Automate compliance and cut costs

By guest author, Brook Thomas, Sales Director at Mindbridge Consulting

For businesses large and small in heavily regulated sectors, compliance has become a bit of a dirty word.

Some rules haven’t kept pace with modern technology. Governing bodies are stretched thin. Meanwhile, overseas firms target UK consumers, unburdened by the red tape that seems to strangle UK businesses.

It’s no wonder so many firms now view compliance as an inconvenient afterthought - a box-ticking exercise to scrape through with the bare minimum, just to keep moving in a difficult economy.

This is the pain point we solve at Mindbridge Consulting.

Elastic as a foundation for compliance

At Mindbridge Consulting, we implement tools like Elastic to create cost-effective, time-saving environments where:

• Audit trails are automatically generated
• Real-time alerting mitigates the risk of non-compliance
• Security visibility and accountability are embedded into the core of operations

Our philosophy is simple: compliance-first systems lead to better businesses

By embedding regulatory frameworks such as ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2, or DORA directly into ElasticSearch, we map out the journey to certification alignment with near-zero operational friction. We then visualise it in Kibana (Elastic’s user-interface) for total visibility and control.

Flexible, open-source, and budget-friendly

One of Elastic’s greatest strengths is its flexibility. In a world of tool sprawl, massive amounts of data, competing platforms and confusing regulations, we’ve long identified Elastic as an accessible asset for any business.

As an open-source platform, Elastic is:

• Highly malleable – can be tailored to any modern business purpose
• Easily integrated into almost any existing tech stack
• Scalable from small proofs of concept to enterprise-level observability

Unlike traditional SIEM tools like Splunk, Elastic does not lock you into high-cost licensing based on ingest volume. You can start small, see value fast, and scale at ease with zero vendor squeeze.

Not just to breeze through audits - build resilience along the way

Elastic is not just to impress the auditors or reduce admin burden.

Elastic actively tracks the entire digital landscape of your business and empowers IT teams to find weak points before they become liabilities. Detecting misconfigurations, monitoring sensitive endpoints and anomaly detection are second nature to Elastic and cut IT incident response times by up to 90%.

In a world where digital downtime and data breaches can be fatal, this kind of visibility is more than a tool, it’s an essential defence in the modern arena.

Turn compliance into a competitive advantage

We believe that compliance doesn’t have to be a burden. With Elastic at the heart of your digital operations, you can automate your compliance posture, reduce cost, and uncover insights that make your business safer, faster, and more trusted.

Want to see how it looks in action? Get in touch for a 14 day free trial.