BRISBANE, Australia – Aug 31, 2021 – Faced with a global challenge affecting their industry, Kudos Travel Technology pivoted to embrace cloud best practices as well as maximise their compliance and security posture through shifting to a continuous compliance model using 5pillars, Australia’s 1st fully automated security and compliance AWS MSSP.
A core pillar of Kudos’ strategy was differentiation through achieving a far higher level of PCI-DSS compliance than was required by their customers. Having engaged a PCI-DSS Quality Security Assessor Stratica to support them on the journey of achieving Level 1 PCI-DSS compliance, Kudos also identified the need for an AWS partner that could enable them to not only achieve compliance as quickly and cost effectively as possible, but also ensure that compliance was maintained on an ongoing basis with minimal cost or operational overhead.
5pillars solution leverages all the benefits of AWS’ comprehensive suite of native security and compliance services to deliver not only AWS best practice, but does so using patent pending automation technology combined with a comprehensive playbook library to ensure the compliance holy grail; fully automated, best of breed, continuous compliance with minimal operational impact.
“High levels of compliance are operationally daunting and can be prohibitively expensive. In addition, compliance is always driven by a panicked project that companies typically push through, ignore for 9 months and then dread the anniversary of the same process.” Phil Rasmussen, Managing Director of Kudos Travel Technology, said.
“We quickly realized that 5pillars could not only massively accelerate our achievement of AWS best practice including the highest level of PCI-DSS compliance but, by achieving continuous compliance through 5pillars automation, enable us to turn compliance into a powerful differentiator and compelling USP that allows us to win marketshare and grow revenue”
The new partnership will enable Kudos to continue to develop innovative solutions that benefit the travel industry while delivering the highest standards of security and data protection for their customers.
“That Kudos were so quick to see the advantages of leveraging 5pillars security automation to not only greatly reducing arduous, one off, manual compliance but turning it from a painful checkbox into a competitive USP is visionary.” said Lorenzo Modesto, CEO of 5pillars. “The most impressive aspect of Kudos is that they’ve turned what is a supremely challenging situation into an opportunity to improve their product.”
