Compliance teams face challenging times ahead with increasing regulations in the new normal. The pace of change continues unabated, and this year looks like being no exception. We should expect to continue to see significant increase in digital transformation in terms of AI, multiple standards management, automation and simplification of compliance-related processes.

CVE-2021-44228, or Log4Shell, is a critical remote code execution vulnerability in a highly popular Java library used in millions of applications as part of their logging infrastructure. This library sits at the core of almost every Java application built in recent years.

While countless gigabytes of private data end up scattered across on-site, cloud, hybrid, and third-party systems, data privacy laws continue to grant broad rights to personal data owners. Now users can request to get a copy or update it, ask to have their data deleted or restricted. What will the future of privacy be like?

Keeping up with a tradition of issuing regular compliance digests, we are happy to announce that the SCM Compliance Digest 2021 is ready for download.

Organizations are taking a risk-based approach to information security and compliance that enables them to bypass the need for an in-depth evaluation and analysis of every new threat. It introduces a systematic risk analysis process management that aims to foresee new risks and take preventative action.