# FTC Safeguards Rule | Secureframe

> Save time maintaining the requirements of the FTC Safeguards Rule and avoid costly fines.

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## Protect the customer data you handle

FTC Safeguards Rule requires financial institutions that are under the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to have a comprehensive information security program in place to protect and secure customer data.

## Continuous FTC Safeguards Rule Compliance

Secureframe makes it easy to maintain compliance with the FTC Safeguards Rule so you can keep your customer data secure while focusing on day-to-day operations.

- #### All-in-one compliance platform — Administer your policies, train your employees, and manage risk all from the Secureframe platform.
- #### Automated cloud scanning — Integrate your cloud services to automatically scan for nonconformities and misconfigurations.
- #### Continuous monitoring — Ensure you have the right controls in place to maintain compliance across your entire organization.

### We’re ready to **help**

## Ready to automate FTC Safeguards Rule compliance?

- ### Configure and manage policies that meet the FTC Safeguards Rule — Secureframe provides policy templates for the FTC Safeguards Rule. Customize the policies or upload your own and manage personnel acknowledgments to adhere to the requirements of the FTC Safeguards Rule. 

#### Key benefits

- Utilize pre-built policies developed and vetted by our in-house security experts and former auditors
- Easily publish Secureframe templated policies or publish your own for your employees to review and acknowledge through the Secureframe platform
- ### Train personnel with Secureframe’s proprietary training — Ensure your personnel are trained on security best practices with our in-platform security awareness training. 

#### Key benefits

- Automatically assign training to in-scope personnel 
- Quickly complete security awareness training in the platform
- Track and monitor which personnel have completed the training
- ### Assess and manage risk to ensure customer data is protected — Our AI-powered Risk Management tool makes it easy for you to identify, assess, and mitigate risks to protect against threats and ensure the security, confidentiality, and integrity of customer information.

#### Key benefits

- Quickly identify risks using our risk library
- Use Comply AI for Risks to automate risk assessments
- Link mitigating controls and attach documents to show how you are reducing risk
- Continuously manage and monitor risk using the risk register
- ### Maintain FTC Safeguards Rule compliance with continuous monitoring — Maintain FTC Safeguards Rule compliance by continuously monitoring your system and network for changes. Ensure you are meeting FTC Safeguards Rule requirements with automated integration tests and real-time alerts on nonconformities across your technology stack.   

#### Key benefits

- Automatic control testing via continuous configuration data collection from 200+ integrations
- Real-time alerts on misconfigurations with easy-to-follow remediation guidance

## Easily unlock new frameworks

Secureframe’s automated compliance platform has a common control layer that makes it easy to apply the same controls you have completed to additional frameworks, so you can save time meeting new standards.

#### Obtaining FTC Safeguards Rule compliance gives you a jumpstart to these other frameworks with Secureframe-authored common controls:

- NIST CSF
- ISO 27001
- SOC 2

### Let’s get started **together**

## End-to-end compliance right at your fingertips

Automated tests, continuous monitoring, and risk management with the support you need — all in one place.

- #### Spend less time on compliance — Quickly achieve FTC Safeguards Rule and strengthen your security posture with automated evidence collection and real-time monitoring. — Explore Comply
- #### Use security as a launchpad — Demonstrate your security posture and save time responding to security questionnaires to build customer confidence and accelerate sales. — Explore Trust