How CloudSEK reduced compliance busywork and expanded business across geographies with Scrut

CONTEXT 

Why compliance became core to CloudSEK’s growth

CloudSEK helps organizations detect cyber threats by monitoring external signals, owned infrastructure, and supply-chain dependencies, then quantifying that risk so CISOs can justify security decisions in business terms. For a company built around proactive security, compliance could not remain an informal or fragmented process. It had to translate best practices into repeatable action and help reinforce customer trust.

As a security-first vendor, CloudSEK holds itself to the same standard it expects from every partner. Compliance with frameworks like ISO and GDPR isn’t just a sales requirement; it’s how they prove their own security posture to highly skeptical, security-conscious buyers. They needed a way to turn best-practice controls into consistent, repeatable steps without drowning their teams in manual tracking and busywork.

CHALLENGES 

When compliance coordination started creating avoidable friction

1. Compliance work scattered across teams and spreadsheets: Compliance involved security, HR, legal, and engineering, but most of the work was tracked manually. That created duplication of effort, missed updates, and unclear ownership for who was supposed to do what and by when.

2. Managing overlapping frameworks without a central system: CloudSEK was working with multiple frameworks where requirements overlapped, but there was no single place to manage controls, tasks, and evidence across frameworks, making coordination unnecessarily painful.

3. Heavy lift for recurring audits and evidence collection: Quarterly audit updates meant chasing recurring tasks across teams, manually tracking completion, and hunting for evidence in multiple tools and folders. The process was slow, error-prone, and a drag on the security and compliance teams.

4. Scaling security training and vendor diligence at speed: Running security awareness training across the whole company and tracking who had completed what was hard to manage at scale. At the same time, evaluating vendors and reviewing their full audit trail was cumbersome, despite CloudSEK needing every vendor to meet a high security bar.

‍5. Compliance had to support expansion into more regulated markets: As CloudSEK expanded beyond APAC, requirements such as GDPR became increasingly important for engaging Europe-facing and regulated buyers.

SOLUTION

Running compliance, training, and third-party workflows in one system

How CloudSEK used Scrut to centralize controls, automate recurring work, and reduce friction with vendors and customers.

Centralized compliance management across frameworks and teams

CloudSEK used the Scrut Platform to run compliance as an ongoing process, not as a pile of documents that only gets touched during audits. They moved policy management and evidence tracking into the platform so the team could store proof as they went and pull it quickly when needed. They also used the Scrut Platform to manage their quarterly audit update cycle. Recurring audit tasks were tracked inside Scrut, and the usual cross-team status collection (HR, legal, engineering) shifted from manual follow-ups to platform-driven tracking and automation, so the same quarterly work didn’t have to be rebuilt from scratch every time. To make this workable inside their day-to-day operations, CloudSEK set up integrations with their cloud provider and ticketing tool during onboarding. Scrut’s documentation and exposed APIs were clear enough that integrations were configured early in the process and fully connected within days, without turning implementation into a separate project.

Scaling security training without adding coordination overhead

CloudSEK used the Scrut Platform’s pre-built security training materials and customizable workflow to run awareness programs across the whole company (not just the compliance team), without turning reminders and tracking into someone’s daily job. Before Scrut, the challenge was never convincing people that training mattered. It was managing the logistics at scale: assigning training, following up with employees, tracking completion, and showing evidence of participation without turning it into a manual coordination exercise. With Scrut, CloudSEK could drive more active participation, automate the reminder-heavy follow-up that used to be manual, and manage the program with far less effort from the compliance team. Scrut also gave the security team clearer visibility into training progress, participation, and evidence, making it easier to track completion and maintain a stronger compliance culture at scale.

Reduce friction in vendor reviews and customer trust workflows

Scrut gave CloudSEK a centralized way to manage vendor onboarding within its broader compliance operations. Instead of handling third-party reviews separately, the team could review vendors, validate audit trails, and check required controls in the same platform used for policy and evidence management. That made vendor oversight easier to run and more consistent. CloudSEK also used Scrut’s Trust Center to handle customer security and compliance requests with less back-and-forth. Rather than recreating answers for every request, the team could share the right compliance information through a more consistent and repeatable process.

IMPACT 

How Scrut reduced compliance overhead and strengthened growth readiness

1. Expansion into compliance-driven markets became easier to support: As CloudSEK expanded beyond APAC, requirements like GDPR became essential for engaging Europe-facing and regulated buyers, including organizations in government and BFSI. Managing those processes in Scrut made that progression smoother. 
2. Vendor risk checks became less painful: By making vendor onboarding and control validation easier to manage, Scrut helped CloudSEK run a stronger due diligence process and build greater confidence in the vendors it approved.‍
3. Client trust was reinforced by a more disciplined compliance posture: For CloudSEK, compliance is not separate from security credibility. Scrut helped turn best practices into more consistent operational steps, which supported internal posture while also reinforcing trust with customers looking for proof of compliance maturity.

“The team at Scrut really ensured that every single user became comfortable with the product. Multiple guided sessions during onboarding made it easy for us to use all the features we needed.”

— Anuj Sharma, Security Consultant & Researcher, CloudSEK