Adyton is a veteran-owned, venture-backed, American public benefit corporation building a suite of AI-ready mobile-first products built with the warfighter in mind—mobile products that allow the enterprise to systematize previously unstructured processes. The Adyton Operations Kit generates novel operations data to support high-level decision making, troop safety, and partner collaboration. Their products are in use across the US Navy, US Army, and US National Guard.
“Everyone in the defense tech space has to be compliant, but many are relying on manual processes. It’s the peace of mind that Secureframe provides, the continuous monitoring, the fact that we have a system as opposed to a person trying to manage and ensure all of this — that’s the value add for us.”
Stephanie Castro, Director of Operations, Adyton
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As a growing startup that delivers world-class mobile software for people who serve, Adyton needed to meet stringent compliance requirements while also managing their core operations.
“Because of our user base, primarily the Department of Defense, compliance has always been top of mind. We have to demonstrate that we meet their requirements while also maintaining industry security standards,” says Stephanie Castro, Director of Operations.
Managing these compliance and security requirements was consuming valuable time and resources, particularly for Gordon Young, Adyton’s lead InfoSec analyst and compliance subject matter expert.
“Being very lean and not having fully scaled our security team, we wanted a tool to help automate testing and ensure we were operating in a secure military environment,” explains Stephanie.
In need of a solution that could address their unique challenges, including resource constraints, reliance on manual processes, and the complexity of control implementation and monitoring, Adyton’s founder began looking for a compliance automation tool and support.
“As soon as he learned about Secureframe, he felt it was exactly what we needed,” says Stephanie. “We did look at one other option, but Secureframe had a larger surface area in terms of testing and monitoring so we went with Secureframe.”
The Secureframe platform enabled Adyton to simplify control implementation, automate evidence collection and continuous monitoring, and easily track their compliance status, which significantly reduced the operational burden on their small team.
“Being resource-constrained, having a tool that can plan, implement, validate, and continuously monitor controls has helped automate our compliance program for both our clients and our software,” says Stephanie.
For Adyton, compliance is a question they need to have an answer for, especially for their DoD clients. Now with Secureframe, they always do.
“The surface area of what we can do through Secureframe, like gathering and maintaining evidence as well as continuous monitoring, is invaluable,” says Stephanie. “It’s important for us to easily maintain our compliance documentation for potential customers and stakeholders.”
Secureframe’s ability to integrate with Adyton’s systems to streamline the evidence collection and monitoring process is a major advantage — and would be for any company in their industry, according to Stephanie.
“It’s a huge value-add for us in terms of how it plugs into our business systems and cloud systems to pull evidence for control adherence. This makes it worth it for any company in defense tech or selling to the Department of Defense."
Since adopting Secureframe, Adyton has significantly enhanced the efficiency of their compliance management process, saving hundreds of hours of manual labor.
“Gordon estimated that using Secureframe saved him 50 to 70% of the effort involved in compliance implementation and operations,” says Stephanie.
These time savings have been felt across the company, enabling the team to focus on other high priorities.
“For Gordon, being a one-man infosec team essentially, the hours and the labor saved from his end is extremely valuable — and to our team as well.”
By reducing the time and effort required to achieve and maintain compliance, Adyton didn’t need to add headcount to the team. This provided significant cost savings.
“Being such a small team and having such high compliance requirements for our clients, cost savings were huge for us,” says Stephanie. “Not having to hire someone and being able to rely on Secureframe to manage so much of the process is the biggest draw for us and our customers.”
Secureframe not only reduced their operational costs — it also allowed Adyton to easily demonstrate to clients that they are a compliant and secure platform.
“Being able to show that we’re compliant with specific industry standards and frameworks is a huge draw for our clients,” says Stephanie.
By automating the compliance process, Adyton can now focus more on their core operations, knowing their compliance needs are handled.
“Everyone in the defense tech space has to be compliant, but many are relying on manual processes. It’s the peace of mind that Secureframe provides, the continuous monitoring, the fact that we have a system as opposed to a person trying to manage and ensure all of this — that’s the value add for us.”
