Episode 10 - Vasanth Madhure: A Security Compliance Expert, With Over 25 Years of Experience Working With Fortune 100 Companies Ensuring That Compliance is a Business Enabler and not a Disruption!

An industry leader with over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, starting his career in Bangalore, India, soon moving to the UK for a couple of years, before moving on to California, US, where we have resided for the past 20 years, he’s worked in 3 continents helping full-proof Fortune 100 companies and get them safe and secure. From legacy systems to full-fledged automation systems, he’s seen it all. Our guest today is Vasanth Madhure.

From starting out in the 90s, security didn't seem like a big thing to him, with the development across business and digitization, technology being everywhere, and with that came the risk of security.

He didn’t look to go into security compliance, but he got drawn in by being an honest and straight up guy who likes to conform with all the laws and regulations. 

He speaks of compliance and not being an option but being a mandatory requirement, if you're not complying, your business more than likely will not survive as a company.

Not only just being compliant, but constantly adapting to ever-evolving changes in the world and regulatory landscape, Vasanth details that we need to stay abreast of changes that happen and respond with policies, controls, and certifications that keep us safe and secure. Security compliance is a business enabler and has to be at the forefront of any organization's journey. 

Here’s Vasanth view on challenges and solutions that can help organizations get and stay compliant.

• Without executives supporting the security compliance effort, security teams can make much headway into their initiatives – it has to be all hands on deck.

• Availability of security professionals available in the company, for example, if the product team is doing the compliance efforts, it becomes difficult as that is not their part of their core skills. 

• How do companies purse which compliance framework is relevant and who can help guide them through their roadmap. 

• So much work has to be done manually, unless you have an unlimited amount of resources, automation has to be a key part of your approach. 

This episode is all about technology and understanding what controls are best to implement to combat risk and ensure security compliance – bottom line, stay relevant and up to date on security.