Riscosity's Unstoppable Security Journey: Doubling Down on Trust with Akitra Compliance Automation Platform for SOC 2 Type II
Partnership with Akitra Continues to Elevate Customer Confidence and Operational Excellence.
Riscosity, a leading player in the data security platform realm, recognized the critical importance of regulatory compliance in fostering trust and confidence among its diverse clientele. With a commitment to upholding the highest data security standards, Riscosity embarked on a journey to achieve SOC 2 Type II attestation, seeking a streamlined and efficient approach to compliance. Partnering with Akitra, a trusted compliance automation platform, Riscosity navigated the complexities of the compliance landscape with precision and agility.
The Challenge
The top priority of Riscosity is data security, especially customer data. Ensuring data protection is crucial with a broad customer base across various industries like finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and education. They needed a robust compliance framework to validate and showcase their commitment to data security.
Customer Trust: With a growing portfolio, Riscosity needed to meet various compliance expectations across different industries and demonstrate customer trust. The company needed to adhere to stringent compliance standards like SOC 2.
Highly Regulated Environment: Operating in a regulated setting, Riscosity faced the critical need to ensure data security in alignment with industry standards.
Manual Approach Inefficiencies: Riscosity struggled with the traditional manual compliance process, which posed challenges in document management, responsiveness to audit requirements, and overall efficiency. Jackson Harrower, Chief of Staff at Riscosity, highlighted this, mentioning the need for “Having a strong partner who can streamline the process of showing that to the auditors and keeping everything organized.”
Akitra’s platform allowed us to demonstrate the strength of our policies and controls properly. Having a strong partner like Akitra streamlines the compliance process.
Jackson Harrower
Chief of Staff, Riscosity
Akitra's Solution
To overcome these challenges, Riscosity turned to Akitra. It provided robust features for policy and control definitions, continuous monitoring, and software vendor management, allowing Riscosity to manage its compliance requirements efficiently. Partnering with Akitra, Jackson Harrower, Chief of Staff at Riscosity, stated, “Akitra is a great platform with strong tech support and leadership. A trusted partner that we look forward to continued collaboration.”
Prompt Responsiveness and Support: Akitra remains receptive to improvement suggestions and new feature additions, and the team provided invaluable guidance and support throughout the process, ensuring the robustness of Riscosity’s policies and controls.
Efficient Software Vendor Management and Intuitive Interface: Akitra assists Riscosity in tracking and ensuring compliance within their vendor ecosystem. Its user-friendly interface made navigating and managing compliance tasks easier for Riscosity’s team.
Robust Policy and Control Definitions: Akitra’s platform offered robust features for defining and managing policies and controls, crucial for adherence to compliance standards.
The Result
Riscosity obtained crucial compliance attestation, strengthening its commitment to data security and customer trust. The collaboration with Akitra yielded tangible results for Riscosity:
Attestation, Confidence, and Credibility: The attestation enhances Riscosity’s unwavering commitment to data security, industry credibility and instills strong confidence in existing and potential customers.
Effortless Compliance Management: The interface and streamlined workflows redefine the landscape of compliance management for Riscosity. Tasks like policy tracking and control monitoring get effortlessly executed, enhancing overall operational efficiency.
Data Security Reinvented: Akitra’s continuous compliance approach revolutionizes Riscosity’s data security measures. Through automated monitoring and policy enforcement, it helps Riscosity mitigate data breaches and non-compliance risks.
Operational Agility: Akitra’s automation delivers Riscosity operational agility reducing manual tasks substantially. This efficiency directly translates into substantial cost savings, empowering Riscosity to focus on strategic business priorities.
We strive for excellence, whether it’s our own efforts or those of our partners. Working with a strong partner like Akitra ensures thoroughness, efficiency, and cost savings, leaving no room for doubt and ensuring things are done right.
