Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Logical Controls
Logical controls are the automated system that manages a person’s ability to access one or more resources, such as a workstation, application, network, or database. A logical access control system requires authentication of an individual’s identity using some mechanism such as a biometric, personal identification number (PIN) card, or other tokens. Different access privileges can be assigned to different persons depending on their roles and responsibilities within an organization.
Additional reading
The HITECH Act: For Health IT, Quality Care and Safety
Data breaches are a real problem in the healthcare industry. The HITECH Act was introduced in 2009 in the United States to strengthen HIPAA’s privacy and access goals even as it encouraged the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs). HIPAA, introduced more than a decade ago in 1996, wasn’t written with the explosion of Internet…
Risk Quantification: Understanding Key Elements, Models, & Challenges
Cloud-hosted companies are facing a number of challenges – increasing cloud adoption, digital disruption, increased regulatory practices, broken or mismanaged controls, and more. All these are adding a list of high risk items, but realistically speaking, it is not possible to address it all and if everything is important, then nothing is important. This has…
Data security posture management: How it works and what are the use cases?
The traditional security strategies focused on securing the perimeters to protect internal networks. Often referred to as the Castle and Moat approach, these tactics emphasized the creation of defenses (Moats) to prevent external access (into the castle or data centers) while trusting internal sources. Fast forward to the days of multi-cloud environments and blurred boundaries…
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