Continuous Security and Compliance

Regulatory mandates are expanding and proliferating faster than organizations can ramp up to meet their requirements. Addressing compliance with technology alone is no longer viable. Deploying one point product for SOX compliance, another for PCI, and another still for HIPAA is a recipe for integration nightmares, manual workarounds, failed audits, and serious risks of punitive financial penalties. The costs and risks of piecemeal compliance are ultimately unacceptable and unsustainable.

W&G can help you develop a comprehensive solution that is tightly integrated, highly automated, extensible, scalable, and reliable. Our methodology is based on best practices, vetted processes, and is tool-independent and brand-agnostic. Our Continuous Security and Compliance services deal with the complexities in the pairing of technology and processes to the necessary controls so that the scenarios that present risk outside of organizational tolerance are understood and mitigated at the proper investment levels.

Value-Driven Goals

Value-Driven Goals

Some of the common goals of W&G Continuous Security and Compliance engagements are to:

  • Align with corporate risk strategy
  • Minimize operational impact of security and compliance
  • Comply with corporate and regulatory mandates
  • Provide cost transparency for Risk Management
Major Risks

Major Risks

Security & compliance efforts often fall short of expectations because they failed to plan for associated risks. Among those risks are:

  • Decentralized risk technology management
  • Organizational disconnect
  • Unclear change management process as it relates to security and compliance
  • Lack of enterprise-wide solutions that ensure non-stop enforcement of policies and processes
Issues Addressed

Issues Addressed

Our Continuous Security and Compliance practice ensures that the common issues are addressed, such as:

  • Program strategy and roadmap
  • Technology selection and design implications
  • Defense in depth
  • Technology and solution expenditure rationalization
  • Capabilities and skills gaps
  • Integrated technology and processes
Delivery

Delivery

Some of the deliverables and activities of a Continuous Security and Compliance engagement may include:

  • Process and technology remediation roadmap
  • Risk assessment and threat analysis
  • Technology design and implementation
  • Disaster recovery and business continuity plans
  • Pre-audit readiness assessment and remediation
  • Security and compliance awareness programs