Compliance is a complicated and mostly misunderstood discipline. A compliance strategy is the company roadmap to effectively manage, measure and align corporate objectives to industry established best practices and standards. Doing this can help organizations reduce cost and streamline processes.


Governance, Risk and Compliance has many deviations. These include legal, audit, Sarbanes Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA, insurance and more. The diversity of requirements has been something vendors have struggled with until now. Many vendors have tried to reduce the overall emphasis by offering compliance solutions based purely on technology or on regulations and standards that fall outside of the jurisdictional borders of where they are in the world. These vendors combine controls into a unified framework that are not understood or approved by governmental agencies, standards bodies or laws of the land. These issues can derail any initiative and cost organizations significant amounts of money and resources without improved results. The Consult2Comply (C2C) methodology and approach will ensure the following questions are answered and a strategy is defined and implemented seamlessly;

• How do I link Environmental standards with IT standards? How do I correlate this across the organization? What happens if something changes?
• How do I link my policies and procedures?
• How do I know who to train?
• Are my projects being run effectively?
• Do I have policies implemented that contradict each other?
• What do I do when a new requirement develops? How do I integrate this into my existing framework?

The C2C methodology will help build your Compliance Strategy and show you how to manage your diverse environments to ensure a compliant enabled organization.

C2C methodology develops a compliance strategy that can create and allocate responsibilities for the compliance framework. This includes applicable and known regulations, risk scenarios, implemented standards and best practices, linked/mapped to policies, procedures and other business-supporting activities to gain an overall view and complete understanding of the business. This ensures the follow is achieved:

	Understanding of the complete GRC landscape
	A cohesive strategy including mappings across the entire organization
	Assigned responsibilities to appropriate personnel with monitoring, measuring and managing
	Use actual regulations, standards and best practices
	Not letting GRC initiatives be dominated by IT issues and technology
	All stakeholders involved in the process
	Assessing and auditing on a regular basis
	Making adjustments where necessary
	Continually improving the process

Whether you need to comply with a single regulation or standard or complex web of requirements, C2C can help you determine the areas of greatest business impact and create a strategy to effectively address and manage your environment. C2C has worked with a number of standards, regulations and best practices. We know how to quickly analyze, interpret and understand new ones. Our Compliance Mapper software can take any standard, regulation, break it down for analysis and understanding. We then quickly establish relationships between the various requirements and create mappings to easily see what the standard or regulation requires. These mappings can also be mapped to internal or external standards, regulations, best practices, policies, procedures etc. to determine where commonalities or deficiencies that may exist. This enables you to focus on and address only those areas which need attention. Intuitively, the above model demonstrates C2C's ability to rationalize compliance into logical and manageable areas, which can be addressed appropriately. We create and leave behind an integrated compliance management framework, which can be adjusted as the operational environment changes. As new requirements come into force or old ones are updated, our solutions let you be in control.

C2C has been involved in compliance and conformance for many years. Our teams are experts in developing business compliance strategies and our methodology ensures compliance is mapped across the organization effectively. The C2C methodology is business driven but includes IT when and where needed.

Our teams consist of experienced compliance specialists who are equipped with the necessary skills. They know the rules and have successfully implemented and assessed compliance against them. We provide support at the strategic level by maximizing any competitive advantages from regulation through to the operational level and by minimizing the costs and disruptions to your business. This has an indirect effect of freeing up management time in the process.