Connective Platform™ Summary Document
Our contractors are accountable for whether they meet compliance standards. That is their responsibility, not ours.
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Correct. While in common law an employer is not necessarily responsible for the activities of their contractors, under regulatory bodies like the GDPR, FERPA, or HIPAA, a data controller is obliged to ensure their data processors comply with regulations.
It is no longer sufficient to run the security systems of yesteryear and hope they will hold for the cyberattacks of today. Cybercrime is advancing at an astonishing pac, so security protection needs to recognize every threat and have an answer for it. Attacks are frequent, damaging, and reoccurring, so security systems should offer ongoing and comprehensive monitoring, with the means to keep personnel continually informed.