Cut through the complexity of achieving and maintaining compliance for modern applications
Business challenge
In today’s ever-expanding compliance landscape, it takes many IT teams months or even years just to prepare for compliance audits. It’s a manual, arduous process—teams have to manually collect evidence, track control statuses and coordinate across departments, often under tight deadlines and with high stakes.
Regulatory pressure is increasing globally and is now impacting every organization, not just those in highly-regulated industries. Without a centralized view of compliance, it’s difficult to get a clear picture of where compliance control gaps exist, leaving organizations reactive rather than proactive when addressing compliance issues.Â
Today, application compliance is largely focused on reporting, involving the manual collection of "evidence"—a time- and resource-intensive task prone to errors.
Compliance tends to occur annually, or with a release and is not consistently up to date. This leaves organizations vulnerable the rest of the time.
Different teams and systems need to collaborate and there’s no easy way to track how changes affect compliance.Â
Being out of compliance can easily cost organizations millions in fines, penalties, settlements, disgorgement of profits, audit and remediation costs, and legal fees.Â
How IBM meets the challenge
IBM Concert brings AI-powered automation and intelligent workflows to the ever-changing compliance landscape, helping organizations reduce the time, cost and complexity of staying audit-ready.
By centralizing evidence collection, enabling intelligent automation, and integrating with existing workflows, Concert eliminates fragmented evidence trails and reduces time spent chasing compliance. This empowers teams to focus on higher-value work while maintaining confidence in their compliance posture.
Whether you’re preparing for an audit, aligning with external regulations or defining your own internal standards, Concert provides the flexibility and intelligence you need to meet evolving regulatory demands efficiently.
Track the compliance posture of your apps
Track your compliance posture against any compliance standards and well-formatted custom compliance frameworks and catalogs, including business-specific compliance standards you provide—all in one unified dashboard.
Concert helps you quickly assess the compliance posture of your applications against common compliance standards, including GDPR, FISMA, FedRAMP, DORA, PCI-DSS, NIST SP 800-53, SOX, Center for Internet Security (CIS), Acceptable Risk Safeguards (ARS), SOC2, ISO/IEC 27001 or a custom compliance catalog. It then offers automated remediation for applicable control.
Streamline evidence collection for continuous compliance
Given increasing regulatory pressure and rising compliance costs, organizations must now be audit-ready year-round, not just during annual reviews.
Concert helps you stay ahead of evolving regulatory demands by streamlining compliance evidence collection, tracking and remediation—without waiting for a crisis or audit to expose gaps.
You can easily submit compliance evidence by way of forms, document upload or integrations with scanning tools, streamlining the processing and prioritization of compliance-related results across your applications and environments.
Keep up with ever-changing regulatory and compliance requirements
Assess the impact of compliance actions against ever-evolving custom or business-specific standards.
Concert ingests your organization's compliance assessment data, including Kubernetes scan results for container security and CIS compliance (through Trivy integration). It then delivers a holistic view of compliance impacts across application, security and compliance teams, enabling streamlined collaboration and decision making.Â
Monitor compliance deviations
Track deviations from compliance standards and assess the impact of potential remediation pathways.
Concert provides helpful context if an environment is deemed noncompliant, including details of a specific rule or regulation that was violated or the potential impact of noncompliance. It then auto-generates scripts and actions to resolve failed controls.
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