Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Legal Processing
The legal process is any formal notice or writ by a court obtaining jurisdiction over a person or organization through summons, mandate, subpoena, and warrant.
Additional reading
Difference Between NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171
If you’re a government contractor, the burden of demonstrating compliance and implementing certain mandatory resource requirements may seem overwhelming. You’re certainly not alone in this. Organizations that process government contractors are often mandated to become compliant with NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171 among NIST CSF, but which one of the two should your organization become compliant…
HIPAA Encryption Requirements: The Key to Protecting Patient Privacy
TL,DR: HIPAA encryption is an addressable measure under subpart 164.132, meaning organizations must evaluate its appropriateness through a formal risk assessment rather than implementing unconditionally NIST recommends AES with a minimum 128-bit key for data at rest and TLS, SSL, IPsec, or SSH for data in transit. If encryption is deemed unreasonable, organizations must document…
What Is a Compliance Auditor? Roles, Responsibilities & Career Path
Businesses spend somewhere between six to nine months to comply with cybersecurity standards. The majority of this timeframe is taken up by the compliance audit. It’s a comprehensive process of to and fro calls between a business’s GRC team and the compliance auditor, who needs to ensure that evidence is gathered, all questions answered and…

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