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Compliance, explained.

Practical guides on frameworks, evidence, and running a compliance program like an engineering team.

May 23, 2026

Vendor risk management, explained

Your compliance posture includes the vendors that touch your data. Auditors know it, frameworks require it, and a spreadsheet of questionnaires is not a program.

May 16, 2026

A compliance audit readiness checklist

Audits go badly when readiness is assembled the week before. Here is what to have standing, in roughly the order an auditor will ask for it.

May 8, 2026

SOC 2 or ISO 27001: which should you do first?

They overlap heavily, but they are not interchangeable. The right first choice depends on who is asking and where your buyers are.

April 25, 2026

PCI DSS scope reduction: how to shrink your CDE

Every system in your cardholder data environment is a system you have to secure and assess. The cheapest control is the one you remove from scope entirely.

April 14, 2026

COBIT 2019 capability levels (0–5), explained

COBIT 2019 rates each objective on a 0–5 capability scale. Knowing what each level means turns a governance assessment into a roadmap.

March 31, 2026

HIPAA Security Rule risk analysis: what is required

The risk analysis is the foundation of HIPAA Security Rule compliance — and the single most common finding when something goes wrong.

March 17, 2026

NIST CSF 2.0: the new Govern function explained

CSF 2.0's biggest change is a new function that wraps the other five: Govern. It moves cybersecurity from a technical checklist to an enterprise-risk discipline.

March 3, 2026

Manual vs continuous compliance evidence

Screenshots taken the week before an audit prove one thing: that the control worked once, under observation. Continuous evidence proves it works.

February 18, 2026

The ISO 27001 Statement of Applicability, done right

The SoA is the single document a certification auditor measures everything else against. Get it right and the audit goes smoothly.

February 4, 2026

SOC 2 Type I vs Type II: which do you need?

A Type I proves your controls are designed well today. A Type II proves they actually worked over months. Most buyers want the second one.

January 22, 2026

Which PCI SAQ type applies to you?

The right SAQ depends entirely on how you handle card data. Pick the wrong one and you either over-report or, worse, under-scope.

January 9, 2026

PCI DSS 4.0.1: what changed and how to prepare

PCI DSS 4.0 (refined as 4.0.1) is the largest revision of the standard in a decade. Here is what actually changed, and a pragmatic order to tackle it.

December 19, 2025

Cross-framework control mapping, explained

Most security frameworks ask for the same things in different words. Mapping is how you stop proving the same control five times.

December 9, 2025

What is a GRC platform?

GRC stands for governance, risk, and compliance. A GRC platform is the system of record that ties all three together instead of scattering them across spreadsheets.