Nearly every single industry has been forced to manage the swift and dramatic shift to remote work caused by the COVID-19 health crisis. Beyond the colossal task of migrating to remote operations overnight and ensuring off-network employees have the resources they need to be productive, many businesses are contending with new and weighty compliance challenges as well. For instance, healthcare and life science organizations must find ways to adhere to HIPAA requirements while patient care and management takes place virtually, and sensitive healthcare data changes hands remotely. Financial institutions, construction organizations and more are dealing with similar requirements.
Compliance regulators don’t take days off – not even in a pandemic. Faced with steep penalties for non-compliance and potential reputational damage, organizations are being forced to rethink their compliance strategies to account for new and emerging risks. For digital businesses today, the best place to start is by assessing how systems should be good enough, understand how data integrity is currently being managed, identifying any compliance hazards or gaps, and considering how automation can help address them.