Efficiency comes from focus and automation. Start with a risk register. Standardize templates for policies, vendor reviews, and marketing approvals. Automate evidence capture from systems of record. Bake checks into code reviews and CI/CD. Keep one source of truth for controls, owners, and cadence.

Don’t treat compliance as a one-time project. Avoid copy-paste templates you don’t follow and manual spreadsheets you can’t trust. Under-documentation, skipped training, and ignored vendor risk create incidents and takedowns. Fix with a clear owner, risk-based scope, usable SOPs, and automation.