Compliance: No Longer Just Policy Guidelines For Organizations
SC Media, Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
Compliance is no longer a theoretical or strategic area of coverage, but rather a clear-and-present threat for businesses.
Shifts in government policy and law enforcement have made compliance standards and regulations into existential threats instead of policy guidelines.
Several landmark pieces of legislation and cases in the U.S. alone have signaled to organizations that becoming compliant with data security standards is no longer a way to placate the boardroom, but rather a means of providing cover in the case of a data breach incident.
For starters, there is the 2024 enforcement of the SEC's disclosure regulations for data disclosure incidents.