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ISO, ISO Baby: What’s changed over the last years?

ISO 27001 has long reigned as a compliance champion in the world of information security. As a widely recognized framework, some 33,000 companies hold ISO 27001 certifications. But what’s…
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  • News and Events

Congratulations to CCX on earning a SOC 2® Type 1 and Type 2 attestation

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Note: This post was originally published on July 13, 2022 and was updated on June 8, 2023. CCX achieved their SOC 2 Type 2 in March of 2023. We…
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  • News and Events

Meet Thoropass’s new VP of Engineering: An interview with Scott Schlegel

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Thoropass welcomes Scott Schlegel to the team as our new VP of Engineering! With over a decade of experience in the tech industry, Scott has worked with various companies,…
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  • Compliance

Fireside Chat with a Compliance Founder, Sam Li, of Thoropass

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During my first conversation with Sam Li, I began to learn what it meant to be a founder. The passion, the hustle, and the vision required are some of…
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  • Compliance

SOC 2 mapping: Infrastructure and data security

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With the risk landscape changing every single day due to a number of different reasons like constantly evolving cyber-attacks to changing regulatory requirements, it can be hard enough for…
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  • Compliance

ISO, ISO Baby: What’s changed over the last years?

ISO 27001 has long reigned as a compliance champion in the world of information security. As a widely recognized framework, some 33,000 companies hold ISO 27001 certifications. But what’s…
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  • Compliance

Fireside Chat with a Compliance Founder, Sam Li, of Thoropass

Woman with text that says Cristina’s Compliance Corner Founder Fireside Chat Sam Li
During my first conversation with Sam Li, I began to learn what it meant to be a founder. The passion, the hustle, and the vision required are some of…
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Woman with text that says Cristina’s Compliance Corner Founder Fireside Chat Sam Li
  • Compliance

SOC 2 mapping: Infrastructure and data security

A stylized image of a map of Germany representing a mapping of SOC 2 controls
With the risk landscape changing every single day due to a number of different reasons like constantly evolving cyber-attacks to changing regulatory requirements, it can be hard enough for…
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A stylized image of a map of Germany representing a mapping of SOC 2 controls
  • Compliance

Three branches of business continuity

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Bad things happen. It may be difficult to anticipate all the possible scenarios that could disrupt your business, but we have witnessed a few examples in recent years: a…
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  • Compliance

What to expect during the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) process

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How often do you contemplate if your data and details are protected by a company? It is frequently presumed important information is protected, but many times a business must…
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  • Product

Product Spotlight: Project Management Bundle

There is no doubt that achieving security compliance is a collaborative effort. Stakeholders, contributors, and other roles have to understand what’s being asked of them, the deliverables, the timelines,…
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Product Spotlight: Security Questionnaire Tools

Enterprises use security questionnaires to assess data safety when it’s in the vendors’ hands. They want to see honest, direct, complete responses––but most questionnaires range from 80-500 or more…
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Product Spotlight: Bundled Penetration Testing

Announcing new in-app pentesting to help you feel less vulnerable! This new feature adds to Thoropass’s (formerly Laika) comprehensive approach to compliance automation by continuing to be an all-in-one…
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Product Spotlight: Introducing Thoropass’s in-app Launchpad

While we like to work on in-app features that will improve our customers’ experience getting compliant, we also want them to enjoy using Thoropass (formerly Laika). How our customers…
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Product Spotlight: Introducing Integrated Audit

As Laika sets its sights on becoming the most comprehensive compliance solution, our product and engineering teams worked countless hours on our integrated audit offering. We’re thrilled to finally…
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  • Life at Thoropass

Breaking the stigma: Mental health in start-up environments

Breaking the stigma: mental health in start-up environments
Originally established in 1949 by Mental Health America, May is Mental Health Awareness Month. With it comes the opportunity to shine a spotlight on the key role mental health…
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Breaking the stigma: mental health in start-up environments
  • Life at Thoropass

How a strong sense of belonging can help you hire more qualified talent

How a Strong Sense of Belonging Can Help You Hire More Qualified Talent
The labor market has been uncertain and volatile during the last few years. Whether it’s the weekly notifications of new layoffs or a person in someone’s professional or personal…
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How a Strong Sense of Belonging Can Help You Hire More Qualified Talent
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Women of Thoropass: Celebrating the Women Behind Thoropass

Women’s History Month is an annual celebration of women’s contributions to society throughout history. Here at Thoropass (formerly Laika), we know women in tech are under-represented and deserve to…
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  • Life at Thoropass

SaaStr Annual: Fail Fast to Scale Fast

After building my career in the startup space, it was a great pleasure to speak at SaaStr Annual 2022 about managing marketing revenue expectations in the rapidly evolving SaaS…
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  • Life at Thoropass

The Art of the Pitch: A Lesson in Startup Funding

This past Thursday, we sat down with two of our co-founders and co-CEOs, Sam Li and Austin Ogilvie, to discuss how they raised a Series C round of funding….
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  • News and Events

Congratulations to CCX on earning a SOC 2® Type 1 and Type 2 attestation

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Note: This post was originally published on July 13, 2022 and was updated on June 8, 2023. CCX achieved their SOC 2 Type 2 in March of 2023. We…
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Meet Thoropass’s new VP of Engineering: An interview with Scott Schlegel

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Thoropass welcomes Scott Schlegel to the team as our new VP of Engineering! With over a decade of experience in the tech industry, Scott has worked with various companies,…
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  • News and Events

Monster Meta GDPR fine drives home importance of compliance

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On April 13, 2023, the European Data Protection Board* (EDPB) issued a binding dispute resolution against Meta IE (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited) following a dispute submitted by the Irish…
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  • News and Events

Announcing The New Thoropass Partner Ecosystem

The Thoropass Partner Ecosystem
Thoropass has some exciting news to share! We just launched our new Partner Ecosystem to help customers extend the value out of our solution by bridging in-house gaps with…
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Thoropass is proud to be an approved HITRUST External Assessor!

Note: This post was originally published on December 14, 2022, and was updated on May 9, 2023. Thoropass is proud to be the first automated compliance solution to become…
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