C1Secure Joins ServiceNow’s BrightTALK Studio on Security and Risk

Compliance usually gets treated as a cost center, something that slows the business down. C1Secure CEO Tom Thomson joined ServiceNow on BrightTALK to make the opposite case.

Tom sat down with Elisha Harrington, APJ Innovation Officer at ServiceNow, for a conversation on the BrightTALK Risk and Security channel, part of ServiceNow’s Partner Perspectives on Security and Risk series. The through line is simple: compliance, run the right way on ServiceNow, becomes a competitive edge instead of a bottleneck. Lower risk, faster authorizations, and a security posture you can put in front of a board.

Why Compliance Gets Treated as a Cost Center

In most regulated organizations, the compliance function is viewed as a barrier to growth. Control owners do not always know how to write good control statements or how to map inherited controls, and the compliance team ends up waiting on responses from people who do not know where to start. That back and forth stretches attestation cycles into weeks and months, and the business learns to route around it.

Turning the Bottleneck Into an Advantage

The conversation covers what changes when governance lives inside ServiceNow instead of scattered across spreadsheets. Tom and Elisha get into:

  • How AI can guide control owners through writing and mapping controls, turning a multi-week dance into a short exercise
  • Where Armis and Veza fit now that they are part of the ServiceNow ecosystem, from asset visibility to identity governance
  • How SmartControl Fabric keeps control coherence across specific industry verticals
  • How compliance teams shift from a checkbox exercise to participating in winning new business

We help customers take that compliance function and turn it into the wind at the business’s back, instead of a barrier to growth. The compliance organization goes from a checkbox exercise that slows things down to participating with the business in winning new customers. That’s completely transformational.
— Tom Thomson, CEO, C1Secure

Watch the full conversation above, or on ServiceNow’s BrightTALK channel: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/20465/671849. To talk through what compliance as a competitive edge looks like for your organization, set up a call.