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How robust IT compliance and infosec protect your organization against data breaches

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Explore the essential components of an IT compliance plan and understand how implementation can strengthen your security, safeguard your most important customers and stakeholders, and mitigate the threat of cyberattacks.
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  • News and Events

Scaling up: 5 tips for successful upmarket expansion

Scaling up: 5 tips for successful upmarket expansion
Every company wants to scale its business, but only some know precisely how to expand upmarket successfully. To do so requires mastery of your current market before taking that…
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Scaling up: 5 tips for successful upmarket expansion
  • Compliance

What is the HIPAA Security Rule?

A healthcare worker types on a device with protected health information.
Ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected health information (PHI) is not only a legal obligation but also essential for maintaining trust in the healthcare system. With the ever-evolving landscape of technology and cybersecurity threats, understanding the HIPAA Security Rule is more important than ever. 
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  • Compliance

Consequences of non-compliance: Understanding PCI DSS fines and penalties

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The costs of non-compliance with PCI DSS can include both financial penalties and indirect consequences, such as reputational damage and loss of business opportunities.
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A credit card transaction occurs over Square via cell phone
  • Compliance

What is PHI? Your guide to protected health information

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Oro provides content designed to educate and help audiences on their compliance journey. PHI is a key aspect of healthcare, and knowing how it’s regulated, used, and protected is…
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Close up shot of an individual filling out a patient information form
  • Compliance

How robust IT compliance and infosec protect your organization against data breaches

IT compliance team collaborates on a computer
Explore the essential components of an IT compliance plan and understand how implementation can strengthen your security, safeguard your most important customers and stakeholders, and mitigate the threat of cyberattacks.
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IT compliance team collaborates on a computer
  • Compliance

What is the HIPAA Security Rule?

A healthcare worker types on a device with protected health information.
Ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected health information (PHI) is not only a legal obligation but also essential for maintaining trust in the healthcare system. With the ever-evolving landscape of technology and cybersecurity threats, understanding the HIPAA Security Rule is more important than ever. 
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A healthcare worker types on a device with protected health information.
  • Compliance

Consequences of non-compliance: Understanding PCI DSS fines and penalties

A credit card transaction occurs over Square via cell phone
The costs of non-compliance with PCI DSS can include both financial penalties and indirect consequences, such as reputational damage and loss of business opportunities.
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A credit card transaction occurs over Square via cell phone
  • Compliance

What is PHI? Your guide to protected health information

Close up shot of an individual filling out a patient information form
Oro provides content designed to educate and help audiences on their compliance journey. PHI is a key aspect of healthcare, and knowing how it’s regulated, used, and protected is…
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Close up shot of an individual filling out a patient information form
  • Compliance

Everything you need to know about the HIPAA Minimum Necessary Rule

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The HIPAA Minimum Necessary Rule, a subsection of the overarching Privacy Rule, mandates that covered entities and business associates only use and disclose the minimum amount of protected health…
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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

This Juneteenth, Thoropass is celebrating black leaders in compliance

Juneteenth: Celebrating Black-Owned Businesses in the Partner Ecosystem
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States and Thoropass is excited to celebrate the historic holiday. But did you know the history behind it? Let’s start in…
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Juneteenth: Celebrating Black-Owned Businesses in the Partner Ecosystem
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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
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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

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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

Thoropass VP of Marketing Amber Stevens presents at SaaStr Annual
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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Thoropass VP of Marketing Amber Stevens presents at SaaStr Annual
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  • News and Events

Scaling up: 5 tips for successful upmarket expansion

Scaling up: 5 tips for successful upmarket expansion
Every company wants to scale its business, but only some know precisely how to expand upmarket successfully. To do so requires mastery of your current market before taking that…
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Scaling up: 5 tips for successful upmarket expansion
  • News and Events

200 G2 Reviews: 9 reviews from Customers who love Thoropass

We did it: Thoropass has now received over 200 G2 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7 stars, and boy, are we proud. These reviews show that we manage…
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  • News and Events

Thoropass joins AWS ISV Accelerate Program

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[New York, Aug 22, 2023] – Thoropass is proud to announce announced today that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a…
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Thoropass strengthens relationship with AWS by sharing compliance offerings in AWS Marketplace

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[New York, Aug 22, 2023] – Thoropass, the only automated compliance and audit solution to include in-house auditors at every step of the compliance journey, is excited to announce…
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Growth as a start-up with Third Prime

Stylized image of Thoropass founder Austin Ogilvie on a panel with Third Prime
Our Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Austin Ogilvie, sat down at Third Prime’s Annual Meeting in Nashville to discuss navigating growth as a start-up. He was joined by Octane’s Co-Founder…
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Stylized image of Thoropass founder Austin Ogilvie on a panel with Third Prime