Corporate Compliance and Oversight (CCO) tools provide the framework and support for standardization of compliance activities and automation to increase efficiency and effectiveness of compliance management programs. CCO enables a common cross-enterprise approach to IT compliance activities that most affect the regulatory oversight of corporate governance. This is done through support of the five major requirements for managing a compliance program: policy development, aggregation and normalization, control monitoring, workflow management, and case management.
Digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) retainer services help organizations assess and manage the impact of a security incident. Digital forensics (DF) services assist with forensic response, aid in forensic information gathering and advise on proactive best practices for avoiding a breach. Incident response (IR) services assist with breach investigation, triage and impact classification. These capabilities are delivered as professional services, supported by technology services from the same provider.
Forensic Accounting and Investigation Services is a specialized field focused on examining financial records to identify fraud, misconduct, or irregularities. It integrates accounting, auditing, and investigative techniques to provide clear, evidence-based insights for legal disputes, compliance reviews, and corporate governance matters. These services are engaged to uncover financial discrepancies, support litigation, and ensure transparency during critical events such as mergers, acquisitions, or bankruptcy proceedings. The objective is to deliver accurate findings that withstand legal scrutiny and protect organizational integrity. Typical customers include corporations, law firms, government agencies, insurance companies, and financial institutions seeking fraud detection, litigation support, and risk mitigation.
The IT risk management (ITRM) market focuses on solutions that support the ITRM discipline through automating common workflows and requirements. For the purposes of defining this market, IT risks are risks within the scope and responsibility of the IT department. These include IT dependencies that create uncertainty in daily tactical business activities, and IT risk events resulting from inadequate or failed internal IT processes, people or systems, or from external events.
IT Security refers to products and services that protect digital systems and data from cyber threats and unauthorized access. This category includes markets that focus on network security, identity management, data protection, and cloud security, enabling organizations to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and operate securely in a digital world.
Gartner defines Integrated risk management (IRM) as the combined technology, processes and data that serves to fulfill the objective of enabling the simplification, automation and integration of strategic, operational and IT risk management across an organization.
Internal controls software is designed to help organizations implement, monitor, and manage their internal control systems. These systems are essential for ensuring the accuracy of financial reporting, compliance with regulatory requirements, and the prevention of fraud. The software typically includes features such as risk assessment, control activities, continuous monitoring, automated audit trails, compliance management, and detailed reporting and analytics. By streamlining these processes, internal controls software enhances operational efficiency, ensures adherence to regulatory requirements, and provides a robust framework for governance and risk management.
Investigation management software is designed to streamline and manage the investigative process within an organization. It helps in documenting, tracking, and resolving various types of incidents, such as workplace misconduct, fraud, compliance breaches, and safety violations. This software is used by HR and legal teams, health & safety professionals, and security officers, and provides features like incident reporting, case management and customizable reports
Gartner defines managed detection and response (MDR) services as those that provide customers with remotely delivered security operations center (SOC) functions. These functions allow organizations to perform rapid detection, analysis, investigation and response through threat disruption and containment. They offer a turnkey experience, using a predefined technology stack that commonly covers endpoints, networks, logs and cloud. Telemetry is analyzed within a provider’s platform using a range of techniques. The MDR provider’s analyst team then performs threat hunting and incident management to deliver recommended actions to their clients. MDR offers outcome-driven security incident management that is predicated on the detection, analysis and investigation of potentially impactful security events and the delivery of active threat disruption and containment actions to respond to and mitigate the impact of cyber breaches.
Security consulting firms are advisory and consulting services (see 'Definition: Cybersecurity' ) related to information and IT security design, evaluation and recommendations. These services are procured by various stakeholders in an organization, including boards of directors, CEOs, chief risk officers (CROs), chief information security officers (CISOs), chief information officers (CIOs), and other business and IT leaders for the purpose of obtaining and ensuring acceptable risk levels for a specific client organization.
The third-party risk management (TPRM) technology market offers solutions to identify, assess, manage, monitor and report on third-party risks associated with vendors, suppliers, distributors, agents, partners or other third parties. Solutions in this market can support a wide range of TPRM workflows across various risk domains. TPRM platforms in this market address the needs of a diverse range of customers and risk domains, including legal, compliance, procurement, supply chain, IT, cybersecurity and other teams that work with or provide routine oversight of third parties. Some technology solutions offer enterprise third-party risk management workflow as a feature, along with risk tiering, due diligence, risk mapping, metrics and reporting mechanisms. Other platforms may facilitate integration with risk data subscriptions, data aggregators or other subscriptions. The TPRM technology market is a complex array of solutions servicing many business functions across an enterprise. TPRM solution providers can be categorized into technology platforms and tools, or risk-domain-specific data and insights.
Vendor Due Diligence Services refer to a structured, comprehensive set of assessments that evaluate the suitability, reliability, and compliance posture of external vendors or suppliers before engagement, typically reviewing financial stability, legal and regulatory compliance, operational capabilities, security practices, reputation, and overall risk exposure. The objective is to ensure third parties meet organizational standards and can deliver consistently, safely, and in alignment with business goals; by identifying risks early—such as financial weaknesses, compliance gaps, or operational vulnerabilities—these services support well‑informed decisions, regulatory adherence, data protection, operational continuity, and brand protection. Typical users include Procurement/TPRM, Legal/Compliance, InfoSec, Finance, and Supply‑Chain/Operations teams, who assess vendors for compliance, financial stability, security, and operational performance before onboarding. As core features, Legal & Regulatory Compliance Checks verify corporate existence, licenses/permits, beneficial ownership (UBO), and litigation/regulatory history to confirm lawful operation and jurisdictional fit, while Financial & Credit Health Assessment reviews audited financials, key ratios (liquidity, leverage), cash‑flow trends, and credit ratings to surface solvency and continuity risks before they disrupt services.