Compliance Satisfaction and Remediation


Most organizations are impacted by one or more compliance requirements drive by regulations, industry mandates and partners. Oftentimes, this can lead to a fractious response leading to financial and productivity losses. ApZen provides a structured approach to dealing with all your compliance needs by developing a custom compliance framework based on COBIT and ISO 27001/17001. This will help you establish cross linkages among multiple compliance regimens as well as their unique needs which can then be addressed through a targeted program. ApZen offer compliance management consulting services for the following:

• PCI
• SOX
• HIPAA
• GLBA
• OCC Audits

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Consulting Services
ApZen's trained and certified security consultants provide audits, assessments and advisory services. Our consultants help your business identify and understand remediation measures and compensating controls.

Framework Development
A successful compliance regimen begins with a comprehensive analysis of your business domain as well as clear identification of business and regulatory drivers for protecting critical information. In order to maintain efficiencies as well as ensure productive utilization of resources, it is important to identify common elements across various compliance and regulatory measures and then putting general as well as unique controls in place. Our COBIT and ISO 27001/17001 trained consultants use Control Path, industry standard compliance management suite to define and model this custom framework.

Readiness Review
The first step in satisfying any compliance measure is to do the gap analysis between current practices and the compliance requirements applicable to you. ApZen will conduct the necessary analysis to generate a deficiency report & mitigation checklist so that you are ready for actual audit.

Remediation & Validation
Once we have completed the readiness review, we can put a detailed plan around any remediation measures that need to be completed prior to regulatory audit as well as assist in execution of that plan with our technical services vertical. We go above and beyond boilerplate satisfaction of compliance. Compared to other vendors, we can also help you negotiate the tricky middle path where compromises need to be made between your way of doing business and satisfying a compliance requirement; many such requirements can be met by putting a wrapper around existing processes or by demonstrating a detailed execution plan that will gradually get you there in a specified timeframe. 

3rd Party Risk Assessment
Most compliance measures dictate that if you are sharing either private or confidential data with 3rd parties, you should be auditing the security practices in these organizations to ensure that they meet appropriate standards. ApZen uses a combination of the industry standard BITS questionnaire in combination with custom process and controls defnition which are enabled in ControlPath to structure your 3rd party risk evaluation. If you are a vendor, ApZen's expertise is available to you to complete BITS and/or other information security questionnaires.