Starting your compliance journey
Starting Your Compliance Journey with Tidal Control
Embarking on the path of regulatory compliance can often feel like navigating through a maze of complex requirements and ever-evolving standards.
Whether you're a small business owner or a part of a large organization, ensuring that your operations meet all relevant regulations is essential for mitigating risks and maintaining your reputation.
Tidal Control is here to streamline this process, making your journey towards full compliance simpler, more efficient, and less stressful.
Understanding Compliance
Compliance refers to adhering to laws, regulations, guidelines, and specifications relevant to your business.
Depending on your industry, these could include global standards and frameworks such as ISO27001 and SOC2, data protection laws like GDPR or CCPA, or industry-specific standards like HIPAA or NEN7510 for healthcare.
Achieving compliance ensures that your business operates legally and ethically, which helps protect you from fines, legal action, and damage to your reputation.
Why Automation?
Traditional compliance methods often involve manual processes that are time-consuming and prone to human error.
Compliance automation tools revolutionise this by leveraging technology to manage, monitor, and enforce compliance policies automatically. This not only saves time and resources but also enhances accuracy and reliability.
Key Features of Tidal Control
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Centralized Dashboard: Monitor all compliance activities from a single interface. Our dashboard provides real-time insights, making it easy to track your compliance status and identify areas needing attention.
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Integration Capabilities: Seamlessly integrate Tidal Control with your cloud infrastructure and other software tools for unified compliance management.
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Policy Management: Create, update, and distribute compliance policies effortlessly. Ensure that all employees have access to the latest guidelines and monitor their acknowledgment and understanding. Our vetted templates are included with every license.
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Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate compliance risks proactively. Setup your own risks or adopt risks from the included risk library. Prioritise risks based on their potential impact and likelihood to ensure that you address the most critical issues first.
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Control selection and testing: Automatically link relevant controls based on your risk assessment and, for instance, ISO 27001 Annex A requirements. Monitor the status of control implementation and effectiveness, and receive alerts and notifications about any pending control tests, compliance breaches, or potential issues in real-time.
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Asset management: Maintain a comprehensive inventory of all information assets, including their classification and ownership. Determine business continuity requirements as part of the business impact analysis.
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Plans and workflows: Create and customize plans to automate repetitive tasks and streamline compliance processes. Assign tasks to team members and track their completion to ensure accountability.
Getting Started
Follow these steps to get started with Tidal:
Setting Up Your Account
Follow the instructions that you received by e-mail to activate your account. The e-mail also contains the url to your organisation's Tidal environment. If you have not received an e-mail, contact support@tidalcontrol.com.
If you are your organisation's owner of Tidal Control you will be a Super User and you can create other organisation users.
First log in
After logging in to Tidal you will see quite some pages and menus. Don't worry if you don't understand everything you see. The best way to start is to visit your Inbox page, which will show the activities that await you.
If your Inbox is empty then it is likely that activities have not been assigned to you yet.
If you have been asked to complete a task: Ask your organisation's Tidal contact person to assign one or more activities to you.
If you are your organisation's contact person for Tidal: Visit the activities page and assign one or more activities to yourself.
Completing your first activity
After picking an activity from the Inbox you will be presented with the Activities page. In this page you'll be able to work on the activity, and close it.
Learn how to complete an activity.
After completing your first activity you can keep working on activities all the way to being compliant. However, we recommend that you take some other actions first:
Verifying setup (optional)
At the start of a new compliance project it is a good idea to check whether everything is setup correctly.
We recommend reviewing the following items:
If any of these pages are not configured according to your organization's compliance needs, now is a good time to do so..
Learn how to create a new control and linking it to a framework.
Your Tidal support team is happy to import any existing controls, risks, policies, and other data into Tidal Control as part of the onboarding. Contact support@tidalcontrol.com
Setting up integrations (optional)
Integrations are connections which Tidal makes to your software tools, such as your cloud environment, HR application, Software development platform and other software tools.
Integrations help to automate evidence collection and evaluation; they help you sit back and relax knowing that if something goes wrong, Tidal will alert you.
We suggest that your review which Integrations make sense for you, and enabling them.
Learn how to connect your software tools to Tidal.
Need more help?
We understand that the journey to full compliance doesn't end at implementation. Our support team is available to assist you with any questions or challenges you encounter along the way.
We also offer regular updates and enhancements to keep our software aligned with the latest regulatory changes. Just drop us an e-mail at support@tidalcontrol.com
Conclusion
Starting your compliance journey with our automation platform transforms a daunting task into a manageable, streamlined process. Embrace the power of compliance automation and take the first step towards a more secure, compliant future today.
We hope this guide serves as a helpful starting point. Should you have any questions or need further assistance, our support team is here to help.
Welcome to a smarter, more efficient approach to compliance management!