Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
PETs
PETs or Privacy Enhancing Technologies in GDPR refer to a coherent system that uses a set of measures to protect privacy. It reduces or eliminates personal data or prevents unnecessary processing of data while maintaining the functionality of the system. PETs help to fight and detect breaches.
Additional reading
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…
Risk Management Policy – How to Automate the Process
With risks becoming increasingly interconnected, the risk management process involves many moving parts. As risks often share multiple points of intersection, they can quickly escalate into events that could potentially collapse a business. Reacting to a crisis when you’re already in the midst of it is far from ideal. Forward-thinking businesses know how crucial it…
Continuous Monitoring for Security and Compliance: A Complete Guide 2026
TL;DR We’re all familiar with the phrase, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” In today’s world of cyber threats, this adage rings especially true. And a study by Accenture revealed that 43% of cyber attacks target small businesses, yet only 14% of them are ready to protect themselves. In these challenging times, there’s a…
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