🎙 New VRC Podcast Episode:
Compliance 2025 Review — And What’s Next

As 2025 wraps up, Rob and Dawn sat down to look back at what actually changed this year and what’s coming fast in 2026. In this new episode of the VRC Podcast, they unpack the big shifts in compliance without the jargon, and share practical ways to reset your program before year-end.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• The most important 2025 takeaways for security and compliance teams

• Why training proof and policy attestations matter more than ever

• A smarter way to think about year-end checklists and “receipts”

• What’s next for HIPAA, AI risk, and frameworks like ISO, SOC 2, and HITRUST

🎧 Tune in and share it with your team:

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Your 2025 Security & Compliance Scorecard

As the year winds down, leadership doesn’t need another 30-page report. They need a snapshot to answer a simple question:

“Are we where we said we’d be on security and compliance going into 2026?”

That’s what your 2025 Security & Compliance Scorecard is for: crisp facts, clear owners, and visible next steps. No jargon, no bloat, just receipts you can show to executives, customers, and auditors.

A One-Page Story Leadership Can Act On

The weeks before the holidays are when decisions get made about budgets, renewals, and priorities for Q1. An effective scorecard is backed by facts. Your security and compliance efforts must be tested. Tabletop exercises provide clear proof of strength and identify vulnerabilities. Providing leadership with a provable status update becomes a scorecard of strength.

Instead, walk in with a one-page scorecard that shows:

• What’s actually implemented (not just “in progress”)

• Where the biggest risks live

• Who owns each action and by when

• What proof you already have on file

You’re not just reporting—you’re giving leadership a decision tool.

The One-Page Scorecard Blueprint

Think of your scorecard as four tight sections plus an optional customer-facing summary.

1. Identity & Access

Start with access, because most modern incidents do.

Keep it to a few metrics and yes/no answers:

• MFA coverage (%). What percentage of your workforce and high-risk roles (admins, finance, PHI handlers) are protected with MFA?
  

• Passkeys pilot. Are you piloting passkeys? Note who is in scope and whether it’s planned or active.
  

• Offboarding SLA adherence. Are accounts being deprovisioned on time when people leave or change roles? Keep this to a simple yes/no with known exceptions logged.

The goal here is not perfection, it’s clarity. If leadership sees MFA at 98%, a live passkeys pilot, and confirmed offboarding controls, they’ll know you’re serious about access.

2. Training & Policies

Show whether your people and paperwork are actually up to date.

Include:

• Security/privacy training completion rate. Show the current completion % and whether make-up sessions are already scheduled before year-end.
  

• Policy attestation status. Highlight key policies (e.g., Information Security, Acceptable Use, HIPAA, AI use) and whether staff have verified to the current versions with dates.

You don’t need a 10-page narrative. A single line like:

“Security & privacy training: 96% complete; last make-up sessions scheduled for Dec 15.”

…tells leadership everything they need to know.

3. Resilience

Then prove you’re not just trying to prevent incidents—you’re prepared to recover.

Focus on:

• Last restore test. Date, result (pass/fail or “issues found, now fixed”), and a note that you have screenshots or logs saved as evidence.
  

• Backup posture. A quick checklist:
  

  • Encrypted? ✅ / ❌

  • Immutable copies in place? ✅ / ❌

  • Retention and scope revalidated this year? ✅ / ❌

This is where your scorecard quietly says, “If something goes wrong, we’ve already practiced getting back up.”

Top 3 Risks (Front and Center)

Your scorecard should highlight the Top 3 Risks in a way leadership can read in seconds.

Use a simple line format:

Short title → Owner → Due date → Evidence target

Examples:

• “Legacy VPN access → IT Security → Jan 31, 2026 → Decommission checklist + access logs”

• “Outdated BAA templates → Legal → Feb 15, 2026 → New templates + signed examples”

Three is enough. If everything is “top priority,” nothing is.

Customer-Facing Highlights (Optional, But Powerful)

If you regularly face customer security reviews, this section can double as your sales-friendly summary.

Keep it high-level:

• Privacy choices honored. “We’ve implemented consent and preference handling for [key channels/regions].”
  

• Attestations & standards. “We currently maintain [HIPAA readiness, SOC 2, ISO 27001:2022 progress, HITRUST path] with mapped controls.”
  

• Incident readiness. “We have documented incident response playbooks, a tested restore, and defined RTO/RPO targets.”
  

• Building Secure Trust. Don't shy away from client discussions that showcase pro-active ongoing efforts and partnerships with focused professionals to strengthen security and privacy efforts.

This gives your commercial teams a simple message: “Yes, we’re doing the work and here’s proof you can share.”

Pro Tips: Make It Easy to Read (and Reuse)

The magic is in the packaging:

• Screenshots > prose. A screenshot of your MFA report, backup settings, or training dashboard beats another paragraph every time.
  

• Filename discipline. Use names that sort and make sense later, like:

  • 2025-12 Security-Compliance Scorecard.pdf

  • 2025-12 MFA-Coverage Screenshot.png
    

• Same template every year. Reuse the same one-page layout so trends are easy to spot year over year.

Your future self (and your next auditor) will thank you.

From Raw Effort to a Scorecard Leadership Can Trust

Every team is already doing some of this work—enabling MFA, running training, testing restores, reviewing policies. The real unlock is pulling it into a single, clean view that leadership can scan in five minutes and use to support budgets, roadmap decisions, and sales conversations.

Turning Work Into a Scorecard Leadership Trusts

We turn your work into a scorecard that speaks leadership’s language.

• Structure and template. VanRein Compliance helps you design a one-page Security & Compliance Scorecard tailored to your industry, frameworks, and maturity level.
  

• Evidence, not promises. We map your existing work (MFA, training, backups, policies, audits) into clear metrics and screenshots you can reuse across audits, renewals, and security questionnaires.

Aligned with the frameworks you care about. HIPAA, NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001/2022, HITRUST, and state privacy laws presented in one coherent story instead of scattered documents.

Close 2025 With Receipts, Not Noise

When you pull identity, training, resilience, top risks, and customer-facing highlights into a single, consistent scorecard, you give everyone the same picture of where you stand. Leadership can see what’s done, what’s at risk, and what’s coming next without digging through a dozen reports. Your team walks into 2026 with a shared story, clear owners, and evidence that your security and compliance program isn’t just busy—it’s working.

Partner with VanRein Compliance to turn your 2025 work into a scorecard leadership can back with budget, commitments, and trust. Reach out to us via VRC1 if you’re an existing client or book a Discovery Call now if you’re new to get your 2025 scorecard finished before year-end.

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