Organizations Across Industries Streamline Compliance Year Over Year with BARR

BARR Gets to Know Your Business

For many organizations, one of the biggest advantages of working with the same auditor year after year is continuity. By building institutional knowledge over time, BARR helps reduce friction, streamline evidence collection, and provide more relevant recommendations for improvement.

“I love how with every additional engagement, BARR’s knowledge of…our infrastructure and security posture deepens,” said the founder of an AI platform that worked with BARR on their SOC 2. “We don’t spend any time at all repeating things or covering old ground.”

Rather than starting from scratch each year, BARR builds upon knowledge gained during previous engagements, allowing our clients to move through their audits with greater efficiency and less repetition. 

“Their deep understanding of our systems has enhanced efficiency, ensured compliance, and supported our continuous growth and improvement,” an executive at a SaaS firm that has worked with BARR since 2023 said. “This familiarity allows them to provide more tailored guidance and valuable insights, helping us continuously improve year over year.”

By working with the same auditing team each year, organizations spend less time explaining their environments and more time focusing on strategic improvements.

“I like the consistency every year with using the same tools of communication and talking with the same people,” the operations manager at a MedTech firm said. “Made it quick and easy to do renewals in the continuous years.” 

She also appreciated BARR’s coordinated audit approach, which allowed the MedTech firm to streamline its SOC 2 report and ISO 27001 certification. BARR “did not ask repetitive questions between SOC and ISO and was able to cross-check evidence with taskBARR, which made the walkthroughs easy,” she said, mentioning BARR’s in-house compliance management tool.

Another healthcare organization leader said BARR’s “task system and consistent experience from year to year is very comforting.”

BARR Delivers Value Beyond the Audit

Long-term relationships create opportunities for auditors to look at the bigger picture, understanding not only your organization’s security controls, but also your business goals, challenges, and growth trajectory.

The security manager at a leading FinTech firm said they “continue to have fantastic experiences with BARR and their team of professionals” year over year.

“I know most organizations continue to shop around, but our loyalty to BARR is due to the representatives they employ. You have the best of the best on your teams,” she said. “We feel confident in our success and continued growth with partnerships like BARR.”

She added: “The resources at BARR work to understand [our] business, ensure compliance, and propose improvements to strengthen [our] security framework, where possible. We continue to choose BARR because we have enjoyed the partnership and see the value BARR brings to our organization.”

Organizations across industries also appreciate that BARR takes the time to understand the unique complexities of their environments rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach.

“Taking the time to really understand our complicated systems and look for ways to apply the controls to our systems was very well received,” a security leader at a technology firm said of their SOC 2 Type 2 audit with BARR. “We received feedback from the [internal] SMEs that this was the first time they ever felt like the questions were specifically tailored for them to answer.”

BARR Goes Beyond Checking Boxes

Our clients consistently describe our approach as collaborative and consultative. Rather than simply evaluating controls against a framework, BARR’s auditors work alongside organizations to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

A technology leader at one AI-powered SaaS firm made clear why they stay with BARR year over year: “We keep choosing BARR because they are very valuable partners that help improve our control environment vs. merely noting gaps.”

A representative from a healthcare SaaS firm that just completed their fourth audit cycle with BARR said their experience was also “very collaborative and productive.”

“We always learn a lot and continue to improve our systems and policies,” the COO of another healthcare SaaS firm said.

According to another software firm that has worked with BARR on compliance with SOC 1, SOC 2, HIPAA, CSA STAR, and more, our auditors “are great communicators and are always willing to jump on a call or offer additional advice to help strengthen and improve our reports. With their support, year over year, we’ve been able to simplify and streamline our controls.”

BARR Makes Compliance More Efficient Every Year

Many of the organizations we work with find that each successive audit becomes easier to manage as established processes, communication channels, and institutional knowledge continue to build.

For an AI-powered software development firm, the benefits of that long-term partnership are reflected in the quality and efficiency of each engagement. “We look forward to working with BARR each year because we know they provide high-quality, ethical work,” one of their legal team members said. “This year was the most efficient and smoothest audit we’ve ever had.”

For many long-term clients, the value of the relationship extends beyond efficiency. They know what to expect from the process and trust that BARR’s team will continue to deliver a high-quality experience.

“We have always had a great experience working with the BARR team,” the CTO of a financial planning company said. “One of our largest partners…has an audit division and they have asked if they can do our audit. I have told them year over year, we plan to stick with BARR.”