Use a built-in or custom standard ↗

You can use a built-in industry standard or create a custom standard. A custom standard can be either a copy of a built-in standard or a custom standard created from scratch.

Use a built-in standard

Cortex provides built-in industry approved regulatory compliance standards, for example GDPR. These standards cannot be edited or deleted, you can duplicate them to create a custom standard.

Clone a built-in standard

To reuse and modify a built-in standard, clone the built-in industry standard:

  1. In the Standards catalog, right-click on the custom standard you want to edit (or select next to it) and then select Save as new.
  2. Define compliance standard metadata, including:
    1. Name: By default, the original built-in standard name is used with “_copy“ is appended. You can update it if needed.
    2. Description: You can update the description if needed.
    3. Select Controls: You can select or deselect controls as needed.
  3. Click Create.

Create a custom standard

You can create a custom compliance standard that is tailored to your own business needs and organizational policies.

To organize controls within a custom compliance standard, you establish categories and optional sub-categories. Every control is defined as part of a specific standard and assigned to a single category within it. Sub-categories offer an additional layer of organizational structure.

  1. In the Standards catalog, click Create Standard.
  2. Define compliance standard metadata, including:
    1. Name
    2. Description (optional)
    3. Labels (optional)
  3. Click Next.
  4. Under Select Controls, you select the controls that you would like to add to the standard.
  5. Click Create.

Edit a custom standard

You can edit an existing custom standard.

  1. In the Standards catalog, right-click on the custom standard (or select next to it) and then select Edit.
  2. Define compliance standard metadata, including:
    1. Name
    2. Description (optional)
    3. Labels (optional)
  3. Click Next.
  4. Under Select Controls, you can do one of the following, select the controls that you would like to add to the standard.
  5. Click Save.

Delete a custom standard

​To delete an existing custom standard and all the categories, subcategories, and controls associated with it, perform the following steps.

  1. In the Standards catalog, right-click on the custom standard (or select next to it ) and then select Delete.
  2. Click Delete.