Compliance Automation: Business and Technology Leaders Ask

Industry Overview and Current Cybersecurity Landscape

The cybersecurity and compliance landscape is undergoing rapid transformation. Organizations of all sizes face growing regulatory demands, escalating cyber threats, and an urgent need to unify risk, governance and compliance strategies under one intelligent framework.

Global data from IBM Security shows that 97% of organizations reported an AI-related security incident and lacked adequate controls. More than 140 countries now enforce privacy or data protection laws, covering the majority of the world’s population, according to IAPP.

For Managed Security Service Providers, this creates both a challenge and an opportunity. Traditional, manual compliance methods can no longer keep pace with the speed of regulatory change and the complexity of modern environments. The future lies in automation, real-time risk intelligence and proactive compliance orchestration that transform compliance from a cost center into a source of strategic advantage.

In the recent webinar, “The MSSP Advantage: Real-Time Cyber Risk Intelligence. From Visibility to Action”, held in cooperation with Centraleyes, we tackled these pressing compliance challenges head-on. George Tsinos, the CRS Manager at Neurosoft, joined forces with Yair Solow, the founder and CEO of Centraleyes, to address 3+1 common concerns business and technology leaders face in their compliance journeys. This session demonstrated how to enhance security strategies and transform compliance from a regulatory requirement into a strategic business advantage through a modern and smart Governance, Risk & Compliance platform.

3+1 Case Studies

1^st Case: “Can I use responses from previous audits to avoid re-answering the same questions in new regulatory assessments, since many control areas overlap (like: governance, continuity, access, detection, changes)?”, CTO of a large Organization, facing the challenge of huge effort of compliance with many frameworks, like ISO27001, NIS 2, DORA, PCI/DSS

This is a frequent question among our clients, especially as the landscape of regulatory demands expands with frameworks like GDPR, DORA, NIS2 and the AI Act. Organizations want to streamline their efforts by leveraging documentation, evidence, and interview results gathered from earlier assessments, whether it’s for risk, compliance, or regulatory obligations, rather than facing the daunting task of starting from scratch each time.

Each regulatory framework has its own unique set of requirements, or controls, but many of these actually overlap. Key areas like roles and responsibilities, access management, system changes, and event detection often share common elements. A sophisticated platform can easily map out these overlaps, allowing for automatic pre-filling of information. This not only reduces the need for redundant interviews and evidence gathering—saving valuable time and resources—but also ensures that your assessments remain consistent and provide a transparent audit trail for regulators and auditors.

With a smart Governance, Risk & Compliance tool at your disposal, your team can:

Reuse evidence and responses from past audits with confidence
Efficiently map controls across multiple frameworks (think NIS2, DORA, ISO, GDPR)
Eliminate duplicate efforts in overlapping areas like access management, detection, and change management
Maintain consistency across all assessments
Keep a clear audit trail to satisfy regulatory scrutiny

2^nd Case: “How can we minimize the cost and effort involved in both the initial deviation analysis and the yearly re-evaluations?”, CFO of Small-Medium Business, facing the challenge of the increasing cost of compliance services

By transitioning from manual, ad-hoc assessments to a cutting-edge automated Governance, Risk & Compliance platform, you can slash costs and reduce effort significantly. Here’s how the right tools can empower your organization:

Automated deviation analysis: Forget the hassle of starting from scratch. The platform continuously aligns your controls with established frameworks, highlighting the gaps that truly matter and eliminating redundant work.
Single source of truth: Imagine having all your evidence, controls and remediation plans housed in one central location. This not only speeds up updates and audits, but also ensures integrity and accuracy across the board.
Reusability at its best: Bid farewell to cumbersome yearly re-evaluations. With previous assessments, corrective actions and progress reports documented and easily accessible, updating them becomes a breeze.
Risk-based prioritization: The platform guides you to tackle high-impact areas first, ensuring that your resources are used where they count the most.
Reporting at your fingertips: With pre-built dashboards and easily exportable reports, keeping management and regulators in the loop is effortless.

In essence, a modern Governance, Risk & Compliance solution transforms your resource-intensive tasks into efficient, streamlined processes, saving you time and money while boosting your overall cybersecurity posture.

3^rd Case: “How can I easily track all security gaps and the corrective actions needed to keep management updated on our overall security posture?”, CISO of Small-Medium Business, facing the challenge of continuous monitoring of many security gaps and remediation actions

With a modern Governance, Risk & Compliance platform, you can centralize all identified security gaps and directly connect them to actionable solutions, all within a single, cohesive dashboard. This innovative tool offers you an up-to-the-minute, comprehensive view of your organization’s cybersecurity posture, eliminating the hassle of sifting through scattered reports and endless spreadsheets.

Here’s what you can achieve with it:

Visualize risks and gaps across your environment.
Assign and track remediation tasks with clear ownership and deadlines.
Generate automated, structured reports tailored for Management and the Board.
Align with a risk-based strategy, ensuring that critical issues are prioritized.

With this approach, you gain continuous visibility into your business’s cybersecurity landscape and provide executives with easy-to-understand, data-driven insights that keep them informed and engaged.

4^th Case: “Can I get a structured, easy-to-extract progress report on the organization’s current security state that helps me systematically update Management and align with our risk-based security strategy?”, CISO of Small-Medium Business, facing the challenge of systematically updating Management, while ensuring a risk-based and business-aligned security strategy plan

Absolutely. With a cutting-edge Governance, Risk & Compliance platform, you can effortlessly generate structured and easily digestible progress reports that paint a vivid picture of your current security landscape.

Here’s what these dynamic reports offer:

A comprehensive overview: All your security gaps and necessary corrective actions presented in a single, cohesive view.
Strategic alignment: Clear mapping of your progress against the risk-based strategy, ensuring every effort directly supports your business goals.
Executive-ready summaries: Simplified snapshots that make it easy to communicate insights with your CEO and Board.
Real-Time Tracking: Monitor improvements and highlight key focus areas, making it easier to demonstrate ongoing progress.

This means you’ll always have a reliable, data-backed report ready to update Management systematically, showcasing how your security initiatives drive the organization’s risk strategy forward.

Why Does Legacy Compliance Methods No Longer Work?

Legacy compliance methods no longer work because static reports, siloed tools and manual checks can’t keep pace with the dynamic nature of modern threats and the ever-evolving regulatory frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST, DORA, GDPR, NIS 2). Today’s business and technology leaders need continuous visibility, real-time intelligence and automation to bridge the gap between compliance and resilience. That’s where the combination of our Neurosoft Governance, Risk & Compliance experts and an advanced Centraleyes GRC platform makes the difference, transforming compliance from a periodic obligation into a continuous, data-driven process that safeguards your organization and empowers smarter decisions.

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