Most GRC programs share the same structural flaw: the risk register and the work that actually reduces risk live in two different systems that don't talk. Teams generate a register in their GRC platform, then track remediation in Jira or ConnectWise, and the two drift apart the moment they're created. The register becomes a static snapshot while the real work happens elsewhere.
In this walkthrough, Louis Barkhuizen shows how he uses Axari to close that gap:
Axari sits as a middle layer between the two worlds:
- It ingests risks from GRC platforms or security posture documents to build an internal risk register, tracking control implementation status, criticality, owners, and the evidence behind each decision.
- It integrates with ticketing systems to automatically create remediation tickets, then monitors them in real time, nudging managers before an SLA trips and updating the register the moment a ticket closes.
- It ingests threat intelligence on a daily or hourly cadence, so a newly emerged threat can immediately upgrade a risk's criticality, update the register, and spin up a critical ticket without anyone watching the feed.
Louis built the whole workflow by briefing the Chief of Staff: the golden path, the required inputs and outputs. From that, Axari stood up the workers, assigned responsibilities, scheduled the syncs (every 15 minutes for Jira), and designed the dashboards.
The strategic point isn't automation for its own sake. It's that the risk register stops being a document someone updates after the fact and becomes a live reflection of what the security program is actually doing. The gap between knowing a risk exists and proving it was handled, the gap where audit findings and missed SLAs hide, is where Axari operates.
