Automating Cybersecurity Governance: How Bitsight Is Expanding AI-Powered Workflows Across SPM and VRM

Security governance was never meant to be this manual.

Yet for most security and third-party risk teams, governance work still means reviewing documents line by line, mapping controls by hand, interpreting evidence subjectively, and repeating the same processes across internal teams, subsidiaries, and vendors. These activities are critical, but they’re also slow, inconsistent, and difficult to scale.

At Bitsight, we believe cybersecurity governance should move at the speed of risk.

That belief is driving a broader strategic roadmap to deliver AI-powered workflows that automate the most time-consuming governance tasks across the entire extended attack surface. First introduced in Continuous Monitoring, the expansion of Framework Intelligence into both Security Performance Management (SPM) and Vendor Risk Management (VRM) marks a major milestone in bringing that vision to life.

This is not just a feature release. It’s one of the first major expressions of Bitsight’s accelerating investments in AI across our platform. Security frameworks provide a shared, recognized language that bridges operational and governance teams, making security posture easier to understand, communicate, and act on across the organization.

From manual governance to AI-driven workflows

Security teams and third-party risk programs are overwhelmed by repetitive governance processes:

• Reviewing internal policies and audit reports
• Review vendor artifacts and/or questionnaires
• Mapping evidence to multiple frameworks
• Validating control coverage
• Identifying gaps across business units and vendors

These workflows consume enormous amounts of time, vary by reviewer, and slow everything from audit readiness to vendor onboarding.

Bitsight is addressing this challenge with a new generation of AI-powered workflows designed to automate governance activities end to end, across internal environments, subsidiaries, and third-party ecosystems.

The expansion of Framework Intelligence into both SPM and VRM demonstrates this strategy in action.

Introducing Framework Intelligence across SPM and VRM

Framework Intelligence uses AI to automatically analyze security documentation and map evidence to leading security and compliance frameworks, reducing weeks of manual work to minutes.

With this expansion, customers can now apply the same AI-driven framework analysis consistently across internal security programs and third-party risk management workflows, all powered by the same proven AI engine first introduced in Continuous Monitoring.

What Framework Intelligence does

• Analyzes documentation automatically
  Internal policies, SOC reports, SIG questionnaires, and other evidence are parsed and evaluated by AI.
• Maps evidence to major frameworks in minutes
  Controls are aligned automatically, without spreadsheets or manual tagging.
• Identifies gaps and inconsistencies
  Across internal teams, subsidiaries, and vendors, AI highlights missing or misaligned evidence.
• Generates evidence summaries
  Control-level summaries are produced automatically and linked directly to source documentation.

Bitsight uniquely automates framework alignment and evidence-based posture validation across both internal security programs and third-party risk management.

How this applies across internal and third-party programs

Security Performance Management (SPM)

Framework Intelligence is now available in SPM to support:

• Internal control evaluation and governance discussions
• Audit preparation and readiness assessments
• Subsidiary comparisons and control consistency analysis
• Gap identification before audits, not during them

In short: audit yourself, before anyone else does.

Vendor Risk Management (VRM)

In VRM, Framework Intelligence accelerates:

• Vendor evidence review during onboarding
• Framework alignment for assurance workflows
• Continuous evaluation of vendor documentation
• Standardized assessments at scale

Additionally, security teams can run Framework Intelligence directly on existing vendor documentation in the Bitsight Vendor Network, regardless of whether it was shared by vendors or uploaded by the TPRM team. This significantly reduces waiting time and gives teams the agency to proactively assess vendor risk. Security teams can now replace subjective reviews with consistent, AI-backed insights, without slowing down the business.

Part of a broader AI strategy at Bitsight

Framework Intelligence is a major AI workflow capability released as part of Bitsight’s broader strategy to modernize how organizations discover, analyze, and govern cyber risk.

In January, Bitsight announced a new set of AI-powered innovations spanning the full risk visibility and governance stack, from attack surface discovery to vulnerability analysis to framework mapping.

These advancements include:

Risk Discovery

Enhancements to Bitsight’s AI-powered Graph of Internet Assets and Groma scanner deliver deeper visibility into organizational footprints, including newly correlated domains, expanded IPv6 and TLS coverage, and richer asset attribution.

Risk Analysis

The Risk Findings Assistant uses generative AI to interpret and contextualize vulnerabilities in real time, providing human-readable explanations and tailored remediation guidance.

Risk Mapping

Framework Intelligence and Instant Insights streamline GRC workflows by analyzing documentation and mapping risks directly to security frameworks, now across Continuous Monitoring, VRM, and SPM.

Together, these capabilities create a unified, AI-driven approach to managing cyber risk across the extended attack surface.

Framework coverage that scales with you

As of January 2026, Framework Intelligence supports 16 major frameworks, including:

• SOC 2
• CIS
• ISO
• NIST
• CMMC
• And more

Beta support is also available for custom and tailored frameworks, allowing organizations to align AI-driven governance with their specific requirements.

The future of security governance is automated

“Our teams are harnessing AI to unlock value for customers like never before,” said Greg Keshian, Chief Product Officer at Bitsight. “We are saving teams countless hours of manual work while delivering clearer, more consistent insights they can trust.”

Framework Intelligence across SPM and VRM is just the beginning.

As Bitsight continues to expand its AI-powered workflows, our goal is simple: replace manual governance with scalable, evidence-based automation, so security teams can focus on reducing risk, not reviewing documents. Talk to our team to see how automated governance could benefit your security program.