Automated Compliance and Risk Management Platform
Overview:
This project aims to solve the complex and costly challenge of regulatory compliance by implementing a comprehensive, automated platform. Instead of manual, periodic audits, this solution provides a continuous, real-time view of your organization's compliance status with key security standards (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA). This ensures that your business remains compliant and secure, reducing risk and operational overhead.
Key Deliverables:
- Deep Assessment & Strategic Planning
- Discovery & Needs Analysis: Conduct in-depth interviews with key stakeholders (IT, legal, finance, executive leadership) to fully understand the specific compliance requirements, risk tolerance, and business objectives.
- Existing Infrastructure Audit: Use automated tools to scan and map your current IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, and applications. This will identify existing vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and non-compliant assets.
- Compliance Control Mapping: Create a detailed matrix that maps your existing security controls to specific requirements of the chosen compliance standards (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR). This will highlight compliance gaps.
- Deliverables: A comprehensive Discovery Report outlining current state, identified gaps, and a Strategic Plan with a proposed technical architecture.
- Platform Implementation & Automation:
- Continuous Vulnerability Scanning: Implement and configure a commercial vulnerability management platform (e.g., Tenable.io or Qualys) to perform automated, continuous scans of your internal and external networks.
- Configuration & Policy Enforcement: Deploy an automated tool to audit server and network device configurations against industry benchmarks (e.g., CIS Benchmarks). This includes configuring automated alerts for any deviations.
- Compliance Dashboard Development: Build a centralized, user-friendly dashboard (e.g., using Grafana or a custom solution) that visualizes the real-time compliance status. The dashboard will show compliance scores, a breakdown by control, and a list of active issues.
- Deliverables: A fully operational Continuous Compliance Dashboard, a Vulnerability Management System, and Configuration Audit Scripts.
- Automated Reporting & Training:
- Automated Reporting: Configure the platform to automatically generate and email weekly or monthly compliance reports to key stakeholders. These reports will summarize compliance trends, recent findings, and risk scores.
- Real-time Alerting: Set up automated, real-time alerts to notify the relevant teams (e.g., Security Operations, IT) immediately when a critical compliance issue is detected.
- Knowledge Transfer & Handover: Conduct comprehensive training sessions for your team on how to use and maintain the platform. This includes documentation on how to interpret reports, manage alerts, and perform basic troubleshooting.
- Deliverables: A Final Project Report, a User Training Guide, and a complete handover of all project assets and documentation.