Compliance and Governance
Challenging Times – The Age of Compliance
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.
In 2007 companies will continue to see increased risk and liability from regulatory and compliance pressures.
Extensive Experience and Resources
Sword & Shield offers access to world class experience in consulting on compliance initiatives.
A Risk-focused Approach
Addressing individual compliance and regulatory areas takes time and money away from other business needs. Sword & Shield 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.
IT Security Governance and Security Best Practices
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:
- ISO 27001 (ISO 17799, BS7799)
- Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT)
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®)
Sword & Shield is currently assisting many organizations with adopting, adapting and integrating information security practices based on these standards.
Proven Experience
Sword & Shield has experience in assisting companies across many different sectors with their compliance needs, including:
- Payment Card Industry: Sword & Shield is a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) for the Payment Card Industry (PCI) and provides on-site audits and reporting on compliance (see more about our PCI compliance services).
- Banking and Financial Services: Sword & Shield assists financial service organizations in meeting Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) and Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) requirements by providing information security and risk management services for over 7 years.
- Healthcare: Sword & Shield is assisting healthcare organizations to implement effective security programs that address the security and privacy safeguards rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
- Sarbanes-Oxley: Sword & Shield provides assistance to public companies affected by the reforms of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act to ensure their readiness of implementing, auditing, and reporting on internal controls.
Sword & Shield consultants stand ready to assist you with your compliance and security needs.
If you are processing credit cards, find out how Sword & Shield can help you with PCI DSS Compliance.
For Information on how Sword & Shield is helping federal agencies integrate penetration testing to address FISMA mandated annual security reviews, click here.
Our Markets
We service many markets, predominantly in these sectors:
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