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SynECM
Intelligent Exception Management for Modern Risk Teams
Security exceptions are unavoidable—but unmanaged exceptions are unacceptable. SynECM gives CISOs and risk managers a purpose-built platform to govern exceptions across vulnerabilities, policies, and control gaps.
From exception submission to risk evaluation, approvals, and revocations—SynECM automates the lifecycle, keeps decisions traceable, and ensures every deviation is accountable, auditable, and aligned with your risk appetite.
AI Powered Compliance
SynECM
Intelligent Exception Management for Modern Risk Teams
Security exceptions are unavoidable—but unmanaged exceptions are unacceptable. SynECM gives CISOs and risk managers a purpose-built platform to govern exceptions across vulnerabilities, policies, and control gaps.
From exception submission to risk evaluation, approvals, and revocations—SynECM automates the lifecycle, keeps decisions traceable, and ensures every deviation is accountable, auditable, and aligned with your risk appetite.
“Turn Exceptions into Strategic Decisions. Where others see risk, you gain control. “
Exception Types We Manage – and How We Do It
Vulnerability Exceptions
When fixing isn’t feasible—manage the risk, not just the patch.
SynECM allows teams to raise vulnerability exceptions with business justifications. It integrates asset data, threat intelligence, and compensatory control mappings to evaluate residual risk and guide security leaders in making time-bound exception approvals.
Policy Exceptions
Agility doesn’t have to break the rules—it can bend them, responsibly.
Whether it’s a new product launch, vendor constraint, or unique user requirement—SynECM lets business users request justified policy deviations. The platform validates each request against enterprise risk thresholds and guides approvals with built-in risk matrices.
Control Exceptions
When controls can’t be applied—compensate, document, and track.
From MFA delays to legacy infrastructure gaps, SynECM captures control deviations, supports alternative control documentation, and ensures all exceptions are tracked till mitigation or revocation—ensuring audit-readiness at every step.
Empower Business, Enable Risk Teams.
A system where business teams raise, tech teams decide, and the platform does the rest.
Security exceptions often stall due to disjointed approvals and slow risk evaluation. SynECM solves this by enabling structured workflows that connect business requestors with technology owners and InfoSec reviewers. Business teams can easily raise exceptions using intuitive forms; the platform collates risk insights, suggests risk scores, and routes approvals to the right stakeholders—be it the CIO, CISO, or CRO.
- No more endless email threads or delayed Go-Lives.
- Decisions backed by context.
- Approvals guided by data.
See how SynECM brings security governance to exception handling.
Exception Lifecycle Automation – From Request to Revocation Your exceptions don’t expire in spreadsheets—they expire in dashboards.
SynECM provides end-to-end automation for the entire exception lifecycle:
- Build confidence with executive management, the board, and regulators by demonstrating a robust, enterprise-level approach to IT and cyber risk and compliance management
- Gain real-time visibility into cyber risks, including IT vendor risks, and threat exposure as well as mitigation measures through risk quantification and contextual risk information across processes and assets
- Improve efficiency by correlating vulnerabilities with IT assets and prioritizing remediation efforts based on the areas of highest criticality
- Quantify cyber risk in business and monetary terms, enabling proactive communication and management of risk exposure
Stay compliant. Stay accountable. And stay informed—every step of the way.
Frequently asked questions
Because unmanaged exceptions become audit findings. SynECM helps you handle exceptions transparently, ensuring decisions are risk-informed, traceable, and compliant with internal policies.
Our platform is designed to handle exceptions for vulnerabilities, policy deviations, and control implementation gaps—across applications, infrastructure, and third-party engagements.
Absolutely. SynECM integrates with your existing tech stack to fetch asset metadata, control status, and vulnerability data for contextual exception risk evaluation.
It provides complete traceability of exceptions: who raised them, who approved them, what compensatory controls were used, and whether revocation happened on time—making audit preparation faster and cleaner.
SynECM continues to track it. Expiry alerts, reminders for revocation, and visibility into linked policies and controls ensure exceptions don’t fall through the cracks.
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Vulnerability Exceptions
When fixing isn’t feasible—manage the risk, not just the patch.
Leverage integrated vulnerability scanning, real-time threat intelligence, and risk prioritization across heterogeneous IT environments.
Automated Compliance Management
Implement pre-configured compliance frameworks with automated audit workflows, dynamic dashboards, and integrated reporting mechanisms.
Centralized Exception Handling
Deploy a centralized exception management system that aggregates risk data, supports robust risk evaluation, and enables streamlined, customizable approval workflows.
Automate and Enhance Cyber Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Processes
MetricStream Cyber GRC helps organizations actively manage cyber risk through an IT and Cyber Risk and Compliance Framework that aligns with established security standards so you can pass IT audits more efficiently and get buy-in from top management. Gain comprehensive visibility into the overall IT risk posture and cybersecurity investment priorities. Get your IT and Cyber Compliance program up and running quickly with pre-packaged content and industry frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST CSF, and NIST SP800-53, and map policies to IT controls and policy exceptions. Leverage best practices, insightful reporting, and risk quantification.
Automate your audit readiness
Scrut automates and streamlines the onerous tasks linked to audits, from preparation to analysis. Reduce the manual effort by up to 75%, increase accountability and pace of infosec task completion, and collaborate effectively with your auditors – all through one single window.
Smooth audit with auditor collaboration
With scrut, you are in charge; create audit projects and manage access in just a few clicks. Invite auditors on the platform, and complete multiple complex audits – simultaneously and hassle-free.
Ask SynAI
Let Syn AI do the tedious work for you—from answering preset questions to re-analyzing documents— saving you time and resources.
First-party data
Access first-party data through SynRadar’s growing network of Trust Centers, giving you a more accurate view of your vendor risk.
Customized risk rubric
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How Our Cyber GRC Helps You
Actively Manage IT and Cyber Risks
Adopt a streamlined, proactive, and business-driven approach to IT and cyber risk management and mitigation. Define and maintain data on IT and cyber risks, assets, processes, and controls. Assess, quantify, monitor, and manage IT and cyber risks using industry-standard IT risk assessment frameworks, such as NIST, ISO, and more. Manage issues through a closed-loop process of issue investigation, action planning, and remediation.
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Ensure Compliance with Cyber Regulations
Manage and monitor IT and cyber compliance processes based on various security frameworks and standards. Create and maintain a central structure of the overall IT and cyber compliance hierarchy. Link IT and cyber compliance controls and assessment activities based on your organization’s specific security requirements. Structure and streamline the processes for documenting, investigating, and resolving IT compliance and control issues.
- IT and Cyber Risk Management
Streamline Management of IT and Cyber Policies and Documents
Enable a systematic approach to IT policy management across business units, divisions, and global locations. Easily create policies – either by entering the required information into the system or by uploading an existing policy as an attachment. Strengthen IT compliance by linking IT and cyber policies to asset classes, requirements, risks, controls, processes, and organizations. Trigger policy review and revision cycles through automated notifications and task assignments.
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