Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
External Entity
An external entity could imply any individual, organization or government body other than the applicant group that is dealing with or utilizing PHI.
Additional reading
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,…
Penetration Testing: Strengthening Your Cybersecurity Defenses
TL,DR: Penetration testing identifies security vulnerabilities by launching simulated attacks using the same tools and techniques that real-world attackers would use against networks, applications, APIs, and wireless infrastructure Five types exist: application testing, network testing, social engineering, API testing, and wireless testing. Three approaches determine tester knowledge levels: black box (no prior knowledge), white box…
How To Develop An Effective GRC Strategy?
TL,DR: A GRC strategy connects governance, risk, and compliance work to business goals. Build it by identifying stakeholders, setting objectives, reviewing gaps, and defining risk appetite. The article covers pillars, roadmap planning, automation, monitoring, and continuous policy updates. At the 2022 MetricStream GRC Summit, Michael Rasmussen illustrated the interconnectedness of business risks using a “forest…
Sprinto: Your growth superpower
Use Sprinto to centralize security compliance management – so nothing
gets in the way of your moving up and winning big.
