SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA, Cyber Essentials β all the security frameworks and certifications today are an acronym soup that can make even a compliance expertβs head spin. If youβre embarking on your compliance journey, read on to discover the differences between standards, which is best for your business, and how vulnerability management can aid compliance.
What is cybersecurity compliance?
Changes in the way we work have had significant implications for cybersecurity, not least in network monitoring. Workers no longer sit safely side-by-side on a corporate network, dev teams constantly spin up and tear down systems, exposing services to the internet. Keeping track of these users, changes and services is difficult β internet-facing attack surfaces rarely stay the same for long.
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Attack surfaces are growing faster than security teams can keep up. To stay ahead, you need to know what's exposed and where attackers are most likely to strike. With cloud migration dramatically increasing the number of internal and external targets, prioritizing threats and managing your attack surface from an attacker's perspective has never been more important. Let's look at why it's growing