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"When I started trying the Secureframe platform, I saw how easy it was to use and how easy it would be to have a central location where we would keep all policies and documents. Secureframe would take care of pulling evidence from our cloud environment, authentication, and HR systems. Before Secureframe, our compliance team had to obtain evidence manually from each third party system."
Jair Basso, VP of Security, Wealth.com
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As an estate planning platform, Wealth handles sensitive customer data and often works directly with financial institutions that take privacy seriously.
“The first question we get is, ‘How do you protect our data? How do you protect our customer’s data?’” says Jair Basso, VP of Security. “When you're talking to bigger companies with complex security requirements and trying to win their business, being able to show you are following industry-leading security best practices and procedures is very important. Which is what the SOC 2 Type II report ensures.”
For the Wealth team, this meant SOC 2 compliance was a top priority, as a way to show prospective customers and the market that it was committed to security.
From past experience, Basso knew that it would require many hours of manual work from his team to achieve SOC 2 compliance without external support.
"Wealth.com is a new startup and we understand how crucial following security best practices from day one is - which creates a lot of manual effort unless you have credible partners like Secureframe that support streamlining the process,” Basso says.
To save the team time and put the best foot forward with customers, he knew they had to find the right partner to drive the process.
While researching compliance software, Basso came across Secureframe, whose team offered to do a demo and provide access to the platform on a trial basis.
“I saw how easy it was to use Secureframe,” says Basso, “and how easy it would be to have a central location where we would keep all the policies and documents. Secureframe would take care of pulling evidence from our cloud environment…and that would make my life easier.”
Ultimately, it was Secureframe’s expertise and excellent customer service that closed the deal. Basso felt he had a direct connection with the team, and all of his questions were answered right away.
Even better, Secureframe’s feature set solved many of his team’s initial challenges:
“In my previous job, we would get auditors in our office for one or two days, and we would sit with them, showing evidence, answering questions—an old-school methodology,” says Basso. “With Secureframe, we just gave the auditors access to the platform, and they automatically got access to all the evidence. It was really, really smooth.”
Not only did Secureframe lessen the workload for Basso’s team, it allowed Wealth’s marketing team to more tangibly demonstrate to prospective members how secure their platform is.
“We’re the only digital estate planning platform with SOC 2 Type II compliance, which is not an easy bar to clear and a really helpful proof-point for marketing” says Lucas Miller, Content Director. “Being able to talk about the audit process and the other validation we have for security is critical for sales and marketing.”
To maintain compliance going forward, Basso feels confident about choosing Secureframe as an ongoing partner.
“It worked well for us, and I believe it will work for other companies too,” Basso says. “We plan to stick with Secureframe, definitely.”
