Supplier Spotlight: Allgress

02/05/2020 6:19 PM By Chuck F

Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC)

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by: Allgress

Cloud 9 Supplier Spotlight:  Allgress

RISK EXCEPTION

Track Risk – Evaluate and communicate strategic risks that align to your organizations enterprise risk program


Document and track risk exceptions with full life-cycle management by providing a standardized approach for the review, management, and acceptance of Findings and Exceptions


THIRD PARTY VENDOR MANAGEMENT

Oversee – Establish due diligence and ongoing monitoring of third party’s activities and performance


Gain visibility into your vendor’s risk posture and compliance to make informed decisions about the business relationship of your contracted vendors


COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT
Assess Risk Efficiently – Assess risks against industry standards and regulatory requirements, provide gap analysis, risk treatment and reporting

RISK MANAGEMENT
Communicate Strategically with Key Stakeholders – Track strategic risks, assign ownership across the enterprise, quickly and easily communicate risk posture through dashboards, and provide continuous monitoring and improvement of risk posture of the organization

POLICY MANAGEMENT
Stay Organized – Unify and disseminate your organization’s document library from a centralized platform

Quickly assess your gaps in policy, mange your document lifecycle and exceptions

INCIDENT RESPONSE
Investigate & Mobilize – Track and respond to security threats impacting your company’s critical infrastructure with centralized management, root cause analysis, reporting, and tracking

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT
Collect, analyze and visualize data in the way you need to see it so you can make key decisions that align security and regulatory compliance programs with top business priorities. Manage patch exceptions, and understand the impact of your organizations exposure of unpatched assets
Leverage AWS API’s to Automate Compliance.


Allgress ComplianceVision (CV): Organizations are faced with the task of providing assurance that high-rated risk factors are being managed with the appropriate controls in place and that those controls are operating effectively. With increases in the regulatory regime, increasing technology complexity and pressures on cost, the demand is high for productivity improvements in the performance evaluation of internal controls. Allgress ComplianceVision (CV) provides continuous monitoring of control operating effectiveness. CV provides continuous data assurance to verify the integrity of data flowing through systems, as well as continuous risk monitoring and assessment to dynamically measure your organization’s risk.


Allgress CV improves control management and monitoring while reducing the time sink and complexity of traditionally annual, detailed controls assessments. Organizations are able to leverage API’s from Amazon Web Services (AWS) as well as AWS Technology Partners, enabling a continuous compliance process.  In addition, policies in configuration content are included for all major compliance frameworks.  With Allgress CV organizations realize cost reductions through improved efficiency and effectiveness, and additionally benefit from increased test coverage, improved timeliness of testing, reduced risk velocity and remediation cost, improved consistency, the ability to identify trends, and comprehensive risk visibility through the Allgress Platform. Allgress CV replaces the manual, error-prone, preventive controls of the past with automated, detective controls to reduce your risk profile.


CV identifies the shared, inherited, and customer specific control statements and demonstrates how you can leverage the AWS Shared Responsibility model to document adherence with applicable compliance standards. Focusing on all major compliance frameworks such as PCI, HIPAA, CJIS, NIST, and FISMA compliance, the portal guides you through the compliance process by providing targeted content at every step of the way. ComplianceVision automates manual compliance functions through integration with current AWS tools.


ComplianceVision will soon support all major cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Platform.

About Allgress

Founded in 2008, Allgress helps enterprise security and risk professionals solve the problem of how to assess, understand and manage corporate risk.

Its founders and management team are committed to providing CISOs with the ability to make effective investment decisions that align security and compliance programs with top business priorities, communicate the value of those decisions to senior executives, and manage risk, fines, and brand damage.

Allgress Business Risk Intelligence solutions converge disparate risk silos across global enterprise networks and automate governance, risk and compliance (IT GRC) management processes. Powered by the patented Allgress Business Risk Intelligence engine, the company's products, solutions and CISO reporting tools provide customers with heat maps and compliance assessment reports that reveal a comprehensive, immediate and intuitive picture of their organizations' security and compliance risk posture.

Allgress provides operational efficiency. Its solutions allow users to assess once and manage and report on many industry and government regulations. Allgress deploys faster than competing solutions and provides rapid ROI.

Contact Cloud 9 to see if Allgress is right for your business. Cloud 9 Advisers is vendor agnostic and can help you find the right solutions and the right companies from our list of over 200 vendors in our curated Supplier Portfolio. 


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