Ensuring your organization is compliant with evolving regulatory standards can feel overwhelming. There is significant pressure to maintain detailed documentation, navigate complex audits, and stay informed about constant regulatory changes. The right business continuity software can take that pressure off. It turns compliance into a clear, repeatable process, so your team can focus on building long-term resilience.
Based on extensive research and years of experience supporting BCM professionals, we've identified five essential features your business continuity software should have to effectively manage compliance requirements:
When you track regulatory updates manually, you risk missing critical changes. Look for software that automatically monitors regulations relevant to your industry.
BCMMetrics helps here by providing automatic assessments against industry standards such as ISO 22301, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), and FFIEC. It calculates clear compliance scores, making it easy to spot and address gaps quickly. This helps you stay ahead of regulatory shifts without the manual effort.
A reliable, automated audit trail is critical when auditors request evidence of compliance activities.
Good business continuity management (BCM) software should create timestamped, immutable records of all activities, from document revisions to employee attestations.
BCMMetrics’ Compliance Confidence captures detailed logs, allowing you to produce accurate documentation swiftly and confidently during audits. Whether responding to an audit or demonstrating HIPAA compliance, this comprehensive logging makes the process straightforward and less stressful.
Software with automated attestation workflows simplifies compliance by digitally tracking employee acknowledgments of compliance policies.
Compliance Confidence manages this by automatically distributing policies and collecting confirmations. It simplifies administrative tasks and demonstrates due diligence to auditors, particularly important for standards like FFIEC and HIPAA.
Creating comprehensive compliance plans from scratch can be daunting. Standardized assessment templates aligned with industry-specific regulations simplify this critical process.
BCMMetrics provides pre-built, industry-aligned templates within Compliance Confidence, facilitating faster development of compliance plans.
These templates ensure you cover all necessary regulatory components, significantly reducing the time and effort required for plan creation. This straightforward approach helps you meet regulations such as HIPAA, SOX, FFIEC, and more effectively.
Proactively managing compliance means consistently reviewing and updating your BCM plans. Regular reminders and scheduling tools help ensure your compliance strategies stay current.
The Compliance Confidence module supports your team with built-in scheduling and reminders for regular compliance reviews and updates. By systematically prompting reviews, you remain proactive. You also reduce the risk of overlooking necessary plan updates, and stay ahead of compliance deadlines and audits. This structured approach ensures continuous preparedness without last-minute stress.
Staying compliant doesn’t have to drain your time or distract your team from what matters most. With the right tools, you can handle audits, updates, and documentation without second-guessing every step.
BCMMetrics is built for teams that need to manage compliance with confidence, not spreadsheets. Designed for mid-sized organizations, it gives you a clear, structured way to run BIAs, build recovery plans, and track regulatory requirements without the usual back-and-forth.
And it’s not just software built in a vacuum. BCMMetrics was developed by the experts at MHA Consulting, who’ve spent more than 25 years helping real organizations prepare for the unexpected. That expertise is baked into every feature.
If compliance is part of your job, BCMMetrics makes it easier to do it right, and prove it.