Achieving and maintaining compliance with frameworks like the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) can feel overwhelming. For organizations struggling with limited resources, Compliance as a Service (CaaS) offers a strategic, cost-efficient alternative.
Here’s a closer look at what CaaS entails, its advantages, and whether it’s right for your organization.
What is Compliance as a Service (CaaS)?
Compliance as a Service (CaaS) is a model that provides organizations with comprehensive third-party support to help meet regulatory requirements. Instead of relying solely on an in-house compliance team, organizations can work with a CaaS provider to receive customized support across areas of their choosing.
The CaaS model is highly adaptable — organizations can select specific services or opt for a premade services bundle to build and maintain their compliance program on an annual basis. With a variety of end-to-end services to choose from, CaaS takes the burden of compliance off your internal team and ensures a healthy security and compliance posture year after year.
Why Choose Compliance as a Service?
1. Avoid Disjointed Compliance Efforts
One of the main challenges in achieving compliance is managing multiple vendors, tools, and internal teams. This disjointed approach often results in missed benchmarks, inefficiencies, and increased risk. Compliance as a Service solves this problem by offering all necessary compliance services through a single provider, streamlining processes and centralizing oversight.
By choosing CaaS, organizations eliminate the need to coordinate various service providers or adapt to multiple compliance approaches. Working with a single team of experts allows organizations to minimize the risk of control gaps, improve tracking and reporting, and ensure that compliance standards are met consistently across the organization.
2. Relieve Internal Teams of Compliance Strain
Managing compliance can be a resource-intensive task, especially for teams lacking internal compliance staff. With CaaS, organizations can take advantage of specialized expertise without the need to hire or train additional full-time compliance professionals. This frees up internal teams to focus on their core roles and business operations without compromising compliance quality.
3. Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency
Relying on more than one compliance service provider — or purchasing services individually — can come with a high price tag. Attempting to manage compliance in-house can be pricey as well, as organizations are required to continuously train compliance staff and might be more prone to making costly mistakes.
Compliance as a Service, however, is designed with cost-efficiency in mind, providing expert-led bundled service packages that allow you to receive the same services for a lower price and avoid costly regulatory violations.
4. Support Long-Term Compliance and Risk Management
Compliance isn’t a one-time achievement — it requires regular updates and oversight to maintain a strong compliance posture over the long term. CaaS allows organizations to outsource this ongoing management, offering support through periodic policy reviews, control evaluations, monitoring support, and tool validation. This ensures that compliance practices stay relevant as regulations and risks evolve, helping organizations maintain a resilient compliance posture year after year.
5. Receive Independent Oversight for Stakeholder Confidence
For organizations aiming to ensure transparency, independent oversight through CaaS offers valuable assurance to stakeholders. With objective external management, stakeholders can trust that compliance practices are consistently applied and evaluated, reducing concerns about internal bias and enhancing credibility.
6. Gain Access to Specialized Expertise
Interpreting and implementing compliance controls — especially under complex frameworks like CMMC and DFARS — can be challenging without specific expertise. Misinterpreting a control can lead to critical compliance gaps, risking both regulatory penalties and security vulnerabilities.
With CaaS, organizations gain access to seasoned professionals who specialize in these compliance frameworks. This ensures that controls are accurately applied from the outset, reduces the likelihood of mistakes, and ensures that compliance measures are updated to reflect changing regulatory standards.
Get Started with Compliance as a Service (CaaS)
If your organization is trying to achieve compliance with NIST-based frameworks like CMMC and DFARS, Compliance as a Service offers an efficient alternative to an in-house approach. Whether you’re struggling to keep track of CUI, need support with control implementation, or want a solution that’s scalable as your needs grow, SP6’s CaaS can provide the clarity, consistency, and expertise needed to stay compliant.
