Achieving ISO 27001:2022 Compliance: How Vanta Simplified the Compliance Process for Unosecur

Unosecur is a leader in enterprise cybersecurity, offering top-tier solutions that protect large organizations from sophisticated cloud identity threats. Our platform combines advanced technology with expert insights to provide comprehensive threat detection, risk management and incident response. Designed for today’s digital environment, Unosecur helps businesses stay ahead of evolving threats and ensures their operations remain secure and uninterrupted.

At Unosecur, as we realize the need for data privacy and security management we started working towards Governance, Risk and Compliance and we’re glad to share that we have achieved ISO 27001 compliance with the use of Vanta, a comprehensive compliance automation tool. We have brought down the manual efforts by using Vanta's automated workflows and we have continuous monitoring capabilities that accelerate the ISO 27001 compliance process in a simpler manner. It also allowed us to focus on safeguarding the customer data while meeting the industry security standards.

What is ISO 27001:2022?

ISO 27001:2022 is an Information Security Management System (ISMS) , a standard that provides an organization with a structured framework to safeguard the information assets and ISMS, covering risk assessment, risk management that includes risk mitigation and continuous improvement. We will see in detail in this document how Vanta helped our organization to achieve the ISO certification.

Conformance with ISO 27001:2022 means that an organization or business has a Governance, Risk and Compliance in place to eliminate the risks associated to the data security handled by the company, and ensure all the controls, clauses, best practices and concepts mentioned in the ISO standards is followed by the organization.

Achieving ISO 27001 certification would involve the below steps

1. Preparation (1-2 months) 
   • Understanding the ISO Standard is a daunting task for the person who is working on it for the first time or with a minimal experience. However, manual efforts always take longer than usual.
2. Implementation (2-4 months) 
   • ISMS implementation, doing risk assessments across the infrastructure, Risk plan and Risk mitigation and implementing the necessary controls and document policies in accordance with ISO 27001 standards.
3. Internal Audit (1-2 months) 
   • Internal audits usually take longer duration to cover all the infrastructure and entire organization.
4. Management Review (1 month) 
   • ISMS performance review would help the organization to determine where they stand at the time of review.
5. Certification Audit (1-2 months) 
   • Identifying an auditor to perform an audit and being part of Stage 1 and Stage 2 audit is a lengthy process to follow.
6. Post-Certification (Ongoing) 
   • Continuously monitor, conduct internal audits, and perform management reviews to keep track of Compliance status. 

In Summary, the traditional approach will take a minimum of 6 to 9 months to complete the compliance process, including certification, depending on such factors as size, organizational complexity, findings of risk, and scope.

Why is ISO 27001 important and how does it help against cyber threats?

With cybercrime on the rise and constantly evolving to an extent that seems impossible to manage cyber risks, it becomes challenging to deal with. Organizations can attain a state of increased awareness with the help of ISO 27001, which identifies weaknesses and proactive handling of weaknesses.

ISO 27001 allows us to have a unified approach to information security at every level of organization including people, policies, and technology. When an information security management system is established within the organization according to the standard, it helps in maintaining the effective management of risk, cyber resilience, and operation excellence delivering it all.

Role of Vanta in helping us Achieve ISO 27001 Compliance

Vanta, a compliance automation platform, projects the compliance process by automating security monitoring and evidence collection, making ISO 27001 compliance more manageable. Here's how:

1. Automated Security Monitoring: Vanta actively monitors your systems for security checks, ensuring you meet ISO 27001 requirements with a real time dashboard showing current compliance status.
2. Evidence Collection: Vanta helps us automates 90% of the evidence collection, such as access logs, security configurations, and compliance status reports.
3. Compliance Management: A centralized dashboard helps manage and keep track of real time compliance status for our organizations with controls requiring our attention. 
4. Risk Assessment: Vanta helps us identify vulnerabilities and risks, while providing recommendations for mitigations. 
5. Automated Documentation: Generates and maintains Templates as per ISO standard for required documentation which help us prepare for audits, reducing the manual workload.

With Vanta's automation approach, the ISO 27001 certification process can be significantly rectified, allowing organizations to effectively reduce the manual workload and achieve ISO Compliance in 45 days. 

Conclusion 

In Summary, Achieving ISO 27001:2022 compliance is a significant milestone for any organization dealing with sensitive customer data. Thanks to Vanta’s compliance automation abilities, Unosecur was able to accelerate this process, completing ISO 27001 certification in 45 days, which is far quicker than the traditional timeline. Handling tasks and tracking compliance status was made much easier with Vanta which allowed Unosecur to also continue to effectively focus on Secure development, Staying up to date with the threats, and managing customer data while meeting security standards.