The bestiary · The Compliance Wraith
Specimen · catalogued monster
The Compliance Wraith
Appears at audit time asking where the personal data lives
Cold, patient and impeccably dressed, it drifts through the corridors carrying a clipboard that never runs out of questions. It is not cruel, merely thorough, and it can smell an untracked copy of customer data from three floors away.
Symptoms
- Nobody knows where personal data lives
- Slow subject access and deletion requests
- No evidence of who accessed what
- Audit preparation means weeks of spreadsheets
- New rules: GDPR, EU AI Act, DORA
Weakness
Automated discovery and classification of sensitive data, access policies enforced in the platform, and evidence on tap, so an audit becomes a report rather than a séance.
Overheard in the corridor
- “The auditors are in next week.”
- “Do we even know where we store customer data?”
- “Legal wants an answer by Friday.”
- “We'll need to prove that, not just say it.”
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