Mapping to accepted compliance frameworks

RSM begins by inventorying and evaluating your organization’s full IT compliance landscape, including customer service-level commitments, System and Organization Controls (SOC) reporting obligations, regulatory requirements, internal audit priorities, second-line compliance testing and other governance expectations. This creates a consolidated view of overlapping requirements, stakeholders, controls and reporting needs—helping identify duplication, clarify ownership and establish a more coordinated approach to managing IT compliance obligations.

We can map and align your organization to many accepted industry frameworks:

• COBIT 2019
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53 and NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0
• Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks
• Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
• Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)
• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Safeguards Rule
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
• HITRUST
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Cyber Risk Institute (CRI)

By integrating multiple frameworks into a single, business-focused IT/security governance program, RSM helps your organization clearly understand your technology risk landscape, prioritize remediation and strengthen governance without unnecessary complexity.

Control rationalization aligning with industry best practices

RSM helps your organization rationalize IT controls by evaluating whether they address the right risks and align with relevant industry practices, regulatory expectations and compliance obligations. This risk-based approach helps identify overlapping or duplicative controls, remove redundancy across the enterprise and focus compliance efforts on the controls that provide the most meaningful risk mitigation.

By using risk as the primary driver for rationalization, your organization can make control changes that are practical, defensible and clearly explainable to internal stakeholders, auditors and regulators. With our IT compliance managed services offering, we can periodically benchmark your organization against established best practices and give you visibility into your IT/security compliance program blind spots.

RSM provides second-line IT and security program testing to help your organization evaluate whether key controls are operating effectively and supporting defined compliance, regulatory and governance expectations. This testing can be tailored across areas such as access management, change management, cybersecurity, data protection, third-party risk and other IT compliance domains.

By applying a consistent, risk-based testing approach, your organization can strengthen oversight, identify control gaps, support internal audit and compliance functions, and create clearer visibility into the effectiveness of your broader IT and security control environment. RSM can also coordinate and share testing results with internal audit and other external auditors (e.g., SOC report auditors and financial auditors) to reduce duplicate requests and minimize audit fatigue.

RSM can support participation in audit committee, risk committee and IT/security management meetings by providing independent insight into program performance, compliance obligations and emerging risk considerations. Our team helps organizations develop meaningful key performance indicators and key risk indicators, prepare consolidated IT and security compliance reporting, and deliver executive-ready metrics that enhance governance, oversight and decision making.

RSM helps your organization manage compliance findings through a structured remediation and issue management process designed to reduce residual risk, improve accountability and support continuous compliance program maturity. Our approach focuses on validating findings, prioritizing remediation efforts and establishing clear ownership to help address issues in a timely and sustainable manner. This process includes evaluating the business and regulatory impact of deficiencies, coordinating corrective action plans and providing visibility into remediation progress across stakeholders.

RSM helps your organization harness AI while maintaining the strong governance, risk and compliance (GRC) foundation needed to deploy it responsibly. Our approach integrates AI considerations directly into existing GRC frameworks, aligning emerging AI and automation capabilities with established risk management, regulatory and control expectations rather than treating them as isolated efforts.

By connecting AI and GRC solutions to our broader governance, risk assessment, control testing and remediation capabilities, we help innovation advance in step with sound risk management. This coordination enables your organization to adopt AI with confidence, sustain regulatory alignment and mature your overall compliance posture over time.

RSM’s IT compliance managed services can help second-line IT and security teams build, refresh or redefine effective management and executive reporting packages that translate complex compliance, control and risk information into clear, audience-appropriate insights. We support the development of key performance indicators and risk indicators, reporting cadences, and visual dashboards that track program health, control effectiveness, remediation status, audit readiness and emerging risk themes.

By tailoring reporting for management, audit committees and board-level stakeholders, RSM helps your organization improve visibility, support more informed decision making and communicate IT and security risk in a format that is readable, consistent and actionable. We can also participate in status reporting discussions with audiences ranging from management to the audit committee and the board of directors.