Virtual Compliance Officer
Your security and compliance expert to assess and guide your compliance.
What Is It and Why Do You Need It?
Imagine if you had access to an expert who could seamlessly navigate and manage your business’s information security compliance with complex regulations. That’s what TPx’s Virtual Compliance Officer (VCO) service offers: specialized support to design, implement and manage the information security program and controls required under applicable regulatory frameworks.
How It Works
Using a combination of security expertise and purpose-built tools, TPx helps customers evaluate and maintain their security posture in a methodical and strategic way, comparing it against industry standards and best practices. The customer can always contact TPx and the associated consultant assigned to the Virtual Compliance Officer Solution for reasons such as:
- Review the impact of regulatory changes against your current information security posture
- Assess the organization’s defensibility to cyber insurance readiness
- Review the present state of your information security posture against applicable regulatory frameworks.
The Benefits
- Enhanced Compliance Management: Comprehensive oversight of applicable information security compliance requirements, reducing the risk of non-compliance
- Cost & Time Efficiency: Budget-friendly alternative that streamlines compliance, saving both time and resources
- Expertise & Continual Monitoring: Offers specialized compliance knowledge and monitoring, providing continual vigilance for compliance issues
- Customizable & Scalable Solutions: Tailored to fit your organization’s evolving needs, with the ability to easily scale as your business grows.
- Data-Driven Insights in a User-Friendly Interface: Provides comprehensive analytics for informed decision-making through an intuitive and accessible platform.
Why TPx?
TPx is a leader in cybersecurity for small and medium businesses and public-sector organizations. Our expert consultants, well-versed in Information Security Standards like HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 27000, leverage extensive experience in strategic and operational solutions to ensure robust, nationwide security for our clients.
"Having good support from the TPx team is a key factor in making good decisions. When you have a good team that understands your needs, someone who’s not pushy, that helps a lot. To me, it’s a relief to have a good support team because you feel confident they know what they’re doing.”
Hugo Arriola, IT Manager Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey
What to Expect
The work begins with a Cybersecurity Gap Assessment against one or more established information security frameworks. The assessment is divided into two main components:
- Security Strategy. TPx will assess the security policies, standards, and procedures as well as the security management processes and roles and responsibilities related to your information security.
- Operational Security. By gathering data directly from your network and end devices, TPx assesses the technical security measures implemented within your environment. Your information security posture is assessed based on a set of categorizations (e.g., access controls and network protections). The categorizations covered during the Gap Assessment focus on areas of cybersecurity that have the highest likelihood of incidents and breaches for your organization.
The objective of the Gap Assessment is to establish a baseline record of the security maturity of your organization and to prioritize security risks for your leadership team. The areas of focus can range from information security governance to cybersecurity infrastructure and capabilities.
Following the Gap Assessment, TPx is continually monitoring the applicable regulatory framework, and as your virtual compliance officer, TPx will keep the compliance program and your organization updated with any changes.
Additionally, TPx will proactively perform a quarterly compliance review with you, reviewing your compliance landscape, ensuring the dashboard is current with all policies and supportive material, reviewing the operational efforts required by some compliance regulations, and reviewing reporting with the company. During the quarterly compliance review, TPx will make recommendations and provide additional requirements to ensure your company’s defensibility is current. With TPx, you have an always-available repository to assist in defensibility to compliance, including reporting, scorecards, supporting materials, policies, and tools.
On average, SMB owners spend, $12,000 annually and more than 20 hours per month of their own time trying to comply with federal, state and local regulations.
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Reporting
VCO incorporates various reports by framework, which are available on demand.
Reports
- Assessor Checklist
- System Security Plan
- Technical Assessment
- Technical Risk Analysis
- Technical Risk Treatment Plan
- Application Inventory Review
- Asset Inventory Review
- Asset Inventory
- Drive Encryption Report
- External Information Systems Review
- Local Computer User Access Review
- MacOS Computer Patch Assurance Report
- Security Policy Assessment
- Sensitive Data File Scan Report
- System Information
- User Access Review
- Windows Patch Assurance Report
Frameworks
- CIS Controls
- CMMC 2.0
- Cyber Insurance Readiness
- Essential 8
- EU GDPR
- FTC Safeguards Rule
- HIPAA
- NIST 800-171
- NIST CSF
- NYS DFS Part 500
- PCI DSS
- POPIA
- SOC 2
Custom frameworks available