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For founders of early-stage startups in Australia and New Zealand, growth is the ultimate goal. You’re focused on building an exceptional product, winning customers, and scaling fast. But one thing that should also be on your radar is security compliance. ‍ The reality is, compliance isn’t just about meeting legal requirements or ticking a box when an enterprise customer asks for certifications. It’s a strategic advantage.

‍ I love working in monolithic repositories. It fosters collaboration, code reuse, and knowledge sharing—some of my favorite aspects of engineering culture here. ‍ However, without guardrails, complexity can grow unchecked, making it harder to reason about the system as a whole. In early 2024, it was clear that our error handling strategies had fallen victim to this, and it was impacting the quality of our product.

Choosing a trusted auditor is a critical step in your compliance journey. A thorough audit not only validates your security posture but also helps you build trust with your customers. The right auditor can provide valuable insights into your operations, identify potential risks, and suggest improvements to enhance your overall security framework. ‍ Vanta believes it's important to empower you with the knowledge you need to make informed decisions when selecting an auditor.

Maintaining continuous compliance and trust isn't a one-person or one-team job; trust is created and sustained by a network of employees, vendors, auditors, and more. However, working with this extended team can get messy—communication is spread across multiple surfaces, action items are tracked in different documents and tools, and coordination becomes manual and time-consuming.

Trust is critical to the success of every business. But building, scaling and demonstrating trust is getting harder for UK organisations. ‍ Vanta’s second annual UK State of Trust Report uncovers key trends across these areas of security, compliance and the future of trust. Surveying 1,000 business and IT leaders in the UK, our research found that more than half (54%) of UK organisations say that security risks for their business have never been higher. ‍

Any app collecting, processing, or storing protected health information (PHI) must be HIPAA-compliant to ensure ongoing operation without regulatory setbacks. This means that if your organization operates in the health tech industry, it must adhere to the requirements mandated by the regulation. ‍ Due to HIPAA’s broad scope and interpretative nature, the requirements may seem challenging without a clear compliance roadmap, leading to inefficient workflows and incomplete adherence to the rules.

This past month, the Vanta team launched new features to help you: ‍

For founders of early-stage startups, growth is the North Star. You’re focused on building a great product, winning customers, and scaling fast. Security compliance? It’s probably not on your radar—but it should be. ‍ The reality is, compliance isn’t just a nice to have or a box to check when a customer asks to see a SOC 2 report. It’s a revenue accelerator.

It’s no secret that managing vendor risk is one of the most challenging aspects of any security program—our most recent State of Trust report found that one in two businesses have terminated a vendor relationship due to security concerns. The rapid proliferation of SaaS tools and AI technologies only ups the ante by increasing the complexity of vendor monitoring and oversight. ‍