Cydea

Are you building what's right for your requirements, or just trying to answer an exam question? Compliance-first platforms often treat security as a series of uninteresting "yes/no" checks. It is very cookie-cutter. They do the thing that gets the check early, but they treat risk as an afterthought. Cydea focuses on the interesting stuff. We focus on what you need specifically for your organisation to make a difference. If you identify the right things, put them in place, and govern them, the compliance should just be a check to say that you've done it right.

Are you treating compliance as just a mandatory purchase? Many organisations buy a platform, stare at an old fashioned 5x5 matrix, and get stuck doing yes/no checks. You might get a green check on a dashboard, but you aren't doing proper risk management. At Cydea we approach this starting from the risk perspective. We offer true risk quantification in pounds/pence or dollars/cents. If you are doing good risk management, compliance naturally follows. It is just a check to say you've done it right.

Is your compliance platform just a tax? Many heavily funded compliance-first platforms essentially act as a tax. The value exchange is simple: spend with them, they give you the badges, and you use those to sell enterprise deals. And we get it, no one wants to be non-compliant. But how do you know you are doing the right things to prevent issues for your business? How do you reduce your exposure? We believe that if you are doing risk management properly, the compliance aspect simply becomes a final check to confirm that you have done things right.

Has your GRC platform promised you "compliance on autopilot"? That's an easy promise for a startup with 10 laptops, but for established businesses, integrating and automating all your technology is often impossible. Instead of autopilot, you get stuck in an implementation loop from hell, where most organisations only automate between 20% and 50% of their checks. Also, do you get a clear picture of your risk? Our approach is different: we believe that if you properly identify the right risks, put the correct treatments in place, and actively govern and manage them, compliance will naturally follow.

Is your compliance platform just a tax? Many heavily funded compliance-first platforms essentially act as a tax. The value exchange is simple: spend with them, they give you the badges, and you use those to sell enterprise deals. And we get it, no one wants to be non-compliant. But how do you know you are doing the right things to prevent issues for your business? How do you reduce your exposure? We believe that if you are doing risk management properly, the compliance aspect simply becomes a final check to confirm that you have done things right.

Are you treating compliance as just a mandatory purchase? Many organisations buy a platform, stare at an old fashioned 5x5 matrix, and get stuck doing yes/no checks. You might get a green check on a dashboard, but you aren't doing proper risk management. At Cydea we approach this starting from the risk perspective. We offer true risk quantification in pounds/pence or dollars/cents. If you are doing good risk management, compliance naturally follows. It is just a check to say you've done it right.