9 Common Compliance Issues and How to Overcome Them
According to PwC’s Global Risk Survey 2023, 40% of surveyed business and risk leaders reported improving their organization’s approach to risk in the last year to strengthen compliance with regulatory standards. Among the top-performing 5% of organizations, this figure skyrocketed to 81%. But what’s driving this significant leap? The solution resides in clearly recognizing and…
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Jan 27, 2025
Choosing the Perfect Cybersecurity Vendor: A Step-by-Step Guide
If you’re like most small business owners or managers, your day is a balancing act, juggling growth strategies, team management, and countless operational tasks. Choosing a cybersecurity vendor might not be the top priority on your list right now, but with the surge in headlines about cyber threats and attacks, it’s hard to ignore that…
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Jan 27, 2025
Understanding CMMC Compliance 2.0: What You Need to Know
Whether businesses are prepared or not, getting ready for CMMC 2.0 became the norm since the US DoD announced that organizations must be CMMC 2.0 compliant by the end of 2026 at the latest. This mandate affects MSPs, MSSPs, data centers, and any organization or supplier that does business with the DoD or organizations procuring…
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Jan 27, 2025
NIS2 Directive Training Requirements: What Your Team Must Cover
A subtle shift is taking shape in cybersecurity regulation. NIS2, the European Union’s new directive, introduces obligations that may appear modest initially but have far-reaching implications for organizations across various sectors. Slowly and almost imperceptibly, these requirements can affect every corner of operations. The question is whether teams are ready to meet this gradual rise…
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Jan 27, 2025
An Overview of ISO 31000: The Risk Management Standard
Managing cybersecurity risk is not as simple as it sounds. You’ll often hear terms like “avoid,” “mitigate,” or “transfer,” but when you dig deeper, you realize these are broad strategies. The real challenge is translating them into actionable steps that measurably reduce risk. What does it mean to “avoid” risk? Is it simply removing a…
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Jan 27, 2025
The Complete Guide to PIPEDA Compliance
As we seem to think, privacy violations are not always black and white. Sensitive information like a person’s location, contacts, or communications can be linked to them in different ways. Frameworks like PIPEDA compliance can be a lifesaver. This could happen in one of two scenarios: the information is shared intentionally, like through open data…
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Jan 27, 2025