TrustLynce Editorial Team
Compliance and security writers
The TrustLynce team writes about SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and the work underneath them: scoping, evidence, controls, audits and security reviews. Guidance here is general information, not legal or audit advice.
213 articles
Privacy
UK GDPR vs EU GDPR: the differences that matter
Where UK GDPR and EU GDPR now differ in practice: regulators, representatives, transfer tools, the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, and what stays shared.
6 min read
Compliance frameworks
Mapping HIPAA to SOC 2 controls
A working map from HIPAA Security Rule standards to SOC 2 criteria, where the two diverge, and how to run one control set that serves both obligations.
5 min read
Compliance frameworks
The policies a SOC 2 audit expects to see
The criteria never list required policies, yet auditors expect a familiar set. Which policies to write, what each must say, and how auditors test them.
6 min read
Compliance frameworks
CMMC and cloud services: FedRAMP equivalency
When a cloud service holding CUI must be FedRAMP Moderate authorized or equivalent, what equivalency requires, and what to collect from your provider.
6 min read
Trust and sales
The security page buyers check first
What a public security page needs on its first screen, the sections that follow, how to write claims a reviewer believes, and the red flags they notice.
6 min read
Compliance frameworks
NIS2 incident reporting timelines
When an incident is significant under NIS2, what the early warning, notification and final report must contain, when each clock starts, and who else to tell.
6 min read
Compliance frameworks
SOX change management controls
How SOX auditors test program change: the change population, testing and approval, developer access to production, emergency changes and config changes.
6 min read
Compliance frameworks
PCI DSS requirement 10: logging and log review
What PCI DSS Requirement 10 says to log, the fields every entry needs, which logs need daily review, how long to keep them, and what assessors ask to see.
6 min read
Compliance frameworks
Corrective actions that close ISO 27001 findings
How to answer an ISO 27001 nonconformity so it closes: correction versus corrective action, a cause analysis that holds, and proof the fix worked.
6 min read
Security engineering
Cloud security posture on AWS
The AWS posture controls auditors test first: account structure, root and human access, logging, guardrails and data exposure, and the evidence each yields.
6 min read
Risk and vendors
Vendor security questionnaires that get answers
How to design and send vendor security questionnaires that come back complete: sizing by tier, reusing reports, writing answerable questions, and follow-up.
6 min read
Audit readiness
Running a mock audit
A mock audit tests whether you can produce evidence under audit conditions. Who should play the auditor, what to scope, how to run it, and how to use findings.
6 min read
AI governance
Shadow AI: finding the tools your teams already use
Where to look for unapproved AI tools: identity grants, expenses, browser extensions, network logs, features in existing SaaS, code. Then how to triage.
6 min read
Privacy
Managing sub-processors and the notice customers expect
What GDPR Article 28 requires for sub-processors, who counts as one, how to run the list and change notices, and what to do when a customer objects to a change.
6 min read
Compliance frameworks
What a SOC 3 report is for
A SOC 3 is the public summary of a SOC 2 examination. What it contains, what it deliberately leaves out, where it helps sales, and where buyers still want more.
6 min read
Compliance frameworks
FCI vs CUI: what CMMC protects
The definitions of Federal Contract Information and Controlled Unclassified Information, how marking works, and why the difference sets your CMMC level.
6 min read
Compliance frameworks
Computer system validation for SaaS
Who validates a SaaS system under FDA rules, which documents each side owns, and how to keep validation current when the vendor ships changes every month.
6 min read
Compliance frameworks
HIPAA workforce training that counts as evidence
The two HIPAA training requirements, who counts as workforce, the records an investigator or customer asks for, and how to prove that no one was missed.
6 min read
Security engineering
Key management and rotation
How key hierarchies, separation of duties, rotation and key deletion work in a cloud KMS, what PCI DSS and ISO 27001 expect, and the evidence auditors test.
6 min read
Compliance frameworks
Major vs minor nonconformities in ISO 27001
Where the major and minor grades come from, what pushes a finding into each, what each means for your certificate, and how to keep a stage 2 free of majors.
6 min read
Audit readiness
An audit readiness checklist
A working checklist for the weeks before an audit: scope, documents, owners, populations, people, vendors and logistics, with what each item must show.
6 min read
Trust and sales
Security addendums and what to negotiate
A clause-by-clause guide to a customer's security addendum: incident notice, audit rights, prescribed controls, subprocessors, deletion, and liability.
6 min read
Compliance frameworks
SOC 2 vs SOC 1: which report your customers need
SOC 1 serves your customers' financial auditors. SOC 2 serves their security teams. How to tell which one a request is really for, and when you need both.
6 min read
Privacy
Controller vs processor: which one are you?
How to tell whether you are a GDPR controller or processor for each activity, why most SaaS companies are both, and what each role obliges you to do.
6 min read