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Is Compliance Dictating Your Security Strategy?

While the costs of compliance are high, the costs of non-compliance are even greater - including large fines, loss of customer trust and more. Many companies spend significant time and budget on proving compliance - often sacrificing additional security projects and business innovation to collect, correlate and report compliance data to the agencies and organizations that govern the many different regulations. Gartner research suggests that companies that select individual solutions for each regulatory challenge spend 10 times more on the IT portion of compliance projects than companies that take a proactive and more integrated approach.

A New Solution for Evolving Compliance Challenges

By leveraging Akibia’s AssuredCompliance service, clients benefit from complete management of compliance across all regulations and on an on-going basis, ensuring changes to regulations are always addressed. Akibia's Managed Service reduces the cost of compliance. It also reduces the time spent on mapping to multiple regulations and managing evolving requirements. Finally, it streamlines reporting and "proving" compliance to auditors and executives. In addition to reducing costs and improving efficiency, Akibia enables organizations to free their staff to focus on improving security and other strategic projects.

Understand, Prioritize and Mitigate Compliance Risks With Akibia's Managed Service

AssuredCompliance provides visibility into multiple compliance requirements via a single, integrated framework, managed by Akibia. Viewing compliance through this framework allows companies greater insight into overlap between the various compliance regulations, from FERPA, FISMA and Sarbanes Oxley to PCI and Mass 201 CMR 17, among others. Akibia's managed service removes the burden of compliance reporting from the client's IT staff, allowing them to focus on other security projects. It also helps IT organizations identify critical security risks and areas of exposure and enables them to prioritize areas for remediation. 

Managing Compliance with Multiple Regulations from a Single Framework

For most companies, demonstrating compliance results in significant re-work and costs due to IT duplicating efforts to ensure and prove compliance across multiple government and industry regulations. 

In fact, most compliance mandates are derivatives of one another and outline the same basic tenets - use technology and processes to make the business environment secure, and document those processes to ensure compliance. Often times these regulations require similar encryption and security safeguards, but specific reporting requirements. 

Akibia’s AssuredCompliance service provides a single framework, as well as access to compliance experts to ensure regulations are met across industries, while freeing the client’s IT staff to focus on critical security challenges. Akibia's managed compliance service helps clients:

  • Identify GAPs in current processes and suggest changes and solutions to rectify vulnerabilities and exposures;
  • Document current compliance levels for executives;
  • Provide on-going compliance assessments from experienced, certified consultants that help companies fine-tune their compliance strategy;
  • Leverage best practices to ensure compliance concerns are addressed;
  • Provide a Business Risk Summary which helps companies identify critical issues that should be addressed immediately;
  • Align reporting available from current IT solutions to input required by the auditors - ensuring all reports are in the right format required by the auditors;
  • Provide support for the “selling” of compliance to the auditors. 

The Benefits of AssuredCompliance

Akibia's AssuredCompliance provides the following benefits to clients:

  • Streamlined reporting - AssuredCompliance helps companies leverage overlaps between multiple requirements to reduce redundancies in reporting.
  • Focus on other business priorities - By offloading the compliance management process to Akibia, IT leaders can realign their existing team to focus on security issues and business priorities.
  • Better insight into compliance - Through regular analysis and assessments and access to Akibia’s expert certified consultants, companies gain greater insight into risks and threats related to compliance.
  • Reduced costs - By eliminating reporting redundancy and identifying similarities between compliance regulations companies can reduce their spend on compliance.