Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM)

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Scale your governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) program with data

DataBee™ provides core continuous controls monitoring (CCM) capabilities to automate and collaborate on security controls.

Quickly and proactively deliver measurable and accurate CCM metrics about cyber-risk management investments and programs to stakeholders and the board.

A security data fabric designed to achieve continuous controls monitoring

Augment your controls reporting with a CCM solution that puts your data at the center for dynamic, detail-rich compliance trends. DataBee enables GRC teams to act on connected, more complete insights by weaving together security data sources with asset owner details and organizational hierarchy information. With a holistic view of the controls lifecycle, you can be more confident about your security posture and focus on closing gaps.

Security controls assessment and monitoring

Dynamic environments need dynamic insights. DataBee combines data from your environment and creates consistency so your insights are more complete and accurate. From executives to analysts, your data-driven users have access to metrics that are automatically pulled and refreshed. Drill downs for deeper insights without technical barriers using your preferred visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI.

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Risk prioritization and recommendations

Reduce unwanted surprises during audits. DataBee defines compliance gaps and continuously contextualizes insights, enabling your GRC team to prioritize critical remediations and address at-risk resources. Make more informed recommendations about business strategy and future security investments using enriched data from your organization.

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Business and stakeholder engagement

Executives and board members want a peak under the hood. DataBee provides insights into security controls aligned to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Strengthen cross-department communication and build accountability with Continuous Controls Assessment (CCA) reviews using data that business leaders know they can trust.

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It’s time to put manual controls monitoring in the past.

Complexity is the enemy of security. The rise of point tool arsenals stretches security budgets thin and makes proving compliance and effectiveness challenging. In addition to external regulatory requirements, GRC teams are still unable to break the vicious cycle of producing reports manually.

Expanded attack surface

Your company’s digital and cloud footprint is broadening daily and creates more access points for unsightly behaviors. Monitoring and measuring security controls requires seasoned experts to have a deep understanding of the business and attack vectors.

Measure cybersecurity effectiveness

Security and IT teams love their cyber tools, however justifying the cost of investment and assessing the effectiveness can be formidable tasks. Black box tools with poor integration features and risk scores without context continue to muddy the waters. - and what’s left is a lack of trust between your security team and executives.

Regulatory constraints

The scope and extent of data sovereignty and data privacy laws and regulatory requirements adds mounting pressure on enterprises and agencies. In addition, investigations and incident response need fast access to large and historical data sets. However ensuring data retention can be slow and expensive. 

Why Continuous Controls Compliance (CCM) now?

Continuous controls monitoring is a game changer for security transformation and outcomes to ensure that security controls are optimally performing and organizations are compliant. CCM allows for proactive security and risk management to keep organizations on track with changing regulations and requirements. And as a result, a strong, data-centric CCM program and consulting from GRC experts like that from DataBee can boosts cross-department communication and accountability while strengthening your security posture.

(1) Setting organization-specific criteria

Every organization has their own risk appetite and control objectives. Your criteria should be developed based on your own security portfolio. Evaluate your business needs and workshop a security architecture that can start you on your CCM journey.

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(2) Collect and enrich security data

Before you can create dashboards, you need data. Logs, events, and data are in no short supply, but this stage is important to setting up a functional CCM program. Disparate data sources need standardization and enrichment so that you can tap into insights that are connected and provide actionable intelligence for your team. Afterall, scores are meaningless without context.

(3) Operationalize and optimize reports

Now you can put CCM into practice that you continue to optimize based on your business needs. Using accessible, integrated data from your environment you can detect anomalies or insufficient controls of your assets. For organizations in regulated industries, the same dataset can be operationalized to compliance framework so you can fix controls before the next audit, providing your security and GRC teams peace of mind.

What's the buzz about CCM?

Watch our LinkedIn Live about DataBee 1.5 where we introduces a data-centric approach to continuous controls monitoring (CCM) for the security, risk, and compliance data fabric platform.

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