Compliance
Deliver ISO Compliance with Automation
Learn the ISO security and cloud compliance as well as the automated mechanisms to ensure those standards.
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Check out the Essential Cybersecurity Compliance series:
- Essential Cybersecurity Compliance Standards
- Use PCI DSS Checklist with Automation
- How to Reach Compliance with HIPAA
- Meet NIST Compliance Standards Using Automation
To ensure consumers have confidence in your products, systems, and services, it’s vital to comply with laws, regulations, and standards. While recent migrations to the cloud remains advantageous to businesses across the globe, the associated risks and vulnerabilities require a greater focus. This means meeting compliance to avoid financial risks, losing market share, and non-compliance fines and penalties.
As it’s necessary to continuously monitor and review every system within a network, doing so can slow your team down. Businesses often have up to tens of thousands of servers, especially within a virtualised cloud environment, making it impossible to manually monitor and review systems successfully. This can lead to compliancy slipping through the cracks.
With much at stake, companies are thinking about how to meet compliance like NIST, GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO. Explore how you can integrate security your organisation needs to meet compliance without friction.
The chain of compliance
An organisation’s security posture is implemented from the organisation’s cybersecurity leaders. As a CISO, you’re responsible for to adopt new standards towards IT security and IT risk. Nonetheless, meeting compliance is ultimately a team effort. Here’s how everyone else contributes:
- Security Manager/SecOps: Due to the virtualisation technology in data centres and within cloud providers, the number of serves, routers, and switches has dramatically increased from traditional physical data centres. Security managers/SecOps must be committed to meeting compliance as well. This is due to security manager/SecOps responsibility for detecting, investigating, and responding to security alerts, as well as staying up to date on the ever-changing threat landscape.
- DevOps: In addition to building, deploying, and running applications that meet the business needs, DevOps teams need to reconfigure over time as those needs change.
Why it matters to you
With digital transformation comes the widening of your digital attack surface and skills shortages. This introduces very real challenges for management. In fact, 50% of organisations are adopting a cloud-native approach to support both employees and customers, and the number of connected devices is expected to climb to 55.9 billion by 2025. These shifts have allowed cybercriminals to target unmanaged attack vectors.
Receiving actionable prioritised mitigation recommendations enables your team to better discover and assess risks across your digital attack surface. Automating mitigation wherever possible can bolster efficiency and reduce the chance of a successful attack or breach.
Automate and accelerate your audits with Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Conformity
Conformity enables you to automate security audits while meeting business’ compliance needs by providing your team with:
- Seamless integration into their CI/CD pipeline due to powerful APIs.
- Infrastructure as a code (IaC) to ensure only the most secure and compliant templates are deployed.
- Real-time monitoring of your AWS and Microsoft Azure environments with a single, multi-cloud environment.
- Continuous scans against hundreds of industry best practise cheques, including all the ones vital to your business – SOC2, ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, GDPR, PCI DSS, and HIPAA.
- Standardised and custom reports auditing your infrastructure with an endless combination of filters.
- Connection to preferred third-party providers such as Slack, Jira, Zendesk, PagerDuty, and Microsoft Teams.
- Complimentary knowledge base auto-cheques against over 750 infrastructure configuration best practises across over 85 services from AWS and Azure.
Why compliance matters
To minimise complexity and friction, it’s important to review the tenants of compliance and ensure everyone across your organisation, from DevOps to SecOps, possesses a general knowledge.
Compliance laws:
- Example: European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its associated country specific laws.
- What it requires: The protection of personal data, commonly referred to as personally identifiable information (PII) such as your name, address, and phone number.
Compliance regulations:
- Example: Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- What it requires: Protection of health information, commonly referred to as protected health information (PHI). PHI includes doctor visit notes, x-rays, and blood work results.
- Example: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)
- What it requires: Protection of credit card numbers and their associated data like the three-digit code on the back of your card and its expiration date.
Compliance standards:
- Example: International Standards Organisation (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC) 27000-series, known as the ISO27K for short.
- What it is: Series of documents that provides best practise recommendations on information security management—from physical network to network security.
- Breakdown of applicable documents:
- ISO/IEC 27001: Details best practises for establishing and maintaining information security management system (ISMS). Companies can receive certification for meeting this standard by an accredited certification body following a successful audit. These best practises include:
- Regular audits of an organisation’s security risk such as threats, vulnerabilities, and impacts.
- Design and implement acceptable remediation plans for high-risk threats.
- Adopt an overarching management process to ensure continuous compliance is met.
- ISO/IEC 27002: Extensive best practise recommendations for the use of information security controls by people responsible for the ISMS.
- ISO/IEC 27017: Best practises for information security controls for cloud services based on ISO/IEC 27002 guidelines.
- ISO/IEC 27001: Details best practises for establishing and maintaining information security management system (ISMS). Companies can receive certification for meeting this standard by an accredited certification body following a successful audit. These best practises include:
The following use case gives insight into how events like the Capital One data breach can be avoided:
The problem: Capital One, considered a “mature cloud company”, suffered a massive data breach in 2019 due to a misconfigured web application firewall.
The result of the data breach: More than 100 million U.S. customers impacted and another 6 million in Canada.
The standard: ISO/IEC 27001
How it applies: This standard was adopted in 2013 to specify the requirements for developing and implementing an ISMS. The ISMS is the sum of the information security programme, its processes, and all the security controls within a business. If Capital One had followed the best practise of regular, systemic audits, the misconfigured firewall would have been detected and potentially remediated before being exploited.
Next steps
An automated security, governance, and compliance cloud risk assessment can enable you to build a secure and compliant cloud infrastructure. Trend Cloud One™ – Conformity offers a free public cloud risk assessment. Cloud engineers will check for your AWS and Azure cloud environment to ensure you’re operating within compliancy.