1. the action or fact of complying with a wish or command. “the ways in which the state maintains order and compliance”
2. the property of a material of undergoing elastic deformation or (of a gas) change in volume when subjected to an applied force. It is equal to the reciprocal of stiffness.
Compliance activity is generally carried out to confirm that a defined baseline standard of security is reached across the broad scope of an organisation. These baseline standards though do not necessarily ensure that systems, networks and assets meet the level of security required by the organisation or the individual business area, or that the security risk sits within the organisation’s risk appetite. Compliance alone will therefore not provide assurance that the organisation is secure, but rather that the policies and standards have been met. As such, compliance can become a ceiling rather than the baseline.
ASSURANCE, com. law. Insurance. (q.v.)
This is called a common assurance. But the term assurances includes, in an enlarged sense, all instruments which dispose of property, whether they be the grants of private persons, or not; such are fines and recoveries, and private acts of the legislature. Eunom.