As CISOs and compliance leaders plan their 2026 roadmaps, major compliance frameworks, including SOC, CMMC, and ISO 27001, are evolving in important ways. While these updates aren’t complete overhauls, each framework is raising the bar for governance, evidence management, and continuous control performance. Understanding these upcoming changes allows organizations to plan proactively and avoid last-minute […]

Compliance planning becomes most effective when organizations take time to reflect on the year behind them. As companies close out another year of evolving risks, shifting regulatory expectations, and heightened stakeholder scrutiny, year-end presents a natural inflection point to reassess governance and control effectiveness. This is the moment to evaluate what worked, where controls struggled,

In today’s environment of heightened regulatory expectations and increased scrutiny across security, privacy, and financial reporting, organizations rely on audits for more than regulatory compliance. Audits are a critical signal of credibility. The strength of an audit, defined by its accuracy, independence, and professional rigor, directly shapes how clients, partners, and regulators perceive an organization.

As organizations close out 2025, many leaders are taking a step back to evaluate what worked, what stalled, and how their compliance planning and security programs must evolve. Year-end reflection is more than a routine exercise. it is a critical governance practice. Whether you are advancing a SOC 2 program, navigating CMMC expectations, strengthening your