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Imagine you’re closing a big deal with a Fortune 500 client. Everything looks good until they ask, “Are you SOC 2 compliant?” If you can’t answer with confidence, that deal might slip away. By 2025, with a threat landscape that evolves daily and customer trust is challenging to acquire, SOC 2 compliance has become the new baseline for doing business for SaaS, cloud services, fintech, and digital health vendors.

It has never been more critical to establish a solid foundation for regulatory compliance. Regulations govern a wide range of functions. Some of them are obvious, such as health and human services, patient data, medical devices, and credit payments. Some of them are less obvious, especially with the ever-changing definition of what constitutes private and identifiable data. This article provides an overview of regulatory compliance challenges and the hidden risks organizations face beneath the surface.

Since GDPR rolled out in 2018, enforcement has intensified. In 2023 alone, EU regulators levied roughly €2.1 billion in fines for non-compliance. That includes a jaw-dropping €1.2 billion strike against Meta for unlawful data transfers between the EU and the U.S., marking it the most significant GDPR penalty. Let’s be real. Data is serious business, and building software without GDPR compliance is like launching a bank without a vault.

Managing data across hybrid systems while meeting regulatory requirements is a growing challenge for businesses. Here's what you need to know.

South Africa’s Joint Standard on Cybersecurity & Cyber Resilience (JS2) is reshaping the regulatory landscape. Financial institutions must now rethink how they manage sensitive data. For data compliance leaders, this marks a critical shift where failing to adapt could bring serious consequences. This blog will examine what JS2 means for your organization’s data compliance efforts. Then, discover how Perforce solutions can help you in building a resilient data compliance program.

With the EU AI Act now in force, compliance is no longer about aspirational ethics or last-minute checklists, it’s about operationalizing quality assurance at every stage of your AI lifecycle.

This article originally appeared on Software Testing News. We’re sharing it here for our audience who may have missed it. An overlooked API can expose customer data, trigger multi-million-dollar fines, and sink a FinTech product launch. And now, the FinTech industry is at a crossroads, driven by innovation yet bounded by intensifying regulatory demands.

CMS-0057-F is a set of regulations introduced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It was created to address the urgent need for better interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem in the U.S. For a deeper understanding of this regulation, we encourage you to read Enhancing Interoperability and Streamlining Prior Authorization: A Look into CMS-0057-F.