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Automated PCI Compliance Management

pci compliance PCI-DSS compliance management is a delicate affair. One slip or compromise could result in huge financial losses and brand-image exposure(s)! Managing PCI-DSS Compliance requires integrated and comprehensive approach that combines process, people, and technology. This requires automated monitoring for conformance and gaps, and initiating remediation actions for meeting IT Compliance requirements. Automated processes makes it easy, certain, fast, and available when required, leaving business enterprises – large, medium or small, to focus on their core business, competition, and strategies at an extremely affordable price through SecureGRC from eGestalt Technologies.

Learning from the costly past

In recent interviews, several PCI DSS auditors noted that while most of their clients are achieving PCI DSS compliance, many have been forced to address serious problems along the way. When reviewing what merchants are doing to protect their customers' credit card data, auditors are typically finding that:

Encryption is often inconsistent across a company's computer system. Credit card data may be protected in some instances, but not others.
Some companies unnecessarily store credit card data and, making matters worse, fail to isolate the data from travelling across less secure parts of the network.
Some IT shops fail to keep a log of network activity, making it nearly impossible to spot instances where malicious hackers or anyone without authorization are trying to access credit card data.
Some companies don't conduct regular scans for software vulnerabilities and abnormal activity.
Companies that thought they were all set after complying with such regulations as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and HIPAA Compliance discovered their controls were not adequate to meet the PCI DSS.

Implications of non-compliance

According to Compliance Week, the Federal Trade Commission estimates that breaches of "PCI" hit 9 million Americans and cost about $52 billion—annually! TechTarget reported that the total average costs of a data breach grew to $202 per record compromised, an increase of 2.3% since 2007 ($197 per record) and 11% compared to 2006 ($182 per record). According to Network World, the average cost of being compliant is $225,000.

SecureGRC 2.0 is a unified security monitoring and compliance management solution delivered as a cloud service so it is constantly kept completely up to date with the latest versions and revisions of every Act. Cloud delivery also means no custom hardware investments for you, and the assurance that your compliance solution is future-proof! PCI DSS support is built-in, easily extended, and automatically kept up to date.

What can automated SecureGRC PCI Compliance Management solution do for you?

Highly automated, scalable, cost-effective, enterprise wide compliance management with pre / post-audit compliance support in the tool.

Simple, menu driven assessment to understand and gain control over your PCI-DSS requirements
Advanced citation and policy based risk model that is customizable and easily configurable
Library of free policies and procedure templates to customize and then attach as evidence
Extensive online help, best practices and recommendations included for every regulation / Standards
Tracking and managing of your external vendors
Central repository for all your compliance related documentation
Support for multiple roles in an enterprise with complete delegation of responsibilities
Complete customization specific to the business
A finished document that can be used to show compliancy to other organizations and auditors
Automatic updates to changes in regulatory / Standards requirements
Delivered exclusively through the channel partners
Continuous Compliance
Unified Security & Compliance management solution in one application
Completely cloud-based service with no hardware or software investments required.
Display questionnaires to evaluate manual controls
Remediation tracking
Compliance activity email reminders
Track credit card or sensitive data within databases, file systems, desktops, and servers
External vulnerability scans
Analyse firewall rule sets
Perform vulnerability scans & integrate with existing vulnerability scanners
Integrate with web application scanners
Compare user access for appropriateness
Test password strength of domain and databases
Configurable citation and policy based Risk Model with real-time risk status
Ready-to-use pre-packaged content—policies, best practices, assessment Questions, with the ability to fully and quickly customize
Completely cloud-based service with no hardware or software investments required
Completely customizable to the Business needs
Extensive Reports—risk reports and compliance reports on demand
Single and centralized repository for all compliance related evidence
Simple to implement and easy to use
Exclusive, customer instance of SecureGRC which is security hardened

Why SecureGRC 11 makes a difference?

SecureGRC™ is a world-leading, multiple award winning cloud based automated IT Security and Compliance management solution for all businesses, including small and medium businesses. SecureGRC™ includes all security and IT-GRC functions required to be compliant with easy to adopt compliance management framework with ready to use frameworks, leading edge context based inference engines, most advanced alert processing and easy to use logging and monitoring solution.

Dramatically reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

End-to-end automation eliminates costly manual procedures reducing costs by up to 90%; transforms regulatory compliance from a reactive to a proactive environment. Dependence upon expensive external "experts" creates an environment of sudden panic every time an audit is scheduled. Thorough, automated control creates a culture of calm, Continuous Compliance.

Assessment Review

egestalt Once the assessment is complete through a pro-cess of assessment, your channel partner/Auditor would review the answers and make suggestions on how to resolve the remaining open issues. SecureGRC 11 has suggested ways of solving the problem or best practices. The automated wizard walks you through providing references to regulations, Guidance, best practice, implementation briefs, Policies and procedures, and service provider instructions, helping you with quick review of the statement of assessment, attaching evidences as one goes about assessing the compliance status. It provides an overall Risk status through graphs , progress of the assessment, compliance and risk status and overall progress.

Reports on compliance

SecureGRC offers a number of reports that quickly provide information on the assessment status relating to different users, risk levels based on the assessments, all user quarterly summary, etc.

As part of the assessment process SecureGRC will identify minimal specific areas within IT that the organization will need to implement.—Encryption, Unified Threat Management Firewall, Virus protection, Secure Back up, Simple Access control etc.

SecureGRCTM is,

The FIRST true cloud-based Security and IT-GRC
The ONLY 100% channel focused organization
The ONLY multi-tenant solution
The ONLY single scalable solution with a GUI to scale from single user to enterprise
The ONLY product with built in best practices, policy and procedure templates (and for FREE)
A fraction of the PRICE of our competition
And sold exclusively through CHANNEL PARTNERS
And many more…

SecureGRCTM is,

a simple, cost-effective, easy-to-use, IT security and compliance management solution to help you understand and gain control over your enterprise wide PCI-DSS security and compliance requirements
constantly kept up to date with the latest versions and revisions
Delivered from the Cloud delivery that means no hardware or software investments for you,
fast on implementation, no support or backup requirements and the assurance that your compliance solution is future-proof
PCI-DSS support is built-in, easily extended, and automatically kept up to date.
All data is stored in a SaS 70 Type II secure Data Centre and NO electronic records information is removed from a client site.
Simplifies the complex and time consuming process of getting into and maintaining Security and Compliance

Just start with question number 1, then 2. It’s that simple. Once you have made your first pass with inputs from multiple departments, our unique risk calculator will help prioritize the areas you need to focus on first. With our built in “Best Practices” library, we explain how to resolve each and every open issue with a common sense approaches

Quote

"PCI compliance has become an everyday concern for those businesses worried about vulnerabilities in the consumer credit footprint. EGestalt's SecureGRC 2.0 addresses those concerns with their cloud-based offering. Regulatory auditors' costs are often excessive, and hosted GRC reduces their time spent along with answering lengthy questionnaires in advance, which adds up on savings and justifies the cost of the tool." - Charles Clark, CEO/Trinity Network Consulting Group-Fayetteville AR

Managed Compliance Providers make your compliance process easy

eGestalt Managed Compliance Providers quickly and professionally implement this automated solution and help you quickly learn to take rapid action to resolve any processes or systems that are out of compliance. SecureGRC Compliance Manager then keeps constant vigil over your systems and personnel to make sure you remain in Continuous Compliance.

A simple 5 step approach in becoming PCI compliant

A Step-by Step Approach for your enterprise to Comply with the latest PCI-DSS … At your own Pace… with help from your friendly channel partner!

1.		Participate in Cloud-based Self-Assessment Survey – Once you have signed up with eGestalt SecureGRC SB, you will be given access to our cloud-based self-assessment survey to Login and answer a small number of questions that cover topics relating to PCI-DSS. While undertaking the survey you will have complete access to extensive online help, best practices that makes answering questions easy even though you may not be an IT or a PCI-DSS expert! As you complete the survey, the software analyses the responses and gathers the strong (and weak) practice segments. You will have a complete snapshot of your compliance and risk status for your business, online, anytime.
2.		Upload Compliance Documents into your Secure Online Repository - Assessment, you may be asked to attach evidence, in the form of policies or procedures. If you don't have them, not to worry, we will supply them with samples at no charge. If you have collected compliance documents from your business associates (BA's) or other subcontractors, they will be prompted to upload them into the Secure GRC document repository. These will be logged into their compliance documentation as proof of your PCI-DSS compliance.
3.		Run Risk and compliance report to generate Action Roadmap –Once you have completed the survey / questionnaire, hitting "RUN" will generate an action roadmap for your business. This roadmap will list all of your "to do's" to achieve PCI-DSS compliance. Urgent matters are highlighted in red, and a suggested course of action is explained in detail. You will have the ability to generate a comprehensive compliance and risk report anytime! We will schedule a live one-on-one phone call to explain any open questions, and provide assistance on how to resolve these issues.
4.		Complete your Compliance Roadmap Action items – You complete the do-do items at your own pace. If at any point during the process you encounter difficulties, please contact our representative for assistance. This may include process / procedure modifications, training, and / or hardware / software upgrades.
5.		Achieve & prove PCI-DSS compliance – Congratulations! You are now in compliance with current PCI-DSS Standards! Print the Report and keep in a prominent location within your office.