Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Building trust with customers often starts by demonstrating the right security controls. In the digital age, data security is paramount, and adherence to standards like ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 has become a key differentiator in the competitive market landscape.

This past month, we hosted our second annual customer conference, VantaCon, and shipped some major updates to the Vanta platform, including our Improved audit experience, five new integrations (bringing the total number of supported integrations to over 300!), Risk Management dashboard and updates, and more: ‍ ‍ ‍

If you’re a growing start up, chances are you’ll need to demonstrate trust to your customers. To ensure you have strong data protection measures in place and a robust security posture, they’ll often ask to review either your ISO 27001 certification or your SOC 2 report. For a while, you may get by by filling out their lengthy security questionnaires, but eventually you’ll need to get your ISO 27001 or SOC 2, depending on your product, industry, and region.

Protecting sensitive data from the threat of exposure is a non-negotiable business imperative for organizations, especially those in highly regulated sectors like government and healthcare. To help organizations keep their data secure, the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) developed a set of requirements for the hardware and software components responsible for data encryption.

From Tanium's Australian bureau, we dive into the Essential 8 baseline mitigation strategies and reveal how Tanium's unique architecture goes beyond the traditional approach of other vendors and enables organisations to overcome key challenges to help them successfully achieve automated continuous compliance.

We're excited to announce that Vanta now supports more than 300 integrations, increasing the level of automation possible in your security and compliance programs. Alongside our pre-built integrations, you can now build your own connections to monitor and secure the custom, homegrown tools your business relies on with Private Integrations. ‍ With additional automation, you can save even more time and resources as you optimize their efforts.

Last year at VantaCon 2022, co-founder and CEO Christina Cacioppo shared our vision for evolving Vanta from an automated compliance tool to an end-to-end trust management platform.

Aikido has just gone through the process of becoming ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. And one of the things we wish we’d had was some practical, no-nonsense advice on how to get started. Best practices, things to watch out for - basically tips from someone who’d already been through the ISO 27001 certification process. Read more about Aikido’s path to becoming ISO 27001:2022 compliant and the ISO 27001 requirements.

The Federal Trade Commission or FTC, established in 1914, was put forth by then-president Woodrow Wilson to protect consumers, investors, and businesses from anti-competition or industry monopoly. Essentially this meant promoting competition and providing more opportunities for others to enter the market sector.