Deployment Engagement Blueprint

Continuous Controls Engagement: Your Path to Real-Time Compliance

Neverfail Continuous Controls (NFCC) introduces the first Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform that delivers constant, autonomous IT compliance and risk reduction, by automating evidence collection, control testing, and remediation, through a single integrated toolset.

  1. Deployment Orientation
  1. Sandbox Deployment
  1. Sandbox Analytics
  1. Commercial Proposal
  1. Production Readiness
  1. Auditmation Prioritization
  1. Auditmation Process
  1. Production Deployment
  1. Quarterly Auditmation Reviews

Deployment Orientation

Preparing for your deployment

The NFCC Orientation session outlines the end-to-end process covered during the Continuous Controls 90-Day Engagement Blueprint. This kickoff brings together all of the appropriate stakeholders from our team and yours to ensure alignment, set expectations, and agree to the timeline and milestones, and identify any potential blockers.

Sandbox Deployment

Standing up the Continuous Controls solution

The Continuous Controls sandbox deployment activates a test environment with a fully deployed virtual infrastructure, Connectors, Control Test Cases, Robotic Process Automation bots, and a Power BI dashboard. This initial deployment phase delivers a deep understanding of how the Continuous Controls platform and deployed bots interact with your infrastructure and creates a standard operating procedure for our work together.

Sandbox Analytics

The value of real-time, machine validated data

Key engagement stakeholders convene for a comprehensive post Sandbox deployment review of the critical outcome-based data and associated value, powered by the Continuous Controls BI Dashboard. This serves as the foundation for setting critical risk management priorities and compliance objectives.

Note: In order to extract the full value of the deployment, every deployed control test must be completed in full, in order to produce the necessary data required to drive this discussion.

Commercial Proposal

Formal project scoping and costing exercise

Scoping begins with determining your initial control coverage priorities and desired automation path. This could be anything from automating every IT control or only 20 critical controls, to focusing on FedRAMP or other framework requirements. This could be going “wide” across evidence collection or “deeper” with testing and remediation for a targeted set of controls. Once initial objectives have been agreed, Neverfail will provide a Draft Proposal for discussion and confirmation prior to delivering the Final Proposal for execution.

Production Readiness

Transitioning into the production environment

With a successful Sandbox installation in place and Continuous Controls validated in your environment, you are now ready to begin transferring to a live production environment. This phase includes Delivery Prioritization, Auditmation and the enablement of automated Evidence, Testing, and Remediation (where applicable) into production.

Auditmation Prioritization

Assigning priority and determining the order of automation

Rome was not built in a day, and fully automating audit and compliance is much the same. In order to align delivery with maximum value to your business, Prioritization becomes a critical activity, early and often. Whether you are working with a 3rdparty advisor, an Enterprise Risk Management platform, or a demanding executive team or board, priority inputs can be accommodated from any number of sources.

Auditmation Process

Discover, design, and build through Compliance Bridge

Through our Compliance Bridge, engaged organizations are enabled for the Continuous Controls launch through a series of automation building initiatives. Required connectors and BOTs are designed, built and prepared for production launch based on client prioritization. Compliance Bridge enables any organization to onboard and connect to Continuous Controls, with or without a supported GRC platform in place.

Production Deployment

Installing into the production environment

With Connectors and BOTs built, the next step is delivery into a customer GitHUB installation in order to go live with automated Evidence, Testing, and Remediation (where applicable) within the production environment. As the first step of any implementation, Evidence connectors and BOTs are deployed first, prior to any Control Test and Remediation implementation. Initial deployment occurs into the Sandbox environment for client testing, to ensure change management and segregation of duties controls are intact.

Quarterly Auditmation Reviews (QARs)

Ensuring success against ever-changing compliance demands

The Continuous Controls journey does not end at deployment. Rather, it is only the beginning. With technology and compliance changing at neck-breaking speed, compliance demand grows and changes sometimes daily. Continuous Controls not only automates compliance within your business and supply chain, it ensures your business is protected against ongoing change as well. Our Quarterly Auditmation reviews account for your next phase of Auditmation growth as well as change management to ensure your business is always protected.