How Zerto Aids Your Compliance Needs Within Security Frameworks
Cyber resilience is not just an option with the rise of cyber threats—it’s a necessity. Businesses are increasingly recognizing that to stay ahead of these threats, they need not only robust security practices but strategic frameworks to guide their efforts. Zerto plays a vital role in helping businesses achieve these critical standards, ensuring they remain secure and compliant.
Exploring security frameworks for cyber resilience
Security frameworks are structured guidelines that help organizations maintain their security risks in a methodical way. They consist of a comprehensive set of policies, procedures, and standards designed to safeguard a business’s data and various assets. By functioning as a standardized blueprint, they outline the best practices to approach risk management and help businesses maintain resilience in the face of growing threats.
Adopting a security framework allows organizations to formalize their approach to security, creating a proactive defense. Frameworks also support compliance with legal and industry requirements, making them essential for any business aiming to protect data and critical infrastructure. There are several leading frameworks that can guide your approach to cyber resilience. Let’s dive into the top frameworks, which not only support security but also assist in meeting compliance demands.
Top security frameworks: NIST CSF 2.0, HIPPA, CIS, MITRE, ISO/IEC 27001
- NIST CSF 2.0: The National Institute of Standards and Technology provides one of the most widely recognized cybersecurity frameworks. NIST’s CSF 2.0 offers guidance to industry, government agencies, and other organizations to manage cybersecurity risks, promoting flexibility for organizations to tailor the framework to their needs. CSF 2.0 is particularly valuable for its focus on identifying, protecting, detecting, responding to, and recovering from cyber threats.
- HIPPA: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) enforces data protection regulations specifically for the healthcare industry. Organizations handling protected health information (PHI) must adhere to HIPAA’s stringent security stands to ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
- CIS Controls®: The Center for Internet Security (CIS) Controls are a prioritized set of actions designed to mitigate the most common cyberattacks. The frameworks emphasize specific, actionable guidelines that can help businesses of all sizes protect their digital assets again known threats.
- MITRE ATT&CK: The MITRE ATT&CK framework provides a comprehensive knowledge base of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) derived from real-world cyberattacks. By aligning with MITRE ATT&CK, businesses can enhance their threat detection, incident response, and proactive defense strategies. Zerto supports MITRE ATT&CK by offering continuous data protection, real-time ransomware detection, and streamlined recovery, helping organizations combat sophisticated threats.
- ISO/IEC 27001: ISO/IEC 27001 is an international standard that outlines practices for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an information security management system (ISMS). It emphasizes a risk-based approach to managing and protecting sensitive information. Zerto aids organizations by providing robust features for disaster recovery, including automated testing and compliance reporting, ensuring data availability, confidentiality, and integrity.
What is the best security framework?
There is no universal “best” framework; it depends entirely on your business needs. Some organizations require stringent compliance due to the nature of their industry, while others prioritize flexibility and scalability. When choosing a framework, it’s important to take a holistic point of view to understand your specific cyber resilience goals and regulatory obligations.
Improving cyber resilience with security frameworks
Integrating security frameworks in your cyber resilience strategy strengthens your defense against ransomware threats. These frameworks provide structured, scalable, and actionable guidance that can help protect your business from attacks, comply with regulations, and recover faster when incidents occur.
Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, understands the vital role security frameworks play in protecting organizations from disruption. Our solution is built to complement and enhance your existing security measures, align with the major frameworks mentioned, and offer seamless disaster recovery and cyber resilience. How we achieve this is attributed to some key features.
- Continuous data protection: Zerto continuous data protection (CDP) technology utilizes near-synchronous block-level replication for an exceptional data replication experience. With recovery granularity of seconds, Zerto effectively minimizes data loss and significantly mitigates the impact of outages and disruptions on your organization.
- Real-time ransomware detection: Unlike traditional methods that detect ransomware many hours or days after encryption, Zerto identifies malicious encryption within seconds of impact and tags the journal timestamp, so you can see exactly which recovery points are clean.
- Application-centric protection and recovery: Zerto treats applications and workloads as a single cohesive unit. This recovers all components together at the exact same point in time with write-order fidelity that is guaranteed across applications spanning multiple VMs, datastores, and hosts.
- Multi-cloud mobility: Zerto’s storage-agnostic, software-only solutions allow for true workload mobility and agility across private, public, and hybrid clouds. You can flexibly protect to, from, or within the cloud without being locked in or left behind as your cloud strategy evolves.
- Testing and reporting: With Zerto you can create instant, on-demand development and testing environments at a remote site without hindering your production or protection status. Additionally, Zerto simplifies compliance efforts by providing audit-ready reporting, ensuring detailed, automated documentation of recovery tests.
Zerto is a trusted partner in helping organizations meet the requirements of diverse security frameworks. To experience how Zerto can strengthen your cyber resilience and enhance data protection, firsthand by exploring our hands-on lab. For more insights on security frameworks and compliance, visit our dedicated page and stay ahead of evolving security and compliance demands.
Martin Oderinde Product Marketing Manager
