The Hidden Cost of Treating Compliance as an Afterthought
Jun 16, 2025
Compliance is often treated as a paper exercise, something to tolerate, check off and forget. But in a threat landscape shaped by ransomware-as-a-service, AI-augmented phishing campaigns, and supply chain breaches, delaying compliance doesn't just create business and operational friction. It creates risk. When compliance is layered late, organizations face mounting costs: duplicated controls, misaligned security priorities, reactive remediation efforts, and worst of all, security blind spots that attackers can exploit. Treating compliance as an afterthought is a gamble. In this post, we highlight the real cost of sidelining compliance and why embedding compliance into your security strategy from the start is not just good hygiene, it's essential engineering. Security and Compliance: Not Opposites, but Allies It's easy to think of security as "protecting" and compliance as "documenting". But that split is artificial. Frameworks like ISO/IEC 27001, NIST CSF, PCI ...
