In today’s fast-paced threat landscape, maintaining a proactive security posture requires more than traditional, reactive processes. Security and risk management (SRM) leaders are under growing pressure to ensure that cybersecurity controls are not only effective but also in step with constantly shifting standards. As organizations rapidly adopt cloud services and digital transformations, attack surfaces are expanding, making it harder to manage security assurance. This complexity leaves security teams stretched thin, and in fact, 60% of security leaders acknowledge their teams lack the tools for continuous monitoring and control assessment, leaving critical gaps in their security posture. (1)
To meet these challenges, we are excited to introduce Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM)—a solution designed to help SRM leaders move beyond periodic audits and adopt real-time control monitoring. With CCM, proactively manage risks, maintain compliance continuously, and enhance your organization's security posture.
What is Continuous Controls Monitoring?
CCM gathers data from your entire tech stack, correlating insights across on-premises systems, cloud infrastructure, and external tools, so your security and compliance team is always ready to respond to risks and maintain compliance continuously.
Benefits of Implementing Continuous Control Monitoring for Security and Compliance Teams
- Control Performance Visibility
CCM continuously tracks and reports on control performance by collecting, normalizing, and correlating data across systems. This offers security and compliance teams clear visibility into control effectiveness and trends over time, making it easier to identify improvements and areas of weakness
- Proactive Identification of Control Gaps
By establishing a baseline for control expectations, CCM can quickly identify any deviations or gaps between prescribed controls and their actual implementation. This proactive monitoring helps prevent vulnerabilities from going unnoticed and improves overall security posture.
- Streamlined Audit Support
CCM simplifies the audit process by providing clear, real-time evidence of adherence to security policies and procedures. With automated data collection, security teams can easily demonstrate compliance with security standards, internal policies, and regulatory frameworks, reducing the time and resources needed for audits.
- Real-Time Cyber Risk Monitoring
With near-real-time insights, CCM allows security teams to assess the criticality of various systems and user access levels. This continuous risk assessment supports timely and informed decision-making, enabling organizations to respond to potential threats quickly and accurately.
Required Capabilities of CCM
A CCM solution needs these four capabilities: seamless data collection, flexible scoring and alerts, control mapping with content management, and clear visualization for effective tracking and reporting. These capabilities ensure comprehensive control oversight and help teams stay proactive with compliance.
- Data collection: A CCM solution must automatically pull and refresh control performance metrics across on-premises IT systems, cloud environments, and various security tools. This includes collecting raw system data and correlated security posture information, providing SRM leaders with a holistic view of their control environment.
- Scoring and alerts: Control risk scores and alerts should be based on set thresholds and trend analysis, ensuring they’re actionable and capable of triggering notifications, emails, or support tickets in response to anomalies or compliance drift. This approach streamlines incident response, reduces remediation time, and keeps teams focused on critical issues.
- Control library and mapping: CCM should offer an extensive library of control templates, including technical and non-technical controls and self-assessment guidelines. Additionally, it should support control mapping across industry standards and security frameworks like NIST, ISO 27001, and HIPAA, ensuring that compliance efforts align with regulatory requirements.
- Visualizations: Rich and customizable dashboards that display control metrics in a clear, accessible format, allowing SRM leaders and stakeholders to track progress and identify emerging trends at a glance. Should also support drill-down capabilities, enabling users to explore raw data directly from dashboards for deeper analysis and allow users to trigger workflows or alerts based on dashboard insights to maintain continuous control alignment.
Flexible, Real-Time Control Monitoring for Proactive Compliance
Here are the key features of JupiterOne’s Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM), designed to offer a highly flexible, customized, and comprehensive approach to compliance and control monitoring, ensuring real-time visibility and tailored insights for better decision-making.
- Flexible and Customizable Control Tests
Unlike traditional compliance and CCM solutions, JupiterOne’s CCM allows for highly flexible and customizable control tests. This flexibility is key to tailoring controls that align with specific organizational requirements, moving beyond a basic “checkbox” compliance approach.
- Insights Dashboard
CCM is powered by JupiterOne’s Insights Dashboard, where users can view overall compliance scores across various frameworks, specific compliance metrics, and any critical roll-up metrics. Users gain visibility into compliant and non-compliant controls, non-compliant entities, and other metrics that impact compliance and risk management.
- Real-Time Compliance Monitoring
With the ability to monitor compliance continuously, JupiterOne’s CCM provides an up-to-date snapshot of compliance performance. This includes drill-down capabilities for standards important to the user, such as ISO, CIS, or other frameworks.
- Entity-Level Drill-Downs
Users can drill down into specific entities failing certain requirements, standards, or compliance checks, enabling faster identification of compliance gaps and targeted remediation efforts.
Early success transforming control delivery
One of our early customers shared how JupiterOne changed the way they approached control delivery. Previously, their control creation process allowed for flexibility but was slowed down by the time-intensive demands of programming language scripting This made it challenging to keep pace with their dynamic security needs. Since moving to JupiterOne they’ve reduced control implementation from weeks to mere hours or days, allowing for faster, more agile security responses. With capabilities for quick control writing, ad hoc queries, and real-time information gathering, they’ve achieved a more proactive and responsive security posture.
Get Started with CCM
Continuous Controls Monitoring has the potential to transform the way organizations think about security and compliance. Learn more about our CCM solution and how it can provide your organization with the proactive edge in control monitoring and compliance.
