{"id":5333,"date":"2025-07-16T05:02:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/soft-audits-hard-consequences-the-danger-of-soft-audits-170478-aspx\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T05:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:02:39","slug":"soft-audits-hard-consequences-the-danger-of-soft-audits-170478-aspx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/soft-audits-hard-consequences-the-danger-of-soft-audits-170478-aspx\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Audits, Hard Consequences: The Danger of Soft Audits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Soft Audits, Hard Consequences: The Danger of Soft Audits<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>In April 2022, we composed an article titled, &#8220;The Weaponization of Software License Audits.&#8221; It focused on how software license audits have long been used as a successful, revenue-generating tool for software vendors. Gartner has noted that vendor-driven, revenue-motivated audits are on the rise across all industries and company demographics.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbta.com\/BigDataQuarterly\/Articles\/Soft-Audits-Hard-Consequences-The-Danger-of-Soft-Audits-170478.aspx\">Go to dbta<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soft Audits, Hard Consequences: The Danger of Soft Audits In April 2022, we composed an article titled, &#8220;The Weaponization of Software License Audits.&#8221; It focused on how software license audits have long been used as a successful, revenue-generating tool for software vendors. Gartner has noted that vendor-driven, revenue-motivated audits are on the rise across all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-5333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dbta","tag-dbta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}