How to Stay Audit‑Ready Without Building a Compliance Army
Your Auditor Isn’t Waiting. Are You Ready?
SOC 2. CMMC. HIPAA. PCI. Customer security reviews. Board scrutiny.
Compliance pressure isn’t coming. It’s already here. And the organizations still managing it with spreadsheets, email threads, and last-minute fire drills are the ones losing deals, failing assessments, and watching leadership take the heat.
May 20 | 12pm ET | 45 Minutes Live with Blue Mantis CISO Jay Martin
What’s at Stake
- One failed SOC 2 audit can stall a six-figure deal
- One CMMC gap can pull you off a federal contract opportunity
- One security questionnaire with too many “in progress” answers hands the deal to your competitor
- Cyber insurers are tightening requirements at renewal
- Executive accountability for compliance failures is accelerating
The companies on the right side of this are using audit-readiness as a competitive advantage. The gap between prepared and unprepared is widening every quarter.
What You’ll Walk Away With
- Why compliance is now a board-level business risk, not an IT checkbox
- How the “accidental CCO” model breaks and what it looks like before it becomes a crisis
- What a modern, continuously audit-ready GRC operating model actually looks like in practice
- The specific habits that separate organizations that sail through audits from ones that scramble
- A clear framework for deciding when to outsource GRC vs. build internally
No framework slides. No vendor pitch. Real scenarios from real clients.
Who Should Be in the Room
- CISOs, CIOs, and Heads of IT managing compliance with teams not hired to do compliance
- CFOs and COOs signing off on audit attestations
- Compliance leads who are currently a team of one
- Any executive facing upcoming audits, CMMC requirements, or growing enterprise customer scrutiny
May 20 | 12pm ET | 45 Minutes >> Register Today
Regulations are expanding. Enforcement is accelerating. The organizations building sustainable GRC programs now will have the advantage when the next audit lands.
Our Speakers
Jay Martin
Jay Martin is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Vice President of Cybersecurity & Risk at Blue Mantis, where he leads the charge in securing enterprise ecosystems, building business resilience, and navigating the evolving digital threat landscape. With over 25 years of experience across IT, cybersecurity, and risk management, Jay bridges technical complexity with business strategy — helping organizations not just survive but thrive securely.
At Blue Mantis, Jay architects the cybersecurity vision across internal operations and external service delivery, aligning technical defenses with real-world business imperatives. He oversees cybersecurity posture across seven practice areas while empowering clients to achieve measurable, resilient growth in an increasingly hostile digital world.
Jay’s leadership was recently showcased on the global stage when he helped lead security operations for a major city that hosted Super Bowl LIX, safeguarding one of the world’s most high-profile events against cyber threats.
Before joining Blue Mantis, Jay co-founded Service Catalyst and held senior leadership roles at Dunkin’ Brands International, InteQ Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard. Throughout his career, he has built security programs from the ground up, led major business continuity initiatives, and guided enterprises through regulatory compliance with precision and foresight.
Jay has held the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) credential and is an active voice in cybersecurity leadership forums. His passion: translating risk into resilience, complexity into clarity, and cybersecurity into a business enabler — not a barrier.
When Jay speaks, he brings a rare combination of technical insight, executive pragmatism, and forward-looking vision — making cybersecurity approachable, strategic, and mission-critical for today’s leaders.
Paul Hindman
Paul Hindman is a Sales Director at Blue Mantis, where he works with enterprise and public sector organizations to design and implement technology solutions that drive operational performance and long term business value.
With more than 25 years of experience in enterprise technology sales, Paul specializes in consultative engagement with senior leaders, helping clients navigate complex IT environments and align managed services, infrastructure, and support solutions with strategic business goals. He is known for building strong executive relationships, managing large enterprise accounts, and leading end to end opportunity management for complex services engagements.
Before joining Blue Mantis through the acquisition of Coreio Inc., Paul held senior sales roles focused on enterprise services and lifecycle solutions, including positions at Lenovo and CompuCom Canada Corp.. Throughout his career he has consistently delivered revenue growth by combining deep customer insight with a collaborative, solutions focused sales approach.
Coleen Greco
As Chief Marketing Officer, Coleen Greco is responsible for driving the company’s marketing organization and mission with a focus on precision, acceleration and measurable impact. Known for her ability to transform marketing teams into high-performing growth engines, Coleen has over 25 years’ experience increasing demand, building partner ecosystems and developing data-backed strategies that translate directly into revenue.
Before joining Blue Mantis, Coleen led her own technology marketing consultancy, supporting five high profile clients as a fractional CMO. In this capacity, she helped clients develop or refine their top-line vision, develop full-funnel demand generation programs, and implement closed loop analytics to connect marketing investments to pipeline growth.
She’s previously held leadership roles at several of industry’s largest and most prominent technology brands including EMC (now DellEMC), VMware, Cisco, GitLab and Tenable. This experience allowed Coleen to develop her passion for leadership and in so doing, she was consistently recognized for blending strategic insight with empathy and positive energy – empowering her teams to deliver business results that matter.
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