Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Organizational Controls
Organizational controls reduce or mitigate the risk to the organization’s assets, including people, property, and data and include any type of policy, technique, procedure, method, solution, action, plan, or device designed to help accomplish that goal.
Additional reading
Breaking Down Malware Statistics: What They Reveal About Cyber Threats Today
Malware has evolved substantially since its humble beginnings as experimental pranks or minor exploits. In 2023, there were 6.06 billion documented malware attacks worldwide, a 10% rise over the previous year. To put things in perspective; 90,000 new malware attacks happen every second and nearly 90% of all cyber threats are phishing or social engineering…
Understanding Global Privacy Control (GPC): What It Is and Why It Matters
The numbers don’t lie: a staggering 63% of global consumers question corporate openness over data transparency (Tableau). Coupled with regulatory pressures like GDPR and CPRA stepping up the game, corporations arrive at an inflection point of reckoning. The maze of cookie consent and multi-factor authentication leads to further confusion. Global Privacy Control (GPC) is not…
What is Vendor Review Process – Document Review & Examples
When you use a SaaS product or platform, you’re not only using it to support your organization’s function, you are placing your confidence in that business to keep communication, reports, strategy, and other sensitive data about your business in a secure state. Many customers assume that the data is held safely, but it is the…

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