Safeguarding Consumer, Community—and your Company’s Future
Compliance is a crucial concern for your company, whatever its size and whatever industry you’re in. Yet it’s an area that business owners don’t always understand fully. And unfortunately, being out of compliance can have costly ramifications.
First, what is compliance?
Very simply, compliance refers to being in accordance with established regulations and guidelines—and to the process of getting in line with those specifications. It means ensuring that your organization and employees follow all applicable laws, standards, and ethical practices for your business and industry.
What’s somewhat less simple is that regulations are constantly evolving and expanding. That makes it critical for your company to stay fully abreast of current requirements—especially as new technologies like AI become part of everyday operations.
There are two main types of compliance: Corporate and Regulatory. Each type has its own framework of regulations, rules, controls, practices, and processes that provide security, protect digital assets, minimize risk, set standards, increase accountability and transparency, and so forth.
Corporate compliance refers to how a business makes sure they’re following their own internal compliance structure. This includes the company’s standards and measures of quality assurance, ethics, code of conduct, best practices, and more.
Regulatory compliance deals with adherence to regulations required by law—legislation and legal mandates from governing bodies that apply to your industry.
The general public is familiar with some compliance regulations on the consumer end because we encounter them in daily life, such as when we sign the privacy statement in a doctor’s office or are alerted that a website is using “cookies.”
Examples of prominent compliance agencies and legislation include:
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 / HIPAA Title II: Protects privacy of patient data; ensures confidentiality; mandates standardization of electronic health records systems.
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): EU data privacy legislation to protect consumers.
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Protects shareholders and the public from fraud and accounting issues; regulates how business records are stored in IT systems.
- CAN-SPAM Act of 2003: Regulates use of commercial email.
- Dodd-Frank Act: Transparency and accountability regulations for banks.
- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS): Ensures security of credit/debit/cash card transactions.
- Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA): Protects data / reduces risk by requiring federal agencies to review information security programs annually.
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): Establishes regulations to protect worker health and safety in the U.S., since 1971.
IT & AI Compliance
Information Technology compliance typically includes requirements under both Regulatory and Corporate categories. Applicable laws vary from business to business depending on:
- the technologies your industry relies on,
- your specific digital security requirements, and
- the standards your customers expect from you.
With AI now embedded into customer support, analytics, operations, healthcare, finance, and more, AI compliance has become a key part of IT compliance. Organizations must ensure AI systems are:
- transparent and auditable,
- secure and privacy-forward,
- trained and deployed responsibly, and
- aligned with applicable regulations and internal ethical standards.
Proper IT and AI compliance protects the organization, maintains efficiency, prevents breaches, avoids penalties, and safeguards vital customer data.
Compliance Audits: Why They Matter
A compliance audit is a periodic, comprehensive review that assesses how well a business is meeting legal and operational compliance standards. Failing an audit indicates gaps in security systems and protocols. Beyond lost trust and reputation, being out of compliance can lead to:
- fines and legal exposure,
- expensive internal remediation,
- painful downtime, and
- heightened monitoring by federal agencies.
Custom Enterprise Software Built for You
At Lukasa, we’re experienced in a wide variety of technical frameworks. Working alongside your team to understand your business deeply, we build Custom Enterprise Software Built for You—modern, unified solutions that keep your systems integrated, agile, future-proof, and compliant.
Whether you’re adopting AI, modernizing legacy infrastructure, or scaling secure digital platforms, we help you:
- stay aligned with evolving regulations,
- protect your users and your data,
- reduce risk and operational drag, and
- accelerate growth, productivity, efficiency, and profitability.
In short: we make compliance a strength—not a bottleneck.
