Compliance: Building Trust Through Control and Visibility

Compliance is much more than a checklist. It is about earning and maintaining trust with your customers, regulators, partners and stakeholders. In a landscape shaped by complex regulations and evolving threats, we adopt a structured and proactive approach to governance, risk and compliance. Through clear policies, continuous monitoring, and employee awareness, you ensure that security and compliance are embedded in every layer of your business.

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)

A GRC framework is the foundation of your security posture and compliance. It helps you establish clear roles, responsibilities and processes to identify, assess and mitigate risks across your organisation. Risk registers, control frameworks and audit mechanisms enable you to demonstrate accountability and compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA and GDPR.

Through regular reviews, you align your controls with evolving regulations and business objectives. All decisions related to risk acceptance or mitigation are formally documented using risk assessment and approval forms.

Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM)

Security and compliance are dynamic, not static. Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) ensures that your security controls are working as intended — all the time. It uses automated tools to validate configurations, detect policy violations and monitor user behaviour.

This includes:

• Access controls and user permissions

• Patch levels and system configurations

• Logging and monitoring of critical assets

Where gaps are found, alerts trigger remediation workflows and issues are recorded in your control deviation register. This ensures that no risk remains hidden and that accountability is maintained.

Zero Trust Framework

In today’s perimeter-less environment, Zero Trust has become essential. At Checkdone IT, we have adopted the Zero Trust security model to protect our most valuable assets and help our customers on their Zero Trust journey.

Zero Trust means that no one — whether inside or outside the organisation — is automatically trusted. Every request to access resources must be verified and authorised. The model is based on three core principles:

1. Verify explicitly — Always authenticate and authorise based on all available data points.

2. Use least privilege access — Limit user and device access to only what is needed.

3. Assume breach — Design systems with the expectation that attackers may already be inside.

Your Zero Trust journey is supported by:

• Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users.

• Microsegmentation to control lateral movement.

• Just-in-time (JIT) access for privileged accounts.

• Endpoint detection and response (EDR) and network detection and response (NDR)to identify suspicious activities.

Access requests, approvals, and reviews using centralised access management forms are documented ensuring visibility and auditability.

The Zero Trust Framework is a security approach that assumes that no user or device is trusted by default, whether inside or outside the network. It’s not a one-off project. It requires continuous review, monitoring and adaptation to evolving threats, technologies and business needs. Implementing Zero Trust is an ongoing journey that strengthens your resilience and supports regulatory compliance, not a tick-box exercise.

Security Awareness

Technology alone is not enough. People play a critical role in security and compliance. A comprehensive security awareness programme that educates employees on best practices, phishing risks and privacy obligations is needed to support your security posture and compliance.

A security awareness programme includes:

• Mandatory onboarding training

• Quarterly refresher courses

• Phishing simulations and spot checks

• Annual knowledge assessments

Employee participation is tracked using training forms and automated LMS reporting, ensuring that everyone remains informed and accountable.

Supply Chain Security

Commitment to compliance extends beyond your organisation. Every third party you work with is subject to stringent supply chain security requirements. This ensures that your partners meet your security expectations and do not introduce unnecessary risks.

Supply chain security includes processes like:

• Risk assessment prior to onboarding

• Inclusion of security clauses in contracts

• Ongoing monitoring of supplier security posture

Structured supplier onboarding forms and incident response procedures are used to ensure transparency and accountability when issues arise.

Integrated Process Flow and Oversight

All compliance processes are designed to work together seamlessly. From risk assessment to user awareness and third-party governance, data flows into your central GRC platform. This enables real-time visibility, reporting and decision-making.

Forms and process flows include:

• Risk acceptance and mitigation forms

• Control deviation and remediation forms

• Access approval and review forms

• Training completion records

• Supplier onboarding and review forms

These artefacts are essential for audits and regulatory inspections, and reflect your commitment to a defensible security posture.

Compliance as a Business Enabler

At Checkdone IT, we view compliance not as a burden but as an enabler. By integrating GRC, Continuous Controls Monitoring, Zero Trust, Security Awareness and Supply Chain Security into everything we do, we help you to protect your brand, build trust with customers, and empower innovation.

In an era where trust is paramount, a comprehensive compliance approach ensures that you meet and exceed expectations — today, tomorrow, and into the future.