Agiliance Continuous Compliance Service for Cloud Risk Management

Still Feeling Hazy When it Comes to Cloud Computing?

While cloud computing promises efficient infrastructure at a fraction of the cost compared to traditional environments, two primary issues for organizations moving to private or public clouds remain: compliance and security for data residing in the cloud.

When you transition your IT infrastructure to a cloud environment you have to find ways to determine how to trust your cloud provider with your sensitive data. Practically speaking, you need the ability to assess security standards, trust security implementations, and prove infrastructure compliance to auditors.

Lift the Haze with Agiliance.

Agiliance^® Continuous Compliance Service™ (CCS) for Cloud Risk Management (CRM) addresses these concerns by providing methodologies, frameworks, tools and best practices to properly assess and manage your organization's cloud initiatives across all three stages of your cloud adoption life cycle, starting with cloud risk readiness assessment, cloud risk operations monitoring, and finally leading to cloud audits (an area that still requires further standardization).

Agiliance CCS for CRM incorporates the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) GRC Stack, mapped within Agiliance's Common Control Framework (CCF) to NIST, COBIT, ISO, PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, SOX, SANS, BITS, and SAS 70 II / SSAE 16 reporting, guaranteeing standardization of your cloud security processes.

Figure: Agiliance CCS for CRM cloud provider assessment and cloud operations monitoring

Leveraging Agiliance CCS for CRM enables your IT organization to ensure that your cloud provider meets the current standard for security, is compliant with applicable regulations and can pass a regulatory audit. In addition, you can generate dynamic and detailed compliance reports that can be used by service providers, auditors, and your internal resources. You can also access real-time dashboards to continuously monitor your cloud operations.

Manage an Effective Cloud Risk Management Program.

Figure: CRM Life Cycle with Agiliance CCS for CRM

Agiliance CCS for CRM provides you with a program life cycle for both cloud risk readiness assessment and cloud risk operations monitoring. Within each of these stages the risk assessment process can be broken down into a five step process: Scoping, Gap Analysis, Remediation, Certification and Maintenance. Agiliance CCS for CRM provides organizations with specific controls, questionnaires, assessment tools, reports and dashboards to measure and manage each step. This systematic approach supported by a Agiliance's powerful GRC platform, connects stakeholders across the organization and its multiple cloud providers. Cross-organization workflows, integrated reports and dashboards provide a real-time view of cloud risk and relationships addressing a critical organizational need.