March 20198 I was 18 years old and just starting out in my IT career when Bill Gates released his second book Business @ the Speed of Thought and to my shame I ignored it. Despite Gates being undisputedly the most successful geek ever at the time I was a UNIX user and ignore his book for many years. When I finally did read it, it invoked many "ahah!" moments and combined with The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford was largely responsible for me moving from the tech side of IT to the business side. What does this have to do with compliance you ask? Everything! It is in the business fable style of The Phoenix Project that I've written this article.DevOps, cloud, automation, digital and containers, all the buzzwords that get anyone who uses them a barrage of recruiter messages on LinkedIn, but also the foundation of compliance at many of the banks I've worked at in the last decade. When I first moved into the finance world compliance was a dirty word, it invoked an urge to hide under the desk until the auditors had passed. We could definitely tell you who had access to a system now, but not who might have had access three days ago, let alone three months ago. Following our processes step by step never produced the same results no matter how many Change Approval Boards (CABS) we sat through who approved our changes and worst of all, a change scheduled for 5pm on a Friday evening meant cancelling all plans for that weekend because odds were you'd be spending it trying to unbreak the systems before business opened on Monday. (Heaven forbid you worked in a global bank and systems were expected to be online 24/7). COMPLIANCE @ THE SPEED OF THOUGHTIN MY VIEWBY PATRICK S. KELSO, HEAD OF DEVOPS CONSULTING ­ ANZ REGION, UST GLOBALPatrick S. Kelso
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