Organizations are scaling their environments at a rapid pace, deploying thousands of cloud resources, services, and accounts. Because of their size and complexity, these environments are more susceptible to compliance issues—a misconfiguration in a single cloud resource can lead to costly data breaches. For that reason, organizations are prioritizing governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management to ensure that their environments are configured appropriately.

85% of Machine Learning (ML) projects fail. This stark reminder from Gartner – despite more tools being available to businesses than ever. The thing is ML success is not just about tools and technology; it’s about how they’re put into production by experts. Plural. Machine Learning – that improves productivity and profitability by finding valuable insights buried deep in your company databases – needs a small army to leverage it.

The System and Organization Controls, or SOC (sometimes referred to as service organizations controls), are the required security control procedures set as non-mandatory, internationally-recognized standards that help businesses measure how SaaS companies and service organizations manage data and sensitive information. Organizations or businesses that have successfully passed the SOC auditing process can attest to the quality of their security controls for regulating customer data.

For ensuring compliance in your business practises, it is worth noting that it is just as common (if not more common) for bad actors to target small businesses and small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A website can easily get hacked, an email account can be compromised, and sensitive information may even be stolen by employees. These are just a few common examples of how data can be breached.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is U.S. legislation that sets national privacy and security standards to protect the privacy of patient health information and prevent data breaches. In addition to doctors, hospitals, other healthcare providers, health insurance companies and “business associates” of healthcare organizations fall under HIPAA regulations.

The rise of fintech has pushed traditional financial institutions to provide online-based services and launch fintech applications. But these services must be secure and meet certain regulatory requirements, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), or SOC 2.

An access review describes the process of monitoring the rights and privileges of everyone who can interact with data and applications. This includes management of personnel, employees, vendors, service providers, and other third parties that your organization has been involved with. ‍ Also known as entitlement review, account attestation, or account recertification, access reviews are essential to the management, monitoring, and auditing of user account lifecycles.