Compliance & Security

Compliance & Security is the interplay between regulatory requirements and practical security measures in the organization. While compliance specifies which rules, standards and evidence must be fulfilled, security ensures the technical and organizational implementation of appropriate protective measures.

The two are closely connected but not congruent: an organization can be formally compliant and still have operational security gaps – conversely, a mature security program considerably facilitates the fulfillment of audit and evidence obligations. Typical points of contact are access controls, monitoring, data classification, vulnerability management and documentation: the same controls serve protection and evidence at the same time.

In practical terms, this means: those who design security measures to be verifiable from the outset serve both goals with one effort. For B2B companies, the pair of terms is gaining weight because customers, supervisory authorities and partners increasingly expect reliable evidence of the state of their IT Security.