AuditArmor® Audit Defense
Need expert representation to defend your organization in a security compliance audit?
Make Assura your defense team.
cybersecurity compliance audits are one of the ways regulators make sure organizations are adhering to security standards that have been put in place. Often they’re specific to your industry and can be complicated if you’re unaware of the process or what auditors specifically want from your organization. How you respond matters because mistakes can lead to repeat findings and escalated issues. The best way to handle an audit is to partner with experts who know how to navigate the inquiry to move through the process as quickly and painlessly as possible. Assura can be that partner for your organization. Our cybersecurity compliance consultants are certified auditors, so we know exactly how to respond to questions or requests every step of the way.
What can Assura’s AuditArmor® Audit Defense do for you?
- Provides an expert acting as your “audit attorney” working on your behalf
- Does all of the pre-audit preparation for you, verifying compliance with cybersecurity regulations
- Participates in the entrance and conferences, representing your organization’s interests throughout the audit
- Handles communications with auditors, ensuring alignment with cybersecurity compliance standards
- Prepares responses for you that address cybersecurity audit questions
- Works with internal audit points-of-contact to coordinate consistent responses
- Collects and tracks data exchanges between your organization and the auditors
- Provides timely responses to auditor questions and issues to keep the audit moving forward
- Mitigates audit scope creep by ensuring the audit remains within the agreed-upon parameters
- Reviews audit findings for reasonableness, pushing back against excessive or unjustified compliance demands
- Negotiates findings and comments to protect your organization’s cybersecurity compliance standing
- Prepares official responses, letters, and remediation plans that align with regulatory expectations
Compliance and security for any industry.
Assura guarantees audit compliance with the following standards and regulations.
CJIS
COBIT
FERPA
FFIEC
FFIEC CAT
CMMC (RPO) Registered provider organization
GDPR
HIPAA/HITECH
HITRUST CSF
ISO 27001/27002
ISO 31000
SEC530
IRS 1075
NIST CSF
NIST SP 800-53
NIST SP 800-37
NIST SP 800-171
PCI DSS
GLBA
SOX
SSAE-18/SOC 2 & SOC for Cybersecurity
State-level data breach reporting and cyber security standards and data protection laws
If you get audited, Assura has you covered. Our AuditArmor® Audit Defense Guarantee means that we guarantee our work to be compliant with the identified cybersecurity frameworks and regulatory requirements (unless waived by you). We defend our work at no additional cost. Yes, we’re serious. And yes, we’re that confident in the quality of our work. We have you covered from entrance conference to exit conference and will work with your auditor or regulator to defend our work. On the off chance that a change needs to be made to the deliverable, we’ll do that for free. It’s that simple.
How we’ve helped to protect industries like yours.
A university approached Assura with a unique challenge that most other organizations don’t have. Because they employ students to help run various aspects of the school, they needed a way to ensure these work-study employees didn’t accidentally put the university’s data at risk.
With attacks on municipalities on the rise, a midsized county in Virginia knew it needed to improve its cybersecurity posture. The problem was they were not sure where to begin. So they enlisted our services to help them determine their strengths and vulnerabilities.
Organizations are inundated with hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities every year. After years of experience, we know most organizations can only patch about 1 in 10 (10%) vulnerabilities discovered in their environment based on resource capacity.