How to automate compliance with Tenacy?

Compliance automation: what are we talking about?

Automating compliance: a distant goal

Compliance is a process that affects all levels 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 compliance solutions on the market where you can simply click a button to take care of everything and be in compliance."

Responding to compliance requirements in an automated manner can therefore prove particularly difficult.

While standard actions such as deploying and updating workstation protection solutions are now incorporated into compliance monitoring, the same cannot be said when it comes tointegrating the software environment of teams such as human resources or finance.

When it comes to the goal of full automation, we must not forget that compliance requires analysis by the CISO, including a reporting stage—an action that remains difficult to automate to this day. As Baptiste David points out, " although rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence promise to support CISOs in these tasks, we are still a long way from being able to discuss technical issues with APIs. "

Finally, compliance monitoring requires regular action and cannot be fully automated.

But don't be discouraged! While automating compliance and maintaining it remains difficult, this is not the case forassessment, which has the advantage of being based on factual and quantified data.

Automation of compliance measurement

While CISOs traditionally based compliance assessments on their personal interpretation, it is now possible to use numerical data for a more objective measurement.

For example, when faced with a NIS 2 requirement for protection against malware, installing a protection solution on equipment becomes a quantifiable measure.

In this context, continuous assessment based on concrete data eliminates subjective bias and ensures dynamic compliance monitoring. This approach is reinforced by the use of collaborative and project management tools that facilitate data collection and cybersecurity management.

tenacy: a platform to automate your cybersecurity compliance

Save time understanding regulatory texts

First positive point: 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 to have antivirus software, use a SOC, or perform regular security updates.

In addition, the tool allows users to check what they need to do to comply, but also to track their progress and ensure that the necessary actions are actually implemented. For example, if a company already uses a SOC, Tenacy adjusts its compliance score accordingly.

Take advantage of a catalog of compliance benchmarks

The platform also stands out for its catalog of compliance frameworks, allowing CISOs to easily select those that best meet their organization's needs. These include:

• ISO 27001 – international standard for information security management systems (ISMS) that defines the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and improving an ISMS in an organization;
• PCI-DSS – a standard that aims to secure card payment transactions by protecting cardholder data from fraud and information theft;
• EIOPA – regulatory framework for the insurance sector in Europe, aimed at ensuring the solvency and financial stability of insurers in order to protect consumers;
• SOC2 (Service Organization Control 2) – audit report evaluating security and confidentiality controls at technology service providers for the protection of customer data;
• DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) – proposed EU regulation aimed at strengthening the operational resilience of the financial sector in the face of ICT-related risks.

This means that a company that needs to comply with both DORA and ISO 27001 can track and manage its compliance progress for both standards simultaneously from the Tenacy platform. This integrated approach eliminates the need to start from scratch for each new standard, streamlining the compliance process and enabling effective, centralized monitoring.

In addition, if your organization needs to follow a PSSI, Tenacy allows you to deploy and monitor custom repositories, making it easy to import requirements and corresponding security measures.

Centralize your data sources on one platform

CISOs can also easily connect security solutions to the Tenacy platform. For example, companies using Cybereason, Palo Alto Cortex, SentinelOne, or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can easily connect 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. Finally, 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 the Tenacy API!

Whether it's 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 specific indicators for security policies and automatically calculates your compliance score. This flexibility allows you to focus your efforts where human expertise is most valuable, by automating repetitive, low-value-added tasks such as calculating statistics.

Tenacy allows you to move away from the sometimes chaotic management of Excel while focusing on analyzing results and making strategic decisions.

In conclusion

For professionals looking to simplify compliance management and optimize their time, platforms such as Tenacy offer an automated and centralized solution.

By facilitating the creation of customized dashboards and integrating data from multiple sources, Tenacy allows CISOs to focus on more strategic tasks. If you would like to see how the platform can transform your organization's compliance management in practice, please contact us to request a demo: https://www.tenacy.io/demo/