Given the digital age, compliance and cybersecurity are two sectors that all organizations cannot afford to ignore. Although they go together, they are not identical. Learning how they interact with each other can keep your company safe, prevent fines, and establish confidence among customers and corporations.
What is Cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity is defined as the process of safeguarding your systems, networks, and data against cyber threats such as hacking, malware, and data breaches. It comprises tools, processes, and policies that help ensure that your digital environment remains safe.
Good digital security safeguards:
- Customer and business-sensitive data
- Systems and devices of IT
- Communications and network traffic
Cybersecurity is not only needed by large corporations. Cyberattacks are also common targets of cyberattacks and require proper implementation of security in small and mid-sized businesses.
What is Compliance?
Compliance can be defined as obeying the rules, laws, or norms that govern your industry or area of work. Compliance in the context of the IT world tends to mean any data protection and cybersecurity governmental regulations or industry standards.
Examples are common as:
- DoD Compliance (concerning military contractors)
- HIPAA (in healthcare organizations)
- PCI-DSS (in the case of businesses dealing with credit card information)
- CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification certified federal contractors)
- Through meeting these standards, it can be demonstrated that your company is managing the data responsibly and securely.
The Relationship Between Cybersecurity and Compliance
Cybersecurity is a problem of protecting your systems; compliance is what makes you need to adhere to some rules.
This is the way they relate:
- There are particular cybersecurity controls (such as encryption, access controls, and periodic audits) that are often needed due to the need to comply.
- Effective cybersecurity policies enable you to deal with compliance.
- The noncompliance will not only result in noncompliance liabilities and fees but also business loss.
Simply put, cyber security is your defense mechanism, and compliance is like the checklist that will ensure your defenses are up to the legal, industry requirements.
Why This is Important to Your Business
- Data Breaches are Expensive: A breach in security may result in data loss, loss of reputation, and financial loss.
- There are Consequences to Non-Compliance: Fines, legal problems, and lost contracts may be the result of not doing what is needed.
- Clients Demand Security: Customers and partners demand that you ensure that their data is safe with them.
The way Maple Woods Enterprises promotes compliance and Cybersecurity
Maple Woods Enterprises provides a platform or services that enable businesses to remain secure and in compliance, and they are as follows:
- 24 hours, 7 days of cybersecurity monitoring (through SOC Services)
- Consulting and Compliance Support across standards DoD, NIST, and CMMC
- IT System Monitoring, where problems should be detected early, e.g., operating system monitoring and timeout monitoring
- Security reviews and Risk Assessments
- Proactive, all-in-one protection program, Overwatch Cybersecurity
Final Thoughts
The modern world does not bestow the choice of compliance and cybersecurity; instead, compliance and cybersecurity are must-haves. Investing in good security and compliance measures makes your business secure and establishes trust, as well as being future-ready.
Regardless of whether your business requires assistance with managing systems or in achieving certain compliance objectives, services such as those offered by Maple Woods Enterprises may be able to supply you with any tools or support required.
