Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Convention 108 (Council of Europe)
Convention 108 is the first binding international instrument which aims at protecting individuals against abuses which may be a result of the collection and processing of personal data and which is regulated at the same time across international borders.
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​​Compliance Q&A: How much does GDPR compliance cost?
Does GDPR seem like a jigsaw puzzle?We know it can get confusing, but it’s a high-stakes game, and a missing piece can lead to losses of millions of dollars and heavy sanctions. The latest €1.2 billion fine handed down to Meta by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner is a prime example. High-profile fines like those…
What is Incident Response Software: How to Choose one?
Oct 2021: a printer in a hospital in Tokushima, Japan, started printing out papers on its own after their systems were compromised by ransomware. Attackers demanded money in exchange for decrypting the encrypted patient data of 85,000 patients. They recovered eventually but could have avoided the situation had they deployed incident response software. The security…
Best Risk Analysis Tools in 2025
What is risk analysis? Quite the umbrella term, exposure to risk is a fact of life for every organization, from the smallest solo business proprietor to multinational giants. Risk involves everything from geopolitical developments and global inflation to scams and fraud targeting your company. Structured risk management, for the vast majority of organizations, is either…
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