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Insights, guidance and product updates on cybersecurity, GRC and compliance.

Cybersecurity compliance for fintech and payments
Sectors

Cybersecurity compliance for fintech and payments

Fintechs face the widest stack of overlapping obligations of any sector - card standards, prudential regulation, resilience rules and privacy law. How they fit together and where to start.
Why AI for compliance must be grounded in your evidence
AI & Automation

Why AI for compliance must be grounded in your evidence

An AI that answers compliance questions from general knowledge is a liability. Why retrieval-grounded output is the only audit-defensible approach, and how to tell the difference when evaluating tools.
Cybersecurity compliance for healthcare organisations
Sectors

Cybersecurity compliance for healthcare organisations

Healthcare carries the most sensitive personal data and the least tolerance for downtime. The frameworks that apply, where healthcare compliance differs from other sectors, and where programmes typically fail.
Adapting your risk assessment for AI systems
AI & Automation

Adapting your risk assessment for AI systems

Your existing risk methodology was built for systems that fail predictably. What changes for AI - new risk categories, impact on people rather than the organisation, and how to score models that degrade quietly.
The AI questions buyers now ask - and how to answer them
AI & Automation

The AI questions buyers now ask - and how to answer them

Security questionnaires have grown an AI section. What enterprise buyers are asking about your use of AI, why vague answers stall deals, and how to prepare answers you can evidence.
Assessing AI vendors: the questions standard due diligence misses
AI & Automation

Assessing AI vendors: the questions standard due diligence misses

Your existing vendor questionnaire was not written for AI. The additional questions that matter - training data, retention, model changes, hallucination handling and the model supply chain behind your supplier.
Sovereign AI: using AI for compliance without exporting your data
AI & Automation

Sovereign AI: using AI for compliance without exporting your data

Compliance data is exactly the data you cannot casually send to a third-party model. How to use AI for GRC while meeting residency and confidentiality obligations - and when self-hosted models are the right answer.
Shadow AI: governing the AI your staff are already using
AI & Automation

Shadow AI: governing the AI your staff are already using

Your people adopted AI tools before your policy existed. How to discover what is in use, decide what to allow, and govern it without driving usage further underground.
Building a custom control framework from your own documents
Guides

Building a custom control framework from your own documents

Not every requirement comes from a published standard. How to turn a customer standard, an internal policy set or a regulator PDF into a structured, assessable control framework - and map it to what you already run.
Working with your external auditor without losing weeks
Audit

Working with your external auditor without losing weeks

Fieldwork drags when evidence requests bounce around email. How to run the auditor relationship - the PBC list, a single request queue, scoped access and clean handling of findings.
Why every compliance programme starts with an asset inventory
Guides

Why every compliance programme starts with an asset inventory

The asset register is the control everything else depends on - and the one most often incomplete. What belongs in it, how to keep it current, and why auditors test it first.
Winning tenders with compliance evidence you already have
Guides

Winning tenders with compliance evidence you already have

Tender security sections are usually answered from scratch under deadline. How to turn your existing control and evidence base into a reusable bid asset - and stop losing qualification on paperwork.
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