Category: Awareness

Awareness

A Roadmap for Adopting a GRC Solution

Post author By Continuum GRC
Post date August 20, 2025

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.

Tags automation, grc, universal compliance

Audit Machine Awareness

What Are the 5 Trust Services Criteria in SOC 2 Compliance

Post author By Continuum GRC
Post date August 13, 2025

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.

Tags SOC 2, SOC 2 Report, trust services criteria

Audit Machine Awareness Frameworks

Mapping CMMC to Zero Trust Architectures

Post author By Continuum GRC
Post date July 31, 2025

The cybersecurity landscape for Department of Defense contractors is evolving rapidly. As the CMMC program rolls out, organizations are wrestling with a tough question: how do we meet these demanding requirements while actually building security that works?

Here’s where Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) comes into play. It’s a complete shift from the old “castle and moat” security model to something much smarter—treating every access request as if it could be trouble, regardless of its origin. CMMC doesn’t require zero trust, but here’s the thing: the two fit together like puzzle pieces.

Consider what CMMC is truly trying to accomplish: the DoD aims to protect CUI with security controls that are robust enough to deter real adversaries, not merely check compliance boxes. ZTAs, especially those built on NIST Special Publication 800-207, give you exactly that kind of protection while setting you up for long-term success.

So the real question isn’t whether CMMC requires ZTA (it doesn’t). This article asks the question: Can you afford to ignore an approach that makes compliance easier while actually improving your security posture? Spoiler alert: you probably can’t.

Tags CMMC, zero trust