Compliance Automation Overview

Introduction to Compliance Automation

Organizations face significant challenges in maintaining and demonstrating compliance in the rapidly evolving landscape of regulations, standards, frameworks, and sprawling digital ecosystems. Businesses must navigate a complex maze of documentation and reporting internally, with third-party auditors and regulatory bodies. Ad hoc and manual processes to support compliance quickly lead to redundant workstreams, inefficiencies in operationalizing requirements, and challenges adapting to new regulatory changes and updates.

OneTrust Compliance Automation enables organizations to scope, execute, monitor, and communicate their compliance posture. Built-in content and expert-vetted guidance are embedded into core capabilities, with intuitive workflow and an interface designed with your key stakeholders in mind to help promote engagement and scale ownership. By adopting a centralized system to track and manage compliance initiatives, InfoSec and IT compliance professionals can promote consistency, increase visibility, and save time with a holistic view of compliance across complex business environments.

Compliance Automation is part of the GRC & Security Assurance cloud with OneTrust. To learn more, see the Compliance Automation knowledge base.

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For a demo on Compliance Automation, watch the video here.

Module Benefits:

  • Propel your team from research to action with access to over 40+ pre-seeded privacy and InfoSec frameworks to seamlessly comply with evolving standards and regulations

  • Integrate and automate evidence collection for continuous compliance, with access to ready-to-use policies, controls and evidence tasks

  • Manage requirements cross-mapped to different frameworks and versions, with the ability to create a custom standard or framework associated with your compliance initiative

  • Create initiatives to help achieve compliance with the associated standards and frameworks relevant to your organization. Compliance initiatives consist of a list of controls that must be implemented to achieve compliance towards the associated standard or framework.

Solutions Provided by Compliance Automation:

Scope Compliance Requirements

: Automatically generate required controls and evidence tasks based on your operations with our framework scoping survey

Streamline Control Management

: Reduce duplicative efforts and administration by establishing controls that mirror applicability throughout your enterprise or uniquely with system or process-specific controls

Streamline Evidence Collection

: Comply once, comply many to de-duplicate workstreams across standards, frameworks and regulations leveraging our proprietary evidence framework

Share and Report on your Compliance Posture

: Drive transparency for external stakeholders to grow your business with a Trust Profile that consolidates compliance details, certifications, completed questionnaires, and more

Typical Users

Admins or key users of Certification Automation would report to or have the following titles:

  • Chief Information Security Officer

  • Chief Risk Officer

  • Chief Compliance Officer

Supported Frameworks

Compliance Automation has a scoping wizard architected by a team of security and audit experts that automatically generates the policies, controls and evidence tasks organizations required to demonstrate compliance for a specific framework. In addition to policy templates and implementation details for controls, evidence is shared across frameworks, simplifying the journey towards compliance. Below is a list of some of the popular security frameworks that OneTrust supports with Compliance Automation.

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For a full list of Supported Control Frameworks, read the article here.

Framework

Framework Description

SOC 2

SOC 2, published by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), is a reporting framework designed to help companies assess their policies and controls. It uses the AICPA’s Trust Services Criteria (TSC) to check systems for security, privacy, confidentiality, availability, and processing integrity. Reports are done by independent AICPA-licensed auditors and come in two types: Type I describes the organization's system and if it meets the relevant trust principles, and Type II details the operational efficiency of these systems over time. SOC 2 is by far the most requested InfoSec framework and audit process in the US, signifying that an organization can be trusted to secure its customers and sensitive data.

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To learn more about the SOC2 Framework, read our blog post here.

ISO 27001

ISO 27001 is a flexible standard, allowing organizations or service providers to determine the scope of its information security management system (ISMS). The ISMS encompasses all the applications, systems, processes, and people your organization needs to protect. ISO 27001 remains one of the most popular global security standards.

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To learn more about the ISO 27001 Framework, read our blog post here.

NIST CSF

Considered to be the gold standard when it comes to cybersecurity, NIST CSF provides guidelines to manage and reduce risks in a way that is future-proof and complements an organization’s existing practices. It is a voluntary guidance document that organizations can choose to adopt to enhance cybersecurity practices, however, certain industries or sectors may have specific regulatory or contractual requirements that reference the framework as a recognized standard. 

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To learn more about the NIST CSF Framework, read our blog post here.

NIST 800-53

NIST 800-53 (or NIST Special Publication 800-53) is a publication that establishes cybersecurity compliance standards for US information systems and organizations. It provides a comprehensive and flexible security and privacy control catalog that is not only adaptable to different organizations, but also future-proof against evolving threats and regulations.  All federal information systems and organizations must comply with NIST SP 800-53.

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To learn more about the NIST 800-53 Framework, read our blog post here