New Policy Mapping Lets You Save Hours — or Days — On Each Engagement

TCT Portal’s latest innovation is giving our customers a greater-than-ever ROI. Now you can fully connect every policy document to every relevant line item in a completely hands-off manner. TCT’s automation-powered system analyzes your policy documents, identifies which requirements that each section belongs to, and links those sections to the right requirements across the entire certification track.

This is one of the most impactful single time savers we’ve added to TCT Portal, and it promises to elevate your compliance engagement significantly.

Massive Time Savings in Seconds

To see the tremendous benefit of this new capability, let’s run through a common scenario. 

Let’s say we’re talking about evidence provisioners on a PCI DSS engagement. You’d have almost 1,000 different elements of information that are needed to support the overall ROC. A huge portion of that evidence comes from any number of policies, which you’ll upload into TCT Portal. 

Traditionally, you have to connect your policies to all of the correct requirements within PCI DSS. While that sounds simple, even in a best case scenario where you have a single 80-page policy, it may need to be attached to hundreds of different items. 

It might take a couple minutes to search and locate the section of the policy that goes with a particular requirement and attach the policy to it. Not a big deal. But when you have 180 requirements, it adds up quickly.

Let’s do the math on that. Two minutes per requirement, times 180 requirements, equals 360 minutes. It can easily take six hours — almost a full day — to go through all of your policies and attach them to the proper requirements in PCI. And that’s assuming you don’t run into any glitches or roadblocks along the way — and that you’re not taking 5-10 minutes per requirement pouring through dozens of different policy documents. 

TCT Portal now allows you to load all of your policies at once and click a button. TCT Portal then independently handles all of the work for you in seconds.

The system reviews the policies, identifies which of the requirements those policies have content that meets those requirements, and automatically links the right policies to the right requirements across the entire certification.

Not only that, but TCT Portal will also cite the sections within the policy. So if TCT Portal identifies a section as relevant to Antivirus, it will cite that section of the policy within the requirement, giving the reviewer a snapshot of the information that’s contained within the policy.

All of this is handled for you, automatically, in just seconds — saving you at least a full day’s worth of work.

Assessors and Consultants Could Save Even More Time

For Consultants and Assessors, if your clients take a dump-and-run approach where they load up the policies and leave it to you to sort out, all of the above time savings are in play — and even more.

TCT Portal’s policy mapping provides an even greater payoff by streamlining the reviewing process. If you’re a reviewer, you need to manually flip back and forth through all 80 (or so) pages of the policy as you check the citation references that the client has provided — assuming they’ve actually provided them. On average, it can take at least five minutes per requirement to do the policy review and validations. In total, you’re looking at a hefty 15-plus hours of manual labor for reviews.

That’s almost two days of mind-numbing time that TCT Portal gives back to you. With TCT Portal’s policy mapping, there’s no hunting through documentation. Instead of opening up a policy document and manually sifting through 80 pages of material, you can simply look at the citation reference at the requirement level and review what the linked policy states. It’s right there in front of you.

This also streamlines the QA team review as well.

Recover Thousands of Wasted Dollars with TCT Portal

This single feature represents a quantum leap forward in time savings and work efficiency for compliance teams, Consultants, and Assessors. 

What would do with an extra six to twelve hours of your time, if you suddenly had it at your disposal? TCT Portal gives it to you. Here’s a few ideas:

• Allow Assessors to take on more engagements without increasing headcount
• Invest in customer service
• Spend more time assessing remediation opportunities
• Collaborate with other internal teams
• Get proactive and catch compliance missteps before they happen

TCT Portal’s policy mapping is just one of dozens of features and capabilities that streamline the compliance management process. It isn’t unusual for our customers to reduce their wasted time and effort by 65 percent or more.

That recovered time equals recovered money — fewer costs, greater margins, higher profits. And that frees up your organization to strategize at a higher level. You’d be surprised how much of a business benefit TCT Portal can provide to you — but you can see actual projection numbers with our ROI Calculators for Customers and Assessment Firms.

How much time and money could TCT Portal give back to your company? And what will you do with it?

The System You Wish You Always Had

From Day One, TCT has taken our customers’ input seriously and incorporated your requests into TCT Portal. Our aim is to serve our customers’ greatest needs, and ultimately that’s what makes TCT Portal stand out from other compliance management tools on the market.

We were entrenched in compliance management before we built TCT Portal. We aren’t a bunch of software developers who have never done the hard, manual work of spreadsheet management or client consulting. We know from first-hand experience what it’s like to try to manage compliance manually. It sucks.

So we built the compliance management system we always wished we had. And we take a collaborative approach with our customers, so that you get the compliance management system you always wanted.

If there’s something TCT Portal could do to improve your compliance experience, let us know!

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