Security compliance software helps companies document their compliance with cyber security frameworks in order to pass security audits. These tools enable information security or compliance teams to evaluate and manage their security processes. This helps ensure they comply with internal controls and industry or regulatory security frameworks such as SOC2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, ISO 27002, FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, and NIST Cybersecurity Framework, among others. These tools enable security and compliance analysts to assess company systems and policies and document or identify areas of compliance and noncompliance.
Undergoing a security audit can be both time-consuming and an internal resource-intensive endeavor. This software can ensure gathering compliance information is collaborative, correct, complete, and in the format required by auditors.
There are some similarities between security compliance software and GRC platforms, but GRC platforms focus on identifying financial, legal, and all other liabilities, not cyber security risks. There is some overlap between security compliance software and cloud compliance software, as the latter offers continuous infrastructure monitoring to identify security risks, which can be a component of automated evidence collection in security compliance software.
To qualify for inclusion in the Security Compliance category, a product must:
Offer pre-mapped and up-to-date templates for security frameworks such as SOC2, ISO 27001, and PCI-DSS, among others
Collect security compliance evidence and other documentation either through guided workflow or automation via system integrations
Conduct risk assessments and provide risk mitigation insights
Generate reports using predefined templates
