Policy Mapping in Minutes with TCT’s Latest AI Tool

Policy mapping has always been one of the most tedious, soul-crushing time sinks on any compliance engagement. That era of manual matchmaking is officially over.

Typically, mapping an organization’s policies against a target compliance standard required a massive donation of time. Whether you’re combing through a single 80-page master policy or juggling 75 topic-specific policies, someone has to sit with two screens open, manually matching policy clauses to individual control requirements one at a time. Even basic keyword-search tools require tedious manual setup and still leave endless gaps to fill.

The manual drag can easily burn 24 to 48 actual hours (three to six full calendar days of labor) per engagement. Running the math of wasted time for an Assessment firm would make anyone’s skin crawl.

TCT’s new AI policy mapping feature eliminates that drag. 

AI Policy Mapping Is Fast and Accurate

TCT has just released the first of its powerful AI suite of tools. TCT Portal’s AI Policy Mapping turns a multi-day, labor-intensive task into a simple button click. The Portal handles all of the work and delivers perfectly mapped policies. It couldn’t be easier — or faster — to use. 

1. Load Your Policies. Upload your internal policy and procedure documents directly into the Portal.
2. Target Your Framework. Select the specific compliance standard or certification you need to map against. TCT Portal offers over 85 different compliance standards that are preloaded and ready to go (we can accommodate custom requests, and will add new industry standard frameworks for free for paying clients).
3. Click RUN and Walk Away. TCT’s AI analyzes the language in your policies, compares it against the target framework requirements, presenting the results of analysis for review, any adjustments needed, and approval. TCT is a big fan of “trust, but verify” — leaving the power of the final decision in the hands of our clients.
4. Approve The Mappings. Once the client approves, the system automatically maps and attaches the correct policy documentation directly to the appropriate control items.

Once the system finishes its analysis, and your team approves it, your policy evidence is automatically attached where it belongs. Clients that have seen the functionality in action are very eager to use this on their engagements as they anticipate this being a game changer in terms of precious time conservation on their engagements.

AI Built by Compliance Practitioners, Not Devs Chasing Trends

As artificial intelligence tools flood the market, many software vendors have churned out flashy solutions in a frantic attempt to profit from the AI craze. But for organizations that care deeply about data privacy, these public AI tools introduce an entirely new level of risk.

In the mad rush, many software developers neglected to focus on baseline security and compliance, leading to an increase in corporate breaches and hacks. Even major tech giants have proven untrustworthy about data privacy — often shifting policy stance after getting their hand caught in the cookie jar or potentially allowing undisclosed third-party access to the data that the users are expecting them to protect.

It’s Not Enough to Offer AI

When AI arrived on the scene, many organizations initially flocked to purchase AI tools with little discretion. Now, most companies are starting to wake up to the very real security and compliance risks. Some organizations are protecting their data by going so far as to contractually prohibit third-party AI exposure for their data. Handing compliance data to a third party raises very serious questions regarding data intermingling, model training usage, and vendor security postures.   

Compliance managers and leadership teams are finally asking the hard questions they should have been asking all along:

• Where is our sensitive compliance data actually going?
• Who on the vendor’s end has visibility into our internal security policies?
• Is our proprietary documentation being intermingled with outside datasets?
• Is our data being used behind the scenes to train commercial AI engines?
• What other entities is our data being shared with, even if it’s at the metadata level?

The trust relationship between a compliance platform and its users is paramount, and handing sensitive artifacts over to public AI vendors doesn’t exactly bolster that trust.

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Why You Can Trust TCT’s AI

While many public AI tools create a “Wild West” environment full of data privacy gambles and an unreasonable level of unfounded trust, TCT’s AI operates on a strictly closed-loop architecture. Your data is never handed off to (or exposed to) third parties, intermingled with other client datasets, or fed into external AI training models. TCT maintains rigorous control over system access, data location, and boundary controls.

By combining automated policy mapping with a strictly self-contained, closed-loop AI architecture, TCT helps you eliminate days of manual labor without exposing your sensitive technical documentation inappropriately.  

TCT’s AI engine wasn’t built by software engineers trying to guess at a problem they don’t understand. Instead, it’s designed by security and compliance practitioners who leverage real-world experience and direct customer feedback to drive pragmatic AI excellence.

With TCT Portal’s AI system, you can have peace of mind knowing your data remains secure. 

No AI Policy? Your Company Is Flirting with Disaster

Strictly Opt-In, Continuously Driven by You 

Security professionals are rightfully cautious about automated tech. That is why TCT’s AI functionality is strictly opt-in; it will never be forced upon your organization. As with every platform update launched since 2015, our ongoing AI roadmap is prioritized directly through feedback from our user community.

Automated policy mapping is step one. TCT has a prioritized list of additional AI capabilities informed directly by the priorities of our user community. As we continue to roll out new AI functionality, each new feature will deliver concrete, measurable time savings designed to streamline specific compliance pain points.

Stop donating days of manual labor to policy matchmaking. Reclaim your team’s time, protect your data within a secure closed-loop system, and see how TCT makes managing compliance suck less.