The coronavirus outbreak may have long term health implications for your organization that you haven’t even considered. Businesses in the U.S. are shutting their doors and telling employees to work from home to avoid spreading the virus. It isn’t hard to find a news article that considers the economic implications of quarantines around the country, […]
You’ve been doing security and compliance self-assessments for years. Ever wonder why it feels like you’re starting from Square One every time? By now, your compliance process should be a well-oiled machine—instead of that sputtering jalopy you’re fighting with. What if you could turn your organization’s compliance management into a high-performance engine? The solution is […]
More and more compliance assessment firms are ditching the old way of managing engagements. They’re trading in their spreadsheets, project trackers, dump zones for evidence, and the hodge-podge of clunky tools for a holistic compliance management system. TCT Portal is an all-in-one platform for organizing and managing all the moving parts of a compliance assessment. […]
You’ve been through the agonizing compliance audit season before, and this year’s assessment is coming your way, fast. You’ve made a couple of tweaks to your internal processes, and you’re communicating with people earlier this year—but it’s still not going to be an easy auditing process. It’ll be messy, and it’s going to be painful […]
It’s five times more expensive to acquire new clients than to retain current ones. For audit / assessment firms, that’s a costly problem to have. The good news is, even a small reduction in client churn can boost your bottom line. For professional services firms, top reasons for client turnover included: Projects going over budget […]
Security and compliance assessors have a lot of chaos to manage. Evidence is coming at you from every direction, teammates aren’t on the same page, files are missing, status is unclear, and you’re spending way too much time entering data into spreadsheets. All this, plus managing your client. If a client goes rogue or your […]
It’s 2020, the start of a brand-new year, all shiny with possibilities. You’ll accomplish great things for your company this year. But there’s a dragon lurking in the corner. Your annual compliance cycle is coming your way, and it’s going to be a beast of a project. Again. Your stomach tightens just thinking about it, […]
There’s nothing like a smooth, efficient, chaos-free client engagement. Unfortunately, there’s also rarely a smooth, efficient, chaos-free client engagement. For a successful compliance assessment, you have two teams with two different cultures that need to integrate as one. When you’re not on the same page, it generates friction that throws off your compliance assessment. Your […]
If you’ve been managing your compliance process for any length of time, you’re probably relying on spreadsheets to track compliance. At first, a spreadsheet made sense. You just needed to map your evidence and documents to your compliance requirements, note their owners and file locations, and mark their status. Easy as pie, right? Maybe at […]