Many organizations struggle with security and data protection compliance management:
- Most organizations spend between 25 and 40 percent of their security budget on compliance-related activities.
- Only 28% of organizations believe that government regulations help them improve cybersecurity.
- 58% of companies see compliance costs as barriers to entering new markets.
- While the costs of compliance are high, the costs of non-compliance are almost three times greater.
An effective security compliance management program can:
- Reduce complexity within the control environment by using a single framework to align multiple compliance regimes.
- Provide senior management with a structured framework for making business decisions on allocating costs and efforts related to cybersecurity and data protection compliance obligations.
- Reduce costs and efforts related to managing IT audits through planning and preparation.
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Book NowModule 1: Establish the Program
The Purpose
- Establish the security compliance management program.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Reviewing and adopting an information security control framework.
- Understanding and establishing roles and responsibilities for security compliance management.
- Identifying and scoping operational environments for applicable compliance obligations.
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| 1.1 | Review the business context. |
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| 1.2 | Review the Info-Tech security control framework. |
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| 1.3 | Establish roles and responsibilities. |
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| 1.4 | Define operational environments. |
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Module 2: Identify Obligations
The Purpose
- Identify security and data protection compliance obligations.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Identifying the security compliance obligations that apply to your organization.
- Documenting obligations and obtaining direction from management on conformance levels.
- Mapping compliance obligation requirements into your control framework.
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| 2.1 | Identify relevant security and data protection compliance obligations. |
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| 2.2 | Develop conformance level recommendations. |
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| 2.3 | Map compliance obligations into control framework. |
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| 2.4 | Develop process for operationalizing identification activities. |
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Module 3: Implement Compliance Strategy
The Purpose
- Understand how to build a compliance strategy.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Updating security policies and other control design documents to reflect required controls.
- Aligning your compliance obligations with your information security strategy.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Review state of information security policies. |
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| 3.2 | Recommend updates to policies to address control requirements. |
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| 3.3 | Review information security strategy. |
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| 3.4 | Identify alignment points between compliance obligations and information security strategy. |
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| 3.5 | Develop compliance exception process and forms. |
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Module 4: Track and Report
The Purpose
- Track the status of your compliance program.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Tracking the status of your compliance obligations.
- Managing exceptions to compliance requirements.
- Reporting on the compliance management program to senior stakeholders.
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| 4.1 | Define process and forms for self-attestation. |
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| 4.2 | Develop audit test scripts for selected controls. |
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| 4.3 | Review process and entity control types. |
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| 4.4 | Develop self-assessment process. |
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| 4.5 | Integrate compliance management with risk register. |
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| 4.6 | Develop metrics and reporting process. |
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