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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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compliance attestation

/kəmˈplaɪəns ˌætɛˈsteɪʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A signed affirmation that the controls work, dated the same week three of them were turned off for the migration.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A formal statement, often annual, in which an organization affirms it meets a defined set of controls.

Filed

See also

audit trailA complete and immutable record of every action, retained for exactly thirty days, then quietly rotated out.
full audit coverageStruck: there is no covering a data inventory, audit trail, and lineage that were never drawn.
regulatory reportingThe one report whose definition of 'customer' is finally agreed, because the penalty for drift is statutory.