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Implement, evaluate, monitor: Key steps to automating compliance
A risk-based perspective leads organizations to understand how compliance efforts help the organization meet broader goals
Kaitlyn Archibald
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Nov 21, 2024
As your business becomes subject to additional, new, or updated frameworks, Compliance Automation helps you quickly scope and understand your compliance posture.
What are our gaps? Planning and implementing new requirements
Given the complex landscape of regulatory requirements and best practices for organizations to adhere to leadership and compliance, professionals must understand the cost and potential return on resourcing additional workstreams. The initial analysis of any new framework starts with “What are our gaps?” to know where there’s something in place and what’s missing. Gaining this perspective helps identify:
- Operational implications of how new frameworks apply to the business — what’s in scope and what’s not
- The delta of how new framework requirements align (and overlap) with existing practices
Understanding applicability and current coverage is critical for effective and efficient implementation. With the most in-depth framework content and coverage of any compliance vendor, organizations can quickly scope what requirements apply to their business, identify their performance, and kick-start an action plan to implement new controls to close any issues or gaps.
Users can select any individual or collection of more than 50 frameworks, choose and quickly evaluate which controls apply to their organization using the framework scoping survey, and identify where any existing evidence or operations are in practice for similar and synergistic frameworks.
For example, organizations that have completed an ISO 27001:2022 certification have close to 50% overlap with other leading frameworks, including GDPR, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, and IT General Controls for Sarban Oxley compliance. Precise and flexible mapping of how operations align across both mandatory and voluntary business requirements enables compliance stakeholders to quickly review and move on to focus on areas that require new or refined processes and documentation.
How well are we executing? Evaluating compliance performance
A primary driver for formalizing compliance is all about how you can communicate and prove your security and privacy posture externally to customers, partners, and regulatory authorities. The most scalable means is to proceed through a certification, standardized assessment, or audit with a validated third-party audit partner. A recognized framework helps standardize how internal controls map to market-recognized best practices, and a third party reinforces trust by eliminating internal bias. This stage goes beyond asking the question of ‘what are our gaps?’ to evaluate your defined controls, measuring how they reflect the intention of the framework requirements and how your processes and operations are executed for general effectiveness and consistency across the business.
OneTrust’s depth of compliance components across objectives, policies, controls, evidence tasks, and more ensures that businesses can maintain the continuity across specific auditor and framework language and efficiently measure operations in practice with evidence documented on a defined cadence to support continuous monitoring.
Control effectiveness is one of the most foundational KPIs you’ll want to establish, not just to communicate compliance for a single audit — but also as a contextual reference point to evaluate the maturity and evolution of your program over time.
Monitoring risk exposure and prioritizing action
While many compliance practices are 'the cost of doing business,' most companies are not in business to simply execute compliance. Having a risk-based perspective helps organizations understand how compliance efforts help the organization meet broader goals, mitigate the negative impact (beyond fines of non-compliance), and effectively make decisions on how to prioritize sometimes shared or competing resources.
OneTrust's compliance frameworks take this into account, mapping controls across common objectives and risks across your organization. It’s critical to allocate proper resourcing toward compliance management.
This integrated strategy enables your organization to quickly identify and remediate issues, reinforce control implementations and designs aligned with leading industry standards and evolving regulatory mandates, analyze program performance to inform and prioritize risk management activities for the broader organization. Learn more about OneTrust’s Compliance Automation solution by requesting a demo here.
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