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Checklist: What to Look for in a Security Compliance Technology Solution

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If you find yourself drowning in a sea of compliance requirements, juggling multiple frameworks, and struggling to keep track of your compliance stakeholders and workflows, it may be time to bring order to the chaos. Checklist: Selecting a Security Compliance Technology Solution 1. Centralized, single source of truth.

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Why You Should Adopt a Continuous Approach to Compliance

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In a business climate of emerging security risks and expanding regulatory requirements, security and compliance leaders are struggling under the pressure of maintaining ongoing compliance. This is the underlying motive for adopting a continuous approach to compliance, also known as continuous monitoring. Finite resources.

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How to Measure and Improve Assurance and Compliance With IRM

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Most CEOs are ready to take a more strategic view on risk that moves beyond heat maps and simple questions of compliance. An earlier article examined performance and resilience ; we’ll take an in-depth look at assurance and compliance below. Compliance: Are You Identifying and Remediating Areas of Non-Compliance?

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Optimizing Testing and Evidence Collection With Technology

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Controls testing and evidence collection can be burdensome not only for compliance and audit professionals, but also for the stakeholders they engage with. AuditBoard’s InfoSec Survival Guide: Achieving Continuous Compliance , explores what compliance professionals should consider when approaching automation.

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Six Tips for Creating a Positive Relationship With Your Compliance Stakeholders

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Continuous compliance begins with leadership and strategy — after which the responsibility must be passed off between compliance teams and their stakeholders. AuditBoard’s InfoSec Survival Guide: Achieving Continuous Compliance explores why stakeholders are as essential to compliance as branches are to a tree.

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3 Tips for Applying a Risk-Based Approach to Issues Management

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AuditBoard’s new ebook, T he InfoSec Survival Guide: Achieving Continuous Compliance , examines what a risk-based issues management program looks like and details steps for creating one. The following are metrics that are a good idea to have on your dashboards for day-to-day compliance teams and executive-level reporting.

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Six Categories CISOs Should Address in the Board Report

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When reporting on your InfoSec compliance program to the Board, the main goal is to ensure board members are aware of high-risk cybersecurity items and InfoSec has the appropriate budget to address them. Examples of KPIs include: Percent of compliance framework requirements met. Number of overdue action plans by team.