Overcome Your Draining Compliance Process - Episode 212

In this episode the CU Guys explore how automation can streamline compliance processes, cutting costs and time. Discover strategies to reduce manual efforts by up to 50% using a dynamic ROI calculator. Perfect for compliance officers and IT leaders in organizations, this episode reveals how to transform compliance from a drain into a growth advantage. Tune in to learn actionable insights and empower your team with technology-driven solutions.

Episode Transcript:

Today, we're going to talk about organizations that go through compliance and are asking the question, why is our compliance program so draining? What are some of the basics that organizations need to consider in terms of improving their posture, Adam? Well,

When you're talking about organizations going through it and, you know, for the listeners that aren't informed, you know, my first background in security and compliance was literally doing exactly what these companies are struggling with, but it was 20 years ago. And you know, leveraging compliance automation, you know, on your compliance engagements is a huge step forward. A lot of folks are dealing with, oh, God, it's a myriad of things. Dealing with spreadsheets. Somebody gets, somebody, typically somebody, either somebody in IT or somebody in leadership, you know, get some, you know, bug up their ass and they're like, oh, you know, we could just go ahead and build a system that could handle all this stuff. And so they somehow concoct some homegrown thing. I don't know. I've seen it all, man. I've seen access databases. I've seen, you know, you know, coding teams that coded something together to try to hold it all together. I've seen combinations of systems with, you know, drop zones, et cetera. I mean, I've seen it all. And at the end of the day, you know, if you're in the one thing I get to hear from folks is, well, that doesn't, that quote, that doesn't cost us anything. Well, it does. Even if I'm just using spreadsheets, I mean, I'm pissing away and asked on a time that I could, that I could otherwise reclaim, you know, so that's money down the drain.

The other thing you'll think about, they're like, well, we pay for our devs anyway. So, you know, who cares if they're going and doing this? Well, are you, are you more cost effective to have them spending time doing management maintenance on internal systems every time your compliance, you know, compliance standard changes, or are we better off to have them focusing that very valuable time on, oh, I don't know, products and product improvements and things along those lines? I'm pretty sure that your, that your head of, head of product will probably disagree with management on that one, you know, but, you know, that's, that's one of the things that, you know, that's one of the things that, you know, that happens. The, the other side of it is, and, and, and this is just a kind of a different root problem, is it, it, it, it's striking how many folks that are in middle and upper levels of management in an organization that they don't, they just don't know, they don't understand how much, just how much time is getting blown on, you know, blown on engagement. So it's, it's, it's also, you know, it, it, it is a fervent desire to finger air quotes, not spend cash, tends to drive part of it. Meanwhile, the system's actually costing them money.

And the other side is just how much, you know, time we're, you know, kind of just pissing down the drain every time that we've got to go through and do, do our compliance stuff. So those are a couple of the, you know, a couple of the basics that, you know, that folks need to, need to be considering when they're looking at their own compliance. Yeah, as it relates to that, um, so we actually put together a tool.

I'm going to, I'm going to kind of walk, walk folks through it.