You got into IT expecting to research new technologies and use them to do cool stuff. You wanted to move your company forward with digital innovations, to wield your creative energies and make a difference in your organization. But when it comes to managing security and compliance, it’s like you’re stuck in the Stone Age. […]
As your company’s chief risk officer, you’re the five-star general responsible for protecting your company. Those compliance standards you have to deal with every year may be a pain in the butt, but they’re part of your arsenal. Keep them sharp and you’ll fight a good fight. Compliance standards can be unwieldy, and hard to […]
Know what the definition of insanity is? It’s constantly doing the same thing and expecting a different result. I’d like to suggest another definition: it’s insane to do the same thing over and over, when you don’t need to do it! Most of my clients have multiple standards to comply with, and most of those […]
With Stone Age technology, everything takes a lot more time and a lot more effort. Traveling to the next town takes all day. Grilling a burger starts with hunting the buffalo. And running a compliance effort means investing hundreds of man-hours and tens of thousands of dollars into a frustrating process. If you’re using a […]
What if I told you that you could recover hundreds of man-hours on your compliance efforts, just from status updates alone? Seriously. Years ago, I was stuck in the Stone Age of compliance, before TCT Portal. I was helping a client become compliant, and we only had rudimentary tools available to us. We tracked the […]
If you’re becoming compliant for a certification like PCI, HIPAA, NIST, SOC or ISO, you have hundreds—maybe thousands—of line-item elements to take care of. One of the initial challenges is simply knowing which team members own what items. Most organizations use some type of manual process to assign each line item, one by one. It’s […]
You’ve been through the agonizing security and compliance process before, and this year’s audit is coming your way, fast. It’ll be total compliance chaos as you try to herd the cats and badger your people to submit documentation. And good luck keeping tabs on your status throughout the process! A simple check-in with your team […]
If your company needs to prove compliance, you’re probably using your own home-grown system to manage the process, collect evidence and track your progress. And that means you’re wasting hundreds of man-hours—and tens of thousands of dollars per year. I guarantee it. A few months ago, I wrote an article about the ROI that TCT […]
Companies often view the moment of getting compliant as their biggest hurdle. It’s not. While getting compliant is a huge accomplishment, you have only shown that you can do each requirement once. Now, you need to show that you can maintain that compliance. This ongoing maintenance, which TCT calls Operational Mode (the operationalizing of compliance […]