Why this webinar is relevant

Audits are no longer an edge case. Most organizations that get audited end up facing additional financial claims, exposure typically runs to multiples of annual spend, and the process drags on for months—all while the SAM team is trying to assemble a defensible answer from data that lives in six different places.

In this session, Mitchell Anderson of USU and Craig Guarente of Palisade Compliance take the problem from both ends. Mitchell covers the foundation: what trustworthy data actually means under ISO 19770-1, why siloed discovery across Security, ITAM, IT Ops, the CMDB, IAM and Architecture collapses the moment it's tested and how to build and measure a data set that holds up.

Craig covers what happens when the letter arrives: how vendors run audits, where they build their advantage in, and how a compliance claim gets turned into a commercial negotiation rather than an invoice.

If you can't see it, you can't manage it—and if you can't manage it, you certainly can't defend it.