Compliance does not equal security: How to take a proactive approach to see, understand and act on risk

By Chasserae Coyne, Technical Product Manager

Compliance is the typical starting point in protecting your organization. After all, it’s a “must-do,” and failure to comply can result in fines and other regulatory action. But focusing exclusively on compliance can leave you short-sighted and expose you to risk.

So how can you beef up your cybersecurity game? By taking a broader, risk-based approach that ties risk to business outcomes instead of a more limiting compliance-based approach.

A proactive approach to seeing, understanding and acting on risk is key to improving the effectiveness of defenses: It helps organizations enhance cyber resilience today and tackle the challenges of tomorrow.

In this white paper, we’ll introduce four ways a modern risk management platform can strengthen compliance, reduce risk and accelerate business priorities.