Kobalt.io and Vanta work together to provide our clients with value beyond compliance. With Kobalt.io cybersecurity, compliance and data privacy expertise, combined with Vanta’s best-in-class technology, our clients can quickly achieve their security compliance goals, proving trust and driving growth.
Areas where we can help with your Vanta and compliance journey
- Create policies using Vanta’s templates
- Review existing policies to ensure adherence to requirements
- Disaster Recovery Testing
- Incident Response Testing
- User Education
- Tabletop
- Assess applicability of Vanta controls, tests and documents
- Map customer controls against Vanta controls and create of custom mappings as needed
- Guide in design and implementation of new controls
- Complete in-app setup checklist and other tasks needed to deploy customer’s Vanta
- Integrate systems and configure scoping for connections
- Customize other Vanta configurations (i.e. notifications, SLAs, owners, recurrences and reminders, etc.)
- Internal Audit (ISO 27001)
- Interpret Vanta’s real-time gap assessment and provide guidance on remediation
- Perform and document Risk Assessment in-app
- Gather evidence needed to fulfill audit requirements and centralize into Vanta
- Perform ongoing monitoring and remediation in the following areas: People, Computers, Access, Inventory, Vulnerability and/or Vendor Management.
- Be a liaison between you, Vanta and Auditors
- Other standard-specific required services
- 24/7 Managed Threat Detection
- Monitor Vanta automated tests and remediate within SLAs
- Create and configure Trust Reports
- Answer security questionnaires from customers
- vCISO
A Quick Overview of Kobalt.io
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Assess your current state and key risks, ensure Vanta is properly integrated
Deploy key operational support including security monitoring, user education
Deploy customized policies and procedures that support client’s methodologies
Achieve and sustain compliance and reduce risks through program framework
Support client, auditor and executive conversations to achieve growth objectives
Useful resources to help you achieve compliance
Blogs
Chicken Or The Egg: Compliance or Clients?
Early stage startups targeting enterprise clients often find themselves in an interesting conundrum, which is they have key prospects that tell them that in order to purchase the startup needs to prove their security in the form of SOC2, ISO27001 or another compliance standard.
Compliance Is Not Security – And That’s A Good Thing
You will often hear security professionals (myself included) state “compliance is not security”. Being compliant with a standard like SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA or other standards is no guarantee that an organization or their data is secure.
Cybersecurity Compliance Frameworks: An Overview
By assigning an external party to review and assess your internal security controls through a recognized cybersecurity standard framework, you are demonstrating to your clients and your potential clients that your organization is serious about cybersecurity.
Things Small and Mid-sized Business Need to Know About SOC 2 Compliance
SOC 2 is one of the most common compliance goals for technology companies. But what does SOC 2 compliance mean, and how can you go about achieving it? We’re here to break down the complexities of compliance requirements for you.
ISO 27001 Or SOC 2? How To Decide Which Audit To Pursue First
A guide to understand both options, figure out the similarities and differences, and evaluate what your company needs.
Webinars
Role of GRC in Fraud and Breach Prevention for SMBs
As businesses scale to meet rising demands, getting a clear visibility of what is happening in your digital assets is vital. It is important to run continuous monitoring to effectively scan for a broad range of attacks, troubleshoot potential risks and secure your tech stack.
SOC2 for Startups: Preparation, Timing, Execution, Sustainment
In this rapid fire talk Michael Argast, Co-Founder and CEO of Kobalt.io, will discuss strategies on achieving SOC2 compliance and sustaining it to support your business success.
Security Questionnaire and Compliance Webinar
If you’re selling to large enterprise, government or other regulated industries, you’ll have come across the dreaded “security questionnaire” or complex security contractual terms. It’s a chasm you need to cross in order to be able to close the deal and take your business to the next level, but for those who aren’t immersed in security, the technical terms can be complex, the costs uncertain and risks high.
