Risk & Compliance
“In compliance” does not equal “secure”
The headlines speak: Breaches still happen to companies that comply with industry regulations and standards because they fall short of ensuring comprehensive data security. How do you reduce your threat surface, secure your company’s assets and ensure data privacy? How do you balance this with achieving compliance and maintaining your competitive advantage?
SOX. PCI. GLBA. FISMA. HIPAA. It’s an alphabet soup that mandates that your organization needs to take “reasonable best efforts” to secure critical information. There are big implications wrapped around those few words, as data and applications are inextricably linked. Whether you’re becoming compliant or avoiding risk, you need to safeguard your data. Simply put, to make the information secure, you must make the application secure.
How do you proceed?
Take action now with proactive security and documented compliance before you become the next headline.
Learn how effective risk management can benefit your organization.
- Develop an internal security standard. Reduce your threat exposure by evaluating your organizational data to determine what’s at stake and the organizational risk if it were to be breached or stolen. Put standards in place to safeguard the data.
- Whether you internally develop code or leverage open source, perform a source code analysis scan to expose security vulnerabilities in your most business-critical apps.
- Hold your external partners accountable to your security standard. Require that your outsourcers employ a security scan on code delivered to you, and define up front what is acceptable and what is not. Put this language right in the contract.
- Use the source code analysis tool to support your compliance efforts and adherence to governance standards. You will gain insight into potential risks as well as the ability to quickly prioritize and remediate your vulnerabilities.
Compliance and security are separate but linked objectives. Both are needed to keep your company on track and meeting the needs of your customers.
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