Powerful New Features Coming Soon to A-SCEND for Security Automation

 




We released the A-SCEND development roadmap, announcing powerful new features coming soon! Learn how A-LIGN is investing in product development to deliver new capabilities and services to our clients.

The opportunity for new ideas and innovation in the compliance industry is at an all-time high. A-LIGN has always been at the forefront of cybersecurity compliance, relentlessly seeking ways to make audits and assessments more efficient while maintaining a high level of quality. The investments we make in A-SCEND, our end-to-end compliance management platform, allow us to move much faster on new product development and will help us to deliver even more value to our clients. Our customers will be able to experience new capabilities and services through A-SCEND with ease.


As we look across the industry, with so many startups trying to ease the burden that compliance puts on resource-constrained security teams, we are proud to build on the experience of our A-LIGN auditors, along with the unique features that A-SCEND now has to offer:

1) Deep experience in performing actual SOC 2 audits for 1000’s of clients over many years

2) Over 2,500 customers, 12,000 projects, 2 million pieces of evidence – all informing our product design and user experience

3) An active bench of top-notch auditors using the product every day to collaborate with clients, answer questions, and execute seamless audits as quickly as possible

It’s truly an exciting time here at A-LIGN, so in the rest of this post we want to communicate some of the major capabilities that will be coming to A-SCEND as we leverage the Warburg Pincus investment to continue to build advanced technology into the A-SCEND platform.

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