The digital age, where data has become an integral part of business operations, organization processes, service provision and personal life, has led to the birth of compliance. Compliance regulations (or industry regulations) advise, or in most cases require, data owners and data handlers to observe a certain set of protocols. These protocols make sure that data is available, secure, and only accessible to the right people. But how does one go about building a compliant IT framework? On that note, what really is compliance? These are the questions we’ll be tackling in this article as we navigate through the complex pathways of compliance regulations. What is Compliance? For the sake of context, let’s elaborate on what we mean by “compliance”. There are different types of compliance, for this article, we’re only referring to compliance regulations applicable to data owners, data handlers and processors. As mentioned earlier, compliance regulations are a set of protocols pertaining to data storage, management, and security. These protocols often require businesses to backup data so that it’s recoverable and data loss is less likely.Similarly, some compliance require data owners to create and store multiple copies of data; thereby ensuring that data is available even if one ...
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