How much time does manual compliance tracking in Excel cost?

Teams typically spend 15 to 30 minutes per control per quarter on updating spreadsheets, chasing evidence by email and rebuilding management reports in Word.

How does CyberFocus reduce that cost?

Controls, evidence, risks and reporting live in one place with live scoring, so most manual consolidation, version control and report building disappears — typically 70 to 80 percent less effort.

What's the payoff?

Tracking compliance in Excel and Word quietly costs dozens of days every year. Calculate below what you save with the CyberFocus Framework Tracker.

Your situation

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Number of controls120

E.g. ISO 27001 Annex A ≈ 93 controls

Number of frameworks2

NIS2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS, BIO

Minutes per control per quarter20 min

Updating, chasing evidence, merging versions

Hourly rate€85

Internal or external rate of the people involved

Estimated savings per year

€28,832

That's 339 hours (42 working days) less manual work — roughly 76% of your current effort.

Manual in MS Office

€38,080

448 hours per year

A spreadsheet per framework
Evidence buried in mailboxes
Word report every quarter

With CyberFocus Tracker

€9,248

109 hours per year

One register, live score
Evidence attached to the control
Reports in one click

Indicative calculation based on quarterly updates per control, ~3 days of reporting and ~5 days of audit preparation per framework per year. With the tracker we assume 75% less admin work, 90% less reporting work and 70% shorter audit preparation.

Comparison

Excel & Word versus CyberFocus

Exactly where the time goes with manual tracking — and what replaces it.

AreaManual in MS OfficeCyberFocus

Tracking control statusSeparate Excel tabs per framework, manual copy-pasteOne register, status per control with live scoring

EvidenceFiles scattered across mailboxes and shared folders, no version controlEvidence linked to the control, with date and owner

Overlap between frameworksThe same measure filled in three times for NIS2, ISO and NISTCapture once, reuse across frameworks

Board reportingManual Word report, days of work every quarterDashboard and export, always up to date

Audit preparationWeeks of hunting for evidence and outdated versionsEvidence ready per control

RisksSeparate risk list, rarely kept in syncRisk register with likelihood × impact, linked to controls

Less manual work

No copy-pasting between sheets. Status updates take seconds instead of hours.

Always audit-ready

Evidence, owner and date sit with every control. No more scramble right before the audit.

Lower risk of errors

A single source of truth prevents outdated versions and missed measures.

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