Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
ASV
An Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) is an entity that verifies whether a company’s PCI DSS external scanning requirements have been met. ASVs use techniques similar to those used by hackers, such as penetration testing, to run an external vulnerability assessment of a company’s network or website. A quarterly network scan by an approved scanning vendor is required for all complying businesses.
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Continuous Compliance: How to Automate the Process
Remember when you had an entire summer to complete your college thesis but submitted a poor, rushed job because you worked on it in one day? Believe it or not, businesses do it too. Often businesses perform poorly in their audit because they lack a systematic approach to compliance and don’t complete the pre-audit work…
What includes in the Scope of GDPR ?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) aims to protect the privacy and rights of data subjects (individuals) in the European Union by regulating data processing activities conducted by businesses. Controllers or Processors outside the European Union often doubt whether they are required to comply, given that they do not have offices operating in the EU…
Audit Logging: Understanding Its Importance and Functionality
Transparency and visibility enhance the flexibility and resilience of a cybersecurity program. In the absence of audit logs, security professionals heavily relied on manual records and periodic review reports as their watchful eyes. However, as threats advanced, the demand for real-time updates increased and necessitated an automated and continuous system of tracking activities. Enter audit…
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