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Top Considerations for Building a Lab-to-Cloud Workflow
Since March 2020, cloud adoption has accelerated at an unprecedented rate and across every industry. With the pandemic ushering in the work-from-home era, the ability of organizations to collaborate remotely has become paramount, placing a higher-than-ever premium on cloud technology.
Kintent's Frank Kyazze Takes On Data Connectors Dallas, Identifies Industry Frustration with Security Audits
Recently, we caught up with Frank Kyazze, Privacy Director here at Kintent, to chat about his experience at the Data Connectors conference in Dallas last month. Frank had the opportunity to serve on the “Protecting Against Cyber Attacks” discussion panel while in attendance. Frank took part in the panel, discussing how now more than ever, it is imperative for organizations to be vigilant against bad actors.
Workflow Automation: Intelligent Task Delegation for Groups and Users
We believe compliance should be a team sport. With Workflow Automation, your team can be segmented into “groups”, including DevOps, Engineering, HR, and Legal. TrustOps intelligently delegates tasks, controls, tests, and systems into these groups. Group have owners, who assign each component of your company’s compliance program to the right person within their group.
Workflow Automation: Smart Inventory Management
You can now connect TrustOps to multiple SaaS vendors that you use to run your product and business, and we automatically collect inventory lists from these vendors to satisfy audit requirements. With this new release, TrustOps intelligently creates the following inventory lists for you: Databases in AWS RDS Logs from AWS Cloudwatch Alerts from AWS Cloudwatch Alerts IT assets from Jamf and Duo HR lists from BambooHR and TriNet.
Smart Custom Policies
Kintent policies now offer a new Edit Policy menu option, allowing you to customize existing text, write your own, or bring in the contents of an existing policy by pasting its text. Once in the editor, you will be able to format your policy, choose whether or not (and where) to insert its approval log and related control list, as well as add Kintent control texts. TrustOps also supports Smart Variables — dynamic, auto-updating values representing key attributes of a policy such as its owner, which you can use when composing your policy.
Customizing your controls
We know that your business is unique, and you may already have security and privacy programs in place, so we’ve made customization a focus and a pillar in our platform, making it effortless for you to craft custom controls and policies that are integral to your business. On the control details page in TrustOps, you now have the ability to edit a control and customize the control statement language, policy mappings and frequency of the control to accurately reflect your business practices.
Add Your Brand Identity to Your TrustShare
With this update, we’ve made it easy for your team to customize your TrustShare portal to reflect your brand identity. As part of the most recent update to the TrustShare Admin app, we’re excited to introduce a “Branding” section where you can select your brand’s color palette and add your logo. Your TrustShare will reflect your branding in the appropriate places as soon as you publish your selections. You also have the ability to preview changes before publishing, so you can ensure that everything looks and feels right.
TrustShare
As with everything we do at Kintent, we wanted to make it effortless for you to develop and share your information security program! Automatically Share Your Compliance Documents TrustShare is part of Kintent’s Trust Management Platform. It automatically pulls details from the platform, such as your controls, policies, security questionnaires, and subprocessors. Whenever a change is made to the underlying information, Trust Share is automatically updated, so you won’t ever have to worry about the validity of the compliance data you are sharing with your customers.
More Online Privacy Horror Stories: 7 Disturbing Hacks and Breaches That Happened In 2022
It's that time of year again when ghouls, creeps, ghosts, and goblins take to the streets and scare the living daylights out of regular, everyday folk. None of these monsters compare to something much scarier, much more heinous–hackers! Cybercriminals don't wait until October to wreak havoc on the living, they do it every day, and their cyberattacks become bolder with each passing year. It's difficult to fathom how many cyberattacks actually happen.
How Banks Around the World Can Prevent Cyber Attacks
As both consumer and commercial banking clients shift to primarily utilize online banking, they still have high expectations that their financial assets will be secure. In 2021, the banking industry reported 703 cyberattack attempts per week — a 53% increase from 2020. And the cost of cyberattacks in the industry has reached $18.3 million annually per breach.