The ability to understand what is happening and where action is needed depends on visibility across systems, providers, and data-driven insights.
To achieve business goals for speed and self-service, organizations must minimize risk by providing security-rich access to compliant tools and services; standardize access to preapproved tools and services; and reduce the complexity of using multiple tools, systems, and processes. “We have the ability to make sure the organization’s IT assets are following all regulatory mandates and corporate policies, with technology that will scan these assets and process reports on compliance or noncompliance,” says Alam. “We process those reports, and we can remediate the issues we find. You’re never going to eliminate all risk, so it’s important to establish acceptable risk levels for categories or systems. Then we can alert the organization or immediately remediate any assets or systems that exceed established risk levels.”
Kyndryl’s managed service provides technology and services to address organizations’ major compliance challenges, including:
Adherence to regulatory mandates, such as GDPR, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and provisions of HIPAA
Implementing and upholding best practices such as National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Center for Internet Security (CIS) guidelines and implementing industry-specific requirements such as the PCI DSS
Maintenance of a robust security posture to prevent data breaches
Automated monitoring, reporting, and audit capabilities
The ComplianceSecOps managed services offering from Kyndryl provides organizations with the expertise of multidisciplinary squads to design and implement client-specific compliance solutions. Those solutions leverage industry-leading technology and ready-made work packages defining day-to-day operations designed for the most common use cases encountered across thousands of customers. Kyndryl also works with clients to implement any required customization.
Kyndryl provides secure hosting, consumption- based licensing, and global or local help desk support. An open integration platform — Kyndryl Bridge — integrates and connects the complex management and process tools that enterprises rely on, including third-party applications such as security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) solutions.
Kyndryl Bridge was designed to accommodate most tools that enterprises already use. “Kyndryl Bridge is a very powerful platform hosting area where we can integrate the ComplianceSecOps offering with offerings from our Kyndryl security and resilience team and the organization’s DevOps,” says Alam. “We’re able to make our compliance data available to other services and applications that can ingest that information.”
The Kyndryl platform maximizes the benefits of native multicloud capabilities and delivers an “as-a-service” (aaS) operating environment. It provides clients with a strategic digital hub that connects Kyndryl’s advanced technology and tooling with a deep bench of industry expertise and forward-thinking innovators across virtually every sector of the global economy.
Kyndryl’s ComplianceSecOps offering enables organizations to cost-effectively subscribe to as-a-service capabilities spanning security management, compliance, and risk management. Skilled teams assess client environments for security and compliance drift and plan and design remediation and migration strategies.