Your Trusted Advisor for Compliance
Achieving regulatory compliance is not, unfortunately, a once-and-done initiative. As governmental regulations multiply and change year-to-year, enterprises in most industries are forced to consistently reevaluate and update their information management processes. While this often adds significant burdens to both executive and IT management, Aspire offers specialized services to help streamline and maintain compliance activities.
Following industry best practices, and blending in our years of experience in assisting enterprises as a trusted advisor in developing strong compliance programs, Aspire has developed an efficient, phased approach to evaluating and establishing solid compliance practices. Through careful assessment and measure of current practices, gaps, risks and documentation processes, we can help identify your unique compliance needs.
Beyond teaching your organization what must be done, we help you put in place the solutions and processes that make ongoing compliance second nature to your organization. Over the years we have been able to assist enterprises achieve compliance readiness for common regulations such as:
- BS 7799 / ISO 17799
- Sarbanes-Oxley
- HIPAA
- Visa/MasterCard PCI Data Standards
- GLBA
- …and more
Our Method for Compliance
Aspire’s general methodology to achieving regulatory compliance typically follows a process including the following steps:
1) Gap Analysis
- Assess effectiveness of existing controls
- Identify gaps & document additional controls and/or modifications required for compliance
2) Risk Assessment
- Understand business objectives
- Identify critical systems
- Assess risk levels by criticality & likelihood of occurrence
3) Control Activities
- Create new and/or modify existing controls required for compliance
- Document policies & procedures
4) Documentation
- Develop required documentation for establishing and maintaining reasonable and appropriate controls
5) Ongoing Security Management
- Assess internal controls
- Monitor security and incident response
- Log events and conduct compliance reporting
Sarbanes-Oxley Act Compliance Readiness
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) has been one of the most intensive drivers of enterprise compliance initiatives in recent years. Aspire’s proven experience in designing and implementing solutions for SOX compliance can help your enterprise maintain the internal controls and documentation essential to compliance for both the short and long terms. Read more about our approach in our SOX compliance datasheet.
Download the Aspire SOX compliance datasheet here.