Glossary of Compliance

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Scope of Compliance

When considering compliance within your operations, you must carefully examine all your devices and individuals authorized to access protected data. Also, you must ensure that third parties you collaborate with follow compliance rules. Compliance scope must include everything from devices used to business environments to vendor compliance adherence.

Most data protection regulations involve the concept of anonymization. If data is properly anonymized, meaning it’s made so that you can’t figure out the original data, it usually falls outside the scope of compliance regulations.

To understand which devices fall under compliance rules, consider whether they can access unencrypted and non-anonymized data. If they do, they are within the scope of compliance. 

However, devices that only interact with encrypted data, like routers handling traffic secured with TLS encryption, typically fall outside the scope of compliance.

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