Governance, risk management and compliance in IT have always existed independent of each other in enterprises, but today there is a drive to integrate them. Enterprises today have realized the commonalities between these three disciplines and a new buzz of IT GRC has gained lot of importance today in addition to identity access management and identity auditing.

A unified approach towards IT GRC is believed to create greater efficiencies, provide a holistic view of the IT environment and ensure better accountability. Enterprises today realize that mixture of various technologies to determine IT governance, IT risk and IT compliance lead to inefficiencies, increase in cost and pose higher risk to the organization. Though IT GRC will vary from organization to organization depending on specifics, having broad objectives will establish a higher level approach for the program.