Onboarding
Connect the estate, adopt the control library, and establish the baseline of what is passing today.
Warden · Continuous Compliance
A compliance program is an operation, and operations need people
A retained engagement where Warden runs your continuous control monitoring on TraceLock — chasing failing controls, keeping evidence current and preparing the audit.
Tooling does not close a failing control
Continuous monitoring tells you a control has failed. Somebody still has to work out why, find the owner, get it fixed and record what happened — which is where understaffed programs quietly stop.
- Alert volume becomes background noiseA monitoring platform nobody triages is an audit finding waiting to be written.
- Evidence goes stale between auditsScreenshots gathered in audit season are the reason the next audit takes just as long.
- The work is spikyHiring for audit-season peak is expensive; leaving it to whoever is free is how programs drift.
How the retainer runs
Weekly operation
Triage control failures, drive remediation with named owners, and keep the evidence chain current.
Monthly reporting
Posture, exceptions and trend, in a form that goes straight to your risk committee.
Audit support
Populate the auditor room, respond to sample requests and manage the evidence exchange.
What the retainer includes
- Continuous control monitoring operated on your behalf
- Triage and remediation follow-through on failing controls, with named owners
- Evidence kept current and cryptographically verifiable rather than collected in a rush
- Monthly posture reporting suitable for a risk committee
- Audit-season support: auditor room, sample handling and evidence exchange
What it runs on
Buy the outcome, not the headcount
For most organizations under fifty people, a retained program costs less than the compliance manager they were about to hire.