Your to-do list is perpetually crowded with tasks that never seem to end. Amidst managing daily responsibilities, compliance requirements often become an additional burden. Now, you can elevate your compliance program and reclaim valuable time with the power of automated, continuous monitoring of your device inventory compliance with Compliance Monitor, a new feature now available in Compliance Manager GRC at no additional cost.

Compliance Monitor is designed to reduce risks and streamline your compliance efforts. By seamlessly monitoring PC configurations in real-time, it ensures that your devices stay aligned with leading cybersecurity frameworks and regulatory requirements. This proactive approach automates compliance checks, eliminating the need for manual audits and minimizing human error. With continuous monitoring in place, you can rest assured that your devices always meet compliance standards. Compliance Monitor empowers your team to focus on more strategic tasks while ensuring your compliance program is always robust and audit-ready, saving you and your team invaluable time and resources that can be better used elsewhere.

What is Compliance Monitor?

Compliance Monitor is an exciting new feature within Compliance Manager GRC designed to streamline your compliance efforts. With this powerful tool, you can maintain continuous oversight of device configuration security, minimizing risk and simplifying audits. This feature aligns with key frameworks such as CIS Benchmarks, CMMC, HIPAA, Essential 8, NIST CSF, NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, UK Cyber Essentials and a host of other IT security and regulatory requirements.

Compliance Monitor leverages the power of Discovery Agents to help you achieve ongoing regulatory compliance by providing automated, continuous monitoring. It tracks your compliance readiness, verifies your policy configuration settings and offers remediation guidance. This functionality puts the data and insights you need to avoid compliance challenges at your fingertips, giving you confidence that your device configuration environment aligns with the latest standards and best practices you choose.

“Before Compliance Manager GRC, compliance was drowning us. Now, it’s a major revenue driver, generating nearly a million dollars in professional services revenue this year alone for our MSP.” – Javier Dugarte, VP of Sales and Operations, GoCloud Inc.

Key benefits for MSPs & SMBs

Compliance Monitor offers managed service providers (MSPs) and other IT professionals a range of time-saving capabilities that streamline compliance management and reduce the burden of manual processes. These key features include:

• Automated continuous monitoring: Provides ongoing monitoring of endpoints to ensure adherence to required IT security and regulatory compliance standards.
• Compliance-readiness tracking: Tracks compliance readiness, offering detailed information about endpoint configurations.
• Verification of endpoint configuration settings: Ensures recommended endpoint configuration settings are correctly applied across all endpoints in the network, maintaining ongoing compliance after IT personnel responsible for computer endpoint security remediate identified endpoint misconfigurations.
• Remediation guidance: Displays CIS Benchmark device configuration guidance to help technicians quickly formulate a remediation plan and execute actions necessary to mitigate identified lapses in device alignment with the CIS controls and compliance requirements.

Start using Compliance Monitor in five easy steps

Putting Compliance Monitor to work for you is quick and easy. Just follow these five steps to get started:

1. Access the Organization and enable Windows Discovery Agents to perform Compliance Monitor scans.
2. Select the Standards that you want to monitor devices against.
3. View Device Readiness Status.
4. Use built-in CIS Benchmark Remediation Guidance to align device configurations with the CIS Benchmarks and your selected IT security and regulatory standards.
5. Leverage ongoing monitoring to verify ongoing device configuration alignment and compliance.

Continuous compliance is within reach

Achieving, maintaining and demonstrating compliance with IT security and regulatory standards is a critical but daunting task. Traditional compliance audits are cumbersome, and even after you’re done, you only have a snapshot in time, which is insufficient for effectively managing risk in today’s fast-paced world. What was once a complex, resource-draining process is now easy and affordable with Compliance Monitor.

Compliance Monitor enables you to continuously track your device inventory’s compliance posture, ensuring that you are always prepared and protected in real-time. This powerful new feature provides detailed insights into endpoint device configurations, tracks ongoing compliance readiness and automates the maintenance of secure device configurations across your entire network. Say goodbye to the inefficiencies of manual audits and hello to continuous compliance. Elevate your compliance strategy and gain peace of mind knowing that your devices are always compliant and secure with Compliance Monitor.

Discover how Compliance Monitor within Compliance Manager GRC automates compliance checks, reducing manual effort and minimizing errors. See it in action — request a demo today!