If you’re like most companies, your teams rely on a variety of cloud apps and storage solutions to get work done and collaborate with internal and external teams. While this flexibility is great for end users, it creates enormous complexity when it comes to data security and governance. IT teams must juggle multiple administrative dashboards, permissions configurations and access control policies across apps.

The benefits of organizations moving some or all their IT workloads to the cloud are well-known and numerous. There are several challenges to successful cloud adoption, though, and one of the most important of them is compliance. Whether your cloud use case is low-cost data storage, scaling your infrastructure for critical business apps or disaster recovery, this article helps inform you about and overcome compliance issues in cloud computing.

NIST compliance is mandatory for federal contractors, but there is a lot of confusion around it. Without it, chances of getting those big projects in the government are significantly skewed. So what is NIST compliance exactly?

Reduced costs, new revenue streams, greater customer trust and new markets The best data privacy programmes are granular. They assess the root of every data source, the nuances of every data use and the specifics of every way in which data is stored and shared. From that finite visibility, liabilities can be identified and appropriate remedies put in place that carefully balance the demands of the data subjects with the needs of the business.

Amidst the pandemic overwhelming the capacity of many hospital systems, malicious hackers have been quick to target healthcare providers and medical agencies. These cyber-attacks have hit both the United States and Europe in recent months, serving as a reminder for organizations to closely review their information security posture during these times of uncertainty.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a federal law that applies to all publicly traded businesses in the United States. It imposes sweeping corporate governance standards on those businesses, to improve accountability in the boardroom and senior management ranks and to make corporate financial statements more reliable.

It’s often said that cybersecurity is hard. Anyone who has ever worked their way through the SANS Critical Controls, PCI-DSS or even something deceptively minimalist as the OWASP Top 10 knows that success in achieving these security initiatives requires time-consuming, diligent and often a multi-team effort.

SAN FRANCISCO – May 4, 2021 First Quarter 2021 Highlights Reciprocity, a leader in information security risk and compliance with its ZenGRC platform, today announced the company saw outstanding results in the first quarter of 2021, achieving new records across its go-to-market initiatives, coming off an unprecedented 2020. Last year the management of risk and compliance became a strategic imperative and top board-level concern.

Understand why compliance programs fail, and where you can identify failure points and vulnerabilities before they become liabilities.