Compliance: The Double Edged Sword

Compliance for most companies is the beginning of the end. Many companies hear the very word and expect that just because they met the baseline they are secure. Unfortunately, I have spoken with many teams in many companies with this mentality. The positive is many companies do have some kind of baseline, the negative is money is tight and security isn’t making them money its spending it.

So lets briefly address the frameworks and standards we see.

As cyber threats evolve, so do the regulatory frameworks designed to mitigate these risks. However, the complexity and diversity of these regulations pose significant challenges for businesses aiming to adhere to Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) standards.

Organizations are grappling with a web of cybersecurity regulations that vary by geography and industry. From GDPR in Europe to CCPA in California, companies must navigate a complex regulatory landscape, often with overlapping and sometimes conflicting requirements.

It might be interesting to see a framework that has levels. Baselines at separate maturity levels. We could take into account many aspects of GRC for all the different kinds of companies we have seen and create alternating paths. Each path has designated levels that progressively get more secure and audits and self audits for consistency to measure. Obviously this is not flushed out and me spitballing here but because of everything we talked about above I found it interesting.