In the very early days you felt like you were standing at the bottom of an insurmountable mountain, but it finally happened. The day you have been dreaming of. Your organization has successfully achieved compliance. This is a special moment. Enjoy it. Savor it. Pat yourself (and the team) on the back. Actually, you should […]
If you’re getting serious about compliance for the first time — really facing it — you can feel lost and overwhelmed. There’s so much to do, and it isn’t clear where you should start or what the trail map looks like. Not only is the path forward unclear, you have no idea what lies ahead […]
At first, becoming HIPAA compliant appears deceptively simple. But once you start digging into it, you just want to get the medicine over with and move on. There’s no magic pill that will take away the pain of compliance, but there are some best practices that will give you greater control. The Tricky Thing About […]
How many hours do you think you spend each year just trying to get a sense of your compliance engagement’s current status? Hopefully, you’re having weekly status meetings with your compliance team. (If you aren’t, start this week!) To prepare for those meetings, you’ll need to know who has done what since last week, and […]
In the last ten years, customer privacy has become a hot topic that everyone is talking about and not enough are acting on. Meanwhile, customers are getting more distrustful and are quicker to switch vendors. Organizations can’t limit data protection to credit cards and intellectual property, anymore. If you aren’t actively protecting your customers’ personally […]
Just because TCT operates in the security and compliance space, that doesn’t mean that we’re a secure or compliant company, ourselves. In fact, it’s possible to find assessors or auditors who have a suboptimal understanding of the certifications they evaluate for. So we appreciate it when new customers ask us about our own approach to […]
TCT is committed to helping you keep your organization secure and compliant. Every quarter, we’re publishing 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 and featured a quick tip in […]
Adults can learn a lot from children’s fables and fairy tales. And if you’re a C-level executive or sales leader in your company, The Three Little Pigs has a lesson you don’t want to miss. In fact, this little story could save your company millions of dollars, and the hair on your chinny chin chin! […]
I know a company that acquired a business and soon regretted it — even though all their discovery information was correct. They crossed all their Ts and dotted their Is on virtually everything you can imagine. There was just one area they neglected to look into more deeply, and it bit them in the butt. […]