Author: Ayush Saxena

Ayush Saxena is a senior security and compliance writer. Ayush is fascinated by the world of hacking and cybersecurity. He specializes in curating the latest trends and emerging technologies in cybersecurity to provide relevant and actionable insights. You can find him hiking, travelling or listening to music in his free time.
Best CIEM Tools in 2024

11 Best CIEM Tools in 2025

Cloud services, in 2020, saw a 600% rise in cyberattacks on their services. Cloud misconfigurations, in the last few years, alone cost companies almost $5 trillion and led to the compromise of over 33 billion user records. Organizations are shifting to the cloud in growing numbers, but this growth represents unanticipated security challenges unique to…
Sep 16, 2024
PCI DSS Encryption Requirements

What are the PCI DSS Encryption Requirements?

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards or PCI-DSS requires organizations to encrypt credit card information stored in their database while ensuring data remains secure when shared outside the company. For all organizations that process, transmit, or store payment and credit card data information, as established by the Payment Card Industry’s (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS),…
Sep 12, 2024
NIST access control requirements

List of NIST access control requirements

Ensuring adequate security of information systems is a fundamental management responsibility for every organization. Every organization that deals with financial, safety, privacy, or defense implements some form of access (authorization) control.  Although some systems grant complete access after successful authentication of the user, most systems nowadays require more sophisticated and complex control. In addition to…
Apr 06, 2024

Navigating the Challenges of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is an evolving technological sphere. It is revolutionizing the way enterprises conduct business while accelerating digital transformation, proving beneficial not only for small-scale businesses but also large-scale as well as mid-size brands. These revolutionary developments also mean more challenges in cloud computing. Cloud technology offers benefits in terms of data security, flexibility, high…
Mar 11, 2024

SOC for the Supply Chain: Strengthening Security and Compliance

To aid organizations, its customers, and business partners, in identifying, assessing, and addressing supply chain risks, the AICPA has developed a solution to cultivate greater transparency in the supply chain —a flexible, market-driven, and voluntary privacy framework commonly known as SOC for supply chain. This framework helps organizations exchange information about their supply chain risk…
Feb 11, 2024

Security and Compliance: Key Differences and Similarities

Information technology has evolved rapidly over the last couple of decades, with the industry set to top $5 trillion in 2019. The growth of IT is giving rise to a new set of complex compliance and security challenges.  Industry experts are realizing the importance of how companies share, store, and receive information. IT compliance frameworks…
Jan 15, 2024