… the company’s compliance trace (i.e. the stream of evidence that is used to assess whether an actor complies with a rule or process, including logs, internal control systems, documentation, …).
This seems like a potentially useful term/concept, but I hadn’t come across it before and there are only 1890 hits on google for “compliance trace”, and none of the hits on the first page seem relevant. Is this a term you’re coining here? Is it a translation of an established term from another language?
(I ask because I had made myself an Anki card to remember the term so I could use it later, but then googled to check your definition was ~the standard one and found that maybe it’s not an established term so people might be confused if I used it.
It is not coming from another language, I just wanted to broaden the concept of “audit trail” (which is much more established) to encompass all of compliance-related items. I also didn’t want to imply it was as sequential/neat as a trail, so I went for trace. I am not a native English speaker so perhaps “trace” is not the right term.
This seems like a potentially useful term/concept, but I hadn’t come across it before and there are only 1890 hits on google for “compliance trace”, and none of the hits on the first page seem relevant. Is this a term you’re coining here? Is it a translation of an established term from another language?
(I ask because I had made myself an Anki card to remember the term so I could use it later, but then googled to check your definition was ~the standard one and found that maybe it’s not an established term so people might be confused if I used it.
It is not coming from another language, I just wanted to broaden the concept of “audit trail” (which is much more established) to encompass all of compliance-related items. I also didn’t want to imply it was as sequential/neat as a trail, so I went for trace. I am not a native English speaker so perhaps “trace” is not the right term.