IT Risk Assessment Guide
All organizations that store, manage, transmit, or otherwise handle data are responsible for keeping these digital assets secure from internal and external threats. IT risk assessment involves identifying, controlling, correcting, and mitigating vulnerabilities both...
Importance of Information Security Policies
The importance of information security cannot be overstated. Protecting the data your business stores, manages, or transmits should be one of your company’s most important priorities. To that end, you need to implement an information security program that includes a...
Data Retention Policy Best Practices
Data is the lifeblood of countless organizations. Whether you focus on healthcare, hospitality, tax processing, communications, education, or retail, the security and privacy of the information you store, manage, and transmit is of paramount importance. However, the...
What is Compliance Risk Management
Blog Many industries set guidelines for quality, that provides governance for the businesses that fall under their purview. These standards protect all parties from liability and quantify what is expected. When an organization falls short of these...
SOC 2 Trust Principles
News of cybercrime dominates the headlines regularly. For that reason, earning clients' trust is crucial for any organization that provides cloud-based data storage, management, or transmission services. The customers who entrust you with their precious data want more...
SOC 2 vs SOC 3
Blog Navigating the labyrinth of data security standards can seem bewildering. One crucial fact to grasp is that SOC 2 and SOC 3 are both audit standards devised by AICPA, yet they differ in their level of detail and application. Understanding SOC 2 and SOC...
SOC Bridge Letter: Closing the Gap with Customer Timelines
Blog A SOC report’s covered period does not always coincide with your customers’ fiscal calendar. It might, for example, have an end date of October 31, which leads to a two-month gap with a customer’s fiscal year-end (December 31). To address this gap,...
Compliance vs Security
An organization must constantly be on guard against external network attacks, threats from its own staff and third-party vendors and even fatal flaws in their own technology that can place data and systems at risk. In order to address this constantly evolving...
NIST Penetration Testing
Blog When assessing the overall cybersecurity of an organization, it is important to do a thorough inspection of all systems and protocols in order to check for and target weaknesses or vulnerabilities. Equally critical is determining how well your company’s...
ISO 27001 vs. ISO 27002
Blog In the world of information security, two standards often come up: ISO 27001 and ISO 27002. But what exactly are they? ISO 27001 specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an Information Security...