The public announcements of discovered breaches within organizations have become more prevalent each year. With it, the cost of remediation due to exposure has also increased. Regulators have countered by imposing even more stringent frameworks on organizations.
Compliance frameworks, in turn, can become a maze filled with potential obstacles, dead ends, and hurdles to overcome. Depending on the organization’s vertical, that maze can take the form of frameworks such as HIPAA, Hi-Trust for healthcare, PCI, SOC2 for the financial sector, or geographical regulations such as GDPR and FedRAMP.
Organizations are quickly expanding into a full or hybrid workforce and utilizing PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) providers such as AWS and Azure, or SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications like O365 and Salesforce. On-Prem, Cloud, and Hybrid environments call for additional reworking of compliance frameworks. As frameworks are rewritten to fit the needs of the current landscape, the need for a cybersecurity partner becomes an absolute necessity.
Assessing risks in compliance deals with analyzing and prioritizing potential exposure points across your organization. Both internal and external risks require consideration and strategies to manage. Frequently factors such as decentralized logs, data handling practices, lack of employee digital awareness, and emerging threats are high-risk areas.
Establishing organizational guidelines and policies before, during, and after a potential breach creates a chain of custody delineating responsibilities across all departments in an organization. Further policies outlining organizational commitments to compliance, risk management, and ethics help further define and demonstrate an audit trail of compliance observance.
When monitoring and auditing it's critical to understand the areas that require strict attention to detail. External auditors will take measure of whether logs have been centralized such as in a SIEM. SOC support can demonstrate diligence in monitoring through threat hunting, log pattern recognition, and behavioral analytics.
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