How Bizongo saves hours every quarter on compliance reporting and regulatory audits with Sprinto
Founded in 2015, Bizongo is one of India’s leading growth-enablement platforms, offering enterprises and vendor businesses end-to-end digitization of their supply chains. Bizongo develops B2B platforms for raw material procurement, vendor digitization, supply chain financing, and ESG scorecards. Tapping into AI, Bizongo has recently expanded its servcies to include innovative AI-enabled solutions to support marketing teams.
Key requirements
- Transform compliance practices to eliminate the shortcomings of manual efforts.
- Quickly and accurately complete complex regulatory and internal audit requirements without errors or exceptions.
Sprinto solution
- Integration-first compliance tracking and management, ensuring continuous, error-free risk and control oversight across Bizongo’s technical and tactical assets.
ISO 27001
SOC 2
India
3 weeks
Time to complete SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audit requirements
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Challenge: Manual compliance = chaotic compliance
Compliance is core to Bizongo’s operation—multiple regulatory compliances apply to the organization. With the infusion of AI into its platforms and expansion to new markets on the cards, validating security practices and aligning them with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 was key to demonstrating high standards, building trust, and driving platform adoption.
Regulatory reviews and investor audits aside, internal security posture reporting is a recurring, quarterly activity at Bizongo. However, these practices were somewhat fragmented and largely manual, scattered over many heterogeneous systems. This created a heavy reliance on ITOps and DevOps to intervene at a system level to check configuration, ensure upkeep, collect evidence, and produce reports on the status of security measures and resilience of the overall [security] posture.
Hampered by splintered systems and inefficient, manual methods, Bizongo found it increasingly difficult to extract useful data in time to support reporting and audit requirements. Manual methods could no longer support the complexity or speed of security data consolidation.
“Effort is cost, and the material impact of all this manual effort is very low. So much time is spent just collecting and reconciling data, and the business risks falling behind. Given the high stakes and the level of decision-making security reporting supports, it was important to apply technology to unify data and paint a more accurate picture of security without fear of overlooking something,” shares Dhirendra Singh, CISO at Bizongo.
To build a unified and accessible compliance platform, Bizongo looked for an integration-first compliance management platform to consolidate data systems effectively, comprehensive in terms of the compliance scenarios it supports, and one that came with the assurance of guidance and customer support. “Navigating change is hard, and we wanted to work with a team that would be available to work with us through this journey,” Dhirendra shares. “Sprinto proved to be the right partner right from the outset.”
Sprinto felt like plug-and-play. It had out-of-the-box support for all cloud services and applications we used, and it was easy to set up. This was important because we didn’t want to introduce something new to our tech stack only to have it disrupt everything else. Sprinto fit like a glove!
Solution: Automate compliance at scale
Once connected to Sprinto, Bizongo enabled frameworks and automated control checks to gain instant visibility into their compliance posture. “The dashboard was the entry point. We could see where we stood and just how much ground we needed to cover to complete our audits successfully.”
First, Bizongo tackled missing infosec policies and procedures. Sprinto’s pre-built templates provided a springboard and the automated campaign module streamlined distribution and policy acknowledgment across the company. “Sprinto seamlessly integrated with our HRMS, eliminating manual tracking and building a complete and instant audit trail,” Dhirendra explains.
Next, Bizongo focused on securing staff devices. Dr. Sprinto, Sprinto’s built-in MDM, proved a perfect fit. “Specialized MDM tools are often too broad, expensive, and don’t directly tie into compliance,” notes Dhirendra. “Dr. Spinto served our need to monitor device security while also helping build an audit trail.”
Sprinto’s built-in risks and controls library empowered Bizongo to create a robust, gap-free, auditor-grade risk register. “The fact that risks map to policies and controls is a clear benefit. But because Sprinto knits in automated checks, it improves our ability to stay on top of each risk.”
Automated control testing with Sprinto tore down departmental silos and established a consistent, high-frequency compliance tracking practice that eliminated undue effort and errors at once. “Without automation, we’d have to resort to the old practice of setting up meetings with every department, getting IT and DevOps involved for checking and validating controls and capturing evidence one at a time. Access, in particular, would be the hardest to track,” shares Dhirendra. “Ensuring access to systems is given to the right persons, in the right manner, and an audit trail is maintained, is a herculean task. With Sprinto, it is no longer a single person’s job. We use role-based access control to provision access, and Sprinto maintains a comprehensive audit trail. The platform immediately alerts us when there is a protocol breach so we can step in and investigate the event better.”
Sprinto gives us real-time feedback on the security and compliance posture of our cloud assets, systems, and processes. This level of transparency and accountability is a major win.
Results: Fast-tracked audits, streamlined practice
Bizongo was chasing aggressive audit timelines, aiming to start audits in just three weeks of engaging Sprinto. Enabled by Sprinto, Bizongo met these timelines and entered SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits as planned.
Sprinto provided robust proof of compliance, delivering high-quality control evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 standards. By mapping common controls, Sprinto eliminated redundant testing and evidence collection, optimizing efforts and minimizing disruptions.
Auditors only want to see that controls are working as they should. Sprinto paints a clear picture of this.
Dhirendra adds, “The reports Sprinto generates are thorough enough for internal and external auditors, presenting comprehensive details that auditors can quickly understand. We encountered very few non-compliance issues during our audit.”
Ensuring continuous compliance, Sprinto has become integral to Bizongo’s process design and tracking. “We now frequently ask ‘why’ something happened, why it deviated from the norm, and who is responsible. We aim to maintain compliance above 90%, and Sprinto is key to achieving this.”
All security must converge on compliance. Compliance is much bigger and spans both human and technical assets. Automation platform like Sprinto helps us track both instead of having to track them individually.