Business operations are a complex mixture of people, processes and technology. Enterprise and Operational Risk Management is the singular, most important central point of aggregation for organizational risk. Continuum GRC provides a global solution to identify, assess and monitor risks consistently across the enterprise, auto-mapping between all the world's standards.
Continuum GRC provides a risk-based approach to Audit and Regulatory Controls Management and consolidates the entire process within a single source of truth. Supporting ALL the frameworks and standards the world has to offer such as StateRAMP, FedRAMP, CMMC, HIPAA, 800-53, CJIS, DFARS, SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NERC CIP, SOX 404, PCI, EUCS, C5 and more.
Governance and Policy Controls Management serves as the foundation for a program by outlining the structure, authority, and processes required for the organization through the clearly defined governance structure, stratification of authority, defined and well-communicated policies, procedures and the supporting processes critical to empowering an effective program.
Technology drives the global economy. Unfortunately, risks such as cybersecurity threats and technology failures are nearly impossible to predict. Continuum GRC IT & Security Risk Management is foundational to organizational strategy to manage technology risk. Universally, IT and Cybersecurity Risk Management supports organizational business initiatives, or enabling IT Audit and Regulatory Control compliance.
The exponential increase in organizational dependencies on third-party providers means that organizations also inherit third-party risks. Third-Party and Vendor Risk Management enables you to automate oversight of third-party relationships, allowing organizations to prioritize governance necessary to manage risk across the entire third-party management lifecycle.
Continuum GRC has native functionality for any type of form to be created. Our Form Builder tools allow for the Administrator to easily create any questionnaire, framework, survey, or module with ease. Leverage the power of our patent-pending A.ITAM, automapping, dynamic dashboards, and hundreds of powerful features provided by Continuum GRC rapidly.
Internal Audit and Financial Controls Management reduces Audit and Regulatory Controls compliance burdens by assessing controls through a risk-based approach. Integrated standards and frameworks help simplify processes, productivity and collaboration. Streamline the process for end-to-end Internal Audit and Financial Controls Management.
The exponentially emerging and prolonged onslaught of pandemic, climate change, geopolitical forces, supply chain and technology disruptions can threaten organizations. Resilience and Business Continuity Management provides an interactive, automated approach to the prioritization, planning, coordination, engagement, and insights needed to strengthen resiliency.
Our previous article discussed what it meant to scope your self-assessment while pursuing Level 1 Maturity under CMMC. This approach included identifying the boundaries of FCI-holding systems and comprehensively cataloging technology, people, and processes that play a part in that system.
Here, we take the next step and cover CIO guidelines for performing your self-assessment.
One of the more significant changes in the new CMMC 2.0 guidelines was the move from third-party to self-assessment at Level 1 maturity. At Level 1, contractors can perform a self-assessment rather than engage with a C3PAO, significantly reshaping their obligations and the associated costs and effort for compliance.
Here, we’re covering the CIO’s guidance for organizations performing self-assessments, specifically how to scope their self-assessments for Level 1 maturity.
Over the past week, a new vulnerability in the Linux operating system and the XZ compression utility has led to a new security alert and an immediate call to roll back some new updates. While this threat is a massive problem for federal IT systems relying on specific Linux distributions, it also highlights how poorly managed open-source projects can fundamentally undermine federal security. It also demonstrates how state-sponsored actors can use these projects as a staging ground for more extensive Advanced Persistent Threats.
CMMC is a complex undertaking. Depending on where you are in your certification journey, you could require consulting, assessment, or both. Fortunately, the CMMC program includes training and authorization for two distinct types of organizations: Registered Provider Organizations (RPOs) and Certified Third-Party Assessment Organizations (C3PAOs), each offering different services.
We’re discussing these organizations and which one you might want to engage with when preparing for CMMC certification.
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Would not want to move to any other tool now."
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"Top 10 Risk Management Solution Providers 2020"
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"Top 10 Vulnerability Management Consulting/Services Companies 2019"
"10 Most Promising Enterprise Risk Management Companies 2019"
"The 30 Most Inspiring Business Leaders of 2019"
"Working with the Continuum GRC ITAM compliance tool is intuitive, effective and a huge time saver! The Lazarus Alliance team is great to work with as well. Highly recommended!"
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"The Continuum GRC team has been amazing. We are sitting where we are right now because of the team. I am convinced that we would never be able to achieve FedRAMP Moderate without your team. The learning curve for me was substantial and still ongoing. I felt supported the entire way through the process."
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