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Stay Ahead on Security and Compliance Risks

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M-Files helps enterprise teams efficiently manage compliance, minimize risk, and safeguard the business from significant repercussions such as financial penalties, lawsuits, and reputational harm.

Effective document management is crucial for organizations to enhance their risk management strategies and ensure security compliance. By streamlining document workflows, businesses can better mitigate risks and maintain compliance with industry regulations.

Compliance And Security Overview
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50%

M-Files customers experience significant improvement in document management, particularly in the ease of document creation using templates, which also supports effective risk management and enhances security compliance.

88%

Most data breaches are caused by human error, which underscores the significance of effective document management and robust risk management practices to ensure security compliance.

65%

Of workers reported being less stressed thanks to work tasks being automated, which enhances document management and reduces manual processes, thereby improving overall risk management and ensuring security compliance.

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Compliance and Risk Management

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M-Files helps organizations reduce business risk and ensure compliance.

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Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management

Enhance risk management and security compliance through automation. Achieve robust compliance without unnecessary manual efforts or costs. Systematically manage risks, integrate compliance controls into everyday operations, automate document management and records retention, and simplify contract lifecycle management (CLM).

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Challenge: Complex regulations drive high compliance costs.

Companies must comply with laws, regulations, standards, policies, and contracts, making effective document management essential. Balancing compliance with efficiency is challenging; some invest in staff and systems for security compliance, which can reduce profitability. Others rely on existing teams, which can jeopardize risk management efforts, leading to penalties and potential reputational damage.

The challenges

Risk and compliance management are distinct activities, leading to additional workload.

Risk and compliance management are distinct activities, leading to additional workload.

Risk and compliance management are distinct activities, leading to additional workload.

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Risk management is crucial for any business, and all organizations must adhere to security compliance regulations. Handling risk management and document management separately leads to unnecessary duplication and increased costs.

Compliance processes result in added manual effort.

Risk and compliance management are distinct activities, leading to additional workload.

Risk and compliance management are distinct activities, leading to additional workload.

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Active risk management and compliance enforcement are often treated as additional tasks on top of regular business operations, resulting in wasted time and effort. This process is frequently overseen and audited by dedicated staff, who also manage document management and ensure security compliance.

Records retention requires deliberate manual efforts

Lack of visibility into contracts and renewals results in unnecessary costs.

Lack of visibility into contracts and renewals results in unnecessary costs.

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Compliance related record retention involves effective document management to identify the relevant information, transferring or copying it to an archive, and documenting the retention period. This process is essential for both risk management and security compliance, and is typically performed manually.

Lack of visibility into contracts and renewals results in unnecessary costs.

Lack of visibility into contracts and renewals results in unnecessary costs.

Lack of visibility into contracts and renewals results in unnecessary costs.

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Business risks can be effectively managed through contractual obligations, liabilities, and remedies. However, a lack of company-wide governance often leads to increased risks and costs, highlighting the importance of robust document management and effective risk management strategies to ensure security compliance.

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Solution: Automating risk and compliance management by embedding it into daily workflows

An integrated approach to risk management and security compliance reduces redundancy and costs. By embedding controls into daily workflows, organizations can ensure effortless compliance, while automating document management improves efficiency. Streamlining contract lifecycle management not only cuts costs but also mitigates risks through stronger governance. Effective document and workflow automation ensures proper handling and easy access to records.

The Solution

Implement a unified strategy for managing risk and compliance

Implement a unified strategy for managing risk and compliance

Implement a unified strategy for managing risk and compliance

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Connect risk management and document management with mitigation actions and security compliance controls to create synergy and improve efficiency across both areas.

Integrate compliance controls into everyday operations

Implement a unified strategy for managing risk and compliance

Implement a unified strategy for managing risk and compliance

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Integrate compliance controls into everyday business processes and workflows to ensure seamless security compliance and audit readiness, while also enhancing document management and risk management efforts with minimal effort.

Automate records management

Optimize and simplify contract lifecycle management.

Optimize and simplify contract lifecycle management.

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Utilize automation in your document management processes to classify information, enforce retention policies, set permissions, and execute archiving and disposal tasks, all while ensuring risk management and security compliance.

Optimize and simplify contract lifecycle management.

Optimize and simplify contract lifecycle management.

Optimize and simplify contract lifecycle management.

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Utilize document management for document generation to standardize contracts, implement workflows to monitor lifecycle stages, and set up notifications to alert on renewals, all while ensuring risk management and security compliance.

Security Compliance Management: Stay Ahead on Security and Compliance Risks

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