Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

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

Every mature security program starts somewhere. For many organizations—especially startups and early-stage companies—this is what the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) calls the partial stage. ‍ At this level, security is often reactive. Teams operate with minimal resources and ad-hoc processes, working hard to meet customer or compliance demands but without the structure or long-term strategy needed to scale.

Risk doesn’t live in just one place—it comes from vendors, suppliers, partners, and from inside your business through processes, people, and systems. ‍ Managing that risk is often fragmented, too. Vendor reviews live in one system, internal issues in another, and leadership reports take hours to compile. And every new vendor, tool, or requirement contributes to another layer of risk.

As IT threats and vulnerabilities continue to evolve, regulatory and compliance demands are growing in response. Many organizations today need to navigate multiple mandatory security frameworks and regulations. According to Vanta’s 2025 Trust Maturity Report, 90% of respondents cite compliance requirements as a top driver for investing in security. ‍ Maintaining compliance with the necessary frameworks requires continuous monitoring of your security posture and critical controls updates.

You got compliant—congrats! That’s a big milestone. It tells customers, investors, and the world that you take security seriously. But compliance doesn’t stop at your first audit. As your company grows, so do the requirements. You’ll have to manage new frameworks, more policies, faster timelines, more scrutiny, and more complexity. ‍ Modern GRC teams need to do more with less.

The compliance environment in the UK is rapidly evolving as more organisations adopt cloud-based services and accelerate digitalisation efforts. According to Vanta’s 2025 UK State of Trust Report, about 54% of organisations in the UK increased their investment in automation and IT in the past year, outpacing countries like the United States and Australia.

Every audit turns up a few surprises. A missing patch here. A policy that was missing a few key processes. An employee training record that slipped through the cracks. Together all of these gaps tell a story: somewhere, a control isn’t doing what you expect. ‍ In GRC, we give those events names, issues, risks, and exceptions, and the way they connect is what separates a reactive program from a resilient one. ‍

As AI and automation increasingly become embedded into healthcare operations, securing these technologies becomes critical, especially for organizations managing protected health information (PHI), which are frequent targets for cybersecurity threats such as data breaches and unauthorized access. ‍ To safeguard this sensitive data, regulatory agencies like the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enforces strict cybersecurity and privacy regulations under HIPAA.