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.

Blogs

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 Moreover, outdated or unnecessary information may remain in shared drives, backups, or archived systems.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…

Blogs

Build a Trust Center and Speed Up Enterprise Deals

Does your security review process help you grow, or is it a roadblock for your revenue? For many leaders, the answer is sadly the latter. 65% of businesses report that security reviews add nearly eight weeks to the sales cycle. This delay directly impacts your bottom line and ties up your best people in administrative work. …

Blogs

Minimum Baseline Security Standards: Your SMB’s First Line of Defense

Do you know what keeps compliance leaders up at night? Cybersecurity. While you focus on building new products and scaling your infrastructure, cybercriminals are also sharpening their skills with each passing day. But worrying is natural. Data breaches exposed 7 billion records in just the first half of 2024. Most of these attacks succeed not because hackers…

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A Beginner-friendly Guide to ISO 27001 Data Protection Policy

Somewhere, in a dusty corner of your office, lies a document titled ‘Data Protection Policy.’ It’s a well-intentioned file, full of dense paragraphs and legal jargon. As you expect, most employees have never read it, and those who have probably forgotten what it said moments later. This situation is too common, while it shouldn’t be. The…

Comparison

Vanta vs Drata vs Delve: Which Compliance Tool Fits You?

When sales questionnaires pile up, or a potential client asks for SOC 2, you need a platform that pulls evidence automatically, keeps controls organized, and gets you over the audit line without stealing weeks. Vanta, Drata, and Delve all promise to do that, but they come at it differently—Vanta comes with scale and a big…

Blogs, Risk Management

Audit Risk Model: Risk Types, Formula, Calculation, Score

The audit risk model brings out the mathematics behind an auditor’s discretion of your security controls and the confidence they have in your cybersecurity posture. The model revolves around the uncertainty that exists within every business transaction, financial statement, security control and corporate decision. Having said that, it’s still not a rigid rule book. This…