Author: Pansy

Pansy is an ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity content marketer with a background in Computer Science engineering. Lately, she has been exploring the world of marketing through the lens of GRC (Governance, risk & compliance) with Sprinto. When she’s not working, she’s either deeply engrossed in political fiction or honing her culinary skills. You may also find her sunbathing on a beach or hiking through a dense forest.
    ISO 27001 Physical and Environmental Security Policy
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    ISO 27001 Physical and Environmental Security Policy Guide + Template
    You’ve invested in firewalls, encryption, and endpoint protection, but what happens if someone sneaks into your server room or a power surge takes everything offline?  Physical security gaps such as these can cost organizations millions every year, yet they’re often treated as an afterthought until a disaster strikes. A single preventable outage can run over $100,000,…
    GDPR for Healthcare
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    A GDPR Guide for Health and Medical Companies
    TL;DR Patient trust in healthcare is rooted in privacy. Unfortunately, not every healthcare provider preaches this. I’ve watched teams struggle to navigate consent forms, email attachments, and rogue spreadsheets. Worst of all, I’ve seen entire organizations ruined due to the repercussions of healthcare data leaks. GDPR was designed to put an end to all of…
    grc team
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    GRC Team: Roles, Responsibilities, and Roadmap to Build One in 2026
    Around the 100 to 200 Full-Time Employees (FTE) mark, most mid-market SaaS companies start to feel the strain as their GRC and compliance complexity outpace manual control. New hires, new systems, and customer expectations create a compliance surface that’s too wide to manage informally. What was once an informal effort now needs structure, defined roles,…
    ISO 27001
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    ISO 27001 Compliance [2026]: An Updated Guide
    A survey of small and medium-sized businesses indicates that 94% reported experiencing a cyberattack in 2024, making structured security frameworks like ISO 27001 highly relevant, even outside the enterprise segment.​ Having a certification is rapidly shifting from “nice-to-have” to table stakes. Whether driven by customer and regulator demands or simply the reality of today’s threat…
    Incident Recovery Plan
    Building An Incident Recovery Plan For Small Businesses
    There’s a call no one wants to get — a cyberattack has hit your systems. What do you do next? Do you call for a complete shutdown? Call your security team? Notify customers?  Every paused second burns cash and trust, and you know it. In those situations, an Incident Response Plan (IRP) saves the day….
    ISO 27001 Data Retention Policy
    Data Retention Policy for ISO 27001: A Simple Guide (+ Template)
    Imagine a customer requests a copy of their personal data or asks for it to be deleted.  Without clear rules, finding that data or knowing if it should still exist can take days or even weeks.  Moreover, outdated or unnecessary information may remain in shared drives, backups, or archived systems. This leads to compliance risks…