Data Privacy

Compliance

Adherence to laws, regulations, guidelines, and specifications relevant to an organisation's business.

Regulatory Technology

Technology solutions designed to help companies comply with regulations efficiently and cost-effectively.

Data Protection Officer

An individual responsible for overseeing an organisation's data protection strategy and regulatory compliance.

Control Framework

A structured set of controls and processes designed to manage risk and ensure compliance with regulations.

Sanctions Screening

The process of checking individuals and entities against government-issued lists of sanctioned parties.

Incident Reporting

The formal process of documenting and communicating security incidents, breaches, or compliance violations.

Regulatory Sandbox

A controlled environment where businesses can test innovative products and services under regulatory oversight.

EU AI Act

The European Union's comprehensive legislation establishing rules for the development and use of AI systems based on risk levels.

Compliance as Code

The practice of expressing regulatory and security compliance requirements as machine-readable policies that can be automatically validated against infrastructure and application configurations.

Continuous Compliance

An automated approach to maintaining regulatory compliance through real-time monitoring, policy enforcement, and evidence collection integrated into development and operations pipelines.

AI Audit

An independent assessment of an AI system's compliance with regulatory requirements, ethical standards, and organisational policies, examining data, models, outputs, and governance.

The system of policies, rules, and processes by which activities are directed, controlled, and managed.

The process of identifying, assessing, and controlling threats to an organisation's capital and operations.

The process of verifying the identity, suitability, and risks of customers in financial transactions.

A legal concept giving individuals the right to request deletion of their personal data from organisations' records.

The risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, systems, or external events.

A document defining the permitted use of an organisation's IT resources and networks.

General Data Protection Regulation — EU legislation governing the collection and processing of personal data of EU residents.

An approach to systems engineering that takes privacy into account throughout the entire engineering process.