Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Availability
Availability means the healthcare facility should keep their hardware and software systems up and running properly. This requires covered entities and business associates to keep their infrastructure updated to protect it against security threats.
Availability is a requirement for HIPAA technical and physical safeguards. Its goal is to allow authorized individuals to access necessary information as and when required.
Additional reading
Trust Management Lessons of 2026: What We’ve Learned So Far
Over the course of 2025 and into 2026, we have spoken with thousands of GRC leaders, security practitioners, and CISOs across industries, and certain patterns have emerged clearly over that time. From audit cycles getting harder to AI adoption outpacing governance, and vendor ecosystems growing deeper and more tangled. The specifics varied from one conversation…
A complete guide for Audit-grade Evidence Collection
TL,DR: Evidence collection proves controls, policies, and security practices work as claimed during audits. Audit-grade evidence must be organized, time-stamped, complete, mapped to controls, and reviewable. The article covers logs, change tickets, training records, encryption settings, vendor assessments, and evidence mapping. Frantic strokes battering keyboards, spreadsheets cramming up the screens, screenshots getting pulled from scattered…
NIST Privacy Framework: The Ultimate Guide
TL,DR: The NIST Privacy Framework (January 2020) consists of 3 components: Core (activities for privacy protection), Profiles (current and target privacy states), and Implementation Tiers (levels of risk management rigor) The Core is organized into 5 functions: Identify-P (understanding risks), Govern-P (governance structure), Control-P (data processing management), Communicate-P (stakeholder transparency), and Protect-P (data safeguards) Implementation…
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