5 Ways to Combine Compliance & Cybersecurity Best Practices to Improve Outcomes
Compliance and security are both essential for the smooth operation of your firm. Although security is an important component of compliance, compliance is not synonymous with security. Both are interconnected but distinct.
While compliance assists your company in meeting industry or government laws, security safeguards your company’s integrity and sensitive data.
In this post, we’ll look at how Atom Creek can merge compliance and security to help your organization.
Proactively fix security and compliance issues
Failure to implement proper security measures can result in compliance concerns. Similarly, disregarding compliance risks exposing your company to security concerns and attracting fines for noncompliance.
There are numerous security flaws that must be addressed proactively in order to avoid risk. Here are a few frequent difficulties that businesses like yours confront, as well as solutions:
- Advanced persistent threats (APTs)
APTs attack endpoints, networks, and the cloud in order to cripple hybrid, remote, and on-site work environments. The most effective strategy to combat APTs is to implement a solution that can:
- Provide continuous monitoring and threat hunting
- Effectively stop hostile actors who circumvent firewalls and antivirus systems
- Insider threats
Insider threats are concerning because they are difficult to detect. As a result, Atom Creek recommends that you employ an advanced internal threat detection system that combines machine learning and intelligent tagging to detect unusual activity, suspicious changes, and dangers caused by misconfiguration.
- Lack of clarity about the network
Keeping track of all the PCs, mobile phones, printers, and servers on your company’s network is difficult, especially in today’s increasingly hybrid work environment. However, without understanding the devices on your network, it is impossible to determine the health of your IT network. To address this issue, you’ll need an automated assessment and documentation solution that can identify hazards to all assets, including those that aren’t physically connected to the network.
- Untrained employees
When your staff are untrained and uninformed of potentially dangerous behaviors, it can lead to serious security problems. For example, an employee inadvertently clicking on a phishing link could result in a full-fledged ransomware attack on your company. That is why it is critical to prioritize regular personnel security awareness training.
- Sale of credentials on the dark web
Another major security risk you may face is having your credentials sold on the dark web. This could jeopardize your organization’s security, reputation, and financial standing. Combating this danger requires adopting industry-leading technologies for dark web monitoring as well as identity and access control.
Align security and compliance
Most organizations have at least basic security measures in place, such as antivirus software or active firewalls. However, you must guarantee that your company’s security posture is capable of withstanding the evolving cyberthreat scenario. You may include your security solutions into your compliance plan with some effort.
By systematically integrating security and compliance, you may drastically reduce your businesses risks. You can strengthen your organization’s security posture by implementing robust authentication, data protection, access monitoring, network-to-edge protections, and other measures. Validate the efficiency of these solutions on a regular basis after they are in place to verify that your firm is taking the required precautions to avoid noncompliance and security breaches.
Are you ready to take the next step?
Contact sales@atomcreek.com to set up a free consultation to see how we can assist you in combining security and compliance to strengthen your cybersecurity posture.
