes. Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM) monitors conditions, evidence and signals associated with controls. Continuous Control Assurance (CCA) uses evidence, monitoring and validation to determine whether controls continue to operate as expected.

CCA is the strategic level, and CCM is one of the mechanisms inside it. Monitoring on its own tells a team that something changed, and CCA tells it whether the control still does its job, which is the question an auditor, a regulator or a board asks. The glossary entry for Continuous Control Assurance and the article on Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture for compliance and Continuous Control Monitoring go further.

DigitalXForce compares the state a control should be in with the state its evidence shows, and it treats any difference as an exception to resolve. Each control starts from a requirement and the evidence that should prove it, and the integrations collect that evidence from the systems where it lives.

Continuous Control Monitoring watches the conditions around each control, and a test then checks the actual state against the expected one. An exception becomes a finding with a risk impact, and it moves through remediation to revalidation. The passing results become the assurance evidence behind the compliance and posture views, and the AI-Powered Risk Management and Automated GRC module runs this cycle.

Digital Trust translates connected assurance and risk evidence into an enterprise-level view for decision-makers. It is the last step of the model DigitalXForce works to: monitoring detects, CCA validates, Enterprise TRiSCM connects, and Digital Trust translates.

In practice, Digital Trust answers the questions a board or a regulator asks: whether the digital environment can be trusted, where assurance is weakening and where action is needed. The article Digital Trust Is the New Competitive Advantage sets out the business case.

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. No sub-posture is scored from self-attestation.

The 5 bands are High Trust (780 to 850), Trusted, Watchful (700 to 779), Conditional Trust (620 to 699), Low Trust (500 to 619) and Trust at Risk (300 to 499). The score updates as the evidence changes, and boards, regulators, customers and insurers read it through the Digital Trust Portal.

DigitalXForce never publishes a customer’s score. The weights behind the score are not published either, and the glossary entry carries the definition and the scoring methodology.

Each sub-posture measures one area of trust and is scored on its own, and the composite rolls the seven into one number a board can follow over time.

  • The security posture measures protection effectiveness: whether controls hold when tested, exposure to attackers, identity control, and how quickly threats are detected and contained.
  • The compliance posture measures the maturity of risk assessment, the state of certifications, the governance of policies and plans, and how ready the evidence is.
  • The audit posture measures readiness and defensibility: SOX and ITGC maturity, the lineage of each piece of evidence, how much of the audit runs automatically, and how findings move to remediation.
  • The resilience posture measures the ability to respond and recover: confidence in the business impact analysis, whether continuity and recovery plans would work, crisis readiness, and how recently each plan was tested.
  • The third-party posture measures how vendors are governed, whether every critical vendor is covered, how fresh each assessment is, and whether contractual security terms are enforced.
  • The AI posture measures the completeness of the AI inventory, the risk of each model and use case, the sensitive data each one can reach, and whether a person oversees it.
  • The risk posture measures residual risk, how concentrated risk is, how quickly risks grow and how long they stay open, and whether treatments work.

The Digital Trust Portal is the external-facing part of the platform. Boards, regulators and customers read shareable posture dashboards there, including the Digital Trust Score and its seven sub-postures.

DigitalXForce never publishes a customer’s score, and the glossary entry for the Digital Trust Portal carries the definition.

The Digital Trust Score is not a security rating. Security ratings are computed from outside, from data that can be observed on the internet, and they can rate a company without its participation. The Digital Trust Score is computed from the organization’s own control evidence inside the platform, so it also covers internal controls such as audit evidence, resilience testing and AI governance, which are not externally observable.

The two work together. A rating suits the screening of hundreds of suppliers that will never connect their systems, and DigitalXForce reads cyber ratings as one of its outside signals through External Risk View, the outside-in engine of the platform.

Continuous Control Assurance does not replace an audit, a certification or an auditor’s opinion. Auditors still attest, and a strong result or a high Digital Trust Score does not make an organization compliant with any framework.

What it changes is the evidence. The auditor starts from tested controls and current evidence, and the gaps are visible before the audit starts. The Digital Trust Score is also not a money figure or a prediction of a breach, since expected financial impact comes from cyber risk quantification, which the platform produces as a separate output. The glossary defines each term.

The posture changes when the evidence does. When the integrations bring in new evidence or a configuration changes, the control results, the dashboards, the compliance view and the Digital Trust Score are recalculated from it, so a posture reflects the last evidence collected.

How often each source is read depends on the control. A security configuration can change many times a day, while a signed policy acknowledgment may change once a month or less. The article on why Continuous Control Monitoring matters covers the monitoring side.

Enterprise Security Risk and Posture Management (ESRPM) is the DigitalXForce module that runs configuration checks, operational insights and deployment benchmarking across IAM, SIEM, cloud, OT and IoT, SecOps and enterprise systems through 250+ technology integrations. It builds the security posture view, at a level a CISO can drill into and as a summary a board can read.

ESRPM connects to AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud accounts and evaluates their configurations directly, and it also takes in findings from cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools and maps them to controls. It works from the same evidence as the compliance view, so security posture and compliance posture are two views of one data set. X-SPM is Extended Security Posture Management, the DigitalXForce capability that scores security posture across the enterprise and its vendors from the same control data. See the ESRPM page.

Yes, you can benchmark it in 2 ways. The ESRPM module benchmarks configuration and deployment against vendor best practice and industry baselines, domain by domain, and the Digital Trust Score places the organization in one of 5 trust bands. The comparison is made on validated control evidence, which is what separates it from a self-reported maturity survey.

DigitalXForce does this in its Attack Surface Manager (ASM) module. Attack Surface Manager discovers and inventories assets across nine asset classes, IT and OT, without agents and through APIs, and it works with existing scanners and the CMDB.

The Attack Surface Management and Asset Inventory page describes the module.

AI JedAI and XForce GPT are the 2 proprietary AI engines inside DigitalXForce, and in short, AI JedAI analyzes and XForce GPT writes. AI JedAI is the DigitalXForce AI engine that analyzes: it reasons over control evidence and live telemetry, maps documents to controls and frameworks, scores and prioritizes risk, and recommends remediation mapped to framework requirements. XForce GPT is the DigitalXForce generative AI engine that writes: it produces the plain-language risk narratives and board-ready reports, generates policies, standards and plans, and runs the embedded assistant.

AI output is grounded in the organization’s own evidence and frameworks, and human approval applies where a decision carries weight. The article on how AI JedAI and XForce GPT enable automation describes both engines.

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.

A security operations center watches for attacks on systems. X-ROC works on risk: it alerts, triages and escalates control failures, risk changes and vendor events, and it tracks each remediation to closure. X-ROC never changes a customer’s systems on its own, and XForce GPT writes the board-ready risk report from the same data. The X-ROC page goes through the workflow.

The Security Blueprint is the visual map DigitalXForce produces of an organization’s security posture. It shows control coverage, risk levels and exposure by domain on one page, so executives and technical teams see the same gaps, agree the order of remediation and check audit readiness without assembling the picture by hand.

DigitalXForce covers both, in 2 modules. AI-Powered Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) keeps one risk register with inherent and residual risk, likelihood, impact and treatment, and AI scoring rates each risk.

KPI and KRI Management builds a configurable indicator matrix by business domain, risk category and risk type, with thresholds and Level 1 and Level 2 posture tracking. Indicators are approved before they are published, and an executive dashboard shows the trend. See Enterprise Risk Management and the board metrics and report generator.

DigitalXForce covers them in Business Continuity and Operational Resilience (X-BCOR). X-BCOR ties business impact analysis, continuity plans and disaster recovery plans to live control coverage.

It supports scenario planning and control dependency mapping for critical processes, and it is aligned with DORA. The X-BCOR page has the detail.

DigitalXForce helps through its Cyber Risk and Liability Insurance module, which structures risk quantification for underwriting and renewal. It turns posture data into the inputs insurers ask for, so an application or a renewal draws on the same evidence as the rest of the risk program. See Cyber Risk and Liability Insurance.

DigitalXForce has 15 modules. They run on the same architecture and can be licensed separately or together.

  1. AI-Powered Risk Management and Automated GRC runs the compliance, security and audit assessments and maps each control once to 50+ compliance frameworks.
  2. AI-Powered Enterprise Security Risk and Posture Management (ESRPM) runs configuration checks, operational insights and deployment benchmarking through 250+ technology integrations.
  3. Attack Surface Manager (ASM) discovers and inventories assets across nine asset classes, IT and OT, without agents.
  4. AI TRiSCM and AI Risk Governance discovers AI assets, assesses models, copilots and agents, and maps them to AI frameworks and regulations.
  5. X-ROC, the XForce Risk Operations Center, alerts, triages and escalates risk and tracks each remediation to closure.
  6. AI-Powered Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) runs vendor onboarding, questionnaires, AI-assisted document review and reassessment.
  7. External Risk View (ERV) watches suppliers from the outside and maps fourth-party and nth-party dependencies.
  8. AI-Powered Policy and Compliance Management reviews and generates policies, standards and plans.
  9. AI-Powered Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) keeps one risk register with inherent and residual risk, likelihood, impact and treatment.
  10. KPI and KRI Management tracks indicators against thresholds, and each indicator is approved before it is published.
  11. Business Continuity and Operational Resilience (X-BCOR) ties continuity and recovery plans to live control coverage.
  12. Cyber Risk and Liability Insurance turns posture data into the inputs insurers ask for.
  13. The Digital Trust Portal shares posture dashboards and the Digital Trust Score with boards, regulators and customers.
  14. AI JedAI and XForce GPT are the 2 proprietary AI engines, which are also available as a feature of their own.
  15. DigitalXForce Lite is the full platform hosted in the cloud, with the same functionality, for any organization that prefers cloud hosting.

DigitalXForce scores each vendor from its questionnaire answers, its evidence and external signals, so verified evidence carries more weight than self-attestation. Every vendor gets its own score.

The AI-Powered Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) module covers vendor onboarding, category questionnaires, AI-assisted document analysis and review and reassessment workflows, and it sorts each vendor into a three-tier risk model. External Risk View adds the outside-in evidence: exposed services, misconfigurations, breach and dark web intelligence, cyber ratings and fourth-party mapping. See Third-Party Risk Management.

External Risk View is the outside-in engine. It monitors exposed services, misconfigurations, vulnerability exposure, dark web and breach intelligence, lookalike domains and cyber ratings, and maps fourth-party and nth-party dependencies.

Because it reads only what is visible from outside, it works before a supplier answers a questionnaire, and it covers suppliers that never will. See External Vendor Risk View.

A questionnaire records what a vendor said about itself on one day, and DigitalXForce adds what the evidence and the outside signals show between reviews. The answers still count, but they are weighed against evidence.

External Risk View watches each supplier from the outside, AI reads the reports the supplier returns, and the controls of critical suppliers are tested against live evidence, so each vendor’s score reflects what can be checked. The Verifiable Third-Party Risk Management page describes the approach.

DigitalXForce governs AI systems through its AI TRiSCM and AI Risk Governance module. AI TRiSCM and AI Risk Governance is the DigitalXForce module for AI asset discovery, assessment and mapping to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, the OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS. It finds AI assets across cloud, code, pipelines, containers, model endpoints and RAG stores, and it assesses LLMs, copilots, agents and models. It adds production approval, policy gates, exception management and remediation tracking across the AI lifecycle.

The AI TRiSCM page explains how the module relates to Gartner’s AI trust, risk and security category.

DigitalXForce inventories the AI an organization builds and uses, assesses each system and keeps the evidence for its controls, while the classification of each system under the Act stays with the organization.

Under the AI Omnibus, the rules for high-risk systems in the Annex III areas apply from 2 December 2027, and the rules for high-risk AI built into regulated products under Annex I apply from 2 August 2028, as the European Commission’s AI Act page sets out. The module’s mapping follows those dates, and the AI TRiSCM page covers the rest.

DigitalXForce maps controls across 50+ compliance frameworks, including NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, CMMC, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, ISO 22301, SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI DSS, SOX ITGC, NYDFS Part 500, GDPR, DORA, NIS2, the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, Saudi NCA, SAMA, UAE NESA and Qatar NIA. The frameworks page lists the most requested ones, and the full list is available on request.

The platform runs 3 kinds of assessment in the Automated GRC module. C-Assess is the compliance assessment modality, and it tests controls against the requirements of each compliance framework. X-Assess is the security assessment modality, and it tests security controls against the live state of the security stack. A-Assess is the audit assessment modality, and it prepares evidence and findings in the form auditors review. Each can be scoped to a business unit, an application or a vendor, and a control tested once counts toward every framework it maps to.

The integrations pull evidence from the tools already in place, and the platform maps each artifact to every control it satisfies, across every framework the organization reports against. Evidence collected for one audit is reused for the next, and a gap shows up when the evidence changes, not when the auditor arrives.

Existing policies, evidence and assessments import into the platform and become the baseline. See AI-Powered Risk Management and Automated GRC.

DigitalXForce gives internal audit and third-party auditors structured workflows to evaluate evidence, record control effectiveness, track findings to remediation and generate standardized audit reports. Auditors still attest.

What changes is the preparation. The evidence, the mappings and the reports are already current when the audit starts, so the team does not collect screenshots by hand. See Automated Audit Management and Assessment.

Yes, it can. The AI-Powered Policy and Compliance Management module reviews existing policies, standards and plans, and generates new ones aligned to the selected frameworks. It ships with 20+ policies, 15+ standards and 5 plan templates, benchmarks each document against NIST and industry regulation, flags outdated language and missing clauses, and publishes the results to the controls each document supports.

DigitalXForce supports the work that DORA, the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act, asks of a financial entity. It tests the controls, keeps the evidence, classifies ICT-related incidents against DORA’s criteria and produces the register of information in the templates the European Supervisory Authorities set, and the entity still makes every filing with its regulator.

Business Continuity and Operational Resilience (X-BCOR) is aligned with DORA, and the third-party risk module covers the ICT third-party side. The frameworks page describes DORA with the other frameworks.

DigitalXForce helps clients meet FedRAMP, GovRAMP (formerly StateRAMP) and TX-RAMP requirements with continuous control assessments, automation, documentation and plans of action and milestones (POA&Ms).

DigitalXForce is not a certification, assessment or authorization body, so it does not grant, certify or assess an authorization. The industries page covers the public sector.

DigitalXForce is a cloud-native SaaS platform hosted on AWS. It reaches on-premises, hybrid and private cloud systems through API-based integrations, so the systems it monitors do not have to move. Private cloud deployment and data residency requirements are agreed during scoping.

No, you do not. DigitalXForce is agentless. It reads from the systems it monitors through their APIs, using credentials that stay under the customer’s control, so nothing is installed on the target systems.

DigitalXForce connects through 250+ technology integrations, all API-based, and supports custom connectors for in-house or non-standard systems. Coverage includes cloud platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), identity (Okta, Microsoft Entra, Saviynt, CyberArk), endpoint (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender), SIEM (Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel), vulnerability management (Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7), ITSM (ServiceNow, Jira), DevOps (GitHub, Jenkins) and OT security (Nozomi Networks). The integrations pull configurations, logs, vulnerabilities and other signals as evidence.

The integrations come in 2 adapter families. X-Connect is the family of integration adapters that connect the platform to security tools such as identity, endpoint, SIEM and cloud security. E-Connect is the family of integration adapters that connect the platform to enterprise systems such as ITSM, HR and ERP. The integrations page has the current list.

The time depends on how many integrations and frameworks are in scope, so DigitalXForce agrees the scope and the success criteria before a pilot starts. A pilot connects a scoped set of tools and runs the platform on real data.

DigitalXForce Lite is the full platform hosted in the cloud with a rapid deployment, and each Lite client receives a dedicated platform instance from the first day.

Yes, there are 2 packages. The full platform serves mid-size and large organizations with complex environments and several regulatory obligations. It runs in the client’s own hosting, so the client keeps full control of its data, which is the model DigitalXForce prefers. DigitalXForce Lite is the full platform hosted in the cloud, with the same functionality and a faster deployment, for any organization that prefers cloud hosting. Both run the same engine. A Lite client that moves the platform into its own hosting keeps its data and configuration.

The platform is hosted on AWS with encryption in transit and at rest. Integrations are API-based and read-only where the source allows it, and the credentials stay in the customer’s control. DigitalXForce applies its own Continuous Control Monitoring to its own environment. Detailed security documentation is available under NDA.

X-ROC, the part of the platform that works on risk, never changes a customer’s systems on its own. Remediation is assigned and tracked in X-ROC, and the change itself is made by the customer’s own team.

Integrations are API-based and read-only where the source allows it, and the credentials stay in the customer’s control. The X-ROC page describes how remediation is tracked.

Lalit Ahluwalia founded DigitalXForce in 2023 and leads it as CEO. The company, DigitalXForce Corporation, is headquartered at 230 W John Carpenter Fwy, Suite 100, Irving, TX 75039, USA.

The Leadership page introduces the management team, and About Us describes the company.

DigitalXForce has announced 3 investments. It raised a $4M seed round at a $33M valuation in 2024 from Innovating Capital and Kapital.io, and $5M in strategic capital in January 2026 from its seed investors and additional investors, at a $100M valuation.

On 21 September 2026 it announced a strategic institutional investment after 514% revenue growth over 3 years, and neither the amount nor the investor was disclosed. The announcement has the details.

The people who use DigitalXForce day to day are CISOs, security and GRC teams, internal auditors, risk officers and the managed service providers that run these programs for clients. The people who read its output are boards, audit committees, regulators, customers and insurers. It fits an organization that has to prove continuous oversight across several frameworks with the staff it had for annual reviews.

DigitalXForce serves financial services, healthcare, public sector, technology, retail, manufacturing, higher education, oil and gas, and critical infrastructure with OT and IoT estates. The control mappings and regulatory overlays are set for the sector and the region, including US, EU and Middle East regimes such as SOX ITGC, DORA, NIS2, Saudi NCA, SAMA and UAE NESA.

DigitalXForce is named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Third-Party Risk Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment (document US53007725, September 2026) and in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software Vendor Assessment, 2025 (document US53615325). In 2026 the Tech Titans Fast Tech Awards ranked it the second fastest-growing technology company in North Texas. The awards page lists the rest.

Customer reviews of DigitalXForce are published on Gartner Peer Insights, and the Customers page shows every review Gartner makes public, word for word, with each reviewer’s role, industry and company size.

The fastest way to check fit is a 30 minute walkthrough on your own frameworks and your own integrations. You leave with a mapped control set and a view of what continuous monitoring would surface in your environment. A pilot then connects a scoped set of tools and runs the platform on real data, with success criteria agreed up front. Request a demo.

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