Navigating data privacy regulations can indeed be daunting for most organizations. Government authorities are now imposing more fines for privacy law violations as tech giants increasingly misuse their monopoly status to their advantage. The recent congressional hearings where Meta, TikTok, X, Snap on privacy policy and data security are a sign of things to come….
Corporate compliance is the systematic approach companies employ to ensure adherence to relevant laws and regulations governing their operations. This starts from formulating, implementing, and overseeing policies, training programs, procedures, and practices. The main benefit is that, by doing so, companies can proactively identify and prevent potential breaches, which could lead to legal ramifications such…
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…
Just as a citizen has to obey the rules and laws of their country, a business has to abide by a specific set of rules and legal boundaries set by the government and regulatory authorities. In business parlance, this is known as ‘compliance.’ Compliance is the broad structural framework by which companies are expected to…
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June 2023: After an investigation by the Office for Civil Rights, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital paid $240,000 in HIPAA settlement after their security guard accessed the medical records of 419 individuals without authorization. Penalties like this are common when businesses take privacy compliance laws lightly. Let’s dive deep into privacy compliance and understand how you…
As a business owner, maneuvering the tricky parts of legal frameworks, organizational policies, consumer standards, and international compliance regulations becomes a daily occurrence. Forward-thinking organizations know that several repetitive compliance activities are either low-impact or labor-intensive. They have, therefore, turned to automation to count on some out-of-the-box solutions and steer through compliance complexities with ease….
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