The FFIEC IT Handbook, run as a program instead of a project.
Every prudential examiner works from the same handbook. Talarity maps the FFIEC IT booklets into your control library so examination readiness is a state your program is in — not a scramble that starts when the letter arrives.
Sound familiar?
The FFIEC IT Handbook is treated as an examination checklist rather than an operating control set.
Evidence is collected in the weeks before the exam, from people who have moved on from the control since.
The examiner asks for the same control you already evidenced for SOC 2 — and you rebuild it anyway.
Nobody can produce a current, owner-by-owner view of which handbook booklets are actually covered.
Service-provider oversight is a separate binder from the rest of the IT examination scope.
Examiners don't ask for a binder. They ask for the program.
The FFIEC IT Handbook is not a short document, and its booklets — architecture and infrastructure, information security, business continuity, development and acquisition, outsourcing — cut across nearly everything an institution's IT function does. Most programs respond by treating it as an examination artifact: a binder assembled ahead of the visit, retired afterward, rebuilt next cycle.
The cost of that pattern isn't the assembly work. It's that between examinations there is no current answer to which booklets are covered, who owns them, and when the underlying control was last tested. When the examiner asks, someone reconstructs it — and reconstruction is exactly the thing examiners have learned to probe.
Talarity maps the handbook into the control library the institution already runs. Booklet coverage is a live view with named owners and real test dates. Evidence you collected for SOC 2 or your internal audit cycle is the same evidence the examiner sees, cross-mapped rather than recollected. Outsourcing and service-provider oversight sits inside the same program rather than in a binder of its own.
The capabilities, in your context.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Compliance
Run FFIEC IT alongside SOC 2 and NIST CSF with cross-mapped evidence — collect once, present in whichever shape the audience expects.
Explore ComplianceGovernance
Map the FFIEC IT booklets into one control library with named owners, policy linkage, and a test cadence that runs between examinations.
Explore GovernanceRisk
A risk register tied to the controls the handbook cares about, with the methodology documented so the number survives a follow-up question.
Explore RiskAdd-on modules
Attach to GRC Professional or Enterprise Governance — same flat price on either.
Third-Party Risk Management
Service-provider and outsourcing oversight inside the examination scope: tiering, questionnaires, and review cadence tracked with the rest of the program.
AI Insights
Available as an add-on: draft examination responses and booklet summaries from evidence already collected, with each statement traced to its source record.
What you'll be able to say.
What changes when Talarity is the system of record for the program — not the spreadsheets surrounding it.
Answer 'which booklets are covered, and by whom' without opening a spreadsheet.
Reuse SOC 2 and internal-audit evidence directly in the examination response.
Keep service-provider oversight in the same program as internal IT controls.
Walk into the examination with test dates that are real and owners who are current.
Frameworks for FFIEC Compliance.
GRC Professional
Everything in Starter, plus run the entire program — work items, remediation, control testing, incidents, and audits.
Packages move up as your program does. Seats, storage, vendors, frameworks, and entities scale with add-ons.
Further reading for FFIEC Compliance
Practitioner walkthroughs from the Talarity library.
- Compliance·9 min readSave a security package once, send it on demandA prospect's security team asks for your SOC 2, your pen test, and your current security policies — again. Package Templates save that set as a reusable definition of pinned items plus rules like 'every current SOC 2 report', resolve it fresh each time you send, and hand it over as a redacted, watermarked, time-limited copy with a record of who received what.
- Compliance·6 min readSystem Configuration — turn a completed assessment into enforceable, drift-tracked baselinesEvery safeguard you scored in an assessment becomes an enforceable expected value. Talarity re-checks the observed state, flags drift, opens remediation automatically, and lets you attach evidence per control — so your controls stay implemented, not just documented once.
- Governance·6 min readExport and verify your audit trail for SOC 2Pull your full audit trail as a SOC 2 evidence file in any format, then prove it wasn't altered with a one-click tamper-evidence check — backed by a per-row hash chain and a Merkle root your auditor can re-verify offline.
- Compliance·8 min readPackage your audit evidence once — for the auditor, regulator, or customerAn auditor asks for your evidence and it's scattered across framework reports, vendor attestations, policy sign-offs, and resilience tests. Evidence Distribution Packages assemble the signed artifacts you already produced into one immutable package, then hand it to each audience as a redacted, watermarked, time-limited copy — with a record of who received what.
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