Brian Clark is the CEO of Ascent Technologies, Inc. (www.Ascent.is), a company that offers a compliance platform for users to help them identify, track, and manage the vast amount of regulations with which their firm has to comply. Businesses on the wrong side of the law often feel as if they’d been bludgeoned by instruments of jurisprudence, bearing a distinct scarlet letter from the administration of executive-based (re: administrative) and judicial-based (re: State/Federal Court) actions. Gone are the days of quiet settlements, and second chances: regulators in all industries increasingly look for large and small regulatory violations alike. Playing defense…