Monitoring compliance, raising cyber risk awareness, risk analysis, and daily management… Year after year, CISOs are given more and more responsibilities—a trend that will unfortunately continue with the upcoming introduction of new regulations.
To the question: how to manage work time effectively? The answer may lie in automating certain tasks, particularly those related to compliance.
Several questions arise: is it possible to automate the management of a certification? To what extent? How can the Tenacy platform simplify the implementation, maintenance, and evaluation of compliance? Let’s start with the basics.
Compliance Automation: What Are We Talking About?
Compliance Automation: A Distant Goal
Compliance is a process that affects all layers of the company, which makes the task even more complex.
As Baptiste David, Head of Market Strategy at Tenacy, explains, “To date, there are no all-in-one solutions on the market for compliance where you just need to click a button to handle everything and be compliant.“
Automated responses to compliance requirements can therefore be particularly challenging.
While routine actions such as deploying and updating workstation protection solutions are now integrated into compliance monitoring, the same cannot be said for integrating the software environment of teams such as Human Resources or Finance.
In the quest for full automation, it is important to remember that compliance requires the analysis of the CISO, which includes the production of reports—an action that remains difficult to automate to this day. As Baptiste David points out, “although rapid advancements in generative AI promise to support CISOs in these tasks, we are still far from being able to discuss technical issues with APIs.”
Compliance monitoring, finally, requires regular actions and cannot be fully automated.
But don’t be discouraged! While automating compliance and maintaining it remains challenging, evaluation is different. It relies on factual and quantitative data, making it more feasible.
Automation of Compliance Measurement
If RSSIs traditionally based compliance evaluations on their personal interpretation, it is now possible to use quantified data for a more objective measurement.
For example, in response to a NIS 2 requirement on protection against malware, the installation of protection solutions on equipment becomes a quantifiable measure.
In this context, continuous evaluation based on concrete data eliminates subjective biases and ensures a dynamic tracking of compliance. This approach is enhanced by the use of collaborative tools and project management systems that facilitate data collection and cybersecurity oversight.
Tenacy: A Platform to Automate Your Cyber Compliance
Save Time Understanding Regulatory Texts
First Advantage: Tenacy analyzes and translates the most commonly used regulatory texts into concrete actions.
In practice, if you want to obtain ISO 27001 certification, the Tenacy platform clarifies the requirements and translates them into concrete actions such as the need for antivirus software, engaging a SOC, or performing regular security updates.
Furthermore, the tool allows users to verify what they need to do to achieve compliance, track their progress, and ensure that necessary actions are effectively implemented. For instance, if a company is already using a SOC, Tenacy adjusts its compliance score accordingly.
Benefit from a comprehensive catalog of compliance standards
The platform also stands out for its catalog of compliance standards, allowing CISOs to easily select the ones that best fit their organization’s needs. Among them:
- ISO 27001 – international standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), which defines the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and improving an ISMS within an organization;
- PCI-DSS – A standard aimed at securing payment card transactions by protecting cardholder data against fraud and information theft.
- EIOPA – Regulatory framework for the insurance sector in Europe, aimed at ensuring the solvency and financial stability of insurers to protect consumers.
- SOC2 (Service Organization Control 2) – Audit report evaluating security and privacy controls at technology service providers, aimed at protecting client data.
- DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) – EU regulation proposal aimed at enhancing the operational resilience of the financial sector against ICT-related risks.
Thus, a company needing to comply with both DORA and ISO 27001 can track and manage its compliance progress for both standards simultaneously through the Tenacy platform. This integrated approach eliminates the need to start from scratch for each new standard, streamlining the compliance process and enabling efficient, centralized monitoring.
Moreover, if your organization needs to follow a customized Information Security Policy (PSSI), Tenacy enables the deployment and monitoring of personalized standards, facilitating the import of corresponding requirements and security measures.
Centralize your data sources on a single platform
Security managers can also easily connect their security solutions to the Tenacy platform. For example, companies using Cybereason, Palo Alto Cortex, SentinelOne, or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can easily integrate these EDR solutions for a comprehensive view of threat detection and response on endpoints.
For Active Directory security, Tenacy offers a native connector with PingCastle. Additionally, for identity management, the platform natively integrates with Google Workspace and Azure Active Directory. If you use a solution that is not listed, you can always use Tenacy’s API!
Whether it’s for consolidating security data, measuring compliance, or monitoring security scores such as those provided by Microsoft Secure Scores, Tenacy offers a robust platform for effective and integrated cybersecurity management.
Create Custom Dashboards
The tool provides indicators specific to security policies and automatically calculates your compliance score. This flexibility allows you to focus efforts where human expertise is most valuable, by automating repetitive and low-value tasks such as statistical calculations.
Tenacy allows you to move away from the sometimes chaotic management using Excel and instead focus on analyzing results and making strategic decisions.