Maintaining Compliance with Abacode MCCP Core

For industries in which regulatory compliance is a condition of doing business—like finance and healthcare—maintaining it is absolutely crucial. However, whether required by law or by certification standards, regulations are set into place to show that clients and customers can trust an organization to keep their data safe. Many companies turn to managed service providers for their cybersecurity, but less do the same for managed compliance services. Because cybersecurity is a huge part of compliance, bundling them can ensure both.

Growing environments can cause IT departments to struggle to maintain compliance. In addition to on-prem environments, businesses have cloud, hybrid-cloud, or even multi-cloud environments. Because environments can grow rapidly with the cloud, managing them and maintaining compliance across all systems, applications, and devices—the environment as a whole—has become more difficult. When changes are made, IT departments must routinely check to ensure the entire environment is still compliant, and the bigger the environment, the more work that will be.

For enterprise environments, especially rapidly growing environments, IT departments often struggle with lack of visibility. Contracts and renewals can grow out of control, and it can reach a point where you no longer know what you’re paying for. When you don’t know which devices or environments are being protected, you put yourself at risk of falling out of compliance, facing fines, loss of client trust, or even legal liability.

Compliance, like cybersecurity, is not a project that can ever be “marked complete.” Compliance requires constant management and monitoring. But the work doesn’t end there. It must be constantly audited, maintained, and proved as well. The data gathered must then be kept and reported to prove compliance. In a sprawling environment, the work only increases.

Maintaining compliance means mandatory audits and reporting, which can take up valuable time for teams that already have too much to do. Compliance requires constant work and attention, and for in house staff, the time spent on compliance can push the workload over the edge. As IT environments continue to grow—and the talent shortage continues—IT departments can find themselves increasingly overwhelmed. Managed compliance services can help lessen the workload, allowing workers to focus on the day-to-day.

Abacode MCCP Core bundles together managed compliance and cybersecurity services for a program that offers fully managed surveillance, multi-level threat prevention, and continuous compliance monitoring as a monthly subscription. Supported certification bodies include HIPAA, CMMC, NIST, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, and SOC2.

• 24/7/365 Cybersecurity Management and Monitoring
• 24/7/365 Continuous Compliance Management and Monitoring
• File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
• Cloud Environment and Application Monitoring
• User Behavior Analytics

• Cloud-Native Endpoint Protection
• Network and Host Intrusion Detection (NIDS / HIDS)
• Tier 1-3 Security Operations Center (SOC) Analysis

• Continuous Compliance Attestation
• Integrated SIEM and Compliance Portal
• Integrated Cybersecurity and Compliance Reporting
• Dedicated Compliance Dashboard Showing the Real-Time State of Your Compliance Program
• Full Integration with SIEM for Real-Time Alerting of Events that Affect Compliance Posture
• Evidence Repository for Attestation
• Continuous Monitoring by Experienced Compliance Analysts
• Controls Implementation and Audit Liaison Available

Ensuring compliance can be a challenge, especially in growing environments. Choosing a managed service provider to ensure compliance removes pressure on internal teams and ensures trust in your organization. By choosing Abacode with Adapture, organizations are creating simplicity and visibility in their IT environments.