Standards – Compliance and Vanta
International Standardisation Organisation - ISO
Global standards are for trusted goods and services.
Standards define what great looks like.
Setting consistent benchmarks for businesses and consumers alike — ensuring reliability, building trust, and simplifying choices.
Making lives easier, safer, and better.
What can standards do for you?
International standards help ensure that the products and services you provide or rely on are safe, dependable, and high-quality. They also encourage businesses to embrace sustainable and ethical practices, shaping a future where your purchases not only deliver exceptional performance but also mindful of their environmental impact. Ultimately, standards integrate excellence with responsibility, enriching both daily life and consumer choices.
What is ISO/IEC 27001?
ISO/IEC 27001 is the most widely recognized standard for information security management systems (ISMS). It outlines the essential requirements that an ISMS must fulfil to ensure robust security practices.
ISO/IEC 27001 offers organizations of all sizes and industries a comprehensive framework for developing, implementing, maintaining, and continuously enhancing their information security management system (ISMS). It ensures a structured approach to safeguarding sensitive data and managing security risks effectively.
Conformity with ISO/IEC 27001 signifies that an organization has implemented a structured system to manage risks associated with the security of its data. It ensures that the company follows industry best practices and principles outlined in this internationally recognized standard.
Why is ISO/IEC 27001 important?
As cyber threats continue to evolve, managing risks can feel overwhelming. ISO/IEC 27001 equips organizations with the tools to stay ahead by fostering risk awareness and enabling proactive identification and mitigation of vulnerabilities.
ISO/IEC 27001 takes a comprehensive approach to information security, evaluating people, policies, and technology. An ISMS designed in line with this standard serves as a powerful tool for managing risks, strengthening cyber resilience, and driving operational excellence.
Compliance Escalation
Compliance escalation has evolved significantly over the past two or three decades, driven by increasing regulatory complexity, technological advancements, and heightened corporate accountability. Organizations have implemented more structured mechanisms for reporting and addressing compliance concerns, with many adopting formal escalation procedures to ensure transparency and mitigate risks.
Compliance Priority
Recent surveys indicate that companies are prioritizing compliance innovation, leveraging digital transformation to navigate regulatory challenges more efficiently. Additionally, emerging risks—such as fraud and cybersecurity threats—have intensified the need for proactive compliance measures.
Future Certainty
Most, if not all of the countries we benchmark ourselves against have, for distinct reasons, advanced further in their compliance frameworks and regulatory journeys. In jurisdictions such as Australia and across the European Union, regulatory compliance has become a fundamental prerequisite for conducting business. There is certainty that our future in New Zealand will follow in that trajectory.
The Compliance Journey
Achieving compliance, the duration, the impact, and the effort are dependent on a wide range of aspects but starts and ends with commitment.
The maturity of the organisation, its size and the complexity of its business model all have further influence on the journey.
The latter three can all be managed and/or reduced through the use of a tool that is fit for purpose.
Vanta
In essence, automation of compliance aspects that simplify tasks and efforts are Vanta’s forté. Through out-of-the-box integrations, Vanta will import required objects or their status and cross-check them against requirements and applicability. The system integrates with many hundreds of systems ranging from background checkers to vulnerability scanners. Those integrations link critical information related to the ISMS to provide a holistic view and compliance status across the organisation. Using Vanta in a multi-tiered standards scenario is extremely expedient. It removes duplication and provides holistic compliance overview.
The above shows that our current ISO-27001 compliance measure of 97% puts us at the indicated levels of SOC, GDPR, and PCI DSS compliance.
Above percentages are indicative only. Compliance overlap will vary per business depending on elected controls as they apply to a particular business.
Vanta Trust Centre
Compliance for many organisations is driven by their commitment to keeping data and systems secure and employing that posture in marketing and sales efforts. Trust Centre can be published to your customers where they can view your compliance status and efforts and also gain or request access to your compliance artefacts.