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When an auditor asks who can access protected health information, cardholder data, or EU personal data, and why, most security teams cannot answer with confidence right away. Access sprawls across cloud storage, SaaS applications, shared drives, and generative AI tools faster than manual reviews can track it. Permissions get granted for a single project and never revoked. A spreadsheet gets shared broadly and forgotten.

An AI assistant reads four hundred documents across a tenant. Every read is logged. The application is named, the file is named, the timestamp is exact, and the access is attributed to an account that belongs to nobody. ‍ The audit trail is complete and it cannot answer the question an auditor asks. Nobody asks whether an access was recorded. They ask who reached the data and whether that person was authorized, and a shared service account answers neither. ‍

KEEP helps organisations large and small to achieve both Cyber Essentials (CE) and Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+), alongside some of the more stringent standards such as SOC2, though for this insight we will focus on how to ‘pass’ CE+. As you may be aware IASME introduced the Danzell v3.3 standard in mid 2026, which included a number of critical changes that aimed to set the bar ‘higher’ for an organisation who applied for a CE+ assessment.

For fintech companies that move money, store account data, or connect to banking rails, trust must be documented. It cannot just be promised. A SOC 2 Type 2 report is the primary way financial platforms prove their security controls actually work. Demonstrating real fintech security and compliance unlocks enterprise partnerships, closes larger deals, and satisfies vendor security reviews. Banks and payment networks require these reviews before they integrate with you. Free Consultation.