Glossary of Compliance

Compliance Glossary

Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.

PA DSS

Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA DSS) is a set of security requirements and assessment procedures created by PCI DSS that aims at helping software vendors develop secure payment applications to protect cardholder data and comply with PCI DSS. The standard is intended for developers and vendors who create various payment applications, such as POS systems, mobile shopping carts, money transfer software, etc., used in the payment chain. The PA DSS requirements cover various areas like encryption, safe coding practices, vulnerability management, and so on.

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Types of Security Controls With Examples [How to Implement]

In Dec 2022, OU Health, a hospital in Oklahoma, notified about 3000 patients about a breach of their health data after an employee’s laptop was stolen. Sensitive data like treatments, social security numbers, and insurance details were compromised. The incident highlights the importance of implementing all types of security controls. But what are security controls?…

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Only Vendor Risk Assessment Checklist you need in 2024

December 19, 2023. Comcast, a U.S. telecom giant acknowledged that the data of 36 million Xfinity customers had been stolen because of a third-party breach. The third-party supplied security patches in October, but not all customers applied them. Unaddressed third-party risks are often the loose ends that threat actors focus on to infiltrate organizations. Continuous…

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What is Access Review and How does it work?

November 12, 2021. A former South Georgia Medical Center employee made an unauthorized copy of a patient’s private data before leaving the company. The center had to provide patients with free credit monitoring and identity restoration to compensate for the disgruntled ex-employee’s actions. While this is the case of a malicious insider, there are other…