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  We released the A-SCEND development roadmap, announcing powerful new features coming soon! Learn how A-LIGN is investing in product development to deliver new capabilities and services to our clients. The opportunity for new ideas and innovation in the compliance industry is at an all-time high. A-LIGN has always been at the forefront of cybersecurity compliance, relentlessly seeking ways to make audits and assessments more efficient while maintaining a high level of quality. The investments we make in A-SCEND, our end-to-end compliance management platform, allow us to move much faster on new product development and will help us to deliver even more value to our clients. Our customers will be able to experience new capabilities and services through A-SCEND with ease. As we look across the industry, with so many startups trying to ease the burden that compliance puts on resource-constrained security teams, we are proud to build on the experience of our A-LIGN auditors, along with the

How did Arti Lalwani, A-LIGN’s Risk Management and Privacy Knowledge Leader, get her start in cybersecurity? To promote Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we sat down with Arti to learn about her career path and advice she has for anyone trying to break into the industry. The world of cybersecurity is fast-paced and rapidly evolving. Current events, such as YouRock 2021 , The Accellion Supply Chain Attack , and The Colonial Pipeline attack , raised new concerns in the industry. Evolutions in frameworks and national or regional regulations, drive the need for new controls, policies, and procedures. And, of course, the last year has been an especially trying time due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the extra steps organizations had to take to ensure compliance when employees are working remotely. While exciting and cutting edge, the cybersecurity industry can be challenging to initially break into due to its rapid rise in popularity and necessity. In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Our 2021 Compliance Benchmark Report found that more than 70% of organizations believe limited staff resources and evidence collection are the greatest challenges of their audit process. Learn more about the most common compliance audit challenges, plus potential solutions for each. “What are the top challenges you see companies face throughout the audit process?” It’s a question often asked by proactive leaders who want to avoid the missteps and oversights made by other organizations. Anecdotally speaking, it’s not unusual to hear executives and those in charge of corporate compliance programs say there are simply not enough hours in the day to get everything done, or even to just move things forward in a timely manner. It’s also common for some employees to feel like their organization’s compliance strategy is reactionary , driven by customer requests rather than established as a strategic initiative from the top down. And they’re not wrong. In our 2021 Compliance Benchmark Report ,

A new cybersecurity executive order deadline on event log management has many technology companies wondering if they have to take action. Our Federal Practice Lead, Tony Bai, explains what this update means and whether or not it will affect your organization. Another day, another cyber executive order deadline quickly approaching. Recently, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released an official memorandum that provided timelines on the actions federal agencies must take to ensure the U.S. government can effectively detect, investigate, and remediate cyber threats. The memo, “Improving the Federal Government’s Cyber Investigative and Remediation Capabilities,” focuses specifically on the requirements surrounding logging, log retention, and log management that were laid out in section eight of President Biden’s executive order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. So, what does this mean for the federal compliance landscape? Here’s how it might affect your organization now