Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Standard Contractual Clauses
Standard Contractual Clauses govern the exchange of personal information between non-EU and EU countries. As per the General Data Protection Regulation, as a ground for data transfers between the EU and third countries, contractual clauses ensure appropriate data protection safeguards can be used.
Additional reading
Data Governance Policy: Steps to Create, Examples and Templates
TL, DR: A data governance policy is a guiding document on how to manage an organization’s information assets There can be different types of data governance policies such as data quality policy, data security policy, data privacy policy, data access policy and more To develop a data governance policy you must define your needs and…
NIST 800-53 Controls: Strengthening Cybersecurity
If you process highly sensitive data in your systems, a basic security checklist of individual actions or tools – firewall, antivirus, data encryption won’t suffice. You need to safeguard your organization using a broader perspective and comprehensive approach covered in frameworks like NIST. The NIST 800-53 control families outline a set of controls organizations can…
A Quick Guide to Data Security Regulations
TL,DR: Data security regulations are government and regulatory body standards guiding organizations toward protecting data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. A UN study states 79% of countries have data protection legislation Top regulations in 2026 include GDPR (EU data privacy), HIPAA (U.S. healthcare data), PCI DSS (payment card security), SOC 2 (service organization controls), CCPA/CPRA (California…
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