Democratizing good privacy and compliance practices

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Just because you’re a startup doesn’t mean you can be careless with the data you’re handling, but enterprise-grade compliance and privacy used to be prohibitively expensive for small teams. This is starting to change. — Anna

Compliance for all

When it comes to selling products and services to enterprise clients, compliance is a requirement for any vendor — including startups.

However, meeting governance, risk and compliance (GRC) standards and proving that you’ve done so used to be very expensive. A new wave of startups that are helping others prepare for compliance audits has cropped up, but entrepreneur Sravish Sridhar thinks that more can be done.