Compliance Operations
Data Classification Policy: Definition, Examples, & Free Template
Editor’s note: this piece was updated with fresh information in August 2021. It was originally published in November, 2020. It’s 3 AM. Do you know where your most sensitive data is? More ...
Achieving IT Compliance Standards: An Essential Ingredient For Securing Successful Deals
As the leader of a sales organization, it’s your job to set your team up for success. Great sales leaders do everything possible to put their teams in a favorable position. They ...
Optimize Control Health Management Across Business Levels: Introducing Scopes
Managing controls across multiple business units becomes increasingly challenging and costly as operational requirements evolve. To help compliance leaders efficiently view and manage control health across product lines, geographies and business units, ...
Cybersecurity Risk Management: Frameworks, Plans, & Best Practices
In the modern landscape of cybersecurity risk management, one uncomfortable truth is clear — managing cyber risk across the enterprise is harder than ever. Keeping architectures and systems secure and compliant can ...
What Is the FedRAMP Incident Response Control Family?
Incident response is a critical piece of any enterprise cybersecurity strategy and is also a key component to achieving FedRAMP compliance. FedRAMP, the US government-wide program for ensuring the security of cloud ...
The Year of Trust: 6 Compliance Operations Predictions for 2024
2023 will be remembered as the year when breaches of trust, not cybersecurity, led to a fever pitch of litigation and regulatory changes. In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) implemented a ...
SOC 2 Audit Checklist: Key Steps to Get You From Start to Finish
The SOC 2 audit — an audit intended to assess the data protection practices of technology vendors and other service providers — has become a standard tool in modern risk management. Large ...
How to Calculate the Cost of a Data Breach
Breaches of corporate IT networks now happen all the time, every day, to just about every type of organization under the sun. They are a top worry for any compliance officer, and ...
How to Write an ISO 27001 Statement of Applicability
Implementing ISO standards is a time-honored way to demonstrate that your business takes excellence seriously — that you strive for rigorous standards in quality, cybersecurity, and information management. ISO 27001 is the ...
Compliance Risk Assessments: 5 Essential Steps for Success
Editor’s note: This blog post is an excerpt from our ebook The 10 Key Elements of An Effective Compliance Program. You can download the entire ebook here. Why it’s Important to Conduct ...