One audit, multiple frameworks: Streamline multi-framework compliance with Thoropass on AWS

Thoropass is introducing two new features to its offerings. With Unified Controls and multi-framework action items, you’ll save time and resources and achieve your compliance goals efficiently than ever before.

Unified controls

The unified controls feature provides you with a simplified and manageable compliance experience. The Thoropass team of auditors has mapped the offered frameworks to a single, core control list. This gives you a centralized location to view and act on your organization’s action items. With this feature, you focus on all your frameworks at once without switching between them.

Multi-framework action items

The compliance process in Thoropass is designed to seamlessly integrate new frameworks without redundant or overlapping requirements, ensuring efficient and comprehensive compliance management. Thoropass has identified common requirements—known as crosswalks—that identifies overlapping between popular information security compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, and PCI DSS and reduces repetitive tasks.

Enable predictable audit cycles

Maintaining compliance is an ongoing process, and every audit requires involvement from other teams in your organization. It’s a continuous challenge. Software platforms often require you to collect evidence and hand it off to a separate auditor, leading to errors and tedious back-and-forth communication.

Thoropass streamlines this process by programmatically verifying and auditor-approving evidence from start to finish, making the audit process seamless. Thoropass’s credentialed in-house auditors are cross-trained in multiple compliance frameworks and undergo rigorous training in their respective disciplines. Equipped with deep insights and hands-on experience, they guide you through your audit cycle at your own pace. You choose to pursue each framework one at a time or boost productivity by tackling multiple certifications or attestations in a single audit.

Thoropass saves your time and simplifies progress tracking by combining all Evidence Requests into a single dashboard, when auditing multiple compliance frameworks.

Figure 3 shows a holistic view of all your ongoing and completed audits. You easily check the progress and latest updates from the audit team for all your audits or select a specific audit for details.

The Thoropass “one audit, multiple frameworks” process delivers an efficient audit experience in compliance automation, maximizing the efficiency of your compliance work with a predictable audit cycle. On average, this approach results in 67 percent faster time-to-audit. This predictability leads to productive conversations with your peers about the audit cycle timeline.

Manage ongoing maintenance holistically with in Thoropass dashboard

You can use different cards in the Program Overview section to showcase the status of various parts of your compliance program. You stay up-to-date on the program’s health and remediate issues in real-time.

The OrO way for multi-framework compliance

Pursuing compliance with multiple frameworks takes lot of resources across your entire organization. However, working with Thoropass offers a streamlined approach through our OrO way methodology—a synergy of people, processes, and technology dedicated to providing the best multi-framework compliance experience.

You reduce redundant tasks by using unified controls and multi-framework action items. Predictability is built into your audit cycles with one audit encompassing multiple frameworks, and a centralized maintenance hub ensures holistic framework management. This represents a new paradigm for multi-framework efficiency.

Integrating Thoropass with AWS services

Integrating Thoropass for Audit-Readiness on AWS further streamlines the compliance process by automatically gathering security evidence and metadata for different assets within the AWS Cloud. This ensures that your AWS assets are validated and audit-ready. The AWS integration continuously refreshes your data, identifies compliance issues through cloud monitoring, and reviews configurations to ensure best practices are implemented.

If an automated monitor detects a compliance issue within your AWS environment, Thoropass provides a one-click remediation option and detailed instructions through the platform.

Thoropass integrates with AWS to automatically generate a snapshot of privileged access users for your auditors’ review, eliminating the manual work and meetings required for collecting access evidence.

You confidently navigate the multi-framework compliance landscape, by following these guiding principles and using Thoropass on AWS.

Thoropass on AWS: Streamlining compliance for Capitalize

Capitalize, a FinTech company focused on helping people save for retirement, used Thoropass on AWS to streamline SOC 2 compliance. Capitalize partners with other financial institutions to assist customers in moving their retirement accounts, such as 401(k)s, to IRAs. Having SOC 2 compliance in place helped facilitate these partnerships and demonstrated that Capitalize takes security and customer data protection seriously. Through a seamless onboarding process and expert gap analysis, Thoropass rapidly propelled Capitalize toward compliance within2 weeks.

“As a founder, my time is very valuable to apply to all different aspects of the company. Not wanting to skimp on compliance, having this process and partnering with Thoropass made it easy to manage,” states Chris Phillips, co-founder and CTO of Capitalize.

With full visibility into the audit’s progress and real-time insights provided by Thoropass, Capitalize experienced time savings and improved flexibility in engaging with auditors. By harnessing AWS services, including Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EC2, and AWS CloudFormation, Capitalize optimized costs, accelerated innovation, and secured partnerships with larger entities.

Benefits from Thoropass on AWS

Thoropass integrations collect evidence of your cloud service provider’s security settings. Auditors use this evidence to confirm compliance with various controls across different frameworks. Thoropass’s comprehensive end-to-end information security compliance solution simplifies compliance tasks, including automation for evidence gathering and continuous monitoring across AWS services.

With Thoropass, you:

• Automate up to 90 percent of compliance work
• Achieve audits up to 67 percent faster
• Save up to two-thirds of traditional compliance costs

Additionally, the Thoropass platform enables a single audit to cover multiple frameworks, reducing evidence requests by 60 percent.

Next Steps

Ready to streamline your multi-framework compliance journey? Start today by using Thoropass on AWS and experience continuous real-time compliance monitoring.

Thoropass is part of the AWS Global Security and Compliance Acceleration (GSCA) Program and GSCA’s SOC 2 Accelerator for Startup initiative.

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