What you need to know about managing multiple standards

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Navigating the complex world of cyber security compliance can be a challenge for any business, regardless of size or industry. It is becoming increasingly more common for businesses to seek compliance in multiple cyber security standards, for a wide variety of reasons. Whether due to contractual obligations, an internal move to improve security, or as a stepping stone to access new markets, standards such as SOC 2, ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials are being integrated into businesses across the globe.

Each standard has its own unique set of requirements, guidelines and nuances, and managing them all can often feel completely overwhelming, even for the most well prepared and organised teams.

However, by using a platform such as OneClickComply, businesses can automate and streamline compliance across multiple standards, drastically reducing the time, effort, and operational resources involved.

The Complexity of Managing Multiple Standards

When working to comply with multiple standards, you will likely be managing a complex web of controls, policies and documents. For example:

Cyber Essentials establishes basic cyber security measures to protect against common cyber threats.

ISO27001 outlines how to implement and maintain an Information Security Management System (ISMS).

SOC 2 covers controls around how to manage customer data, focuses on security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

Each of these standards requires significant preparation, documentation, and evidence collection to achieve, not to mention the process of maintaining them. However, while they may seem like distinct sets of tasks, there’s actually considerable overlap among them.

Finding the Overlap Between Standards

Although SOC2, ISO27001, and Cyber Essentials focus on different areas, they share a common goal: protecting sensitive data and ensuring overall system security. Many of the tasks required for one standard can contribute toward meeting others.

For example:

Access Controls: All three standards require strict access controls for sensitive information. Once you establish appropriate access controls for one standard, much of that work will satisfy requirements across the others.

Data Encryption: Implementing strong encryption protocols to meet ISO27001 requirements will bring you closer to compliance with SOC2 and Cyber Essentials.

Incident Response: Each standard requires a form of incident response planning and reporting. Creating and implementing a comprehensive incident response policy can be applied to all three standards, saving significant time and energy.

This overlap creates opportunities to reduce duplicating work. But to take full advantage, it’s essential to have a system that can track completed tasks and report on your current compliance status across multiple standards.

How OneClickComply Simplifies Managing Multiple Standards

Manually managing compliance for multiple standards can easily become a tangled mess. Keeping track of completed requirements, staying current on new ones, and maintaining an overall view of compliance can be daunting. OneClickComply eases this complexity by automating the compliance process.

One Platform for All Standards: OneClickComply combines standards like SOC2, ISO27001, and Cyber Essentials into a single platform. Instead of juggling multiple tools and spreadsheets, you can view, track, and manage all compliance requirements in one place, making compliance management much more efficient.

Fix Once, Comply Across Multiple Standards: OneClickComply does more than just track compliance, it provides instant automated remediation. With its “Fix this for me” approach, you can resolve issues across standards simultaneously. For example, if you implement data encryption to satisfy ISO27001, the platform will automatically mark the associated SOC 2 or Cyber Essentials task as completed as well.

Continuous Monitoring and Real-Time Updates: OneClickComply continuously monitors your environment to ensure ongoing compliance. If something drifts out of alignment with one standard, the platform alerts you and prompts an automatic fix. Plus, when updates to SOC2, ISO27001, or Cyber Essentials are released, OneClickComply integrates these changes instantly, creating tasks to get you compliant with the new updates.

The Benefits of Automating Multi-Standard Compliance with OneClickComply

By automating multi-standard compliance management, you can:

Save Time: Avoid duplicating effort across standards. You can address one compliance task and have it count toward multiple standards.

Increase Efficiency: Having a centralised platform reduces the complexity of managing tasks across standards, freeing your team to focus on more strategic efforts.

Reduce Operational Complexity: Managing multiple standards for multiple clients or internal departments manually can be overwhelming. OneClickComply simplifies the process, allowing you to provide better service while staying focused on core priorities.

Automate Compliance and Manage Multiple Standards

With increasing demand for compliance across multiple standards, manual processes will only become more challenging and cost businesses more unnecessary resources. Instead, OneClickComply reduces the complexity, saves time, and helps you manage all compliance standards in one simple, efficient platform. By automating overlapping requirements, OneClickComply makes compliance easier, faster, and more effective.