Cybersecurity

A tailored best practices review will facilitate and enable management to meet the necessary controls for their audit requirement, helping you to the top.

In this issue, we provide steps to a smoother audit experience, along with best practices for your 2021 compliance journey. Plus, a PCI DSS timeline, CMMC prep checklist, CPRA vs. CCPA comparison, and much more.  

Complying with SOC 2 has business benefits, such as building customer trust. Don’t delay and miss out on opportunities.

Business continuity (BCP) and disaster recovery plans (DRP) are used to prepare for potentially disruptive incidents and ensure that your business can minimize the negative effects of those events.

Senior Talent Acquisition Professional and Featured CLIMBER Nina Knight shares her unique journey to finding a career in recruiting, why she believes finding talent in the cybersecurity industry is important, and how the pandemic has affected the recruiting process.

An enterprise wide risk assessment can provide your organization with leverage to identify and rank risks so that nothing gets in the way on your climb.

A third-party risk management will rank all your vendors based on risk and determine the level of due diligence required.

A-LIGN celebrated Women’s History Month this year and its theme “Choose to Challenge” by sparking critical conversations with women leaders within the organization

Unsure if your organization can meet the HIPAA Privacy Rule? A-LIGN’s assessors can identify the type and location of the PHI in your organization so that you understand what information is subject to Privacy Rule legislation.

Unsure of how your organization is handling personally identifiable information (PII)? A privacy impact assessment (PIA) provides an analysis of how PII and other confidential information is being collected, used, shared, and maintained.

Penetration testing is the anchor on your climb. Let our automated penetration testing services test the security of your system through our systematic exploitation techniques to identify vulnerabilities before the bad guys do.

Social engineering is an attack vector that involves the use of deception to manipulate individuals into divulging confidential or personal information that may be used for fraudulent purposes.

Our penetration testing is the anchor on your climb – let our subscription-based penetration testing services be your personalized map to the top.

Looking to go beyond automated vulnerability scanning tools? A-LIGN’s penetration testing team can validate, and analyze the vulnerabilities in your environment with our manual scanning services.

This post describes some ways to leverage a final audit report to drive business, starting with a press release and an announcement plan.

A-LIGN's cyber risk and data privacy compliance services will allow you to provide your customers with the peace of mind that their data is being appropriately utilized. Learn how we can help you reach your data privacy compliance goals.

A-LIGN finishes record first quarter and expands its global footprint to Ireland and Panama.

From blogs, press releases and company news, the A-LIGN Blog can help you stay updated and knowledgeable on emerging cybersecurity and compliance trends.

Our experts share their knowledge, explore the latest global trends, comment on changes within the threat landscape, and discuss how businesses can secure their summit and confidently mitigate cybersecurity risks.

This month’s Featured CLIMBER Blaise Wabo talks about his journey at A-LIGN as an Associate Director and Chair of the firm’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Network.

A-LIGN reveals the results of its first Compliance Benchmark Survey

In A-LIGN’s first Compliance Benchmark Report, we asked over 200 cybersecurity, IT, quality assurance (QA), internal audit, finance, and other professionals about their compliance programs. We asked about their organizations, how they run their programs, & the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their compliance plans.

Compare your compliance program to A-LIGN’s compliance benchmark report. In the world of security and privacy compliance, the rules and regulations change frequently.

Whether your organization is pursuing its first HITRUST certification or is returning for a recertification, it can be tricky to parse close to two dozen regulatory factors to determine if they should be included in an assessment. In this post, we will explore seven regulatory factors related to the healthcare industry.

A SOC audit does not have to be difficult. With the right plan and the right partner, your SOC report can put you on the path to success.