Blackthorn wins a 2012 GRC Technology Innovation Award

"Blackthorn GRC enables risk to be presented in a clearer, repeatable and graphical way. Risk is understood and analyzed within Blackthorn through the use of "trees." In Blackthorn, the approach is to use drag-drop functionality to build risk models using objects (threats, threat agents, exploits and vulnerabilities, impacts, controls, etc.). The models are built underneath each critical business asset. Because risk models are built around assets and represented in trees, it has the ability to aggregate risk totals up the tree, with total risk for the organization viewable from any level. Blackthorn represents risk models so they are fed with data from a range of activities, both proactive (assessments, audits, reviews, etc.) and reactive (incidents, cases, breaches, etc.). This makes the risk results both real-time and more reliable."