A purpose-built toolkit for regulatory compliance risk assessment.
RCAT is a secure, cloud-based assessment toolkit that enables organisations to assure themselves of information management regulatory compliance at both the programme and business-system level.
Responsibility for information management compliance rarely sits with one team. Records, privacy, cybersecurity, ICT, and risk functions each carry a piece of the obligation, and without a consolidated view, significant risks go unidentified. RCAT was built to close that gap, giving regulated organisations a single, structured regulatory compliance risk assessment that spans every relevant discipline.
Your information management risk is greater than you know.
Overlapping legislation, unclear ownership across business units, and the increasing scrutiny of auditors and regulators create an environment where information risk accumulates quietly. Executives are ultimately accountable for an information landscape they frequently lack the tools to see clearly, and the cost of that gap is measured in breaches, reputational damage, and compliance failures.
Records and information management regulations now form the foundation for broader risk management thinking, including cyber resilience and security hardening. RCAT gives regulated organisations the structured, evidence-based regulatory compliance risk assessment capability needed to bring that risk into view and direct resources toward the areas where it matters most.
01. Configure Your Assessment
Scaled to your organisation's risk profile and information type, RCAT ensures the assessment reflects your specific regulatory environment and sector requirements from the outset.
02. Complete the Assessment
Structured, easy-to-use modules guide your team through relevant legislative requirements across each compliance discipline, gathering the evidence needed for a complete picture.
03. Review Your Compliance Picture
A consolidated view gives executives and system owners a clear, prioritised picture of compliance gaps, risks, and the areas that require the most immediate attention.
04. Act on the Findings
An evidence-based action plan enables organisations to prioritise improvements, track progress, and demonstrate compliance to regulators and auditors with confidence.
Built into every RCAT regulatory compliance risk assessment.
A manual regulatory compliance risk assessment demands significant time and expertise. RCAT replaces that burden with a structured, pre-populated, and repeatable toolkit that is scaled to your risk profile and updated as legislation changes.
Comprehensive Assessment
Supports the identification of information management risks at both programme and business system level, covering the full breadth of relevant statutes, regulations, and standards.
Risk-Based Approach
Assessments are scaled to your organisation's specific regulatory requirements and information type, directing effort and resources toward the areas of greatest risk.
Dynamic Updates
Modules are regularly updated as legislation and regulatory frameworks evolve, ensuring compliance obligations are always current without requiring manual monitoring.
Covering the full scope of your regulatory obligations.
Pre-populated with the legislation and guidelines that matter most, RCAT covers the compliance domains relevant to public sector and regulated organisations.
Record Keeping
Covers compliance with records management legislation governing the creation, capture, control, and disposal of corporate records.
Privacy
Evaluates how personal and sensitive information is handled across your organisation's systems against applicable privacy legislation.
Information Security
Examines the controls protecting information assets against unauthorised access, use, disclosure, and loss.
Cloud Computing
Addresses the compliance obligations and risks associated with cloud-based services and the data stored within them.
Payment Cards
Covers payment card industry compliance standards for organisations that store, process, or transmit cardholder data.
Copyright
Addresses the management of intellectual property and copyright obligations across digital and physical information holdings.
AI Ethics
Examines the governance frameworks in place for the ethical use of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making.
Data Management
Covers data governance practices across the full information lifecycle, from creation and capture through to disposal.
Find out where your information management risk really sits.
Contact us to discuss your specific information management requirements and experience RCAT with a live demonstration from the Votar Partners consulting team.
We understand information management risk and how to mitigate it
Contact us to discuss your specific information business management issues and receive a demo of RCAT with the Votar Partners consulting team.
For every stakeholder in your organisation.
RCAT is structured to deliver meaningful, role-relevant outputs for the different stakeholders within an organisation who carry accountability for information management compliance.
Executives and Decision Makers
Actionable insights into compliance gaps and risks, providing leadership with the evidence needed to guide investment decisions, improve resilience, and respond confidently to regulatory scrutiny.
Programme and System Owners
A consolidated, prioritised view of system-level compliance risks and improvement actions, giving owners the centralised control needed to manage their obligations efficiently.
ICT and Records Teams
Structured, easy-to-use modules that guide teams through relevant legislative requirements, producing the reportable evidence needed to demonstrate compliance in their role.
What a structured information risk assessment makes possible.
RCAT gives organisations the evidence base needed to manage information risk with confidence. Systems assessed to date include ERPs, CRMs, bespoke databases, GIS, HR systems, communications platforms, M365, Payroll, and EDRMS, spanning the breadth of what a thorough regulatory compliance risk assessment covers.
Protect your organisation’s reputation and resilience
Ensure vital business records are managed appropriately
Identify and reduce your compliance risks
Benchmark yourself against your sector
Mitigate the risk of privacy and data breaches
Gather reportable evidence for your role
Take the first step toward a clearer compliance picture.
Contact us to discuss your specific regulatory compliance requirements and book a demonstration of the RCAT platform with the Votar Partners consulting team.
Common questions about our regulatory compliance assessment toolkit (RCAT)
A regulatory compliance risk assessment is a structured process for identifying, evaluating, and prioritising an organisation’s compliance obligations and risks across relevant legislation and standards. RCAT structures this process specifically for information management compliance.
Designed for public sector and regulated organisations, RCAT serves state and local government, water authorities, health, education, and not-for-profit organisations at every stakeholder level involved in information management compliance.
RCAT covers record keeping, privacy, information security, cloud computing, payment cards, copyright, AI ethics, and data management. Modules are pre-populated with relevant legislation and guidelines and updated regularly as requirements change.
The appropriate frequency depends on your risk profile and the pace of regulatory change in your sector. RCAT supports ongoing, repeatable assessments so organisations can track improvement over time and respond to legislative updates as they occur.
A manual compliance assessment demands significant time, resource, and expertise to design and conduct. RCAT provides a structured, pre-populated, and repeatable framework that reduces administrative burden while producing consistent, comparable results across assessments.
RCAT is hosted on a PROTECTED-level Azure platform certified by the Australian Government for classified information.
Learn about RCAT and risk management
We will never advertise specific clients that have used RCAT. Our clients include state/local government, health, education, water and not-for-profit organisations.
