For companies within the federal sector, especially small to mid-sized businesses, the push toward compliance is not just a regulatory burden but an operational necessity. CMMC is one of these challenging frameworks, and these businesses are finding that alignment with CMMC is a tricky proposition.

Meeting the stringent demands of CMMC requires a robust and proactive security infrastructure. However, the complexity of the framework, particularly at Levels 2 and 3, poses significant challenges for many organizations. This is where automation plays a pivotal role.

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Choosing and implementing a GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) solution isn’t just another IT project. It’s a strategic shift—one that touches almost every part of your organization, from security and compliance to HR, legal, and vendor management. When done right, adopting a GRC platform streamlines operations, reduces risk exposure, and puts compliance teams in the driver’s seat. But done poorly? It can become just another overengineered system nobody uses.

So how do you make sure your GRC investment pays off? You need a roadmap—not just for selecting software, but for building a sustainable, scalable governance architecture around it.

Here’s how to approach GRC adoption.

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Service Organization Control (SOC) compliance is a voluntary compliance framework created by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) to help financial institutions better manage security, risk and data management. Over time, several different audits and reports based on SOC have emerged, the most popular of which is SOC 2.

The SOC 2 audit process is a comprehensive assessment that demonstrates an organization’s commitment to security and data privacy. Many organizations pick up SOC 2 certification specifically to raise the security profile of their brands and encourage trust from users and clients.

While that seems straightforward, the fact is that SOC 2 can be a long, rigorous and challenging audit that takes months to years to complete. Additionally, once you’ve achieved SOC 2 certification, you must continually demonstrate your continued compliance annually.

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