Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Attestation
An attestation is a formal declaration or statement made by an independent third party (such as an accountant, auditor, or lawyer) expressing an opinion or providing assurance about certain information’s accuracy, reliability, or completeness. Attestations are commonly used in financial reporting to provide additional credibility and trustworthiness to the information being presented.
Additional reading
Proving Compliance: Why SOC 2 Evidence Collection Matters
Years ago, collecting evidence was a walk in the park. But we can’t say the same now as most of the data is stored on the cloud. Not to mention the tedious effort involved; almost all application is constantly exposed to risk consistently. A need to secure sensitive information and demonstrate it to present a…
HIPAA Security Rule for SMBs: Checklist, Risks & Automation
A patient can’t log in to your client’s health app. It starts with an innocuous customer support ticket. The issue is resolved in minutes, but later that day, a security analyst flags something unusual—an unauthorized IP accesses metadata tied to that same user. No clinical data was touched, and no ransom demands were made, just…
What Is an Access Review?
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…
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