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This week marks the first anniversary of Schellman's Weekly Read—over the past year, we've sent a Friday email to subscribers containing links to our latest and greatest content. To mark the occasion—fifty-two straight weeks of thought leadership and compliance insight, we've put together the Schellman Weekly Read Top 5 Posts (as determined by most clicks).

TAMPA, Fla. – July 10, 2024 – Schellman, a leading provider of attestation and compliance services and a top 50 CPA firm, is excited to announce the appointment of Alyson Young Castillo as its new Chief Growth Officer. Castillo, with her extensive experience in tech, advisory, and professional services, will spearhead Schellman’s accelerated growth initiatives.

Back in 2018, the French government introduced—by way of its Public Health Code (Article L.1111-8)— HDS certification, mandating that all entities hosting personal health data must successfully achieve certification. Now, in 2024, they’ve published a new HDS framework with changes, expositions, and removals of language that organizations affected will need to know in order to comply.

}Now that the deadline for the CISA Secure Software Development form is quickly approaching, organizations are working to ensure they get their attestation in order—that includes FedRAMP Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).

Perhaps believing they’re simply too small for the government to consider, some smaller healthcare providers will choose to either fly under the radar or hope that regulators of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) won’t notice their lack of correct processes and controls. However, this likely won’t work—in fact, over 55% of HIPAA fines in 2022 were levied against small practices.

TAMPA, Fla. – April 16, 2024 – Schellman, a leading provider of attestation and compliance services and a top 50 CPA firm, is pleased to announce that the firm is now able to support Australia’s Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessments. This milestone marks a significant advancement in the firm’s global capabilities, enabling it to provide comprehensive cybersecurity evaluations tailored to the needs of organizations with an Australian presence.

TAMPA, Fla. – March 19, 2024 – Schellman, a leading provider of attestation and compliance services and a top 50 CPA firm, today announced the appointment of Christopher Kouzios as the company's new Chief Information Officer. With his exceptional expertise in information security initiatives, Kouzios is set to spearhead Schellman's technology initiatives including advancing the firm’s Artificial Intelligence endeavors.