Guide: How MSSPs and vCISOs can extend their services into compliance readiness without increasing cost

Jan 18, 2023The Hacker NewsVirtual CISO / Automated vCISO

Compliance services are emerging as one of the hottest areas of
cybersecurity.

While compliance used to be mainly the province of large
enterprises, times have changed, and it is now a day-to-day concern
for a growing number of small and medium businesses.

Even when these organizations are not regulated, SMEs often aim
to follow compliance and/or security frameworks either for their
own risk mitigation or in order to comply with the standards
required by their customers. The driver is often their customers’
supply chain concerns and requirements. As large businesses adopt
cybersecurity and compliance frameworks and agree to certain
standards, they impose similar demands on their suppliers.

This is a major opportunity for providers of virtual CISO
(vCISO) services assuming they can broaden their offerings to
encompass compliance. MSSPs, MSPs, consultanies and other vCISO
service providers perform a vital role in building a comprehensive
cybersecurity program for their SME customers. They ensure that
organizations put basic security measures in place to reduce the
risk of a cyberattack as well as adequate safeguards to protect
sensitive information. As such, those delivering vCISO services are
well positioned to expand their services into compliance. Some of
them already extended their service portfolio by adding
compliance-related services, adding value to their customers.

While this should be a natural and easy transition, many vCISO
service providers struggle to make this move as adding compliance
and audit readiness services may be overwhelming – it requires a
specific skillset and may be time consuming.

Fortunately, vCISO platforms are emerging that integrate the
compliance function and automate much of the work allowing vCISO
service providers to easily add compliance services to their
offering with no extra burden or cost.

Download this guide^[1]
from Cynomi to learn:

• What compliance services are and why they are in demand
• How vCISO providers can add value to the compliance sector
• What the different compliance frameworks are and how they fit
  in with the CISO role
• The upsell potential of compliance services
• How compliance services tie into audit preparedness
• How vCISOs in possession of detailed security assessments are
  well-positioned to provide compliance services
• The platforms that can help vCISO providers automate security
  and compliance

Download the guide here^[2].