C1 Common Control Subscription Model - c1secure

Maximize Efficiency by Minimizing Control Overhead Across Your Compliance Landscape

Managing separate control sets for every system leads to redundancy, inefficiency, and ballooning compliance costs. The C1 Common Control Subscription Model changes that by allowing systems within your ServiceNow IRM environment to subscribe to a centralized set of common controls—reducing duplication, streamlining audits, and simplifying your overall compliance operations.

This model promotes a standardized, scalable compliance framework that leverages control inheritance, drastically lowering the number of controls that need to be independently maintained for any one system.

Key Features

Control Subscription Capability

Systems can subscribe to a curated, approved set of common controls.
Reduces the number of individual controls maintained across systems by up to 50–70%.

Control Inheritance

Systems automatically inherit relevant control definitions, ownerships, test plans, and monitoring requirements.
Updates made to a common control cascade to all subscribed systems—ensuring consistency and reducing maintenance effort.

ROI-Driven Compliance Strategy

Built-in model to quantify time and cost savings across control documentation, auditing, reconciliation, and monitoring.

Native to ServiceNow IRM

Seamless integration with Policy & Compliance, Risk, Audit, and Continuous Monitoring modules.
No additional tools or integrations required.

Expert-Guided Implementation

Comes with baseline mappings, governance structures, and measurement tools to track impact and maximize ROI.

Benefits

Fewer Controls, Same Coverage
Reduce the total number of controls by up to 70% without sacrificing compliance or audit readiness.
Massive Resource Savings
Save thousands of hours annually on documentation, maintenance, and audit prep across large environments.
Streamlined Audits and Assessments
Inherited controls mean less evidence duplication and faster audit cycles.
Improved Consistency
Reduce discrepancies between systems by using a single source of truth for common controls.
Reduced GRC Platform Costs
Fewer controls to manage = less complexity, fewer licenses, and lower consulting fees.

Use Cases

Enterprises with multiple business units or systems managing compliance independently.
Cloud Service Providers with repeatable architectures and overlapping compliance requirements.
Highly regulated organizations seeking to unify NIST, ISO, HIPAA, CMMC, PCI DSS, and SOX under one control library.
Managed Compliance Service Providers scaling their GRC offerings with minimal overhead.
Organizations modernizing their GRC program and adopting continuous monitoring at scale.

ROI & Efficiency Modeling

Example ROI Metrics Tracked:

Metric	Pre-Implementation Baseline	Post-Implementation Improvement
Control Volume	1,000 controls across 10 systems	Reduced to 500 via inheritance (50% reduction)
Time on Control Documentation	600 hours/year	Reduced to 300 hours/year
Audit & Attestation Prep Time	$100,000 annually	Reduced by 35%
Cost per Control Managed	$150/control/year	Reduced to $80/control/year
TCO for GRC Platform Maintenance	$500,000/year	Reduced by 25–40%
Compliance Gaps and Findings	High volume, repeated issues	Significantly reduced

ROI Formula:

ROI [%] = [(Savings from Efficiencies − Implementation Costs) ÷ Implementation Costs] × 100

Implementation costs may include onboarding, content migration, and initial setup—often recouped within the first year of subscription.

Customer Proof

“With over 20 cloud systems in scope, we were drowning in duplicated controls. The C1 Common Control Subscription Model helped us consolidate and simplify overnight. We saved more than 2,500 hours in our first year—and audits are now a breeze.”
— Senior GRC Manager, Global SaaS Provider

Call to Action

Simplify Your Control Universe

Empower your compliance team with fewer controls, faster audits, and a stronger compliance posture.
See how the C1 Common Control Subscription Model can transform your ServiceNow IRM program.

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