Tuesday, January 16, 2024
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The easiest way for a Tech CEO to be freed from administrative burden of upcoming tech legislations

x-Tech salvation
Yuri Bobbert
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As a Tech CEO you must comply with many legislations. It's not easy to stay focused on your business while drowning in bureaucratic and administrative burden due to legislative directives. To be honest it is a real pain.

We want to help you protect your digital assets in an easy way. Let us tell you more about the new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that has been gaining traction: the Security and Privacy management system for digital assurance.

Digital assurance and safeguarding data is top of mind

In recent years, there has been a growing concern about the security and privacy of business data. With cyber-attacks on the rise and regulations becoming more stringent, companies must take a more proactive approach to safeguarding their information.

However, managing security and privacy frameworks can be complex and time-consuming, especially when different departments within the organization are siloed [1].

Establishing and demonstrating Digital Compliance will become a top priority for any x-Tech [2] CEO for the coming three years. X-Tech could for example be FinTech, MedTech, RegTech and EdTech. In this blog we focus on x-Tech, but many other companies suffer the same legislative avalanche.


Digital Providers will face a wide variety of EU legislation:

  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), former AVG
  • The NIS 2 Directive
  • The European Cyber Resilience Act
  • The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
  • The Critical Entities Resilience Directive (CER)
  • The Digital Services Act (DSA)
  • The Digital Markets Act (DMA)
  • The European Health Data Space (EHDS)
  • The European Chips Act
  • The European Data Governance Act (DGA
  • The Artificial Intelligence Act
  • The European ePrivacy Regulation
  • The European Cyber Defence Policy

 

This long list of laws and regulations just asks for one clear central solution for digital assurance. Enter the Security and Privacy management system - an all-in-one platform that allows organizations to manage all their security and privacy efforts in one place.

From HR to production to sales, this system connects all the different silos and ensures that everyone is on the same page. This not only saves time and money but also helps to avoid miscommunications and risks.

x-Tech salvation

But what exactly does this system do? First and foremost, it streamlines the registration of security and privacy frameworks. Instead of having different departments duplicate efforts and registering with multiple agencies, the Security and Privacy management system allows companies to register once and automatically share that information across the organization.

Furthermore, this system provides an overarching view of the organization's security and privacy landscape and risk exposure. It identifies potential risks and helps companies to take a proactive approach to mitigating them. This is especially important today, when cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated and common.

The CEO’s Annual - Digital Assurance - report

As a Tech CEO, founder or boardroom member, you want to have confidence that your company is taking the necessary steps to protect its digital assets. And at the same time, meet compliance requirements. This is where the Security and Privacy management system helps you shine.

It provides an annual security and privacy report that includes an overview of the organization's digital assets, controls to mitigate risks, and recommendations for improvement. Similar to a yearly statement we know from the CFO.

At any time [3], it presents the key figures on risks expressed in Euro, control effectiveness status, and more. Such an overview and report can be used perfectly to gain trust and confidence with your stakeholders, like investors, supervisory bodies, or regulators.

  • Read our previous blog for new insights about the compliance requirements.

The easiest security and privacy ERP there is: Anove.

Anove, is the most advanced digital assurance technology currently available and based on +25 years of experience. It makes use of a proven [4] method to collectively determine the risks and security insights called “SecuriWizard”.

This is a method based on Group Support System (GSS) that allows you and your co-founders, board members to gain knowledge, overcome behavioral issues such as complex language by security people [5], and create better understanding of regulatory requirements and what actions to take. In several dialogue based sessions you gather the main risk and privacy actions and with the Anove technology you are able to manage and control your progress and compliance impact.

With Anove your tech company becomes faster and more efficient in complex and knowledge-intensive decision-making. And at the same time provides digital assurance.

Protect your digital assets and maintain your customers’ trust

In summary, the Security and Privacy management system is the next-generation ERP system that organizations need to stay ahead of the security and privacy curve. It connects silos, avoids double costs, reduces miscommunications, and mitigates risks. As we continue to see an increase in cyber-attacks and regulations, it is more important than ever for companies and you, as a CEO, founder, board member, to invest in this system to protect your digital assets and maintain your customers' trust. And therefore, the easiest way for you as a tech CEO to stay focused on your business.


About Anove

Anove has been at the forefront of Digital Security since 1996, with the inception of the first security technology in the market. They have combined +25 years of experience, knowledge, and the latest insights into a new digital assurance technology: Anove.

This proven and in-house-developed Information Security Management System captures all relevant data you need to protect your business and assure compliance.

Anove aims to simplify and continuously improve its profession, simplify things, and put action over talking. We provide an aid for digital assurance so you can focus on your business. You can rely on our expertise and experience as we know:


Eager to learn what Digital Assurance can mean for your companu?

Have you become eager to learn more about what digital assurance can mean for your company? Please get in contact with us for an informative talk or get a free demo.

References

  1. Y.  Bobbert, Improving the Maturity of Business Information Security: On the Design and Engineering of a Business Information Security Administrative tool, Nijmegen: Radboud University, 2018.
  2. X-Tech is the collective term for companies delivering a technology solution for a problem. For example: RegTech, FinTech, MedTech, WealthTech, InsurTech, LegTech, PropTechGovTech, PropTech or EdTech.
  3. Khan stated earlier that IT audits are ad-hoc and looking back. There is an increasing need for “continuous compliance," pp. 14-15, June 2018. DOI: 10.1016/S1353-4858(18)30057-6
  4. In the article Boardroom Dynamics “Group Support for the Board’s Involvement in a Smart Security Decision-making Process” you can read more about this method https://www.meetingwizard.nl/publications/feature-boardroom-dynamics.pdf
  5. W.  Flores, E. Antonsen and M. Ekstedt, "Information security knowledge sharing in organizations: Investigating the effect of behavioral information  security governance and national culture," Computers & security, Vols.  2014-43, pp. 90-110, 2014.

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