AI Agents as a Service for GRC & SOC — Agentic Compliance and Security Operations
Compliance teams spend most of their time collecting evidence and chasing owners; SOC analysts spend most of theirs dismissing false positives. AI agents can do the repetitive part of both — gathering evidence, mapping it to controls, enriching and triaging alerts, drafting reports — while people make the decisions.
Mutex Systems builds and runs AI agents for GRC and SOC as a managed service, inside grComply and alongside our SOC. Every agent action is logged, every judgement call goes to a human for approval, and the design follows ISO 42001 and the OWASP LLM Top 10.
80
nationally significant UK incidents in the last year — analyst time is the bottleneck
2028
year by which the NCSC expects AI-powered malware in a UK CNI ransomware attack
100%
of agent decisions logged and human-approved before they count as evidence or action
Why it matters now
Based on incidents and figures in our UK & Europe threat report.
- Attackers already use AI to scale phishing and reconnaissance; defenders need the same leverage to keep up.
- Organisations now hold several frameworks at once — ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2, DORA, local regulators — and manual evidence collection does not scale.
- AI governance itself is now regulated (EU AI Act, ISO 42001), so agents must be built with oversight from day one.
What we deliver
Evidence Collection Agent
Pulls configuration, access reviews, policies and logs from cloud, identity and ticketing tools and files them against the right controls in grComply.
Control Mapping Agent
Suggests cross-framework mappings — one control, many frameworks — for review by your compliance lead.
Policy & Narrative Drafting Agent
Drafts policies, control narratives and auditor responses in your house style, clearly labelled as AI-drafted until approved.
Vendor Risk Agent
Reads supplier questionnaires and certificates, flags gaps and expiries, and prepares follow-up questions.
Alert Triage Agent
Enriches SOC alerts with asset, identity and threat-intelligence context, groups related alerts and proposes a verdict for an analyst.
Threat Hunting Agent
Runs hypothesis-driven hunts across logs on a schedule and reports anything unusual to the SOC.
Incident Reporting Agent
Builds the incident timeline and drafts NIS2, DORA, UK GDPR or CTDISR notifications for human review before the deadline.
Regulatory Change Agent
Watches regulator publications (NCSC, ENISA, ICO, PTA, SBP, SECP) and flags changes that affect your controls.
How an engagement runs
- 1
Discovery
Identify the most time-consuming GRC and SOC tasks and the systems the agents need to read.
- 2
Design with guardrails
Define what each agent may read, what it may propose and what always needs human approval — aligned to ISO 42001.
- 3
Pilot
Run agents on one framework or one alert stream, measuring time saved and accuracy.
- 4
Scale
Extend to more frameworks, data sources and alert types once results are proven.
- 5
Operate & govern
We run, monitor and retest the agents (including prompt-injection testing) as a managed service.
What you receive
- Agent catalogue with documented scope, permissions and approval points
- Audit log of every agent action and human decision
- Accuracy and time-saved metrics reported monthly
- AI risk assessment aligned to ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act
- LLM security testing against the OWASP LLM Top 10
Frameworks and regulations this supports
ISO/IEC 42001
The AI management system standard used to govern how the agents are designed, overseen and improved.
EU AI Act
Transparency, human oversight and risk management obligations for AI systems used in the EU.
LLM Penetration Testing
Agents are tested for prompt injection, data leakage and excessive agency.
ISO 27001:2022
Agents operate inside the same access-control and logging controls as people.
grComply
Agents built into grComply — with a human always in charge
grComply already includes a Claude-powered assistant that explains control gaps and drafts policy language. Our agents extend it: they collect and map evidence, draft narratives and prepare reports, but nothing counts as compliance evidence until a named person approves it.
Explore grComply- AI-drafted content is labelled and requires confirm-before-complete
- Every agent action is recorded in grComply’s immutable audit trail
- Cross-framework mapping means one approved piece of evidence satisfies many controls
- Works with ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2, DORA, PCI DSS and Pakistan regulators (PISF, CTDISR, SBP)
Frequently asked questions
What is an AI agent for GRC?
An AI agent for governance, risk and compliance is software that can carry out multi-step compliance tasks — such as collecting evidence from systems, mapping it to framework controls and drafting policy text — and hand the result to a person for approval.
Will AI agents replace our compliance team or SOC analysts?
No. Agents remove repetitive work so people spend their time on judgement: deciding whether evidence is sufficient, accepting risk, or confirming that an alert is a real attack. Every decision that matters still needs a named person.
How do you stop an AI agent making mistakes?
Each agent has a narrow, documented scope and read-only access by default; anything it produces is labelled as AI-generated until approved; all actions are logged; and agents are regularly tested for prompt injection and data leakage against the OWASP LLM Top 10.
Is our data used to train AI models?
Agents are configured so customer data is not used to train third-party models, and data handling is defined in the agent design and in your data processing agreement.
Which frameworks can the GRC agents work with?
Any framework loaded into grComply, including ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, NIS2, DORA, ISO 42001, UK GDPR and Pakistan regulations such as PISF 2026, PTA CTDISR and SBP guidelines.
How does agentic AI help a SOC?
Triage agents enrich and group alerts and propose a verdict, hunting agents run scheduled searches, and reporting agents build incident timelines — so analysts handle more alerts with better context and regulatory notifications are drafted on time.
Pilot an AI agent on your biggest compliance or SOC bottleneck
We start with one framework or one alert stream and measure the time saved. Call 020 3307 5299 or send a brief.