Compliance framework
A compliance framework is a structured set of guidelines to aggregate, harmonize, and integrate all the compliance requirements that apply to your organization.
In practice, a compliance framework lets you collect documents, policy manuals, procedure descriptions, mission statements, regulatory mandates, and control documentation and meld those into one cohesive whole. A compliance framework brings order to the ceaseless stream of regulatory mandates that rain down on a large organization so that when something new comes along, you have a method for integrating that new requirement into your existing approach to compliance. Compliance frameworks are usually tailored to a specific issue. For example, you might follow one framework to guide your anti-graft compliance, another to guide your data privacy compliance, and a third to guide anti-discrimination compliance. Your compliance program would use those frameworks to measure its progress on all three issues [Shamsuddin, p.15].
A compliance framework is a structured set of guidelines that details an organization's processes for maintaining accordance with established regulations, specifications, or legislation [TechTarget].
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Shamsuddin, Z. (2021). The Certified Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance Specialist. United States: Gafm Academy.