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Managing compliance doesn't have to be draining, time-consuming, or overly complicated. In this Help Net Security video, Wesley Van Zyl, Senior Manager, Compliance Success at Scytale, discusses how keeping track of all your security controls can be challenging, particularly when new cybersecurity threats emerge unexpectedly.

For companies today, the need to maintain and enhance levels of audit and compliance against the backdrop of an ever-worsening cyber security threat landscape has become more pressing than ever before. Security and compliance breaches can cause operational disruption, lost revenue, customer dissatisfaction, and lead to potentially catastrophic legal or regulatory actions, according to a new white paper published by compliance automation specialist Drata.

Security compliance often feels like the ever-present task that looms over every angle of your role as Chief Information Security Officer. Regardless of the hours spent managing it, something can always slip through the cracks.

Due to the increasing importance of multi-cloud and the intricate nature of cloud infrastructure, obtaining a comprehensive understanding of the various cloud workloads operating within your system, and ensuring their security, can be challenging. In this Help Net Security video, Kaus Phaltankar, CEO at Caveonix discusses how in today's complex multi-cloud landscape, the role of CISOs is more crucial than ever.

It's a challenge for IT security chiefs because unstructured data's decentralized nature makes it harder to maintain effective and consistent security controls that govern access to it. "Concepts of best practice in data storage have evolved rapidly since the SolarWinds hack," says Kevin Noreen, Senior Product Manager - Unstructured Data Storage Security at Dell Technologies.

Now, as for the job itself, Steve was in the "Salesman support/office/data processing section." The computer system in use at the time was an IBM system 3, with tub files of 96-hole punch cards for sales order processing, inventory management, and reporting. Steve tells us "The punch cards were kept with the sales orders until order completion/delivery, or pickup, with some orders awaiting on-order inventory for later pickup."

Let's face it, security teams are only as good as the next problem they face. Why is keeping up so difficult? New/evolving requirements, lengthy/confusing acronyms, and countless moving parts plague compliance regulations.

IT departments continue to face immense pressure to get vulnerability and patch management right as threat actors use new and old methods to exploit network endpoints. Are we ready for what's next? As vulnerabilities continue to increase, what strategies should security professionals use to gain visibility into these threats, prioritize them, and manage the ongoing risk to endpoints? What will the vulnerability landscape look like in 2023, and what new challenges will security and IT teams face?

An example of a solution that helps meet PCI DSS compliance requirements is Wazuh. Wazuh helps implement PCI DSS compliance by performing log analysis, file integrity checking, configuration assessment, intrusion detection, real-time alerting, and automated response to threats.

Compliance services are emerging as one of the hottest areas of cybersecurity. This is a major opportunity for providers of virtual CISO services assuming they can broaden their offerings to encompass compliance.