The most important aspect once compliance is achieved, for any company is the on going maintenance of a compliance posture to the desired level or audit readiness state expected by audit and regulatory bodies. This can cause defocusing on a companies actual business objective and growth.  

Maintaining the compliance and security posture can be resources intensive. Often valuable and costly resources with specialist expertise are utilised for mundane compliance tasks gathering evidence and administering risks. Whereas they could be used on more strategic or business growth security activities 

GRC Constraints 

Some of the constraints the managed GRC service can mitigate. 

Resource constraints – Often resources are concentrating on other Business, IT security, and technical BAU activities, which take priority. Resulting in compliance unintentionally being put into the background, until close proximity to the next audit.  

Time constraints – Not leaving enough time and having resources available to meet audit timeframes, resulting in extra temporary resources being contracted in at last minute, adding to cost. 

Cost constraints – In the ever increasing introduction of laws and regulations to protect data, and a lot of the time is mandatory to enable a companies growth. Meeting these demand can add considerable cost in training time and getting extra expertise resources to meet these demand. 

The solution 

This service is being provided to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to enable them to meet the required obligations for data security as required under data privacy regulations and compliance as an outsourced service. Organisations are fulfilling their data security and compliance obligations without encountering the resource overhead constraints. 

Experienced and qualified security compliance professionals will be available to provide offsite remote data security and regulatory compliance consulting services for a monthly fee. Onsite services can be provided at a discounted rate if the monthly CaaMS is taken up.