I’ve lost count of the number of organisations I’ve spoken to where product security is being held together by a patchwork of scanners, outdated spreadsheets, and email chains. It’s not for lack of effort; these teams care deeply about security. But when your tools are disconnected, and your data lives in silos, you end up spending more time reconciling information than acting on it.
Spreadsheets in particular have become a crutch for compliance teams. They’re familiar, flexible, and quick to update. But they don’t scale, they drift out of date, and worst of all, they introduce risk.
Disconnected tools create manual workflows that are hard to trace and even harder to trust. When SBOMs, vulnerability scans, and compliance records all live in separate systems—or worse, inboxes—you lose:
It turns every compliance cycle into a fire drill. Security teams dig through scans. Legal teams hunt for emails. Engineers are pulled into meetings to explain what’s already been fixed. Meanwhile, leadership is still waiting for a report.
The more manual the process, the more it relies on people remembering things, and that’s a recipe for risk.
They may feel like the quickest way to get a list of components or track down the status of a CVE, but spreadsheets are a short-term fix that becomes a long-term liability. Here’s why:
In today’s regulatory climate—especially with standards like EU CRA and FDA 524B—it’s simply not enough to say you’ve done the work. You need to show it. That means having a living system that keeps a real-time, traceable record of what’s been scanned, what’s vulnerable, who’s accountable, and what’s been remediated.
Finite State was built to replace these fragmented processes with a single, scalable approach to product security. Instead of stitching together results from different tools, we unify SBOMs, vulnerabilities, and compliance workflows in one place.
With our platform, you can:
By consolidating your workflows, you reduce human error, eliminate version confusion, and get everyone—from developers to legal—working from the same playbook.
I worked with a customer recently who had been juggling three different scanners and five versions of the same SBOM per product release. Their compliance team was spending weeks manually assembling audit evidence.
After consolidating into the Finite State platform, they were able to:
This isn’t just about efficiency—it’s about resilience. When your security processes are unified, your organisation is more responsive, more reliable, and more prepared for whatever regulations or threats come next.
If your team is still relying on spreadsheets to manage security and compliance, you’re not alone, but you are exposed. Disconnected tools and manual evidence gathering might get the job done today, but they’re holding you back tomorrow.
The sooner you consolidate your workflows into one platform, the faster you can shift from reactive triage to proactive security. And that’s a shift worth making.
Ready to ditch the spreadsheets?