Cyber compliance has become tougher than ever. Consumers and business decision makers alike recognize the roles that data and technology play in our daily lives and demand the highest levels of security compliance from vendors. Compliance frameworks like SOC 2, NIST, and PCI-DSS help companies present a badge of trust to users, proving their commitment to security, as verified by a trusted third party.
However, adhering to these frameworks is challenging. With varied requirements and sprawled infrastructure, modern companies cannot manually keep pace with these needs. As infrastructure becomes more dynamic, conducting one-off audits doesn’t make sense either since underlying conditions change quickly.
Automation is playing a critical role here. Cypago, a platform that enables automated cyber GRC compliance, automatically detects shortfalls and alerts companies of them. Here’s how this tool helps companies remain compliant and establish trust with customers.
Conversational Cyber GRC Management
The phrase “AI-powered” is overused these days, but Cypago practices what it claims. The platform comes built with an AI assistant out-of-the-box, giving users the ability to ask compliance-related questions in everyday language, and even to execute mitigation tasks.
Built on the latest ChatGPT framework, the AI bot addresses everything from a company’s compliance concerns to risk management strategies to mitigating vulnerabilities found via continuous security monitoring. Thanks to its familiarity with the latest standards and best practices, Cypago’s bot can offer the highest levels of guidance to security teams.
The AI assistant also comes with prompts for the most common compliance questions. These prompts remove any need for users to scan lengthy documents. Cypago can now answer any questions related to a company’s firewall, database, and other critical infrastructure, thanks to its revolutionary AI bot.
Customizable Automated Monitoring
Cybersecurity risks change rapidly and a static protocol cannot cope with them. For instance, a malicious actor could repeatedly ping a company’s defenses, learn its weaknesses, and launch a devastating attack.
From the company’s perspective, their system protected them against all attacks except the final one, when in reality, every instance was a part of one attack. Continuous control monitoring (CCM) prevents this risk by constantly monitoring a company’s infrastructure for changes and verifying its compliance status in near real-time.
Cypago’s platform monitors critical control points and detects anomalies in a company’s compliance setup. It also provides more context for compliance gap mitigation. More importantly, the platform generates in-depth reports that stakeholders can customize to gain insights into their compliance status.
Whereas other compliance tools might use static workflows for these assessments and scans, Cypago allows you to make adjustments however you see fit. For example, if you connect the platform to your Gitlab code repositories, you can designate which ones are in use and which ones are only for sandboxing use cases, making them exempt from regular security scans.
Companies can also automate workflows and notifications to ensure employees take action per security policies and control logic. The result is that compliance and security gaps are quickly filled.
Smart Audit Evidence Pushes
Audit evidence collection is often a tedious GRC task. Cypago is changing this perspective with its Smart Evidence Sharing feature. With Smart Evidence Sharing, users can decide how evidence is shared, when, and with which entities.
The result is high control and flexibility. For instance, users can decide whether audit evidence should be shared across all frameworks or a single one. Additionally, users can also choose to share evidence within the entity, framework, and control combination.
As a result, companies can define controls granularly when deciding which ones apply to which frameworks and map them to entities. At its core, this feature runs on Cypago’s in-built mappings.
These map controls to frameworks, reducing the workload by sharing evidence within the maps.
With Smart Evidence Sharing, companies can deploy GRC resources efficiently, ensure high precision in compliance controls, and dig deeper into their data to arrive at decisions faster.
Streamlined User Access Reviews
As part of regular compliance, companies must periodically verify various user access settings. However, user access reviews are troublesome and time-consuming. Gathering documentation, identifying every entity, and earmarking every resource within the organization is problematic.
Cypago has now streamlined this process, helping companies quickly identify orphan or dormant users, excessive permissions, and automation permission definitions. Companies can centralize their user access reviews on a single platform. Cypago unites information from different apps, tools, identity providers, SSOs, permission models, and users.
The platform then maps and identifies the complex web of relationships between all of them, identifying security pitfalls quickly. Best of all, companies can rely on Cypago irrespective of their infrastructure sprawl, making it ideal even as organizations scale.
Cypago also helps companies dig deeper by discovering users, their permissions, and employment status automatically. With these tedious tasks automated, security teams can dive deeper into the data and unearth insights they need to ensure compliance. With user access reviews streamlined, security teams can execute reviews in a few hours, giving them more time to conduct value-added work.
GRC Automation with Cypago Is the Way Forward
Cyber GRC management is a critical part of a modern organization’s framework, and Cypago allows for automating several critical bottlenecks in those workflows. By centralizing all compliance-related data, the platform is automating away tedious tasks and giving security teams more time.
From AI-bot-powered compliance queries to continuous control monitoring, Cypago is set to revamp the cyber GRC space.
