Twelve suppliers means twelve ways to be broken into.
Here's the part most companies never think about. Every link between two of your apps means a password stored somewhere, a key that never expires, and another copy of your staff's personal details sitting on somebody else's computer. Get rid of the links and all three go away.
If someone asks what you hold on them
By law, anyone can ask for everything you hold about them, or ask you to delete it. Across twelve apps that's two weeks of exports, a spreadsheet, and a quiet hope that nobody forgot the old customer system. In one place it's a search and a button — and you can prove you got all of it.
You decide who sees what
Salaries are visible to the people who need them and to nobody's spreadsheet. Letting a manager see their team's work doesn't mean showing them everyone's pay. And when you take access away, it's actually gone — everywhere, straight away.
One history of every change
Twelve half-lists in twelve different formats don't add up to anything you could show an auditor. Here, every change — by a person or by the assistant — is written against the thing it changed, in one list you could hand to an auditor without explaining it first.
What we do, in plain terms
Your IT person will want the technical version, and we'll happily give it to them. Here it is in normal words.
Bring your own IT person. Bring your auditor.
We're happy to be checked. Send us your security questionnaire and we'll fill it in properly rather than pointing at a logo. We'll walk whoever looks after your data through how it works and where it physically sits, sign the paperwork, tell you which other companies are involved and warn you before that changes, and support a proper review on your terms.
We're working towards the formal certifications, and we'll say so when we actually have each one — not before.