Additional challenges include meeting time requirements for compliance, which require a streamlined process to avoid extended periods of risk.
IT compliance management involves meeting in accordance with required standards such as NIST, ISO, COBIT, CSA, and more, as well as any custom company policies. Ensuring your organization’s IT systems and data are secure and meet evolving privacy and security requirements comes with its own set of challenges.
Compliance over such a wide field can be difficult to achieve due to the amount of specialized content that continues to change over the years. Without specialized software, companies face difficulties in keeping track of vital data and tasks, engaging and following up with the responsible parties in each area, and writing required reports that dictate assessment findings and remedial tasks to meet compliance.
Additional challenges include meeting time requirements for compliance, which require a streamlined process to avoid extended periods of risk.
IT noncompliance can severely impact an organization’s finances and ability to operate as normal. This impact comes from financial penalties such as fines and lawsuits, customer loss, and the potential suspension of operations or the ability to do business.
Without a reliable platform to streamline assessments and automate key compliance functions such as suggested remediation, automated reports and data analysis, organizations struggle to be compliant. Unorganized compliance programs often require more resources than an organization can spare and leave a company guessing on where the biggest impacts lie.
The average cost of noncompliance in 2020 was nearly $15 million. Excluding the regulatory requirements, noncompliance to some IT frameworks causes unnecessary risk and exposes your organization to a higher likelihood of breaches, data loss, and malware.
CyberWatch is a modern assessment solution that can be utilized by various industries for cybersecurity and compliance risk assessments. The software enables you to reduce exposure to liability, manage risk, monitor and maintain cybersecurity, and track continuous improvement.