CCM Examples and Case Uses
How our Continuous Controls Monitoring Platform addresses your organisation’s cyber security and digital risk challenges
CCM Examples and Use Cases
How our Continuous Controls Monitoring Platform addresses your organisation’s cyber security and digital risk challenges
CCM Examples and Case Uses
How our Continuous Controls Monitoring Platform addresses your organisation’s cyber security and digital risk challenges
As awareness increases, organisations need to understand how their operational resilience is transformed by the value that CCM brings.
The use cases for continuous controls monitoring can come from two directions; either a role or a technology focus.
As Quod Orbis CCM can connect and extract out metrics from ANY technology (where ever it exists) this means the technology focus of use cases is somewhat diminished as we can cover every one of them.
So we have focused on your role within an organisation and how CCM can be that single source of truth.
The Key benefits of CCM
Evidenced Based Holistic View
A single source of truth of all your technology, all controls, all metrics
Enhanced Cyber Resilience
Including continuous compliance, quantitative cyber risk management and increased operational efficiency
Automated Auditing
Enable audit to remove manual processes and increase assurance significantly
Let's Explore Our Use Cases
For as long as Cyber has existed teams have had to deal with an increasing number of tools to protect an organisations people and data. With CCM cyber teams benefit from a single source of truth eliminating many manuals process that suck up your time but offer little to move you forward with your Cyber strategy.
QO CCM will connect to every data source you have invested in and extract out specific metrics to help you attest how effective your controls are and how each technology is working both independently and in conjunction with each other to increase cyber resilience.
For the first time you can have a tool that automatically connects all your tech into a single platform for the ultimate visibility into your cyber resilience. Plus did we mention we manage this process for you saving you time and effort while allowing you to focus on the issues and not just manage the cyber infrastructure.
- Any data source (technology), any framework, any control: multiple data sources are aggregated and correlated to provide a holistic picture – completely technology and environment agnostic.
- Security solutions, assets, identities and controls: reporting from multiple tools is eliminated and replaced by clear, actionable intelligence designed to your visual preference.
- Quantified and evidence based output: accurate, real time, impartial information from a single source of truth
- Totally objective status output: independent of any department’s interpretation of data, or judgements.
- Instant insights into coverage issues: such as key controls missing from critical assets
- Critical information delivered in real time: no need to rely on, or wait for, different operational and IT teams to report.
- Early warning of potential security risks as incidents occur or controls degrade.
- Automating ticket raising in ITSM tools when thresholds hit or controls fail and ability to track the resolution in the platform. Enabling automation from data gathering through to incident management.
The Quod Orbis CCM platform enables Cyber Risk quantification by extracting required data direct from each technology and using 100% of the data and in real time. Moving away from static, sample data sets to base important decision on. We enable you to have 100% assurance over the data you are attesting. We can also (if you like) automate into wider GRC platforms to enable wider business risk reporting.
- An automated, real-time view of risk, governance and compliance: coverage of all your assets, instead of a point in time view of risk.
- Quantitative and objective reporting: based on data with the associated evidence attached to underpin the reasoning and in near real time.
- Alignment of risks to actual control efficacy: eliminate interpretation and judgement regarding a controls status and effectiveness
- Through eradicating false, outdated, or misconstrued information regarding risk, governance, and compliance, the risk team can focus on critical priorities
- Truly effective organisational GRC: By connecting direct to eGRC tooling we can ingest and output to enable Cyber risk to be managed in a way that compliments organisational risk processes.
- Flexibility to support any approach or framework: in any respect of risk modelling and reporting
- Continuous support from experts: focus on the information from the platform without distraction of managing the information flow
Compliance is an increasingly complex process, more regulations, more controls, more technology and more teams required to gather the data. Which is often out of date as soon as you process it. With CCM we fully automate these manual processes. We gather the data direct from each technology, correlate the metrics and align to the controls and run the attestations as frequently as you like. Moving to a continuous compliance state and increasing your assurance in the results. Plus all the associated evidence is stored with the regulation in the platform so you can manage output and not the process.
With Quod Orbis Continuous Controls Monitoring, your GRC/IRM programmes really come to life, as automated, continuous compliance replaces manual attestations for huge time and cost savings and optimal speed and accuracy. The many compliance-related benefits include:
- Automated, continuous, real-time compliance: replacing manual attestations and delivering significant time and cost savings as well as total accuracy.
- Interact with any regulation, any framework, any standard: including any bespoke internal standards
- Security compliance automation, continually updated: with the latest legislation and framework revisions, providing simple compliance re baselining.
- Automated real-time compliance: replacing manual, point-in-time compliance for continual tracking
- Single source of truth with evidence: no more pre-audit scramble
- Dramatically reduced duplicated effort, time and cost across the multiple audits: Internal & external audits, ISO 27001, Sarbanes- Oxley, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council’s PCI Data Security Standard
- Effective, low cost-efficient Governance, risk and compliance programmes, and integrated Risk Management programmes.
Audit professionals can benefit immensely from the visibility that continuous controls monitoring provides audit teams. Audit processes are smoother, quicker and ultimately accurate rather than point-in-time, and immediately out of date information:
- Assured ongoing effectiveness of all security controls: through ongoing 24/7 monitoring, assessment and analysis
- Ongoing reporting: on the security posture of information systems
- Maintained predetermined levels of acceptability: ensure that your organisation risk is where is should be.
- Ready Reporting: of both the effectiveness over time of the organisation’s security controls, and any changes to those controls that might have occurred.
- Board-level reporting: of cyber security status information.
Regardless of your responsibilities and objectives continuous controls monitoring (CCM) supports your entire operational resilience and provides key benefits.
ASSURANCE
- Fact- and evidence-based system with unified output – accurate, real-time information from a single source of truth
- Agnostic output, wholly independent of, any department’s interpretation of data
- Critical information in real-time – you no longer have to rely on, or wait for, different operational and IT teams to report
- See and know the true status of all your security solution and data, eliminating a false sense of security that can often arise from multiple tools.
- Compliance monitoring and continuous assurance to demonstrate that due care has been taken – helping to mitigate potential fines in the event of an incident
- Coverage of other areas of exposure beyond risk and compliance controls, such as Key Performance Indicators/Key Risk Indicators.
VISIBILTY
- A single source of truth, in a single pane of glass, 24/7
- Aggregation and correlation of multiple data sources/investments provides a complete, holistic picture that is technology/data-source agnostic
- Impartial, independent view
- Discovery of any coverage issues, such as key controls missing from critical assets
- Early warning of any potential issues so they can be remedied before they impact your business
- Actionable insights provide evidence that underpins a control and what needs remediation
- The ability to highlight exposure and steer investment decisions based on factual
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