VAPT Certification Cost: Key Amplifiers & Tips to Optimize Your Price
If your business needs to be VAPT certified, you should include budgeting in your project’s roadmap. This, however, is easier said than done—businesses often exceed the allocated budget. In most cases, the culprit is a lack of understanding of pricing. To help you plan better, we have listed the key factors that are the biggest…
Sep 05, 2024
Mastering Document Control Procedure: Steps for enhanced access, efficiency and compliance
1 in 4 employees spends 2-3 hours searching for a document, disrupting productivity and undermining workflow efficiency. Despite a growing focus on strengthening data governance, many organizations overlook a critical element: a structured document control procedure. Effective data governance relies on two key pillars—strong data hygiene practices and an efficient document control system. Without these, even…
Sep 05, 2024
Becoming a Chief Compliance Officer: Skills, Duties and Pathway
Compliance is a mandate for industries such as healthcare, fintech, information technology, telecommunications and more. Within these sectors, the frameworks’ increasing complexity necessitates meticulous supervision and effective maintenance of the compliance function. Regulatory bodies are getting stricter with enforcement actions, imposing severe penalties and fines in place. Moreover, as businesses expand globally, geographical challenges arise…
Sep 05, 2024
The 5 Tests Of Controls To Verify Cybersecurity Measures
An audit contains various steps like planning and preparation, selecting a focus area, creating a checklist, informing various teams, and so on. However, it cannot take place without the tests of controls. In fact, both SOC 1 and SOC 2 audits require testing relevant controls to ensure compliance validity. Hence, let’s understand what are the…
Sep 04, 2024
Types of Security Controls With Examples [How to Implement]
In Dec 2022, OU Health, a hospital in Oklahoma, notified about 3000 patients about a breach of their health data after an employee’s laptop was stolen. Sensitive data like treatments, social security numbers, and insurance details were compromised. The incident highlights the importance of implementing all types of security controls. But what are security controls?…
Sep 04, 2024
Healthcare Compliance: Ensuring Patient Safety and Regulatory Adherence
Healthcare companies are facing increasing levels of scrutiny over the last few years. Compliance for healthcare companies now covers a wider scope of aspects—bringing in healthcare providers, third, and fourth-party vendors that work with health care providers under its purview. According to research by the Ponemon Institute published by IBM, the average cost of healthcare…
Sep 03, 2024