Meta and TikTok DSA Case: When Compliance on Paper Isn’t Enough
Meta and TikTok may face penalties of up to 6% of their global earnings for breaching the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), but the real significance lies not in the amount, but in what triggered the penalties. In this instance, the regulator did not penalize legal non-compliance. They punished operational failure: controls that existed on…
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Nov 11, 2025
GRC Integrations: Connecting Compliance and Risk Across Your Tech Stack
GRC integrations are crucial to better managing risk. Let’s look at it this way: What percentage of your audit prep time is spent proving things you already know are true versus discovering things that might be false? If you’re like most companies, it’s 90% proving and 10% discovering. You know MFA is enforced. You know…
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Nov 07, 2025
IT GRC Tools: Complete Guide to Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Most businesses end up adopting IT GRC tools after they’ve seen what happens without it. Every new vendor integration, every new cloud deployment, exposes you to new risks and vulnerabilities. The old way of managing risk is built for a slower world. At first, it’s manageable, with a few spreadsheets here and a few docs…
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Nov 04, 2025
A Complete Guide to Choosing Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management Platforms
If you lead security or compliance at a US mid-market company, time is the bottleneck. Screenshots pile up, owners change, and quarter-end becomes a scramble. Many teams blend spreadsheets with Jira, Confluence, Notion, or a few scripts, which works until audits, renewals, and enterprise questionnaires scale up and handoffs multiply. The result is context switching,…
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Nov 04, 2025
Understanding Incident Response vs. Disaster Recovery
In the first 30 minutes of a ransomware detonation, two simple questions could decide the outcome: Can you stop the spread? And how fast can you get back up? And that is the line between an Incident Response Plan (IRP) and a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP). One contains a blast radius, one focuses on business…
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Nov 03, 2025
SOC 2 vs GDPR Explained: Key Differences, Overlaps, and Smart Compliance Mapping
Compliance leaders in SaaS companies are under pressure—enterprise clients demand SOC 2 reports, while GDPR regulators require strict privacy controls. But here’s the challenge: understanding the difference between SOC 2 and GDPR is tricky—they overlap just enough to create confusion, and differ just enough to cause duplication. And if you’re scaling fast, the cost of…
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Nov 03, 2025