The Infosec Compliance Process in 3 Simple Steps
Stuart Loh
•
Apr 6, 2021
This article is part of the Twingate Infosec Compliance Series.
Written for IT admins, security ops, and anyone else tasked with
implementing infosec requirements imposed by compliance standards, this
series explains common standards, how they relate to information
security, and how to get started with attaining compliance.
It can be imposing to embark on the compliance process for a new standard - particularly if you haven’t had prior experience
with it before. Fortunately, although compliance standards vary significantly in content, the approach to tackling each one
is actually very similar. The compliance process can be viewed as comprising three main components:
Attaining Compliance: Bringing the organization up to speed and meeting all of the requirements for the first time.
Maintaining Compliance: Compliance is almost never a “one and done‚ event. Compliance is anongoing process that needs to be sustained indefinitely, and determining how to efficiently maintain compliance year in, year out is important.
Demonstrating Compliance (or Ascertaining Compliance, if you want to make it rhyme!): In addition to simply doing what a compliance standard says, you will often need to
create evidence of your compliance, such as by preparing documentation.
For example, some standards are certified, meaning that they are only
issued after a third party auditor has been able to verify your
compliance.
1. Attaining Compliance
Initially attaining compliance is typically the most intensive stage of any compliance program.
Start with Project Management
Compliance standards usually contain a laundry list of requirements, so the first
step from an infosec perspective is to identify all the infosec
requirements in that list. You should compile them into its own list so
you can review and track them individually. During that review, you
should assign each requirement to a directly responsible individual
(DRI) who is tasked with ensuring the requirement is met, and for
reporting progress towards satisfying the requirement. Even if you think
you have already met a requirement, a DRI should still be assigned to
confirm that is the case.
While implementing each of those requirements is the bulk of the work, project
management is a critical part of ensuring success. Project management
is a discipline that others are more qualified to write about, but
suffice to say, organizations should appoint a project manager (or a PM
team) who is responsible for tracking the overall status of the project,
identifying roadblocks, escalating decisions when needed, etc. Tasks
are frequently cross-functional, so project managers are important for
facilitating communications between teams to ensure everyone is on the
same page.
If a compliance standard isn’t exclusively about infosec, another team may be responsible for
project managing compliance and will delegate the infosec requirements
to you. You may, in turn, decide to have your own project manager for
those requirements.
A wide variety of tools and frameworks
exist to help with managing compliance projects. You may also want to
consider retaining a consultant familiar with the compliance standard to
act as a project manager.
Implementing Requirements
Security requirements can generally be grouped into physical,
organizational/administrative and technical requirements that variously
involve:
Procuring and deploying new technology systems or reconfiguring existing systems
(for example, setting up an intrusion detection system, or hardening a
server)
Developing new, or editing existing, processes, policies and documentation (for example, establishing a formal written approvalprocess for granting systems access to new employees)
Disseminating new policies and processes throughout an organization (including providing training to affected teams)
Most infosec compliance standards aren’t super prescriptive when it comes to
implementation, and they leave the exact details up to the
organization. This means that there’s flexibility to select a solution
based on the organization’s profile and resourcing constraints. A
typical goal here is to seek the most efficient solution, while also
keeping in mind future scaling needs. Sometimes the most efficient
short-term solution will be a manual one, but they tend not to scale
well. As an IT professional, you’ll be best placed to judge what
approach makes the most sense for your organization.
For example, a common infosec requirement relates to having an offboarding
process to ensure that systems access for departing employees is
revoked. This can be achieved by having a manual process where you
maintain a list of systems to manually review each time an employee is
offboarding, disabling the employee’s account wherever it exists. This
process may work initially, but maintaining the list will become
challenging, and reviewing each system on the list will become more time
consuming and error prone as time progresses. With a little additional
upfront investment, you can implement a system like Twingate that avoids
the need to maintain a separate list of systems and enables offboarding
from most or all systems with just a few clicks (or even
programmatically through an API). Organizations will need to assess when
it’s the right time to invest in scalable solutions.
Should You Get Outside Help?
It can make sense for companies with resource constraints or tight
deadlines to hire a security consultant or firm to help. If you don’t
have prior experience with a compliance standard, they can help you get
oriented quicker. The experience that consultants gain from working with
multiple clients also allows them to advise on the different approaches
to implementing requirements that your peer companies take, and to
recommend technology or services in the market that may be helpful. Make
sure you define a scope of work that gets you the best bang for your
buck. Consultants can help with a little (being available to answer
questions on an ad hoc basis) or a lot (project management plus
implementation).
An example of an area where a consultant can be particularly helpful is documenting security
policies and procedures. This can be a very time consuming task, even if
you are starting with templates, such as those from the SANS Institute.
Having someone who comes in and takes care of interviewing your team
and getting your policies down on paper for the first time can alleviate
much of your workload. (Stay tuned for our forthcoming article about
our SOC 2 audit process and the tools we used to help us get ready for
it.)
2. Maintaining Compliance
Attaining compliance is a major step, but it is only the first step. Compliance
is an ongoing process that needs to be sustained over the long term.
Some ongoing compliance requirements are event-driven (e.g. in response
to a security incident or hiring of an employee) and some follow a
regular schedule (e.g. quarterly reviews of security policies or
conducting annual training).
Ensuring compliance obligations continue to be met over time requires
establishing operational processes supported by tools and systems that
help to ensure the processes are actually carried out as intended. For
example, scheduling reminders, or having automated systems that monitor
activity and send out alerts when certain events occur so that further
action can be taken. As mentioned above, investment into better systems
and automation can make compliance easier as an organization grows in
size and complexity, and prevent you from falling out of compliance.
3. Demonstrating Compliance
Many modern compliance standards not only require compliance, but they require organizations to be able to demonstrate or prove that they are in compliance.
Sometimes this is because the standard requires certification by a third party
who must be able to verify compliance based on evidence. For example, a
SOC 2 Type 2 report requires an independent auditor to verify that
security controls have been attained and maintained over a defined
period of time, and the auditor will request evidence (e.g. screenshots
and written records) to do so.
Even if a compliance standard doesn’t require any formal certification (or is a
self-certification standard), organizations may sometimes choose to
voluntarily retain a third party auditor or consultant to review or
double check their compliance and publish an unofficial compliance
report which can be used to build trust with customers and partners.
Other times, the compliance standard itself requires compliance to be
documented. For example, Article 5 of the GDPR contains an
“accountability principle‚ that requires organizations to not only be
responsible for compliance, but to “be able to demonstrate compliance
with‚ its requirements.
Therefore, organizations should build into their compliance activities rigorous
documentation and record keeping procedures, and ensure that those
records are kept up to date.
How Twingate Helps with Infosec Compliance
Access controls are a cornerstone of all security compliance programs. When it
comes to ensuring that the right people have access to the right
systems and data, in the right context, Twingate makes attaining,
maintaining and demonstrating compliance simple:
Attaining Compliance. Twingate makes attaining compliance easy by:
Enabling access controls for all types of IT assets: Twingate allows Zero Trust-based access controls to be applied to all
types of resources, including private apps, data, servers, and networks
(whether on-prem or cloud-based) and public SaaS apps.
Making deployment painless: IT teams have enough on their plates without having to worry about
managing an intensive project to deploy a new system. Twingate can be
deployed in 15 minutes without any changes to network infrastructure
required. End users can self-onboard without any configuration or tech
support needed.
Least privilege access by default: Least privilege access is a security best practice and Twingate makes
implementing it a reality. Twingate allows access to be assigned
granularly at the user and application level.
Identity provider integration: Leverage your existing IdP and apply SSO and MFA to any private app, service, or other resource.
Supporting modern workforces: With remote work, independent contractors, and cloud-based resources
becoming more prevalent, Twingate’s zero trust access model adapts to
today’s dynamic work environment by tying access to user and device
identities - not context-poor IP addresses.
Maintaining Compliance. Twingate makes maintaining compliance easier as well:
Centralized access control: Manage access controls to any app across your entire organization from a single administrative console, instead of multiple app-specific ones.
Twingate also makes periodic access reviews straightforward since you
only need to review one system.
Easy onboarding/offboarding: Twingate provides a single point of management, making onboarding andoffboarding users a snap. The Twingate API also lets you automate access provisioning and deprovisioning tasks to further reduce workloads.
Scaling: Have a growing organization? Adding more users is easy. And because
Twingate takes care of scaling for you, you don’t have to worry about
performance issues or outgrowing the solution.
Demonstrating Compliance. Twingate helps third parties determine whether you comply with access control requirements with less effort on your part:
Enterprise-wide network visibility: Because Twingate manages access across the entire enterprise, our
logging and analytics functionality provides you with enterprise-wide
visibility, helping you detect and respond to anomalous events, and
giving you insight into access patterns to help you refine your access
policies.
Single source of truth: Auditors only need to inspect a single system to understand who has access to what.
Contact us to learn more about how Twingate can lighten your security compliance workload.
Rapidly implement a modern Zero Trust network that is more secure and maintainable than VPNs.
The Infosec Compliance Process in 3 Simple Steps
Stuart Loh
•
Apr 6, 2021
This article is part of the Twingate Infosec Compliance Series.
Written for IT admins, security ops, and anyone else tasked with
implementing infosec requirements imposed by compliance standards, this
series explains common standards, how they relate to information
security, and how to get started with attaining compliance.
It can be imposing to embark on the compliance process for a new standard - particularly if you haven’t had prior experience
with it before. Fortunately, although compliance standards vary significantly in content, the approach to tackling each one
is actually very similar. The compliance process can be viewed as comprising three main components:
Attaining Compliance: Bringing the organization up to speed and meeting all of the requirements for the first time.
Maintaining Compliance: Compliance is almost never a “one and done‚ event. Compliance is anongoing process that needs to be sustained indefinitely, and determining how to efficiently maintain compliance year in, year out is important.
Demonstrating Compliance (or Ascertaining Compliance, if you want to make it rhyme!): In addition to simply doing what a compliance standard says, you will often need to
create evidence of your compliance, such as by preparing documentation.
For example, some standards are certified, meaning that they are only
issued after a third party auditor has been able to verify your
compliance.
1. Attaining Compliance
Initially attaining compliance is typically the most intensive stage of any compliance program.
Start with Project Management
Compliance standards usually contain a laundry list of requirements, so the first
step from an infosec perspective is to identify all the infosec
requirements in that list. You should compile them into its own list so
you can review and track them individually. During that review, you
should assign each requirement to a directly responsible individual
(DRI) who is tasked with ensuring the requirement is met, and for
reporting progress towards satisfying the requirement. Even if you think
you have already met a requirement, a DRI should still be assigned to
confirm that is the case.
While implementing each of those requirements is the bulk of the work, project
management is a critical part of ensuring success. Project management
is a discipline that others are more qualified to write about, but
suffice to say, organizations should appoint a project manager (or a PM
team) who is responsible for tracking the overall status of the project,
identifying roadblocks, escalating decisions when needed, etc. Tasks
are frequently cross-functional, so project managers are important for
facilitating communications between teams to ensure everyone is on the
same page.
If a compliance standard isn’t exclusively about infosec, another team may be responsible for
project managing compliance and will delegate the infosec requirements
to you. You may, in turn, decide to have your own project manager for
those requirements.
A wide variety of tools and frameworks
exist to help with managing compliance projects. You may also want to
consider retaining a consultant familiar with the compliance standard to
act as a project manager.
Implementing Requirements
Security requirements can generally be grouped into physical,
organizational/administrative and technical requirements that variously
involve:
Procuring and deploying new technology systems or reconfiguring existing systems
(for example, setting up an intrusion detection system, or hardening a
server)
Developing new, or editing existing, processes, policies and documentation (for example, establishing a formal written approvalprocess for granting systems access to new employees)
Disseminating new policies and processes throughout an organization (including providing training to affected teams)
Most infosec compliance standards aren’t super prescriptive when it comes to
implementation, and they leave the exact details up to the
organization. This means that there’s flexibility to select a solution
based on the organization’s profile and resourcing constraints. A
typical goal here is to seek the most efficient solution, while also
keeping in mind future scaling needs. Sometimes the most efficient
short-term solution will be a manual one, but they tend not to scale
well. As an IT professional, you’ll be best placed to judge what
approach makes the most sense for your organization.
For example, a common infosec requirement relates to having an offboarding
process to ensure that systems access for departing employees is
revoked. This can be achieved by having a manual process where you
maintain a list of systems to manually review each time an employee is
offboarding, disabling the employee’s account wherever it exists. This
process may work initially, but maintaining the list will become
challenging, and reviewing each system on the list will become more time
consuming and error prone as time progresses. With a little additional
upfront investment, you can implement a system like Twingate that avoids
the need to maintain a separate list of systems and enables offboarding
from most or all systems with just a few clicks (or even
programmatically through an API). Organizations will need to assess when
it’s the right time to invest in scalable solutions.
Should You Get Outside Help?
It can make sense for companies with resource constraints or tight
deadlines to hire a security consultant or firm to help. If you don’t
have prior experience with a compliance standard, they can help you get
oriented quicker. The experience that consultants gain from working with
multiple clients also allows them to advise on the different approaches
to implementing requirements that your peer companies take, and to
recommend technology or services in the market that may be helpful. Make
sure you define a scope of work that gets you the best bang for your
buck. Consultants can help with a little (being available to answer
questions on an ad hoc basis) or a lot (project management plus
implementation).
An example of an area where a consultant can be particularly helpful is documenting security
policies and procedures. This can be a very time consuming task, even if
you are starting with templates, such as those from the SANS Institute.
Having someone who comes in and takes care of interviewing your team
and getting your policies down on paper for the first time can alleviate
much of your workload. (Stay tuned for our forthcoming article about
our SOC 2 audit process and the tools we used to help us get ready for
it.)
2. Maintaining Compliance
Attaining compliance is a major step, but it is only the first step. Compliance
is an ongoing process that needs to be sustained over the long term.
Some ongoing compliance requirements are event-driven (e.g. in response
to a security incident or hiring of an employee) and some follow a
regular schedule (e.g. quarterly reviews of security policies or
conducting annual training).
Ensuring compliance obligations continue to be met over time requires
establishing operational processes supported by tools and systems that
help to ensure the processes are actually carried out as intended. For
example, scheduling reminders, or having automated systems that monitor
activity and send out alerts when certain events occur so that further
action can be taken. As mentioned above, investment into better systems
and automation can make compliance easier as an organization grows in
size and complexity, and prevent you from falling out of compliance.
3. Demonstrating Compliance
Many modern compliance standards not only require compliance, but they require organizations to be able to demonstrate or prove that they are in compliance.
Sometimes this is because the standard requires certification by a third party
who must be able to verify compliance based on evidence. For example, a
SOC 2 Type 2 report requires an independent auditor to verify that
security controls have been attained and maintained over a defined
period of time, and the auditor will request evidence (e.g. screenshots
and written records) to do so.
Even if a compliance standard doesn’t require any formal certification (or is a
self-certification standard), organizations may sometimes choose to
voluntarily retain a third party auditor or consultant to review or
double check their compliance and publish an unofficial compliance
report which can be used to build trust with customers and partners.
Other times, the compliance standard itself requires compliance to be
documented. For example, Article 5 of the GDPR contains an
“accountability principle‚ that requires organizations to not only be
responsible for compliance, but to “be able to demonstrate compliance
with‚ its requirements.
Therefore, organizations should build into their compliance activities rigorous
documentation and record keeping procedures, and ensure that those
records are kept up to date.
How Twingate Helps with Infosec Compliance
Access controls are a cornerstone of all security compliance programs. When it
comes to ensuring that the right people have access to the right
systems and data, in the right context, Twingate makes attaining,
maintaining and demonstrating compliance simple:
Attaining Compliance. Twingate makes attaining compliance easy by:
Enabling access controls for all types of IT assets: Twingate allows Zero Trust-based access controls to be applied to all
types of resources, including private apps, data, servers, and networks
(whether on-prem or cloud-based) and public SaaS apps.
Making deployment painless: IT teams have enough on their plates without having to worry about
managing an intensive project to deploy a new system. Twingate can be
deployed in 15 minutes without any changes to network infrastructure
required. End users can self-onboard without any configuration or tech
support needed.
Least privilege access by default: Least privilege access is a security best practice and Twingate makes
implementing it a reality. Twingate allows access to be assigned
granularly at the user and application level.
Identity provider integration: Leverage your existing IdP and apply SSO and MFA to any private app, service, or other resource.
Supporting modern workforces: With remote work, independent contractors, and cloud-based resources
becoming more prevalent, Twingate’s zero trust access model adapts to
today’s dynamic work environment by tying access to user and device
identities - not context-poor IP addresses.
Maintaining Compliance. Twingate makes maintaining compliance easier as well:
Centralized access control: Manage access controls to any app across your entire organization from a single administrative console, instead of multiple app-specific ones.
Twingate also makes periodic access reviews straightforward since you
only need to review one system.
Easy onboarding/offboarding: Twingate provides a single point of management, making onboarding andoffboarding users a snap. The Twingate API also lets you automate access provisioning and deprovisioning tasks to further reduce workloads.
Scaling: Have a growing organization? Adding more users is easy. And because
Twingate takes care of scaling for you, you don’t have to worry about
performance issues or outgrowing the solution.
Demonstrating Compliance. Twingate helps third parties determine whether you comply with access control requirements with less effort on your part:
Enterprise-wide network visibility: Because Twingate manages access across the entire enterprise, our
logging and analytics functionality provides you with enterprise-wide
visibility, helping you detect and respond to anomalous events, and
giving you insight into access patterns to help you refine your access
policies.
Single source of truth: Auditors only need to inspect a single system to understand who has access to what.
Contact us to learn more about how Twingate can lighten your security compliance workload.
The Infosec Compliance Process in 3 Simple Steps
Stuart Loh
•
Apr 6, 2021
This article is part of the Twingate Infosec Compliance Series.
Written for IT admins, security ops, and anyone else tasked with
implementing infosec requirements imposed by compliance standards, this
series explains common standards, how they relate to information
security, and how to get started with attaining compliance.
It can be imposing to embark on the compliance process for a new standard - particularly if you haven’t had prior experience
with it before. Fortunately, although compliance standards vary significantly in content, the approach to tackling each one
is actually very similar. The compliance process can be viewed as comprising three main components:
Attaining Compliance: Bringing the organization up to speed and meeting all of the requirements for the first time.
Maintaining Compliance: Compliance is almost never a “one and done‚ event. Compliance is anongoing process that needs to be sustained indefinitely, and determining how to efficiently maintain compliance year in, year out is important.
Demonstrating Compliance (or Ascertaining Compliance, if you want to make it rhyme!): In addition to simply doing what a compliance standard says, you will often need to
create evidence of your compliance, such as by preparing documentation.
For example, some standards are certified, meaning that they are only
issued after a third party auditor has been able to verify your
compliance.
1. Attaining Compliance
Initially attaining compliance is typically the most intensive stage of any compliance program.
Start with Project Management
Compliance standards usually contain a laundry list of requirements, so the first
step from an infosec perspective is to identify all the infosec
requirements in that list. You should compile them into its own list so
you can review and track them individually. During that review, you
should assign each requirement to a directly responsible individual
(DRI) who is tasked with ensuring the requirement is met, and for
reporting progress towards satisfying the requirement. Even if you think
you have already met a requirement, a DRI should still be assigned to
confirm that is the case.
While implementing each of those requirements is the bulk of the work, project
management is a critical part of ensuring success. Project management
is a discipline that others are more qualified to write about, but
suffice to say, organizations should appoint a project manager (or a PM
team) who is responsible for tracking the overall status of the project,
identifying roadblocks, escalating decisions when needed, etc. Tasks
are frequently cross-functional, so project managers are important for
facilitating communications between teams to ensure everyone is on the
same page.
If a compliance standard isn’t exclusively about infosec, another team may be responsible for
project managing compliance and will delegate the infosec requirements
to you. You may, in turn, decide to have your own project manager for
those requirements.
A wide variety of tools and frameworks
exist to help with managing compliance projects. You may also want to
consider retaining a consultant familiar with the compliance standard to
act as a project manager.
Implementing Requirements
Security requirements can generally be grouped into physical,
organizational/administrative and technical requirements that variously
involve:
Procuring and deploying new technology systems or reconfiguring existing systems
(for example, setting up an intrusion detection system, or hardening a
server)
Developing new, or editing existing, processes, policies and documentation (for example, establishing a formal written approvalprocess for granting systems access to new employees)
Disseminating new policies and processes throughout an organization (including providing training to affected teams)
Most infosec compliance standards aren’t super prescriptive when it comes to
implementation, and they leave the exact details up to the
organization. This means that there’s flexibility to select a solution
based on the organization’s profile and resourcing constraints. A
typical goal here is to seek the most efficient solution, while also
keeping in mind future scaling needs. Sometimes the most efficient
short-term solution will be a manual one, but they tend not to scale
well. As an IT professional, you’ll be best placed to judge what
approach makes the most sense for your organization.
For example, a common infosec requirement relates to having an offboarding
process to ensure that systems access for departing employees is
revoked. This can be achieved by having a manual process where you
maintain a list of systems to manually review each time an employee is
offboarding, disabling the employee’s account wherever it exists. This
process may work initially, but maintaining the list will become
challenging, and reviewing each system on the list will become more time
consuming and error prone as time progresses. With a little additional
upfront investment, you can implement a system like Twingate that avoids
the need to maintain a separate list of systems and enables offboarding
from most or all systems with just a few clicks (or even
programmatically through an API). Organizations will need to assess when
it’s the right time to invest in scalable solutions.
Should You Get Outside Help?
It can make sense for companies with resource constraints or tight
deadlines to hire a security consultant or firm to help. If you don’t
have prior experience with a compliance standard, they can help you get
oriented quicker. The experience that consultants gain from working with
multiple clients also allows them to advise on the different approaches
to implementing requirements that your peer companies take, and to
recommend technology or services in the market that may be helpful. Make
sure you define a scope of work that gets you the best bang for your
buck. Consultants can help with a little (being available to answer
questions on an ad hoc basis) or a lot (project management plus
implementation).
An example of an area where a consultant can be particularly helpful is documenting security
policies and procedures. This can be a very time consuming task, even if
you are starting with templates, such as those from the SANS Institute.
Having someone who comes in and takes care of interviewing your team
and getting your policies down on paper for the first time can alleviate
much of your workload. (Stay tuned for our forthcoming article about
our SOC 2 audit process and the tools we used to help us get ready for
it.)
2. Maintaining Compliance
Attaining compliance is a major step, but it is only the first step. Compliance
is an ongoing process that needs to be sustained over the long term.
Some ongoing compliance requirements are event-driven (e.g. in response
to a security incident or hiring of an employee) and some follow a
regular schedule (e.g. quarterly reviews of security policies or
conducting annual training).
Ensuring compliance obligations continue to be met over time requires
establishing operational processes supported by tools and systems that
help to ensure the processes are actually carried out as intended. For
example, scheduling reminders, or having automated systems that monitor
activity and send out alerts when certain events occur so that further
action can be taken. As mentioned above, investment into better systems
and automation can make compliance easier as an organization grows in
size and complexity, and prevent you from falling out of compliance.
3. Demonstrating Compliance
Many modern compliance standards not only require compliance, but they require organizations to be able to demonstrate or prove that they are in compliance.
Sometimes this is because the standard requires certification by a third party
who must be able to verify compliance based on evidence. For example, a
SOC 2 Type 2 report requires an independent auditor to verify that
security controls have been attained and maintained over a defined
period of time, and the auditor will request evidence (e.g. screenshots
and written records) to do so.
Even if a compliance standard doesn’t require any formal certification (or is a
self-certification standard), organizations may sometimes choose to
voluntarily retain a third party auditor or consultant to review or
double check their compliance and publish an unofficial compliance
report which can be used to build trust with customers and partners.
Other times, the compliance standard itself requires compliance to be
documented. For example, Article 5 of the GDPR contains an
“accountability principle‚ that requires organizations to not only be
responsible for compliance, but to “be able to demonstrate compliance
with‚ its requirements.
Therefore, organizations should build into their compliance activities rigorous
documentation and record keeping procedures, and ensure that those
records are kept up to date.
How Twingate Helps with Infosec Compliance
Access controls are a cornerstone of all security compliance programs. When it
comes to ensuring that the right people have access to the right
systems and data, in the right context, Twingate makes attaining,
maintaining and demonstrating compliance simple:
Attaining Compliance. Twingate makes attaining compliance easy by:
Enabling access controls for all types of IT assets: Twingate allows Zero Trust-based access controls to be applied to all
types of resources, including private apps, data, servers, and networks
(whether on-prem or cloud-based) and public SaaS apps.
Making deployment painless: IT teams have enough on their plates without having to worry about
managing an intensive project to deploy a new system. Twingate can be
deployed in 15 minutes without any changes to network infrastructure
required. End users can self-onboard without any configuration or tech
support needed.
Least privilege access by default: Least privilege access is a security best practice and Twingate makes
implementing it a reality. Twingate allows access to be assigned
granularly at the user and application level.
Identity provider integration: Leverage your existing IdP and apply SSO and MFA to any private app, service, or other resource.
Supporting modern workforces: With remote work, independent contractors, and cloud-based resources
becoming more prevalent, Twingate’s zero trust access model adapts to
today’s dynamic work environment by tying access to user and device
identities - not context-poor IP addresses.
Maintaining Compliance. Twingate makes maintaining compliance easier as well:
Centralized access control: Manage access controls to any app across your entire organization from a single administrative console, instead of multiple app-specific ones.
Twingate also makes periodic access reviews straightforward since you
only need to review one system.
Easy onboarding/offboarding: Twingate provides a single point of management, making onboarding andoffboarding users a snap. The Twingate API also lets you automate access provisioning and deprovisioning tasks to further reduce workloads.
Scaling: Have a growing organization? Adding more users is easy. And because
Twingate takes care of scaling for you, you don’t have to worry about
performance issues or outgrowing the solution.
Demonstrating Compliance. Twingate helps third parties determine whether you comply with access control requirements with less effort on your part:
Enterprise-wide network visibility: Because Twingate manages access across the entire enterprise, our
logging and analytics functionality provides you with enterprise-wide
visibility, helping you detect and respond to anomalous events, and
giving you insight into access patterns to help you refine your access
policies.
Single source of truth: Auditors only need to inspect a single system to understand who has access to what.
Contact us to learn more about how Twingate can lighten your security compliance workload.
Rapidly implement a modern Zero Trust network that is more secure and maintainable than VPNs.