Glossary of Compliance

Compliance Glossary

Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.

CERT

Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is a team of IT security experts responsible for responding to cybersecurity incidents, vulnerabilities, and threats to mitigate them at the earliest. They identify, analyze, and respond to cyber incidents that could impact the security of the company’s critical systems.

They also perform vulnerability assessments and help organizations implement the best practices for cyber security and incident response. They also participate in research and development activities, such as developing new tools and techniques to identify and mitigate cyber threats.

Additional reading

GRC

GRC Platform vs Compliance Automation Software

TL;DR If your compliance system feels increasingly stretched with more frameworks, more vendors, more evidence requests, you are not alone. Many teams reach a point where their existing tools are reliable but not scalable, prompting them to consider whether a GRC platform or compliance automation software can effectively handle the next stage. It typically occurs…

Blogs HIPAA

HIPAA Guidelines: How to Keep Your Patient’s Data Safe

TL,DR: HIPAA guidelines are HHS rules ensuring privacy, security, and integrity of PHI across three core rules: the Privacy Rule, the Security Rule, and the Breach Notification Rule PHI disclosure falls into three categories: required (to HHS during investigations), permitted (treatment, payment, operations without consent), and authorized (requiring explicit written patient authorization) The minimum necessary…