Early privacy GRC contenders

By Jay Cline, Computerworld
August 12, 2010 02:11 PM ET

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The privacy governance, risk and compliance niche is a subset of the IT GRC market and is characterized by privacy regulatory mapping, privacy assessments and data inventorying features. The products in the table below are the pioneers.

Firm	Location	Founded Related Content	Employees	Product diffentiator	Contact
Jordan Lawrence	St. Louis, Mo.	1988	40-45	Data inventorying	Marty Provin
Archer Technologies (an EMC company)	Kansas City, Mo.	2000	135	Breadth of feature set	Steve Suther
ControlCase	McLean, Va.	2004	55	Data classification integrated with scanning tools	Hugh Kominars
Avior Computing	Nashua, N.H.	2004	24	User interface	Steve McAlmont
Agiliance	San Jose, Calif.	2005	50	Reports and workflow	Arti Arora Raman
brinQa	Austin, Texas	2007	22	Vision for pulling data from other enterprise systems	Hilda Perez
Consult2Comply	Reston, Va.	2007	6-15	Regulatory mapping	Steve Crutchley