Cloud Service Compliance Mapping for Multi-Standard Assessment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing compliance certification processes for cloud-based services are complex, time-consuming, and inefficient, particularly when multiple standards need to be evaluated, leading to significant waste of time and resources.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for automatically analyzing cloud-based services to determine compliance with multiple standards by recognizing similarities, removing redundancies, and organizing compliance controls to simplify the assessment process, including pre-populating a database with compliance standards and implementing assessment stages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional compliance assessment processes are used to evaluate multiple standards, then comprehensive compliance coverage is achieved, but the time and resources required increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple compliance standards into a unified assessment framework. The system maps controls from different standards (ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR) to common security control categories, allowing simultaneous evaluation against multiple standards through a single integrated assessment process rather than separate independent assessments for each standard.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal compliance assessment system that can evaluate cloud services against multiple different standards using a common set of control categories and assessment criteria. The system serves multiple functions by adapting the same core assessment mechanism to work with various compliance frameworks, eliminating the need for separate specialized assessment processes for each standard.
2Reliability
If traditional compliance assessment processes are used to evaluate multiple standards, then thorough compliance verification is achieved, but resource consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges redundant assessment activities across multiple standards by identifying and consolidating common control requirements. The system evaluates a unified set of control categories that map to multiple standards simultaneously, reducing the total number of assessment steps and resource-intensive manual reviews required compared to performing separate assessments for each standard.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary mapping and consolidation of compliance controls before the actual assessment process. By pre-organizing controls into common categories and identifying equivalencies across standards in advance, the system eliminates redundant verification steps during the main assessment, reducing overall resource consumption while maintaining thorough compliance verification.
3Measurement precision
If compliance controls from multiple standards are assessed separately, then each standard receives dedicated attention, but the overall process becomes redundant and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments compliance controls into common security control categories that serve as building blocks for multiple standards. By dividing the assessment into hierarchical levels (common categories → standard-specific requirements), the system maintains precision for each standard while organizing the overall process into manageable segments that can be evaluated systematically rather than as separate monolithic assessments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a dimensional layer to the compliance assessment by mapping controls across multiple standards to a common framework. Instead of treating each standard as a separate one-dimensional assessment, the system creates a multi-dimensional view where controls are evaluated along multiple standard dimensions simultaneously, reducing complexity through structured organization while preserving standard-specific accuracy requirements.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for analyzing compliance of an online service with pre-established regulations or standards are provided herein. In one example, a method includes a step of receiving a request to perform a compliance analysis on a cloud-based service to determine whether the cloud-based service complies with multiple compliance standards applicable to an environment in which the cloud-based service is intended to operate. The method further includes a step of collecting compliance controls associated with each of the multiple compliance standards. Also, the method includes a step of automatically organizing the compliance controls to reduce the number of assessment steps. The method further includes a step of enabling implementation of one or more assessment stages using the reduced number of assessment steps to determine whether the cloud-based service complies with the multiple compliance standards.