The term compliance, widely used in academia, has expanded to the corporate world. It refers to business action in preventing non-compliance with rules, fighting fraud, corruption, money laundering and ethical misconduct.
From the English verb “to comply”, which means to act according to an order or rules, it is a set of procedures that help to detect and remedy irregularities in business management. Thus, it guarantees transparency, an increase in the quality of products and services and credibility on the part of stakeholders.
How IT can benefit from compliance
IT is not just an isolated area of an organization: it makes the technological interface with all the company’s teams, strategically using resources in accordance with current regulations and protecting the business’ IT assets.
In other words, Information Technology compliance is a package of good practices that aim to make work more reliable and secure. For this, the standards applied must be in accordance with laws aimed at IT, such as LGPD, Marco Civil da Internet, GDPR and ISOs, among others.
Since it is impossible to control the actions of all employees in a digital environment, the bigger the company and the more employees it has, the more risk it runs of being harmed by fraud.
In this sense, IT compliance structures data security processes, including protocols for:
- Internet access control;
- Technological update;
- Avoid attacks;
- Continuous network and system monitoring;
- Mitigate failures;
- Development of a disaster recovery plan;
- Creation of an information security policy.
In a way, IT compliance guides people on precautionary ways to avoid breaking the laws (in our case, Brazilian ones) that talk about information security, such as:
- Law No. 12,965/2014 – Civil Rights Framework for the Internet;
- Law No. 12,850/2013 – Refers to electronic evidence;
- Laws nº 12.735 and 12.77/2012 – Related to the definition of electronic crimes;
- Decree nº 7962/2013 – Main regulation of electronic commerce;
- Law No. 12,527/2011 – Law on access to information;
- Law nº 12.551/2011 – Regulates the Home Office and teleworking;
- Law No. 12,846/2013 – regulates anti-corruption practices.
Complying with these laws can be more complex than many managers realize. A recent example is the treatment of personal data under the General Data Protection Act.
The LGPD, which is already in force, establishes rules on the collection, storage, treatment, and sharing of personal data, determining penalties for non-compliance with the standard. Therefore, it is up to the company or the sector responsible for compliance to verify that the data processing is being carried out in accordance with the law.
Compliance solutions for your business
Failure to comply with the laws can generate great losses for organizations. For example, companies that do not comply with the LGPD are punished with a fine of up to 2% of net sales, limited to 50 million per infraction.
In other words, you can’t sit idly by while rivers of money pour out of coffers to pay fines.
To take control of compliance, there are solutions created by Trend Micro that provide security management, functional automation, and integrated product visibility. All are equipped with XGen security, a combination of multi-generational threat defense techniques that are optimized for various environments.
Trend Micro Deep Security is the only tool that meets multiple requirements, including intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS), malware protection, integrity monitoring, application control, system logs, and firewall requirements.
Deep Security is available as software, through the AWS and Azure marketplace, or as a PCI DSS Level 1 Certified Service Provider.
You can achieve compliance up to 4x faster and simplify security management by meeting many requirements as a single offering within this application. In short, Trend Micro Deep Security is a comprehensive security platform that protects your critical data and applications across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
