Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Bringing on your first cybersecurity professional is a major milestone for any growing business. This strategic hire signifies that your company recognizes the increasing risks that come with growing your business and is committed to protecting and building trust with your customers. Because this is such an important role, knowing when to make this hire and how to find the ideal candidate is crucial. ‍

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

This blog was written in partnership with the Vouch team. ‍ Today, cyber threats are more pervasive than ever, with businesses facing increasing risks from data breaches, ransomware attacks, and regulatory fines. To mitigate these threats, many companies turn to cyber insurance for financial protection. ‍ However, securing and maintaining cyber insurance isn’t just about paying a premium.

Vanta is proud to be one of the first companies to achieve ISO 42001 compliance with our audit partner Schellman, an ANSI-accredited ISO 42001 auditor. ‍ To prepare for and pass our audit, our team worked diligently to assess our specific business needs, communicate clearly with stakeholders and AI leadership, and complete formal training to learn how to develop, integrate, and deploy trustworthy AI systems in line with emerging laws and policies.

At Vanta, our mission is to secure the internet and protect consumer data. The proliferation of AI has made this both more challenging—and more important—than ever before. In our ongoing mission to ensure we safely use AI and demonstrate trustworthy AI practices, we’re excited to announce that Vanta is the first trust management platform to achieve ISO 42001 certification from an ANAB-accredited 42001 assessor. ‍

AI is a part of just about every organization—whether you're deploying AI, leveraging vendors who use it, or perhaps even building a model yourself. With AI moving faster than the pace of regulation, it’s natural for concerns around AI security and responsible usage to be top of mind. ‍ We hear from customers and prospects often who are looking for guidance to prove and demonstrate AI compliance and best practices.

In 2024, one of Vanta’s engineering goals was to improve the quality while maintaining our rapid product development. Around the same time, we also discovered we were months away from reaching our MongoDB Atlas database storage limit. If this threshold was reached, then we wouldn't be able to write any new data and the Vanta product would’ve been heavily degraded. This was a clear signal that we needed to invest more in our infrastructure and storage solution. ‍