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Mastering Software License Compliance - Episode 9

Name: Mastering Software License Compliance - Episode 9
Uploaded: 2023-09-07T15:00:59+00:00
Duration: 39 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin explains why software license audits go wrong: auditors misunderstand client environments, make unfounded assumptions, and have financial…

7 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Mike Austin explains why software license audits go wrong: auditors misunderstand client environments, make unfounded assumptions, and have financial incentives to inflate findings. Large datasets with millions of rows make the problem worse when auditors can't analyze the data properly.

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So most software vendors use third party auditors. Some of them have in house. But even if it's in house, auditors just kind of consider the same thing. What ended up happening is they did not understand the client's environments. They made assumptions that led to large findings. In fact, we believe that in a lot of cases, they're paid based on the deltas that they find. So they're paid more if they find findings, because the software companies view these as a revenue opportunity. And both of those positions had millions of rows. And even if it's not millions of rows, even if it's a few thousand or tens of thousands of data, if you don't know what to do with it, it's very, very complicated.