IT Compliance and Technology Audits
Accurate inventory management is the cornerstone of most IT compliance mandates. Unfortunately, modern enterprise environments, characterized by hybrid and remote work, cloud infrastructure and applications, and mobile technologies, have added layers of complexity to maintaining accurate inventory controls and good technology data hygiene.
Data Silos
Enterprises use 11+ tools/databases for audits and 40% have accuracy issues due to conflicting data from different tools.1
Data Accuracy
46% of organizations experienced considerable increases in audit delays and costs due to inaccurate asset data.2
Data Consolidation
51% of IT professionals say that data synchronization across systems and applications is a significant challenge.1
Ensure Compliance through Rigorous Inventory Controls
Enterprise Technology Management (ETM) solutions provide an integrated platform to manage and monitor your complete technology landscape. This proactive approach not only ensures compliance with multiple industry standards and best-practice frameworks, it also improves your overall security posture.
“Oomnitza has empowered us to maintain continuous IT compliance with SOC 2 and CIS frameworks, while automating complex IT processes — all courtesy of its powerful and intuitive workflow engine. Additionally, its comprehensive aggregation of technology asset data has bolstered our position as a trusted partner to key stakeholders, including our security team.”
Alexander Jasanovsky
The Importance of Accurate Inventory Controls
In the current landscape of stringent regulatory requirements, adherence to an ever growing list of compliance frameworks such as NIST, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, CIS, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 is imperative for most organizations. Accurate inventory controls are the foundation of these mandates.
Unfortunately, the adoption of hybrid and remote work, cloud services and applications, and mobile technologies, has complicated the task of tracking all technology assets and maintaining accurate inventory data. 55% of organizations have less than 75% asset coverage with inconsistent context such as ownership, location, security and lifecycle state3.
Failure to maintain proper inventory controls can lead to severe consequences, including security exposures, operational disruptions, financial penalties and reputational damage.
Challenges
- Keeping up with the fast pace of adoption of diverse devices, SaaS apps and cloud services
- Tracking and managing assets across remote workforce and growing number of locations
- Resource and cost overruns for completing technology audits
- Friction between IT and GRC teams due to poor inventory management and inaccurate compliance reporting
The Challenges of Modern Enterprise Landscape
Traditional IT Asset Management (ITAM) and CMDB-based solutions usually fall short in addressing the evolving technology landscape. 54% of organizations find the implementation of CMDB tools complex, labor intensive and time consuming. And 75% of CMDB initiatives fail due to inadequate focus on data accuracy, process standardization, and staff skills.
Often, IT teams resort to manually pulling information from multiple sources, aggregating it painstakingly via spreadsheets, and contacting users to reconcile duplicate entries or populate gaps.
No wonder, almost 50% of enterprises face considerable audit delays, resource shortages and cost overruns to complete technology audits due to siloed inventories, poor data hygiene and inadequate process automation2. This impedes adherence to security and compliance controls.
Streamline Inventory Controls and Technology Audits
To enhance the accuracy, efficiency and timeliness of compliance audits you need to embrace improvements in tools, processes and automation.
ETM solutions address the needs of today’s dynamic technology environments, overcoming the limitations of traditional ITAM and CMDB solutions by providing:
- Centralized inventory of all technology assets by leveraging existing tools and installed agents for comprehensive coverage, ensuring no asset goes untracked.
- Low-code/no-code workflows and pre-packaged workflow applications that are easily configured for your needs, to assess compliance, remediate issues and automate audit preparation tasks.
- Connector integrations with 160+ IT, security and business systems to discover, aggregate, normalize and enrich technology data for single-source audit data.
- Powerful business intelligence, notifications and reporting to keep stakeholders informed and provide evidence for auditors to demonstrate compliance.
Benefits
- Single system for tracking all technology assets across hardware, software and cloud services
- Better audit accuracy, efficiency and timeliness with automated workflows to streamline audit preparation tasks
- Confidence in inventory controls and compliance policies being met
- Cost savings by reducing manual effort, human error and the need for resource intensive IT projects
- Reduced risk of audit fines and failures
- Improved alignment and collaboration between IT and GRC teams
Improve technology data hygiene and maintain accurate inventory controls for hardware, software and cloud assets with Oomnitza. Ensure continuous compliance with regulatory mandates and automate audit preparation processes.
improvement in audit accuracy
and completeness
Using Oomnitza, we're able to provide real-time updates on what we have installed, which is a core part of our compliance and certification efforts.
Nemi George
VP, Information Security Officer & IT Operations
Pacific Dental Services
reduction in audit
preparation time
- ESG Research Report: 2022 Security Hygiene and Posture Management
- Oomnitza Snapshot Survey: IT Compliance and Technology Audits
- Cybersecurity Insiders 2021 Attack Surface Management report
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