Have you ever had a conversation where it seemed like you were both talking past each other instead of actually communicating? Chances are you were using different definitions or meanings of the terms used in your conversation that the other person just didn't understand, and you probably didn't understand them.

There is a great line from the movie "The Princess Bride" when one character keeps using the word inconceivable repeatedly. Another character finally says, "I do not think that word means what you think it means," which captures the essence of this challenge.

Unless we use the same words to mean the same things, it's hard to communicate and practically impossible to establish a framework for compliance and communication in your organization.

What do the various regulations mean when they say this or that? What do we, our team, others in the organization mean when we write this or that in our policies, standards, and procedures? Join us to discuss "Custom Corporate Dictionaries." on January 20 at 10:00 am, pacific time. https://theucf.info/webinar/012022

Ever wanted to have a dictionary just for the terms your organization uses and how you use the terms? That's what we are building. And that's what we are showing in this webinar.

The Corporate Dictionary MVP is a no-code template that you can edit or use as is, allowing users to compile their own dictionaries and term lists from several sources, including the federated dictionary, the UCF's Compliance Dictionary, Merriam Webster, and the Oxford English Dictionary.

In this webinar, we will break down this tool into several sections, and we will be covering each during the webinar:
Search allows you to search multiple dictionaries, examine definitions and term relationships, and select the terms you would like to add to your corporate dictionary or term lists.
Term Frequencies shows you how often terms you search for are found within the various corpora you have.
Concordance shows you a Key Word In Context (KWIC) view of the terms in the various corpora you have.
Create/Edit Terms allows you to create new terms, definitions, and relationships or edit existing ones.
Manage Corpora allows you to manage the files you'll bring in containing examples for your terms.

Be a part of the future of compliance as code!

Alpha Testing this MVP tool

This webinar will be followed immediately by a Zoom meeting with our CTO; Sean Kohler, focused on alpha testing this MVP.
If you would like to join, click HERE or go to https://theucf.info/CaC/alphatest/meeting]for the invite.

If you missed the prior webinars, here are the links to the recordings so you can catch up:
September 16, 2021: Introduction to Compliance as Code https://theucf.info/Oct21PresoLink
October 14, 2021: Compliance as CodeBase Application Introduction https://theucf.info/webinar/recording/101421
November 18, 2021: Person and Organization Disambiguation https://theucf.info/webinar/recording/111821
December 16, 2021: PlantUML https://theucf.info/webinar/recording/121621

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The world of Compliance as Code offers you the structures to read, interpret, and output compliance requirements in human and machine-readable formats simultaneously. It also allows us to standardize our responses to these requirements concurrently in human and machine-readable formats. And this is really helpful when considering things like activity flows, diagrams, and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) that historically have only been visually readable by humans, making updating and auditing these very difficult. Now you can use tools like PlantUML to create quickly, edit and audit your JSON and YAML files in our Compliance as Code initiative. PlantUML is an open-source tool allowing you to create diagrams from plain text language.

On December 16, 2021, at 10:00 am pacific time, went through how to create PlantUML diagrams as code and how that works by giving you a no-code template to try it out! Be a part of the future of compliance as code! Watch Now

During this webinar, we will be discussing identification:

* Create activity flow, diagrams, and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) that your team can easily edit.
* Easily create a visualization of your JSON or YAML files.
* Have machine and human-readable documents that can easily be audited

This webinar will be followed immediately by a Zoom meeting with our CTO, Sean Kohler, focused on alpha testing this MVP.
If you would like to join, click HERE  or go to: https://theucf.info/CaC/alphatest/meeting for the invite.

If you missed the prior webinars, here are the links to the recordings so you can catch up:
September 16, 2021: Introduction to Compliance as Code https://theucf.info/Oct21PresoLink
October 14, 2021: Compliance as Code Base Application Introduction https://theucf.info/webinar/recording/101421
November 18, 2021: Person and Organization Disambiguation https://theucf.info/webinar/recording/111821

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Compliance as Code (CAC): No-Code access has begun, but you can't play unless you share who's playing.

The world of Compliance as Code offers us all a chance to contribute, but before you can contribute, you have to identify who is contributing!
Just like you need to know your users in projects such as the OSN Skills Network, NIST's CyberSecurity community, the UCF's Roles database, Jooble, O*NET, ComplianceDictionary.com, WordNIK, etc., all allow either identified persons or identified organizations to make direct contributions to their content.

Notice that we said "identified" up there? That's because when contributing to each of these projects, the project needs to know who (person or organization) the contributor is. They can't rely on "Joe Schmoe" or "Sally Sidewalk" without knowing which Joe or Sally they are referencing.

Same thing for your organization. If you are contributing to shared content, your own organization will need to track you, too. Organization is essential to building Secure Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and Software IDs (SWIDs), as each organization's name is a part of the file name associated with the STIG or SWID. Having disambiguated organizations is a key security element for those files and is part of the CAC No-Code movement.

We presented "Person and Organization Disambiguation," our third webinar series, where we discussed how each person and organization is disambiguated and how that works by giving you a no-code template to try! That way, you can fully contribute to the Compliance as Code movement! Don't be left out! The webinar was on November 18, 2021, at 10:00 AM in Pacific Time. Be a part of the future of compliance as code!

If you would like to watch it, click HERE for the link.

Here is what we will cover regarding identification:
1. How to go from a read-only User to a disambiguated Person who can contribute to content.
2. How to submit changes related to Organization or Persons and submit that back to the federated database.

If you missed the prior webinars, here are the links to the recordings so you can catch up:
September 16, 2021: Introduction to Compliance as Code
October 14, 2021: Compliance as Code Base Application Introduction

Remember to contribute and comply; you must identify!

This webinar was followed immediately by a Zoom meeting with our CTO, Sean Kohler focused on alpha testing this MVP. The link was provided at the end of the webinar for you to join or you could have clicked HERE at that time.

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