Praeferre/Platform/GRC Automation
GRC Automation

Point it at your data. It watches everything, on a schedule you set.

Connect the document repositories and website pages that carry your compliance risk, tell Praeferre how often to look, and get continuous GDPR, DPDP, POPIA and PIPA assurance — instead of a policy review that only happens once a year.

Continuously monitored against: GDPR DPDP POPIA PIPA + YOUR CUSTOM FRAMEWORKS
Why it matters

Manual compliance finds problems after they've cost you

An annual audit is a snapshot. Your policies, your documents and your public-facing pages change every week — a new supplier clause, an updated privacy notice, a page nobody remembered to review. Regulators don't wait for your next audit cycle, and increasingly, neither do the fines.

€1.2BN
Meta · Ireland DPC · 2023

Record GDPR fine for continuing unlawful EU–US data transfers after a legal basis had lapsed — a documentation and process failure at its core.

€530M
TikTok · Ireland DPC · 2025

Penalty for unlawful data transfers to China, part of over €1.2 billion in GDPR fines issued in 2025 alone.

€27M
Free Mobile · CNIL, France · 2025

Fined for weak security controls and retaining former customers' bank details long after they were needed, following a breach exposing 24 million records.

R5M
Dept. of Justice · POPIA, South Africa · 2023

Fined after failing to renew antivirus and intrusion-detection licences — an operational lapse a scheduled check would have caught in days, not years.

Sources: GDPR Enforcement Tracker, 2026 · Skillcast, 2026 · Bowmans, on the Information Regulator's first POPIA fine. Figures are historical enforcement outcomes, not predictions, and several remain under appeal.

€7.1BN+

Cumulative GDPR fines issued since 2018 — over 60% of that total imposed since January 2023, as enforcement accelerates year over year.

443/day

Breach notifications received by European regulators daily — a 22% year-on-year increase, meaning more scrutiny reaches more organisations, not fewer.

$1.9M saved

Average reduction in breach cost for organisations using AI and automation extensively, versus those relying on manual processes ($3.62M vs $5.52M).

Sources: Kiteworks / DLA Piper GDPR Fines & Data Breach Survey, Jan 2026 · IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, 2025.

How it works

Connect once. Scan on your schedule. Prove it forever.

Three steps stand between where you are now and continuous, evidenced compliance.

STEP 1 · CONNECT

Point Praeferre at what matters

Link the document repositories that hold your policies and contracts, and the website pages your customers actually see — privacy notices, cookie banners, consent flows.

SharePointGoogle DriveConfluenceS3Public URLs
STEP 2 · SCHEDULE

Set the cadence, per source

Monthly, weekly, or on every change — high-risk pages and contracts can run daily while stable policy archives check in monthly. You decide what needs eyes on it, and how often.

DailyWeeklyMonthlyOn changeCustom
STEP 3 · EVIDENCE

Every scan becomes an audit trail

Drift, gaps and expired clauses are flagged automatically and mapped to the exact regulation and article involved — so when a regulator or auditor asks "prove it," you already have the answer.

GDPRDPDPPOPIAPIPAInternal policy
Connect your sources

Wherever your policies live, Praeferre can read them

Compliance risk doesn't live in one place. It's scattered across contract repositories, internal wikis, cloud storage and the public pages your customers actually interact with. Praeferre connects to all of them, so nothing gets missed because it lived outside the one folder someone remembered to check.

  • Document repositories: SharePoint, Google Drive, Confluence, S3 and network shares
  • Website pages: privacy notices, cookie banners, consent flows, terms
  • Read-only access by default — Praeferre monitors, it doesn't alter your source of truth
See supported connectors
Connected Sources
SharePoint
Google Drive
Confluence
Amazon S3
Public web pages
Network shares
Schedule scans

Different sources, different rhythms

Your public checkout page changes more often than your archived vendor contracts — so they shouldn't be scanned on the same clock. Set cadence per source: run your consent banner and privacy notice daily, contract repositories weekly, and stable internal policy archives monthly. Every schedule can also trigger on change, so an edit gets picked up the moment it happens rather than waiting for the next cycle.

Talk through your cadence
Active Scan Schedule
Privacy notice · praeferre.comDAILYin 6h
Cookie consent flowDAILYin 6h
Vendor contract repositoryWEEKLYin 3d
HR policy archive · SharePointMONTHLYin 19d
Internal framework · INTERNAL-01MONTHLYin 19d
Marketing pages · EU regionON CHANGElive
What it saves

Automation is cheaper than the alternative

A single missed clause can cost more than years of monitoring. Here's roughly what continuous automation replaces for a mid-sized organisation running quarterly manual reviews today.

Manual compliance review hours saved / year~480 hrs
Avg. reduction in breach cost with automation†$1.9M
Faster breach detection with AI & automation†80 days
Fewer missed policy-drift incidents (typical)est. 70–90%
Net effectLower risk, fewer hours, faster answers

† IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, 2025 — figures reflect organisations using AI and automation extensively across security and compliance operations, not a Praeferre-specific guarantee. Your figures will depend on your current process maturity and estate size.

Start your compliance journey

Bring us your repositories. We'll show you what's exposed.

A short discovery call is enough to map your first set of sources and see what a live scan schedule would surface in week one.