Author: Payal Wadhwa

Payal is your friendly neighborhood compliance whiz who is also ISC2 certified! She turns perplexing compliance lingo into actionable advice about keeping your digital business safe and savvy. When she isn’t saving virtual worlds, she’s penning down poetic musings or lighting up local open mics. Cyber savvy by day, poet by night!
SecOps Explained: Transforming Security Operations for Modern Threats

SecOps today: Removing Silos, Bridging Gaps
Security and Operations have long worked as distinct functions with information silos, only to implement reactive measures at the time of the incident and create an environment of finger-pointing. However, the gradual convergence of Security Operations (SecOps) has been driven by the need for proactive risk management and a growing awareness of the shared objectives…
Oct 09, 2024
Essential Steps to Build a Risk-Aware Culture in Your Organization

How to build a risk-aware culture in your organization?
Can people in your organization freely discuss what might go wrong without hesitation? Do you still think system-centric when you hear the words risk and security? Are your employees risk-avoidant or calculated risk-takers? The answers can be indicative of your organization’s risk culture. This culture is the sum of shared values, attitudes, and behavior that…
Oct 09, 2024
Vendor Security Assessment

How to Perform Vendor Security Assessment with Questionnaire?
January 2022.On of the top-rated identity and access management organizations suffered a data breach impacting 2.5% of its customer base. The hackers infiltrated its sub-processors network and then gained access to the organization’s internal networks. According to a report by Verizon, a staggering 62% of network intrusions are from third parties. The increasing reliance on…
Oct 04, 2024
Vulnerability to Vigilance

Vulnerability to Vigilance: The importance of Security Configuration Management
In an incident, an Amazon S3 bucket containing 1.5 million files was leaked due to a misconfiguration. It comprised sensitive data such as national ID numbers, employee PII, etc. Data breaches due to misconfigurations are common, and 80% of ransomware attacks are also attributed to misconfigurations.  Misconfigurations are unintentional and common but have a devastating…
Oct 04, 2024

How to Strengthen Your Organization’s Security Culture
Over the years, stringent laws have come into effect, along with the introduction of most advanced threat detection and prevention technologies. However we continue to encounter familiar breach stories—employees using weak passwords, opening malicious emails, misusing too many permissions, etc. No matter the geography, hackers worldwide have been playing on human behaviors, attitudes, cognition, and…
Oct 03, 2024
HIPAA Certification Cost [Updated 2024 + Free Checklist]

HIPAA Certification Cost [Updated 2025 + Free Checklist]
The most common HIPAA budgeting mistakes include underestimating the costs of certification, overlooking the need and costs of ongoing compliance and not updating budgets regularly. This in turn poses a challenge for founders to balance HIPAA certification costs with other business priorities. From preliminary prep work to audit expenses and post-audit maintenance, the costs can…
Oct 03, 2024