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Responding to Australia's new critical infrastructure laws
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Responding to Australia's new critical infrastruct...

Join industry experts Andrew Robinson, Matthew Chantrell and Ryan Turan to share their insights into how to automate and manage your compliance with A...

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Delivering Hub & Spoke GRC in Distr...

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Delivering Hub & Spoke GRC in Distributed & Autonomous Business

Internationally renowned GRC analyst Michael Rasmussen has performed a deep dive on our Hub and Spoke architecture and i...
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Jan 1, 2023

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Using Zero Trust Architecture to Ba...

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Using Zero Trust Architecture to Balance Cyber Security Risks

While the concept of "Zero Trust" is not new among enterprises, however, the modern workplace has changed radically in r...
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How Can a vCISO Help Protect Your N...

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How Can a vCISO Help Protect Your Network?

With the threat landscape growing by the hour, the role of CISO has never been more important. Yet high demand and massi...
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ASD Essential 8

Who has to comply with ASD Essential 8?

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NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)

Is NIST a standard or framework?

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ASD Essential 8

What is the ASD Essential Eight model?

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{tableName=glossary, name=SOC 2, description= SOC 2 is a set of auditing standards developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to evaluate and validate the security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of a service organization’s systems and processes. The SOC 2 audit is designed to provide assurance to customers and other stakeholders that the service organization has met the AICPA’s Trust Services Principles and Criteria. The Trust Services Principles are a set of security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy criteria that organizations must meet in order to demonstrate that they have taken the necessary steps to protect their customers’ data. The SOC 2 audit is conducted by a third-party audit firm and is typically conducted annually. The audit report is then made available to customers, partners, and other stakeholders. The SOC 2 audit is an important tool for organizations to demonstrate their commitment to security and data privacy, as well as to provide assurance to customers and other stakeholders that their data is secure and protected., topic=null, hs_path=soc-2}--
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Information Security

Information security is the practice of protecting information from unauthorized access, use, disclo...

Cybersecurity Risk Management
Security Governance

Security Governance is the practice of establishing and maintaining policies, processes, and procedu...

Cyber Resiliency

Cyber Resiliency is the ability of an organization or individual to maintain or quickly recover from...

SOC 2

SOC 2 is a set of auditing standards developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Account...

Enterprise Risk Management
Risk Center

Risk Center is a term used to refer to a centralized location for managing, analyzing, and mitigatin...

Vulnerability Management
Passive Attack

A passive attack is a type of cyber attack that does not involve the direct manipulation of an infor...

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