Phoenix Financial nearly worked themselves into the grave trying to become PCI compliant. When I first met their compliance team, they were laboring from 9 am until past midnight, five to six days a week. And they’d been doing it for months already. If you haven’t personally taken on the role of managing compliance for […]
Starting your compliance program for the first time? I’ve been there. I got my start in compliance when the boss came by, dropped a four-inch stack of paper on my desk, and said we needed to get compliant. I was staring down Alice’s rabbit hole, wondering what to do and where to start. I’ll never […]
So your company has decided to become compliant, and you’ve been nominated as the point person to lead that charge. The Sales and Executive teams realized that achieving compliance certification could give your organization a competitive advantage in the marketplace, and they’re counting on you to gather up the documentation and get all the paperwork […]
It’s Monday morning and the first thing you do (after grabbing your coffee) is to check your emails from the weekend. There are 23 new messages. The most recent one is from your CEO, so you open that one immediately. He’s about to give a presentation, but his laptop died. Please text him your mobile […]
If you’re using cyber liability insurance (and you should be), you may be in for a rude awakening when your policy renews this year. Cyber liability insurance rates are skyrocketing like crazy, jumping as much as 20 to 50 percent in one year. The jump in rates is certain to make some organizations question whether […]
Consumers and clients are paying more and more attention to companies that are on the forefront of ethical business practices. Increasingly, customers are only willing to give their money to organizations that believe in doing the right thing. If you want to succeed in business, you need to be a company that cares about doing […]
TCT is committed to helping you keep your organization secure and compliant. Every quarter, we publish compliance and security insights that you can share with your employees to fulfill periodic security reminder requirements your organization may be subject to. As an added bonus, we’ve highlighted some developing security trends to help you get more out […]
I can’t tell you how many managers and business owners have told me that their employees take security seriously. They have their training and they talk about security in their organization on a regular basis. Yet before I finish my onsite visit, I invariably identify numerous security issues as part of the gap or risk […]
With all the effort you’re putting into achieving compliance, you might be tempted to hire your Assessor almost as an afterthought. After all, the Assessor just needs to ask a set of questions, check your work, and grade your final exam, right? Actually, there’s a lot more to it than that. A good security and […]