Cybersecurity compliance is a key aspect of any business, however, it can also be challenging, time-consuming, and costly, especially when relying on manual processes and human intervention. With the ever-changing cyber landscape, staying aligned and compliant with your processes can challenging.
That’s why automation is becoming a necessity for businesses that want to optimize their cybersecurity compliance efforts and avoid the risks of non-compliance. By using technology-driven solutions such as no-code automation you can streamline processes and systems within an organization. This approach allows you to achieve greater efficiency, accuracy, and agility in managing your compliance obligations.
What are the benefits of automation in your compliance program
Incorporating no-code automation into your compliance programs offers a wide range of benefits that can help you enhance your compliance performance and outcomes.
Streamline and expedite your processes by automating repetitive and manual tasks, such as data entry, document management, and report generation. This can save you time and resources and allow you to focus on more strategic and value-added activities.
The risks of human error are constant however by reducing the number of manual processes you can ensure consistency and reduce risk. Through standardizing processes and implementing validation checks, automation enhances the reliability and quality of your compliance data and reporting.
Monitor and manage your compliance activities more effectively. Consolidating compliance data, generating real-time insights, and facilitating proactive remediation, you can mitigate compliance risks and demonstrate your compliance posture to regulators and stakeholders on a continuous basis allowing you to react to non-compliance before the feared audit.
Examples of compliance automation at work
Automation in our experience can be applied to almost any repeatable manual process. Here are some examples of what we have seen from customers:
- Password Compliance: Combining regular automated password penetration testing techniques to test the strength of passwords across an organisation with an automated user education program.
- Change Control: Integration of change control with privileged access management, so that changes being carried out across the enterprise are known and approved before any level of access to the systems is granted.
- Patch Compliance: Fully managed end-to-end patching including pre and post application checks and rollback.
- Recovery: Automated testing of backups and recovery activity.
- Agent Management: Ensuring that agents such as anti-virus are deployed and working. Automation is often be used to deploy, fix, and report on overall compliance.
Conclusion
Automation is a powerful way to streamline your cybersecurity compliance processes, improving the accuracy, and saving time and money. Compliance programs that make sure of automation ensure your key processes are always aligned with requirements.