Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
DHS
The Department of Human Services, or DHS, provides and sponsors many types of health and social services as well as determines persons’ eligibility to receive those services. They collect personal and health information about you and/or your family, which is kept private and called “protected health information.”
Additional reading
Understanding Different Types of Compliance Audits
TL;DR Compliance audits help you prove that your controls, policies, processes, and evidence meet the requirements your business is accountable for. These requirements may come from regulations, industry standards, customer contracts, internal policies, or certification frameworks. This guide breaks down the main types of compliance audits by who performs them and by what they test….
11 Best Practices for PCI DSS Compliance
TL,DR: PCI DSS is a security standard established in 2004 by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, JCB, and Discover. A single non-compliance incident can cost over $500,000 with lasting brand damage Compliance levels depend on annual transaction volume: Level 1 (over 6 million), Level 2 (1 to 6 million), Level 3 (20,000 to 1 million), and…
NIST Implementation Tiers 101: All you need to know
TL,DR: NIST CSF implementation tiers show how organizations manage cybersecurity risk in practice. Tiers connect policy, business processes, technology, and risk management discipline. The article explains tier progression, current-state assessment, target-state planning, and risk-based improvement. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is one of the most helpful and adaptable frameworks…
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