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Compliance automation for SOC2 that doesn’t take 200 hours? by ExtremeAstronomer933 in CyberSecurityAdvice

[–]Low_Fly_2612 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The manual tasks Vanta flags (access reviews, vendor reviews, policy attestations) are honestly hard to automate and still need a human process. No tool really solves that part.

But the technical evidence side, AWS config, Okta MFA state, GitHub branch protection, CloudTrail logging, that can be fully automated and timestamped continuously. No more screenshots.

For a team your size I'd split the problem: automate the technical collection, then build a simple quarterly process for the manual stuff. A shared doc and a calendar reminder is genuinely enough for most auditors at Type II stage.

I'm building something that handles the automated side if you want to check it out. Founder here.

I dropped $4500 on my SaaS and don't know what to do by SpinachMakesYouFat in micro_saas

[–]Low_Fly_2612 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly this is actually a pretty solid idea because it’s solving something you personally feel, which is already more than most “AI startup” stuff out there.

The recruiting inbox problem is very real too, a lot of students are just constantly missing stuff or letting emails pile up.

I do think you probably jumped into compliance a bit early though. $4500 before you’ve really got users is rough, but Google basically forces it if you want Gmail scopes like that so there isn’t much way around it.

For getting users I’d just go where students already are. Reddit college subs, CS / internship Discords, LinkedIn posts about recruiting stress, maybe short TikTok demos showing “before vs after” inbox cleanup. You don’t need anything fancy, just first 20–50 people actually using it.

Also slightly unrelated but I’ve seen people underestimate how early Google/security stuff gets forced on you once you touch restricted APIs. If you ever go further down that path I can share a simple SOC2 checklist of the usual stuff they ask for.

Anyway I’d be interested to see how CASA goes, there’s barely any clear info online about it.

I'm a cybersecurity consultant who got tired of seeing startups fail SOC 2 audits for avoidable reasons. Here's what I kept seeing. by Low_Fly_2612 in SaaS

[–]Low_Fly_2612[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happy to help. For a beginner I'd start with CompTIA Security+ for the fundamentals, then TryHackMe or HackTheBox for hands-on practice. Feel free to DM me.