A compliance deadline
When Compliance Lands On You
An insurer, a regulator, or a large client makes compliance your problem, and the list assumes you’ve got a security team.
The situation
Where the Requirement Comes From
Compliance work almost never starts because a business decides to do it. It starts because somebody asks.
A cyber insurance renewal arrives with a questionnaire. An enterprise client sends down a security addendum as a condition of the contract. A professional body publishes a requirement that turns out to have teeth. Accounting firms meet this most often, since the written information security plan (WISP) expected of tax and accounting firms isn’t optional, and plenty of firms find that out the year somebody asks. The requirement is rarely the hard part.
How we approach it
How We Work Through It
We go through the document with you rather than handing it back with the technical boxes checked.
Answer It Honestly
Every question gets its current answer, including the ones where the honest answer today is no.
Sort the “No” Answers
What closes this month, what needs budget, and what genuinely doesn’t apply to a business your size.
Write the Program
Most requirements want a document describing what you do, which is straightforward once the decisions behind it exist.
Produce the Evidence
Our baseline records what happens as part of normal operation, so the next audit is already documented.
Related areas
Related Problems
Compliance gaps and security gaps are the same list read in a different order, and thin teams cause both.
Security That’s Fallen Behind
Risk grows faster than the protection around it. Nobody notices until an insurer, a client, or an auditor asks a hard question.
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One person holds the whole thing together, with no backup, no bench, and no time to get ahead of anything.
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Each site gets set up by whoever is there at the time, so nothing matches and growth keeps making it worse.
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