The Schellman Blog

If your organization is pursuing ISO 27701 certification, you may face unforeseen challenges that can potentially slow down the entire process. Many times, they just crop up suddenly, derailing your hopes of providing privacy assurances to your customers (at least temporarily). As an ISO Certification Body, Schellman has performed countless 27701 certification assessments over the years, and our clients have encountered some of the same gaps many times over. Now, we want to help you avoid them.

If you know the game of football, you know that the quarterback runs the show. He calls the plays, reads the defense, and leads the team—that position is often considered the primary factor in a team’s success. You won’t win the game if the QB doesn’t perform.

According to the United States Department of Transportation, more than 50% of the combined total of fatal and injury crashes occur at or near intersections. It makes sense then for drivers to take special care when navigating these spots on the road.

If you’re running a business online, you’re likely providing an application program interface (API) on your website that allows your customers or business partners to enter and retrieve data. At Schellman, we primarily see REST-based APIs, but we’ve also tested GraphQL and occasionally SOAP.

Ever seen those jugglers that manage to balance multiple spinning plates at the same time? As impressive as it is, you figure you’d be happy to spin just the one plate successfully. For cloud service providers (CSPs), you have lots of different proverbial compliance “plates” to choose to channel your effort into—the trick is knowing the differences and which is best for you.

If you hadn’t heard, NASA’s Artemis Program—the first endeavor to go back to the moon in 50 years—has stalled a bit. Though the new rocket—known as the Space Launch System—has been in the works for years, even now that it’s out on the pad and seemingly ready, the agency is taking its time to launch. That’s because NASA knows how high the stakes are—there are billions of dollars invested and their reputation as space explorers of the future is on the line.

Famed baseball player and possessor of a great name, Yogi Berra, once said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

If you don’t already play, a basic game of darts starts you with a sum of points. The idea is to hit spots on the board worth more points that you’ll subtract from your starting total, with the bullseye being worth the biggest deduction. The player who reaches zero first wins.