Whether you are adhering to mandatory regulations or voluntary cybersecurity frameworks, taking compliance seriously can be a huge boon to your organization. It can help you avoid costly penalties, signal to your customers that you’re serious about security, and improve your organization’s overall security maturity. Meeting compliance requirements can also help open your business up to new markets, whether you’re targeting specific industry verticals or going after international customers, and finally, it can speed up your sales process along the way.
But let’s be honest: Compliance can seem like a necessary evil. It’s time consuming and complex, and it can be a huge pain in the you-know-what. Just because the benefits outweigh the costs doesn’t make the process any less painful.
Certain frameworks make their pain felt across industries. GDPR, for example, applies to any organization doing business even nominally in Europe and requires notification of a breach within 72 hours. SOC 2 is a rigorous standard that applies to any company operating in the cloud, and one of the main challenges for Threat Stack in achieving SOC 2 compliance was eliminating the disconnect between our engineering team’s tickets and the code associated with those tickets.
Other compliance frameworks reserve their pain for specific industries, and those can feel especially burdensome. What are the main pain points by industry, and, more importantly, how can you mitigate them? We dig into the specifics below. Read more “Top Compliance Pain Points by Industry”
