Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Service Organization
A service organization refers to a business providing service to their customers instead of physical goods. These services may include various business utilities like consulting, legal, insurance, banking, education, etc.
A service organization that stores, processes, or manages sensitive customer information must have sufficient controls and processes to secure this data.
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