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Compliance as a Service

Managed Compliance for Your Data Security Obligations

At Cortech Systems, we specialise in ensuring your organisation meets key industry standards through comprehensive IT compliance checks. Our services cover rigorous assessments for the Essential Eight, a suite of strategies by the Australian Cybersecurity Centre to mitigate cybersecurity incidents. Additionally, we offer NIST compliance checks for CMMC 2.0 (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification), crucial for defence contractors safeguarding sensitive information with the U.S. Department of Defence. Our expertise ensures your organisation complies with regulatory requirements, enhancing security posture and maintaining trust with clients and partners.

Explore our Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution to streamline data security compliance. With global data protection regulations becoming increasingly stringent, your business must prioritise compliance. Our CaaS solution helps you achieve, maintain, and demonstrate compliance, fulfilling obligations under regulatory standards. The comprehensive solution automates processes, easing adherence to extensive regulatory requirements and providing documented proof for successful regulatory audits. Don’t let compliance take a backseat – choose Cortech Systems for robust and efficient compliance solutions.

Let us show you how you can simplify your compliance processes and run your business without any regulatory glitches.

Why You Should Partner With Specialists:

Our managed compliance solution can help your business achieve and maintain its data security requirements, help streamline the ongoing compliance processes, and stay up to date with the complex and evolving data protection laws and regulations worldwide.  

We can help you:

  • Identify security vulnerabilities through automated assessments of your internal and public environments.
  • Demonstrate due diligence or due care efforts mandated under the various industry and global standards with on-demand reporting and activity logs.
  • Provide the required documentation and records needed to complete and pass a compliance audit within a single, easy-to-use portal.
  • Help you fulfill the ongoing security and risk management tools and strategies needed to maintain a compliance environment as part of normal operations.

Essential Eight

The Essential Eight is a cybersecurity strategy developed by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) to help businesses protect against a range of cyber threats. This proactive set of measures is designed to strengthen the cyber defences of organisations, primarily within Australia, but is also applicable globally.

The Essential Eight strategies are intended to mitigate the risk of malware infection, limit the extent of cyber incidents, and enable fast recovery of data. The framework comprises eight key areas: application whitelisting, patching applications, configuring Microsoft Office macro settings, user application hardening, restricting administrative privileges, patching operating systems, implementing multi-factor authentication, and conducting daily backups of important data.

Concerns Associated With Essential Eight Compliance

Adaptation and Maintenance: Organisations must regularly update and maintain their security measures in line with the Essential Eight recommendations to ensure effective protection against evolving cyber threats.
Penalties for Non-Compliance: While not legally binding like the GDPR, failure to comply with the Essential Eight can result in significant vulnerabilities, leading to potential data breaches, financial losses, and reputational damage.
Complexity and Resource Allocation: Implementing the Essential Eight can be complex, requiring specialised knowledge and resources. Smaller organisations, in particular, may find it challenging to allocate the necessary resources without external assistance.

The Essential Eight framework, while not mandatory, is widely acknowledged as a top-tier guide for cybersecurity. Getting professional help to put these measures in place and keep them up can greatly benefit organisations looking to boost their cybersecurity effectively.

Cyber Insurance

Cyber Insurance is a type of insurance product that is designed to protect businesses against potential damages associated with cybercrimes such as ransomware and malware attacks. It is a customisable solution for businesses to mitigate specific risks associated with cybersecurity breaches and prevent unauthorised access to their sensitive data and networks.

Concerns Associated With Cyber Insurance Compliance 

Cyber Insurance coverage can be unclear and confusing. It’s hard to understand what is covered and what is not, so you need to be certain you are picking the right coverage. The policies are complex and possess certain constraints and limitations that can be difficult for businesses to interpret. It is vital that you have adhered to and fulfilled all policy requirements to ensure that your claims are not denied.

NIST CSC

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a framework called the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to streamline cybersecurity for private sector businesses. NIST CSF is a set of voluntary standards, recommendations and best practices that are designed to help organisations prevent, identify, detect, respond to and recover from cyberattacks.

Concerns Associated With NIST Compliance

Most businesses do not possess in-house expertise to safely adhere to NIST CSF requirements. Businesses need to understand their unique cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities to properly design, implement and manage their security programs and best practices.

CMMC

CMMC 2.0, or Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification version 2.0, is a revamped framework by the U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) to boost the cybersecurity of the Defence Industrial Base (DIB). It condenses the original CMMC into three levels, focusing on protecting sensitive information. Aligned with standards like NIST SP 800-171, CMMC 2.0 is a scalable guide ensuring defence contractors have robust cybersecurity. Compliance is crucial for DoD contracts, assuring the safeguarding of sensitive data.

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a unified standard by the DoD to regulate cybersecurity for U.S. military contractors. It enforces strict guidelines for cyber hygiene, adaptability against threats, and data protection across the defense industrial base (DIB).

Concerns about CMMC compliance are significant. All DoD contractors in the supply chain must comply, with specific standards since November 30th, 2020. Compliance is step-by-step, and full CMMC compliance is required by 2026. Failure to comply may result in contract issues or breaches. It’s crucial for organisations in DoD contracts to navigate these requirements for data security.