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Office for Students Selects SureCloud
GDPR & Cybersecurity Secured Since 2017.
Office for Students has been a SureCloud client for cybersecurity services since March 2017 and began deploying SureCloud’s governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution in July 2017 to assist with their responsibilities under GDPR.
Case Study: OFS
The Business Challenge
The Office for Students (OfS) is the independent regulator of higher education in England, responsible for ensuring that all undergraduate and postgraduate students, whatever their backgrounds, have a fulfilling experience of higher education which enriches their lives and careers and delivers value for money.
They are headquartered in Bristol, with a workforce of around 450 people.
Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Office for Students’ predecessor, become a client of SureCloud back in 2017, implementing the GDPR Data Privacy Management Suite to support and enhance their GDPR programme.
As a new organisation and a successor of HEFCE, Office for Students has been looking to mature its approach to risk management. The focus of this for the team was initially to improve risk policies and procedures, to develop internal capability, enhance reporting to show transparency and allow challenge, and to identify and manage risks enterprise-wide systematically.
These improvements established a highly effective risk management approach, but the organisation soon hit the ceiling in terms of their process supporting risk systems, with technology being a limiting factor rather than an enabler.
The organisation was relying on numerous disparate spreadsheets to assess and monitor different types of risk – these were inconsistent, time-consuming and error-prone.
Office for Students needed a single, seamless, enterprise-wide solution to manage and monitor all aspects of risk management.
The SureCloud Solution
Office for Students has partnered with SureCloud since 2017, initially for cybersecurity services before expanding to deploy our GRC solution to support GDPR compliance.
Recognising the value of our Risk Management solution (featured in Gartner’s IRM Magic Quadrant), the organisation worked with SureCloud to tailor its existing Data Privacy Risk Management setup for enterprise-wide risk oversight.
Key outcomes:
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A single, centralised view of risk across the organisation
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Risks mapped by division, function, and geography
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Real-time dashboards and reports for faster decision-making
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Configurable frameworks for assessing likelihood, impact, and overall exposure
Powered by SureCloud’s flexible, cloud-based platform, the solution enables collaboration and visibility from anywhere, at any time.
The Result
“SureCloud’s Risk Management Solution has moved us away from using a series of disparate spreadsheets and countless emails for recording risk – with all of the potentials for errors that entails – to a single, centralised source of risk information for every member of staff,” said Whitestone.
“It’s dynamic and agile – if we want to get a snapshot of risk for a particular department or function, we can.”
Intuitive & Easy-to-Use Solution
“Despite us being at the start of our risk management journey, we are very pleased with how quickly staff can get to grips with the SureCloud Platform, this was a key factor for us” commented Whitestone.
“They can more or less log on and go – it’s extremely intuitive and easy-to-use. In turn, this means that it frees up a huge amount of time spent manually inputting or transferring information, which is a great advantage for us.”
SureCloud’s Risk Management Product Delivered:
A solution enabling collaboration and visibility from anywhere, at any time.
Central view of risk
A central view of risk across the organisation via a single intuitive dashboard
Risk organised
Risks organised across divisions, legal entities, business functions, and geographies
Unified oversight
The ability to provide a central repository for enterprise risk, allow the organisation to show the entirety of the risk environment and consider overlaps and interdependences
Risk Evaluation
A range of risk management methodologies to understand the likelihood, impact and overall risk rating
Real-time insight
Configurable drillable dashboards and reports to provide a real-time snapshot of risk at anytime
Integrated GRC that’s right for you
The apps OFS use to streamline GRC
Compliance Management
Manage, continuously test and report on your compliance status.
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Risk Management
Centrally assess, prioritize and manage your key technology risks.
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Explore Our Solutions
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Systems & Culture Working Together
“We undertook a great deal of work to evolve our culture of risk management, to one that was far more consistent and proactive,”
With SureCloud’s Risk Management solution in place, we have the systems to underpin that culture, and enable us to take a far more streamlined, agile and accurate approach to help manage risk across the organisation.”
- Office for Students Risk Officer
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