Compliance as code
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
These days, it can seem that everything is being done as code. But compliance as code isn’t just some fad: it’s about automating compliance processes so that they become more transparent and ensuring any compliance issues that arise can be quickly dealt with.
In today’s episode, our host Rebecca Parsons talks to Satyam Argawala a Lead Consultant at ThoughtWorks Australia about compliance as code: what it means, why it’s necessary and where to start.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the ThoughtWorks podcast. My name is Rebecca Parsons. I'm the |
| 0:09.2 | chief technology officer for ThoughtWorks, and I'm here with Satyam Agarwalha. And we're going to talk |
| 0:15.2 | about an extension, really, of governance automation. In the past, we've talked about governance automation |
| 0:22.8 | with respect to architecture, |
| 0:24.2 | and we're going to have a little bit different take on it today. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome, Satyam, would you introduce yourself? |
| 0:31.0 | Thanks, Rebecca. |
| 0:32.7 | My name is Satyam. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm a lead consultant with ThoughtWorks Australia. I started my journey in ThoughtWorks seven years ago as one of the first employees of our Singapore offices, |
| 0:44.3 | and I work with a variety of clients across different domains, mainly focused on financial services over the past seven years. |
| 0:52.3 | And you tossed out a phrase when we were |
| 0:55.1 | talking about this earlier, compliance is code. Oh, yes. What does that really mean? I mean, |
| 0:59.7 | everything's as code now, infrastructure is code, all of this. What does compliance's code mean? |
| 1:04.9 | Yes, everything as code has almost become a bit of a fat. But I think compliance's code really is about how we push the |
| 1:14.7 | boundary on agility. We've seen over the past two decades that we've managed to deploy |
| 1:22.7 | our code faster, make the ability to deliver value to our customers faster. |
| 1:29.9 | But we're starting to hit certain boundaries. |
| 1:32.4 | And we see that especially in regulated industries, where there are strong compliance requirements, |
| 1:40.2 | rightfully so on these industries, such as financial services, |
| 1:44.8 | and their ability to deliver value to their customers |
| 1:48.2 | is inhibited by their GRC processes or governance risk and compliance processes. |
| 1:57.5 | Within the context of GRC, compliance, |
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