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      Hailey AI: Crosswalk automation between standards and regulations

      This article is a step-by-step guide on how Hailey automates the mapping of hundreds of standards such as the ISO 27001, NIST CSF, UK Cyber Essentials, CMMC, SOC 2, and many more.

      Topics covered in this article:

      1. Understanding Compliance Mapping
      2. ​Data Collection and Integration
      3. ​Framework Identification and Scoping
      4. Provision Crosswalk Generation
      5. Overlap Analysis
      6. Mapping and Reporting for Stakeholders

      Introduction

      Meet Hailey, the cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by 6clicks, designed to revolutionize authority mapping and streamline compliance processes. Hailey leverages advanced machine learning algorithms to empower organizations to navigate complex regulatory landscapes effortlessly.

      Key Benefits of Hailey:

      1. Efficiency Enhancement: Hailey significantly boosts efficiency by automating authority mapping processes, reducing the time and effort required for compliance tasks.

      2. Accurate Insights: Through its advanced AI capabilities, Hailey ensures precise and up-to-date information, offering organizations insights into regulatory requirements and compliance obligations.

      3. Risk Mitigation: By providing a comprehensive overview of regulatory landscapes, Hailey enables proactive risk management, helping organizations avoid compliance challenges and pitfalls.

      How 6clicks leverages artificial intelligence today includes:

      1. Compliance mapping: Comparing authority documents (standards, laws, and regulations) made of individual provisions (clauses) to identify similarities and differences.
      2. Policy/control set mapping: Comparing policies/controls defined in 6clicks with authority documents to identify coverage and gaps.
      3. Policy/provisions set development:  Helping to draft policy/provision set descriptions through synthesizing and paraphrasing associated provisions.
      4. Assessment questions mapping: Displaying similar questions previously answered.
      5. Assessment response generation: Generating a suggested answer to a question in an assessment based on similar questions previously answered.
      For more information about 6clicks' use of AI and ML technologies click here.

      Understanding Compliance Mapping

      A provision crosswalk serves as a valuable tool that facilitates the mapping between two different frameworks by linking an identical requirement or provision from one framework to its equivalent in another framework. Compliance and audit professionals are well aware that various cybersecurity compliance standards, such as ISO 27001, NIST CSF, UK Cyber Essentials, CMMC, SOC 2 and others, share commonalities in terms of security provision requirements. These overlapping requirements can often be confusing and time-consuming to navigate. However, with the help of a standard and regulation crosswalking with Hailey AI, compliance teams can streamline their efforts by easily identifying the connections between different frameworks and standards. This crosswalk enables compliance and audit teams to effectively navigate the complex landscape of cybersecurity compliance standards, which often have overlapping security provision requirements. 

      Hailey for compliance mapping benefits

      Data Collection and Integration

      By collecting and integrating relevant data into the 6clicks platform, compliance teams can effectively analyze and compare various standards and frameworks. 

      • Objective: Lay the foundation for comprehensive analysis by accessing the 6clicks content library and adding content.

      • Actions:

        1. Use 6clicks Content Library to collect relevant data from cybersecurity compliance standards, including ISO 27001, NIST CSF, UK Cyber Essentials and CMMC.
        2. Search for the NIST framework that includes; Assessment, Authority, and Report Template.
        3. Select details and then add content.

      Framework Identification and Scoping

      Compliance and audit professionals are well aware that various cybersecurity compliance standards, such as NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and others, share commonalities in terms of security provision requirements. These overlapping requirements can often be confusing and time-consuming to navigate. However, with the help of a provision crosswalk, compliance teams can streamline their efforts by easily identifying the connections between different frameworks and standards.

      • Objective: Clearly define the scope of frameworks to be analyzed.

      • Actions:

        1. Navigate to the Compliance module.
        2. Search for framework, for this example, we will be using NIST CSF.
        3. Review authority details to ensure the provision details are accurate.

      Provision Crosswalk Generation

      The 6clicks Hailey AI platform offers the capability to generate mapping reports that visually represent the relationships and overlaps between different standards and frameworks. These reports can be customized to meet the needs of different stakeholders, providing detailed insights for compliance teams, executives, and auditors.

      • Objective: Leverage Hailey AI to establish connections between identical requirements or provision across different frameworks

      • Actions:

        1. From Authority details, navigate to the 'Mappings' tab.
        2. Select the 'Map Provisions' tab.
        3. Choose between Manual or Haily AI mapping. Select Haily AI.
        4. Select a target authority, in this example, we will use CMMC.
        5. Select CMMC and then click 'Map Authorities.'

      Overlap Analysis

      The overlap analysis is a crucial step in compliance mapping as it helps identify areas where different frameworks share similar provision requirements. The Hailey AI platform plays a key role by cross-referencing provisions from various frameworks and highlighting overlapping elements. This analysis shows three categories; Matched, In Both But Different, and In Source Only. This provides valuable insights into the commonalities and differences between frameworks, enabling compliance teams to streamline their efforts and avoid duplication of work, to learn more navigate to Authority Mapping with Hailey.

      The Mappings tab will then be updated to display:

      1. Provision Comparison section - displays Source and Target Provisions for comparison
      2. 4 sub-tabs:
        1. All - shows all Source Provisions and their associated mappings.
        2. Matched - shows all Source Provisions and Target Provisions that are Matched. A Match is defined as 80% similar or over as determined by our Hailey Provision-to-Provision Mapping Algorithm. 
        3. In Both but Different - shows all Source Provisions that are similar but not Matched. The In Both but Different tab displays all Source and Target provisions that have a % similar rating between 50% and 80%.
        4. In Source Only - shows all Source Provisions that are unique.

      • Objective: Review the authority mapping between a source and a target provision comparison.

      • Actions:

        1. You can expand the selected provision to view the details of the source to target comparison.
        2. Review the three categories and similarity percentages.

      Mapping and Reporting for Stakeholders

      By leveraging Hailey AI and its cross-referencing capabilities, compliance professionals can streamline their efforts, identify overlaps and gaps, generate comprehensive mapping reports, and ensure ongoing compliance with the latest standards and frameworks.

      Prerequisites to be able to produce this report:

      1. Completed Hailey mapping.
      2. Completed assessment against source framework.
      3. Assessment templates.
      4. Authority document.

      • Objective: Generate insightful reports for compliance and audit teams.

      • Actions:
      1. Navigate to the Analytics module.
      2. Select the menu icon and click browse.
      3. From browse, navigate to the dashboard section.
      4. Select Authority to Assessment
      5. Select a Source Authority (NIST) and a Target (CMMC). Once applied, the report will generate an interactive chart that will display the assessment responses grouped by the source authority field selected. You can then drill down into categories or functions, for more information navigate to Mapped Authority Reporting.


       

      Hailey from 6clicks emerges as a game-changer in the realm of compliance management. Its advanced AI capabilities, from efficient compliance mapping to insightful stakeholder reporting, mark a significant leap forward. To dive deeper into Hailey's transformative impact, explore the detailed articles on 6clicks' official site and our knowledge base. Embrace the power of Hailey AI for a future of compliance that is both efficient and precise, setting new standards in compliance management.