Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
PDCA Cycle
The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA/PDSA) cycle is a simple and effective approach with a continuous loop of planning, doing, checking (or studying), and acting, and it is generally used for testing improvement measures on a smaller scale before scaling procedures and working practices.
Additional reading
Building Stronger Defenses: A Practical Guide to Essential 8
TL,DR: The Essential 8 is an Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) framework with 4 maturity levels: Level 0 (no implementation), Level 1 (basic controls for common threats), Level 2 (consistent application reducing exploitable gaps), and Level 3 (fully optimized defenses against sophisticated attacks) The 8 strategies cover application control, patching applications, configuring Microsoft Office macro…
List of PCI DSS Controls (Updated 2025)
Getting your PCI DSS ducks in a row requires a good understanding of the compliance requirements, their relevance in your business environment, and the controls that can help you bolster the protection of cardholder data. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is designed to protect the entire payment card value chain and,…
PCI Compliance for SaaS: A Strategic Guide to PCI DSS Compliance for SaaS Businesses
If you’re a founder, IT, or compliance leader in SaaS, you’ve likely faced the same dreaded moment: an enterprise prospect hits pause because you’re not PCI compliant yet. And suddenly, you’re knee-deep in checklists, unsure where SaaS fits into a retail-centric framework designed two decades ago. PCI is still absolutely critical for safeguarding payment data…
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