This guide contains everything you need to know about conducting an information security risk assessment questionnaire at your organization.
Isora GRC gives security teams one connected workspace to operationalize the Commonwealth’s information security policies, with control assessments mapped to OA/OIT IT Policies and NIST 800-53, connected system and vendor inventories, risk tracking with assigned owners, and OA/OIT reporting drawn from that same record, all in one place.




























Responsibility for Commonwealth security compliance sits with OA/OIT, the Delivery Centers, and agency Information Security Officers at once, and each group tends to keep its own spreadsheets and shared drives. Those gaps surface during OA/OIT audits, when nobody can show a current picture across the agency.
Launch structured assessments mapped to Commonwealth IT Policies and federal frameworks including NIST CSF and NIST SP 800-53. Assign questionnaires to owners across agency departments, Delivery Centers, and systems, and collect evidence inline so responses and proof stay connected. Recurring cycles keep policy domains covered between OA/OIT audits.
Organize systems, applications, and vendors in one inventory that reflects Commonwealth IT Policy definitions, with each record linked to its assessments, risks, and data classification. Scope a new assessment by filtering on system boundary, classification, or agency unit, so the inventory stays current as part of the assessment workflow.
Publish a control gap to the risk register as soon as an assessment identifies it, with lineage back to the IT Policy it maps to, the assessment that surfaced it, and the system it applies to. Record likelihood and impact, assign owners, and track progress toward resolution. Vendor risk sits in the same register, supporting the oversight Procurement Directive 2021-1 expects.
Generate reports and scorecards that pull from live assessment scores, risk register entries, and inventory records to show control implementation, remediation progress, and program maturity across the agency. Drill into any metric to reach the assessment response behind it, and export packages for executive briefings and OA/OIT regulatory review.
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Commonwealth executive agencies follow the Pennsylvania Information Security Regulation and the Commonwealth Information Technology Policies (ITPs) issued by the Office for Information Technology. Requirements span control implementation, risk management, asset classification, and vendor oversight, with OA/OIT providing audit and oversight. Isora GRC provides the assessment, inventory, risk tracking, and reporting workflows to operationalize them.
Isora includes prebuilt questionnaires mapped to NIST CSF and NIST SP 800-53, which underpin the ITP control requirements, and questionnaires can be customized for specific policy domains. Agencies can launch assessments without building templates from scratch.
All three groups work in the same workspace against the same inventory and risk register. Assessments can be assigned by agency unit or Delivery Center while rolling up into one view, which removes the reconciliation step that separate spreadsheets create.
Yes. Isora maintains a vendor inventory with linked security questionnaires, assessment results, risk ratings, and contract documentation. Vendor findings land in the same risk register as internal findings, so vendor oversight is documented alongside the rest of the program.
Isora deploys in weeks with no-code setup and prebuilt questionnaire templates. Agencies can run a first policy assessment without months of configuration or consultant dependency.