The Organizational Unit (OU) is a fundamental object in Isora GRC. It’s used to represent a department or other organizational entity within the larger structure of your organization. OUs provide a way for you to carve up an overall assessment of your organization and allow different people to be responsible for different things. In a small-scale company or environment where Isora GRC Admins are directly responsible for IT resources and assessments, you may find it unnecessary to use a large number of OUs. Surveys must be associated with OUs, though, so you need at least one.
Isora GRC was originally designed so support a large university with a heavily federated system of controls. In such an environment, you may have a complicated hierarchical structure with many OUs, some of which have other OUs nested beneath them. An OU can include both people and other OUs.
Every single person and department in your organization does not need to be represented in Isora GRC. Only those people who need to use the Isora GRC application should be represented. This typically includes anyone who is responsible for inventory, department heads or managers, and people involved with auditing.
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