Compliance news stories

Profectus Group has recently won a deal with Australian retailer Barbeques Galore that is set to serve up expert analysis of rebates and payments for better business outcomes.

"This new release gives customers critical visibility and protection. Varonis' platform approach helps companies unify their cloud security controls."

As of 31 March 2022, 90% of companies are not fully compliant with CCPA and CPRA Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) requirements.

Although data-driven companies place utmost priority on securing sensitive data, most are stuck in cycles of ineffective manual practices.

Australia's Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Act 2021, extends cybersecurity provisions to data, finance, water, energy, and more.

MetricStream has announced a new product to simplify the ability to navigate the rapidly growing importance of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC).

Talend has announced the availability of Talend Data Catalog 8, an automated data catalogue enabling a proactive approach to compliance management.

AvePoint has released enhancements to its SaaS platform to improve information lifecycle management and ensure data resilience and compliance.

Incident response and threat hunting teams need an accurate picture of their attack surface to maintain an effective security program, Qualys states.

Foresite Cybersecurity has announced the acquisition of Cyber Lantern into its security monitoring, management, and assessment solutions. 

Australian start-up CredShare has announced it's raised a further circa $2.7 million while unveiling the next evolution of its credentials platform. 

“We are not just another RegTech creating compliance forms, and software that ticks a box. We are passionate about building a solution that will genuinely improve your information security."

"The findings of our research show that companies are woefully unprepared for CCPA compliance, especially when it comes to enabling and responding to consumers data privacy rights."

“Midsized companies face complex security threats and increasingly onerous compliance requirements but rarely do they have the in-house resources to manage all of this themselves; this is exactly where smartbloc. comes in."

MetricStream outlines several trends and predictions on risk management that enterprises should watch on in 2022.

Data security, confidentiality, integrity, and availability are now key issues for all organisations, as is the imperative to use data ethically while complying with a complex web of industry and regional regulations.

Modernising organisational foundations, becoming data driven, and embedding security and compliance are some of the top strategic priorities business leaders must focus on in 2022.

AND Digital has revealed data skills are a big concern for businesses looking for growth via data.

"Our new Laika+ offering delivers programmatically verifiable compliance with reproducible results for businesses of all sizes and industries while relieving the pain points of the audit process.”

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has chosen SaaS provider EncompaaS to automate its electronic document compliance going forward.

Cybersecurity firm Horangi has successfully achieved the SOC 2 Type II Compliance and Certification, making it one of the first cybersecurity companies in Asia to do so.

These days cloud security is more trusted than ever. According to a recent study in a survey of 2,000 IT leaders from around the globe, nearly 85% of respondents said that they trust cloud security practices as much as, or more than, those associated with their on-premises data infrastructures.

Global payroll and compliance platform Deel has announced its official launch in Australia and New Zealand. 

“The Snowflake Media Data Cloud will fuel the next wave of innovation in the advertising ecosystem.”