Startups in the modern era have an uphill battle from the very start. Compliance concerns, Cybersecurity concerns, business climate, and staff retention are all common factors. If you are a technology startup, those factors multiply substantially as your SaaS services are the target of today’s Threat Actors and Cyber Criminals.
Startups in the modern era have an uphill battle from the very start. Compliance concerns, Cybersecurity concerns, business climate, and staff retention are all common factors. If you are a technology startup, those factors multiply substantially as your SaaS services are the target of today’s Threat Actors and Cyber Criminals. This startup had several obstacles to overcome including Payment Card Compliance (PCI) and ensuring compliance with HIPAA and NIST security standards. Their primary market partner also required all SaaS vendors to maintain HITRUST Attestation. Engaging with Digital Forge, the goals were to provide a baseline strategy for the SaaS platform and how to handle PCI DSS Compliance, HIPAA Compliance, and NIST Compliance. Recognizing the benefits and need for HITRUST, Digital Forge was able to provide the needed frameworks and certification services in order for this startup to be PCI DSS certified as well as HITRUST Certified.
The ability for this startup to attain was greatly enhanced by having a single point of compliance accountability in Digital Forge as well as a Compliance and Cybersecurity program that was organized to work well together. The attainment of HITRUST CSF Certification enabled them to certify against the HIUTRUST CSF framework and check the box on compliance with HIPAA, NIST, and ISO all in one clean framework from HITRUST. Enabling this startup to assess and certify on a graduated scale with HITRUST ensured they could grow and scale their compliance and cybersecurity program as they grew in size. The engagement was also structured financially to ensure that a startup’s great concern, cash flow, was not impacted with traditional upfront expenses associated with Compliance and allowed Digital Forge to craft the engagement into a predictable long-term expense that could be budgeted and remained predictable.
