Compliance and cyber security are not one and the same. Simply being compliant with a cyber security-related standard does not mean you’re secure.
Compliance standards are helpful for ensuring cyber security controls are deployed, but they don’t measure how well they’re deployed or how effective those controls actually are in protecting your data.
By working with AFin-IT, we can help you meet your cyber security compliance goals while also ensuring your security deployment is up to scratch and fit-for-purpose.
Before embarking on a cyber security compliance journey, it’s important to understand what your organisation’s drivers are for compliance.
Whether you’re preparing for a PCI Audit, aiming to meet ISO compliance, or working towards one of the many other compliance standards available, understanding your organisation’s drivers will help you decide which compliance standard to choose. Drivers can include regulatory obligations, customers’ demands, or legal constraints.
Whichever standard you decide to aim for, use the exercise as a good opportunity to introduce solid cyber security controls to protect your data, rather than it simply being a box ticking exercise.
We are dedicated to deeply understanding your compliance drivers, organisational priorities, and the critical systems/data required to support these goals.
Using these factors, we can help you select the appropriate cyber security compliance standard for your organisation. We also use all this information to help you take a risk-based approach to the controls in place so you can protect your critical systems and data whilst satisfying the obligations from you chosen compliance standard.
During the exercise, if we identify areas of your organisation that would be considered non-compliant, we make practical recommendation on how to address these gaps.
Compliance is not just about being compliant.
You need to be able to demonstrate how you’re compliant so should you be audited or need to complete a customer questionnaire, you can provide evidence that you’re meeting your obligations. We can help you with this.
Additionally, achieving compliance is a “point in time” exercise. We help our customers not only achieve compliance, but also maintain compliance as your organisation evolves and grows.
