Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Regulation (EC) No 45/2001
Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 is concerned with protection of individuals in relation to personal data processing by EC institutions. It requires institutions to appoint a data protection officer and European Data Protection Supervisor to be an independent authority for data protection.
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The Case for Automating Your Vendor Risk Management Program
Vendors are no longer just service providers. They are part of your business’s operations. And with every new vendor, you’re adding more capability, but not without risk. Third-party risk impacts every layer of your business. It goes beyond compliance to cover customer trust, time-to-market, business continuity, and legal liability. Here’s how the drill usually goes:…
ISO 27001 Asset Management (Annex A.8) Explained
TL;DR ISO 27001 Annex A.8 (Asset Management) focuses on identifying, classifying, owning, and securing all organizational assets (data, systems, people, hardware, etc.). It requires organizations to maintain an asset inventory, assign ownership, define acceptable use, and ensure return or secure disposal of assets. Additional controls include information classification, labeling, handling procedures, and secure management of…
A Complete Guide to Choosing Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management Platforms
If you lead security or compliance at a US mid-market company, time is the bottleneck. Screenshots pile up, owners change, and quarter-end becomes a scramble. Many teams blend spreadsheets with Jira, Confluence, Notion, or a few scripts, which works until audits, renewals, and enterprise questionnaires scale up and handoffs multiply. The result is context switching,…
Sprinto: Your growth superpower
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