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The past decade has seen governments around the world introduce significant new legislation covering data, cybersecurity, and technology. This has been part of a sustained effort to regain some influence over big tech and impose good governance practices on how businesses capture, protect, and manage data.
This shift towards greater regulation has been largely led by the EU, which implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018. More recently, the EU introduced the NIS2 directive which organisations need to apply measures for before October 2024, as well as several other pieces of legislation—such as the EU AI Act and Cyber Resilience Act—that are set to come into force in the near future.
While the specific requirements of each piece of regulation vary, the overarching message is clear. Regulators are increasingly requiring organisations to instil good data governance practices and a more considered attitude to risks and threat intelligence in order to protect both citizens and organisations that are critical to national infrastructure and economies.
The result is that CISOs now face greater responsibility for Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) than ever before. As businesses continue to expand into the cloud and work to secure their digital infrastructure, embracing automation by adopting security service edge (SSE) technologies is a positive step to face up to the challenge.
Accepting this greater accountability, CISOs often feel the huge weight of responsibility to personally manage and address every requirement. In reality that is impossible; the volume of data, threats, and vulnerabilities is insurmountable for a single person or a resource restricted team. However, we also have the technology to automate many of these processes and I expect we will see a wave of new tools over the coming year to support CISOs with GRC requirements.
There are many existing capabilities under the umbrella category of SSE that perform these functions, and as we continue to integrate AI and machine learning solutions they will continue to advance. Here are four ways SSE can help with GRC: