Big data analytics company successfully remediates AWS Security misconfigurations which enabled seamless implementation of multiple frameworks through CITSAP’s end-to-end cybersecurity compliance solution

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Big data analytics company successfully remediates AWS Security misconfigurations which enabled seamless implementation of multiple frameworks through CITSAP’s end-to-end cybersecurity compliance solution

Big data analytics company successfully remediates AWS Security misconfigurations which enabled seamless implementation of multiple frameworks through CITSAP’s end-to-end cybersecurity compliance solution

Company Overview

Big data analytics company with a 50+ fully remote workforce and an AWS-hosted cloud infrastructure provide its services to several enterprise clients across the united states, and had an increasing demand to expand its services internationally

Challenges

The company has historically been focused on business growth, and had amassed a high amount of technical debt over the course of a decade of being in business operations. With its aggressive business expansion plan nationally and internationally, there were increasing requests from the company’s prospects, and existing customers to provide a third-party security attestation of the company’s cybersecurity posture and had to quickly remediate various misconfigurations in its AWS infrastructure to meet the technical compliance requirements of the SOC 2 and ISO 27001 standards, respectively.

Solution

While the company’ spoke with several cybersecurity compliance firms, they made the decision to engage CITSAP as their compliance partner of choice due to our end-to-end solution which included helping with the remediation of their AWS security misconfigurations in addition to designing and implementing a roadmap for the achievement of the company’s multi-framework compliance requirements to achieve both the SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications within a year.

Results

The company completed the remediation of AWS misconfigurations and achieved SOC 2 Type 1 certification in three months. In addiiton, thecompany implemented and matured its cybersecurity program paving the way for the continued improvement of its control environment and seamless implementation of multiple compliance frameworks. The company was able to meet the security expectations of not only the existing customers, but also its prospective customers and investors. Additionally, the company significantly cut down hundred of hours spent by the sales team to complete third-party security questionnaires.