Internal Compliance Assessment TemplatesInternal Compliance Assessment Templates

Complying with cyber regulations forms a significant portion
of the CISO’s responsibility. Compliance is, in fact, one of the
major drivers in the purchase and implementation of new security
products.

But regulations come in multiple different colors and shapes –
some are tailored to a specific vertical, while others are
industry-agnostic. Some bare explicit consequences for failing to
comply, while others have a more guidance-like nature.

The Comprehensive
Security Guide (download here)
[1], for the first time,
provides security executives with a single document that gathers
standardized and easy to use templates of all main compliance
frameworks: PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST Cyber Security Framework and
GDPR.

Employing an independent auditor is the common practice to
ensure one complies with the desired regulation.

However, before having an external auditor excavating through
the organizations’ security stack internals, it makes sense for the
security stakeholders to independently conduct a rough gap analysis
of their environment and the regulation they seek to comply
with.

The Comprehensive Compliance Guide saves security stakeholders
the time and trouble of building themselves such an evaluation
tool.

Instead of crafting a compliance matrix from scratch or
searching across the web for a free template, CISOs can now use the
guide to access a wide range of assessment templates
effortlessly.

While probably not all of them will be simultaneously used in a
single organization, there are good chances that every organization
will find at least one of them useful.

The Comprehensive
Compliance Guide
[2]
encloses assessment templates for the following regulations:

  • Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI
    DSS) —
    Information security standard for any organization
    that handles branded credit cards from the major card schemes.
    Proving that an organization complies with PCI-DSS is essential in
    shielding an organization from lawsuits that can arise in a breach
    scenario that entails the compromise of credit card data.

Payment Card Industry Data Security StandardPayment Card Industry Data Security Standard

  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
    (HIPAA) —
    United States legislation that provides data
    privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical
    information. HIPAA standard applies to all organizations that
    operate within the healthcare ecosystem: hospitals, medical
    centers, and health insurance providers, a market segment that is
    subject to significant cyberattacks.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ActHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

  • NIST Cyber Security Framework (CSF) — A policy
    framework of computer security guidance for how private sector
    organizations in the United States can assess and improve their
    ability to prevent, detect, and respond to cyberattacks. NIST CSF
    applies to all organizations and is not confined to a certain
    vertical. While not a binding regulation in the strict sense of the
    term, NIST CSF is rapidly becoming the general industry
    cybersecurity common standard and in practice, serves as an
    indication that sound cybersecurity policies are implemented and
    practiced.
  • The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) —
    Regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all
    individual citizens of the European Union (EU) and the European
    Economic Area (EEA). It also addresses the transfer of personal
    data outside the EU and EEA areas. GDPR applies to any organization
    that stores and processes EU citizens PII regardless if of its
    location. Failure to comply with GDPR results with fines that can
    reach 5% of the violating organization’s annual revenue.

The Comprehensive Compliance Guide enables CISOs to pull up their
sleeves and get to work immediately – map out the compliance
framework that fits them best and immediately launch an internal
assessment process that rapidly yields actionable and conclusive
insights on what’s working and what should be improved.

Download The Comprehensive
Compliance Guide
[3]
here.

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