Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
PCI SSC
PCI SSC is the acronym for Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council. The council was created by the collective efforts of American Express, JCB International, Master Card, Visa Inc, and Discover Financial Services on Sep 7th, 2006.
The primary purpose of PCI SSC was to manage the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) as it was evolving lightning fast and cybercrime was taking new angles.
Additional reading
NIST Privacy Framework: The Ultimate Guide
TL,DR: The NIST Privacy Framework (January 2020) consists of 3 components: Core (activities for privacy protection), Profiles (current and target privacy states), and Implementation Tiers (levels of risk management rigor) The Core is organized into 5 functions: Identify-P (understanding risks), Govern-P (governance structure), Control-P (data processing management), Communicate-P (stakeholder transparency), and Protect-P (data safeguards) Implementation…
What Are Security Operations (SecOps)? Roles, Tools & Benefits
TL,DR: SecOps brings security and operations teams together to detect, respond to, and prevent threats. The article explains how silos create reactive incident handling and weaker data protection. You’ll learn SecOps roles, tools, benefits, and practices for stronger threat response. Security and Operations have long worked as distinct functions with information silos, only to implement…
Cyber Security Tips for Employees: Awareness & Best Practices
Hackers are constantly targeting employees to get their hands on sensitive data. It is important for companies to be up-to-date on the latest threats while taking steps to create cybersecurity awareness among all employees. As per IBM Cyber Security Intelligence Index, human error is part of more than 95% of security breaches. A few cyber…
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