Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Supervisory Authority
Supervisory Authority is any local agency, national agency, multinational agency, department official, parliament, regulatory authority, supervisory authority, professional body, government body, or board responsible for administering data processing laws.
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12-Step GDPR Compliance Checklist
Applications used in daily life collect large amounts of data through embedded trackers. This data could potentially be used in a cyber attack, leading to a violation of data privacy. According to Salesforce, 60% of their customers felt they had no control over how their personal data is used. The European Union established the General…
DORA Compliance: Stay Ahead or Fall Behind
What happens when the global finance systems fail unexpectedly? In February 2022, a cyberattack on ION Group, a key service provider for banks and brokers, brought down trading systems in Europe and the United States. Overnight, firms were forced to manually process trades, scrambling to stay up with market movements. The disruption lasted many days,…
9 Limitations of Internal Controls And How to Mitigate Them
Internal controls are the building blocks of a company’s security posture. They shape the company’s security architecture and they can often be the difference between a secure company and a vulnerable one. A recent study suggested that about 68% of occupational fraud occurred due to reasons relating to internal control loopholes—the reasons ranging from a…
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