Author: Payal Wadhwa

Payal is your friendly neighborhood compliance whiz! 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!

Setting the Right Recovery Point Objective: An Art of balancing Costs and Risks

Today, CISOs and founders understand that an employee’s accidentally deleted file, a power outage, or a disaster leading to data loss is no longer a ‘technical challenge’—a ‘business problem’ that impacts revenue, compromises compliance posture, and erodes trust. As a result, integrating disaster recovery plans into a cohesive resilience strategy is paramount — a critical…
Oct 30, 2024

Laika vs Vanta vs Sprinto: What’s your best bet?

The perception of compliance has gradually shifted from a necessary evil to an essential tool for business. However, with increasingly stringent frameworks to adhere to and endless controls to monitor, compliance pros need a wingman that makes their life easier.  If you have been researching, you would know that Laika, Vanta and Sprinto are heavyweight…
Oct 30, 2024
Data Governance framework

Data Governance Framework: Comomplete Implementation Guide

As data becomes a vital component in fuelling business strategy and outcomes more than ever before, forward-looking organizations are striving to continuously enhance the trustworthiness of data. This is because data-driven decisions enable better insights and meaningful changes for the organization. However, building a data-informed culture calls for better data ownership, sharing, collaboration, and ongoing…
Oct 30, 2024

Top 10 DSPM Tools to Uncover and Secure Your Data

Fragmented data discovery, visibility gaps, and the tedious process of manually classifying data can spell trouble in a world that produces data at an unprecedented pace. In fact, 90% of the world’s data was generated just between 2021 and 2023, and by 2025, it’s expected to soar to 181 zettabytes. It’s no wonder data security…
Oct 28, 2024

7 Best Cyber Risk Management Platforms

Companies today see the move to cyber risk management from the traditional risk avoidance approach as a strategic imperative. They are actively looking for methods to bypass the long-term costs of a security incident—loss of business, legal action and fines, etc. Cyber risk management platforms have the risk intelligence needed to uncover advanced risks and…
Oct 25, 2024
Cybersecurity Training

Free & Paid Cybersecurity Training Courses for Employees

Malicious actors use weak practices as entry points for cyber attacks. Most of these are exploitable weaknesses that employees have in place—weak passwords, shadow IT, unguarded devices, etc. And this is where cybersecurity training can be the difference. It forms the initial layer of security. With threats escalating due to malware, insider attacks, stolen credentials…
Oct 24, 2024