Sprinto–Astra tie-up aims to cut audit delays by bundling compliance and security testing

Fast-growing companies struggling with audit bottlenecks may soon have fewer moving parts to manage. Sprinto, an AI-native governance, risk and compliance (GRC) automation provider, has partnered with Astra Security to make audit-ready compliance faster and less fragmented, particularly for organisations scaling across markets.

The partnership brings together Sprinto’s compliance automation platform with Astra’s independent vulnerability assessment and penetration testing (VAPT) services—two functions that are typically sourced separately and often become a source of delay during audits.

Fixing a common audit choke point

In many organisations, compliance teams are required to onboard a third-party VAPT vendor late in the audit cycle, leading to procurement delays, coordination overheads and missed timelines. Sprinto and Astra are positioning their collaboration as a way to remove that friction by offering a coordinated, but still independent, engagement.

Under the arrangement, Astra Security conducts vulnerability assessments and penetration testing as an ...