Beyond Regulations: How Government Agencies Can Streamline and Automate IT Compliance
From the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to GDPR and more, public sector agencies must comply with a myriad of IT regulatory requirements. These regulations ensure proper financial management and stewardship, security, governance, operational efficiency and effectiveness, incident management – and ultimately, assure public trust and accountability.
NIST, for instance, applies to federal agencies and critical infrastructure and provides a voluntary framework for improving cybersecurity practices by identifying, protecting, detecting, responding to, and recovering from cyber incidents. Meanwhile GDPR, although primarily a European Union regulation, affects any public sector organization handling the personal data of EU citizens.
The Compliance Challenge
Compliance is crucial for agencies to avoid legal action, fines, and damage to their reputation. However, achieving compliance can be challenging. It can require incredibly granular audits of systems and reporting plans, frequent updates, and the rollout of new technologies – all of which can be difficult when agencies are resource- and budget-constrained.
Close Compliance Gaps with Observability, AI-Wisdom, and Automation
AI-enabled monitoring and observability platforms are vital for addressing compliance gaps.
Leveraging an all-in-one AIOps solution like the ScienceLogic AI Platform can help maximize the time and cost investments needed to achieve and maintain compliance.
The platform offers a complete view of IT assets, covering both the data center and the cloud. It not only removes visibility gaps but also allows for intelligent AI-driven oversight into the health and compliance of the IT ecosystem. Additionally, it complements this initial insight with automated solutions that enable smooth operations and compliance management.
ScienceLogic does the heavy lifting for agencies and organizations across the following areas:
- Maintaining and demonstrating compliance: The platform automatically performs continuous checks to verify that configuration and compliance policies are being adhered to, and that data is secure. Moreover, with support from the ScienceLogic AI Platform, agencies can streamline compliance efforts and quickly generate audit-ready reports versus the manual hand-to-hand combat needed to create these reports across disparate data sources.
The platform leverages Generative AI to quickly and proactively identify, understand and mitigate the root causes of incidents and spot potential compliance violations before they happen. This autonomic approach helps minimize business disruption, downtime, and risk, saving days (sometimes weeks) of manual administration per month.
- Monitoring and managing configuration change: Most regulatory and international compliance standards require agencies to manage and monitor change to reduce risk. However, public sector IT estates are complex and fragmented architectures comprised of multiple vendors, software versions, and configurations. ScienceLogic addresses this challenge by automating the network configuration assessment process against policies, standardized templates, and baselines – even as the IT environment evolves to incorporate new technologies and data sources.
- Maintaining security compliance: ScienceLogic also addresses regulatory security and incident response requirements by providing multifaceted defense mechanisms. These powerful tools enable agencies to proactively identify vulnerabilities, assess risks, and implement measures aligned with regulatory mandates. Leveraging ScienceLogic’s monitoring capabilities offers a comprehensive view of an organization’s security posture through real-time monitoring and advanced analytics, allowing for informed decision-making and swift responses to threats.
The Future of Compliance: Predictive, Proactive, Autonomous Repair and Optimization
As systems become increasingly complex and integral to operational success, the compliance challenges escalate.
To address this complexity and unburden IT teams tasked with maintaining compliance, ScienceLogic has developed a suite of advanced AI capabilities – Skylar AI. These capabilities transform traditional reactive systems into proactive, self-optimizing IT estates. Skylar AI can proactively uncover insights, curate data, and guide users to business-impacting problems and compliance issues before they happen. It moves past simply managing problems to predicting and preventing them before they occur.
With Skylar AI, IT teams across the public and private sector can anticipate and prevent potential disruptions, security threats, and compliance issues, empowering them to manage their IT infrastructure effectively.
For instance, by analyzing patterns of network traffic and user behavior using AI and deep learning, Skylar Analytics can identify potential security breaches before they occur, such as unusual access patterns that may signify a data breach attempt. Coupled with Skylar Automated RCA, it can quickly determine the source of the anomaly and suggest immediate actions to prevent exploitation, helping public sector agencies protect sensitive citizen data and comply with stringent regulations.
Skylar AI doesn’t just solve today’s most complex IT challenges, it represents the future of IT management – unburdening IT teams and compliance managers from spending time on routine operational tasks and freeing more time for mission-critical activities.
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