
Many organizations are finding themselves dealing with the pressures of regulation and compliance. With a recent upward trend in mandatory regulations and compliance initiatives, organizations are finding that all of these activities are taking up valuable time, money, and staff resources that could be better focused on core business objectives.
Addressing individual compliance and regulatory areas takes time and money away from other business needs. Creative Breakthroughs can assist you in taking a risk-focused approach to managing compliance and help reduce the associated costs. Many organizations are struggling to meet compliance objectives and are currently over prescribing security controls and thus incurring unnecessary costs. Finding security controls that collectively meet today's security compliance challenges and meet organizational risk management objectives is paramount to an effective security management program.
Regulatory directives are often created to address particular protective measures for areas of security deficiencies. This can create a condition whereby organizations are focused on meeting the letter of the regulatory directives but losing site of the complete information security management picture. Just meeting compliance goals does not necessarily make the organization more secure. Ultimately, an organization must take a risk-focused approach to ensure that corporate risks (business, operational, financial, technical) are adequately mitigated and that compliance objectives are met.
With a growing focus on IT Security Governance, many corporate boards are recognizing the need to become more involved in the information security needs of the organizations they serve. Today, we are seeing a broader adoption of security best practice standards and certifications, such as:
Creative Breakthroughs is currently assisting many organizations with adopting, adapting and integrating information security practices based on these standards.
Creative Breakthroughs has experience in assisting companies across many different sectors with their compliance needs, including: