By: Scott Schwan and Matt Wells Today we made two very exciting new product announcements. Both are a direct result of what we wish was available while we were responsible for preparing for major audits for 10+ years together, most recently at Starbucks. First, we announced the immediate availability of our new AuditX SaaS platform…
By: Scott Schwan Today we announced that three new proven entrepreneurial executives have joined Shujinko. Jason Kelleghan has joined Shujinko as our first VP of Sales, Rick Harwood as our first VP of Engineering, and Brett Goodwin as our first VP of Marketing. Rather than rehash the press release, which you can read here, I…
In 2020, all IT, security, and engineering teams have to get more done with fewer resources. On top of facing a higher number of cyberattacks and dealing with remote working headaches, these teams will have to help their leaders prepare for at least three security compliance audits in the next year. Without automation, these audits…
By: Scott Schwan Not so long ago, CIOs might have struggled to persuade CEOs to move to the cloud. Not anymore. Thomas Siebel, the founder of Siebel Systems, has observed a major shift in the way CEOs approach technology. Previously the CEO would have been only peripherally involved with IT decisions. “What I’m seeing…
On June 17th, 2020, Shujinko’s cofounders, Scott Schwan and Matt Wells, gave a 45 minute webinar on their key learnings from the DevOps Culture Shift. They discussed the impact on the security and compliance community, and how we as IS audit, control, and security professionals need to collaborate through this major shift in the way…
By: Scott Schwan As some of you may know or are in the process of learning, SOC 2 audits can be an overwhelming effort, especially for a startup who is focused on higher priorities, like building a company from the ground up. However, the potential tradeoffs in just ignoring SOC 2 is that it becomes…
By: John Vrionis and Haley Daiber According to The Financial Times Group, 57% of senior-level executives rank “risk and compliance” as one of the top two risk categories they feel least prepared to address and yet, less than three-quarters (69%) of organizations are leveraging technology to support their compliance initiatives, reports KPMG.
Matt Wells About a year ago, my co-founder Scott Schwan and I had just closed the Seed Round for our company Shujinko with the vision to make it faster and easier for CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs to build secure, compliant cloud environments. As first time founders, we were thrilled with this accomplishment, but we also…