Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Business Associates
Business Associates are individuals or entities who work for or provide a service for a covered entity. The work involves use and disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI). They must comply with the privacy rule of HIPAA.
Business Associates perform functions like claims processing, data analysis, quality assurance, practice management, repricing, and more.
Additional reading
Cyber Security Metrics & KPIs: A Detailed Guide
As a seasoned security professional, you understand the struggles of convincing the board to approve an increase in the cybersecurity budget or obtain that data privacy compliance certification. You are also familiar with the perplexed faces of non-technical stakeholders when you’re emphasizing the importance of cybersecurity best practices. Edwards Heming aptly states, “Without data, you’re…
What Is a Compliance Auditor? Roles, Responsibilities & Career Path
Businesses spend somewhere between six to nine months to comply with cybersecurity standards. The majority of this timeframe is taken up by the compliance audit. It’s a comprehensive process of to and fro calls between a business’s GRC team and the compliance auditor, who needs to ensure that evidence is gathered, all questions answered and…
Top Third‑Party Risk Management Software for 2026: 12 TPRM Tools and How to Evaluate Them
TL;DR TPRM tools covered: Sprinto, MetricStream, OneTrust, ServiceNow, Archer, Diligent, ProcessUnity, SecurityScorecard, UpGuard, and Black Kite. This list mixes end‑to‑end TPRM platforms, enterprise GRC suites, workflow-first platforms, and external cyber monitoring layers (because most mature programs run a stack). The implementation section closes with a practical rollout plan you can adapt to your vendor volume…
Sprinto: Your growth superpower
Use Sprinto to centralize security compliance management – so nothing
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