Innovation In Compliance With Tom Fox

Eva Pittas is the co-founder and COO of Laika, a company that helps other companies manage compliance, obtain security certifications, and build trust with enterprise customers. Tom Fox welcomes her to this week’s show to talk about Laika and how it helps its clients. The Birth of Laika Eva began her professional life running IT risk and control for Citigroup and even worked there after the financial crisis of 2008. She was an integral part of the strong response to counteract the economic collapse. She joined the fintech industry in 2014, as she saw the growth happening in that space. She noticed that many companies “needed to get through with vendor procurement but they did not know what those processes would look like, what diligence would be, or what the security requirements were.” She started her consultancy boutique, BRCG, to provide answers to these questions. Working in the fintech space emphasized the importance of audits. Laika was born as a compliance solution for the rise of the cloud and to add