In November 2020, California voters approved Proposition 24, including the California Privacy Rights Act, or CPRA. This law amends and expands regulations under the original California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). 

One question that affected businesses asks is, “how can I prepare for CPRA compliance?” With the law taking effect on January 1, 2022, the clock is ticking, and many organizations are looking for ways to complete final compliance preparations. 

Here, we will talk about some of the basic steps for CRPA compliance. 

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In cybersecurity and compliance, terms like “framework” and “regulations” are often used interchangeably. As such, non-specialists might struggle to understand how different guidelines and regulatory bodies fit together to support cybersecurity. For example, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) provides several documents outlining guidelines and compliance requirements. However, in terms of larger frameworks, it provides two major examples: the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF).

This article will cover the latter of these two, how they fit into government-sponsored cybersecurity concerns and what that means for your organization. 

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The U.S. faced several disheartening and frustrating scandals in the earliest part of the century. Without regulations guiding them to be transparent, corporations were regularly falsifying financial records or defrauding their investors. To curb this issue, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This act, also known as SOX, codified a set of reporting and auditing standards into law to force corporations to provide truthful and accurate financial information and avoid further fraud issues. 

Here we discuss some of the implications of SOX and how you can approach compliance for your publicly traded company. 

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