Control Health Overview
Hyperproof has three health levels: Critical, At Risk, and Healthy. Hyperproof comes with default health settings that work for most organizations. If you find that they don’t suit the needs of your organization, you can customize them.
Note: Customized health calculations are an added feature that you can purchase in Hyperproof. If you are wondering if you have a custom health calculation, contact your administrator.
By default, Hyperproof calculates control health based on the following rules:
Steps for a healthy control
Control health is important as it impacts the health of your overall program. Knowing what we now know about the default control health settings, in this video, we'll cover how to go through implementation, testing, and freshness, and provide proof to get your control to a healthy state. We'll also discuss how you can leverage tasks to stay on track with your control health.
The tutorial below is from the perspective of the compliance manager role with object permission as a manager. If you are in a different Hyperproof role or have a different permission, you may not have access to some of the areas shown, or they may be grayed out.
In the video below, we'll cover the different areas that occur when clicking into a control and discuss how control health works by leveraging testing, implementation, and freshness. We'll also discuss how creating tasks can help stay on top of your control health.
A new Links tab is now available, consolidating all previously linked items found on the Details tab. You can also link any items directly from this tab. Please note that the video below is outdated due to this change.
Applying freshness to a control
Freshness can be turned on for a single control or multiple controls at a time. Freshness is an expiration policy you can put on a control to help you stay up-to-date on a set cadence. To utilize freshness on a control, you must first enable freshness tracking for that item and define its freshness policy.
The tutorial below is shown from the perspective of the administrator role with object permission as a manager. If you are in a different Hyperproof role or have a different permission, you may not have access to some of the areas shown, or they may be grayed out.
Note: freshness can also be applied to a label as well, this would be done by clicking on the label and going to the overflow menu for that label.
In this video tutorial, we'll show how to turn on freshness for a single control or multiple controls.
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Turning on freshness
Turning on freshness
From the left menu, select Controls or Labels.
Select the control or label for which you want to turn on freshness.
Do one of the following:
If you selected a control, select the ... (More options) tab, and then click Freshness.
If you selected a label, click the empty space below the Freshness column.
The Freshness window opens.
Select On.
Enter the following:
Below When marked fresh, the proof expires in..., set the expiration period.
Below Starts as, select the initial status.
Below Fresh as of, set the start date of the expiration period. The start date can be today or in the past, depending on your organization’s needs.
Click Save.
Now that freshness has been set:
The freshness status is displayed next to the name of the control or label.
The control's or label's Proof tab has a Mark fresh button that allows you to change the status.
Various dashboards and item lists throughout the app now reflect the freshness status of the control or label.
