Interesting that the author (and "the others in his network") seem to only be concerned about the complete illegitimacy of their certs when they were already exposed and now they want to stand up and say they are the good guys for "exposing" Delve.
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#102A lot of startups move fast with a small team. You build something great and big corporation X wants to buy a subscription but you need to be certified. Much of this is a good checklist but some of it is very european. "Where is the risk register to track controls in your 7 person company?" Now instead of doing what your team does best, you are doing paperwork theater for frameworks designed for a 100,000 employee en…
Maybe you suouldn't be hacking due diligence if your team isn't ready for it
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#103A lot of startups move fast with a small team. You build something great and big corporation X wants to buy a subscription but you need to be certified. Much of this is a good checklist but some of it is very european. "Where is the risk register to track controls in your 7 person company?" Now instead of doing what your team does best, you are doing paperwork theater for frameworks designed for a 100,000 employee en…
What is the purpose of a business though? To make profits for its owners. If the profit lies in doing all this corporate theater then that's the business. A company that focuses only on providing a service and product but ignores how their customer needs to use said service and product is going to go out of business.
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#104A lot of startups move fast with a small team. You build something great and big corporation X wants to buy a subscription but you need to be certified. Much of this is a good checklist but some of it is very european. "Where is the risk register to track controls in your 7 person company?" Now instead of doing what your team does best, you are doing paperwork theater for frameworks designed for a 100,000 employee en…
Exactly this. But my question here is also: is there not a competitive advantage to a big enterprise that applies standards in a more intelligent way? You have a SaaS, I have a Fortune 500 company that could use your product but I cannot use it because my procurement process is as long and winding ad the Road to Hana. In the meantime my competitor has a smarter procurement process that takes into account the impact and risk involved in renting your software. Don’t they get a competitive advantage over me by having a better process and as a result getting better vendors?
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#105> the price quickly dropped to just $6,000 when they realized we were serious about going elsewhere, and they would throw in ISO 27001 and a 200 hour penetration test as well.
I'm sorry, but... $6,000 / 200 == $30 / hour? Just assuming the value of the actual certifications is $zero?
Wouldn't that raise some serious red flags?
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#106A lot of startups move fast with a small team. You build something great and big corporation X wants to buy a subscription but you need to be certified. Much of this is a good checklist but some of it is very european. "Where is the risk register to track controls in your 7 person company?" Now instead of doing what your team does best, you are doing paperwork theater for frameworks designed for a 100,000 employee en…
I’ve found CIS Controls v8.1 to be good and sane, with actual benefits to security. Level 1 is a solid base, and Level 2 is good for picking from depending on where risks exist in your business.
CIS Benchmarks are worth a look too: They’re best practices for securing typical cloud platforms, SaaS and OS.
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#107Question: how likely is it that a number of 20-year olds have the passion of solving the problem of compliance auditing? I can hardly imagine that I'd even be interested in taking a look at the domain. It's just... so mundane. Or maybe the alpha-type overachievers don't care about the domain but the opportunity?
I wonder if it's almost like a new version of management consulting. You hire/invest in a bunch of smart 20-somethings who seem generally intelligent with the idea that they'll "disrupt" an industry with their from-first principles approach. Do the 23 year old McKinsey consultants particularly care about their work? No, but the McKinsey name is a fast way to gain clout and access to executives. Ditto the YC name
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#108> the price quickly dropped to just $6,000 when they realized we were serious about going elsewhere, and they would throw in ISO 27001 and a 200 hour penetration test as well. I'm sorry, but... $6,000 / 200 == $30 / hour? Just assuming the value of the actual certifications is $zero? Wouldn't that raise some serious red flags?
$6000 for both SOC 2 and ISO 27001 with Pen tests ? lol. I paid over $8k just for ISO 27001 for our small company and have been quoted a lot more for SOC 2.
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#109A lot of startups move fast with a small team. You build something great and big corporation X wants to buy a subscription but you need to be certified. Much of this is a good checklist but some of it is very european. "Where is the risk register to track controls in your 7 person company?" Now instead of doing what your team does best, you are doing paperwork theater for frameworks designed for a 100,000 employee en…
Exactly this. But my question here is also: is there not a competitive advantage to a big enterprise that applies standards in a more intelligent way? You have a SaaS, I have a Fortune 500 company that could use your product but I cannot use it because my procurement process is as long and winding ad the Road to Hana. In the meantime my competitor has a smarter procurement process that takes into account the impact a…
Unfortunately in most cases the buyers have way more liability/risk using a small vendor than opportunity. Often this is coming from regulators in certain industries.
In scenarios where the company REALLY REALLY wants to buy the SaaS, they often will invest in the company, one of the reasons for which being to ensure they have the resources to go through all the red tape.
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#110Compliance isn't that hard once you stop looking for shortcuts and start spending time doing it correctly.
AWS is probably the best actual CaaS vendor out there. They have a product offering expressly designed to help their customers get through this jungle:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/artifact/latest/ug/what-is-aws-a...
You are still responsible for everything on top of what AWS provides (software/configuration/policy), but their compliance package handles a massive portion of what you would otherwise have to do if you were on-prem. Physical security, hardware management, disaster recovery, et. al., you get essentially "for free".