The vendor register you've built only covers your direct relationships — here's how to get a handle on the layer beneath it without drowning in subcontractor audits you can't enforce anyway.
Security and compliance, in plain English.
Compliance, decoded for the people who ship it.
Plain-English guides to SOC 2, ISO 27001, vendor risk, and the tools that get you compliant without the consultant markup. Written by practitioners, for the people who actually have to ship it.
What PCI DSS 4.0 actually requires, why most SaaS companies have less scope than they fear, and what the new rules in version 4.0 mean in practice.
Vanta and Secureframe both automate SOC 2 evidence collection, but they're built for different kinds of buyers, and the wrong choice costs you either money or control.
A practical guide to building an incident response plan that covers what auditors need and actually works when something goes wrong at 2am.
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What each type of encryption protects against, where the coverage gaps hide, and what an auditor is actually checking for.
GitHub Enterprise Cloud maintains a SOC 2 Type 2 report covering its platform infrastructure, but that report says nothing about how your organization has configured its repositories and access controls.
Security is the only required criterion — here's what the other four actually cover, and how to decide which ones belong in your audit scope.
What "zero trust" actually means under the vendor noise, and the three things that make it real in practice.
What the Security Rule actually covers, how its three safeguard categories translate to real controls, and what the proposed 2025 overhaul changes for business associates.
Google Workspace holds a quarterly SOC 2 Type 2 report covering its infrastructure, but that report says nothing about how you've configured your tenant.
A practical breakdown of the TPRM tools that actually get used, who each fits, and the honest tradeoffs that vendor websites won't name.
What multi-factor authentication actually means, which methods hold up against real attacks, and what your auditor specifically looks for when they check.
SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 cover completely different territory. Here's what separates them and which one your customers are actually asking for.
AWS holds its own SOC 2 Type 2 report covering 188 services — but that report says nothing about whether your company is compliant.
What NIST CSF 2.0 actually is, what changed from version 1.1, and how to engage with it when a customer or insurer asks you to align.
What the principle of least privilege actually means, how to implement it, and why it's the access control your auditor will check hardest.
The date everyone feared got pushed to 2027 — but GPAI fines go live August 2, and the real work doesn't wait for a legal deadline.
I've sat through demos and real implementations of all three. Here's how they actually differ once the sales engineer logs off.
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