But what happens after you achieve that initial SOC 2 or ISO 27001? It’s easy to get caught up in checking the boxes and lose sight of the why behind your security and compliance work.
The ultimate purpose is to develop a more secure organization and establish your business as a trustworthy partner that inspires confidence in your client. Going beyond a point-in-time check to prove your security and compliance requires a holistic, strategic approach to strengthening and demonstrating your security posture.
That’s where trust management comes in.
Trust management is a unified approach to making sure your company is a secure, trustworthy organization that customers feel comfortable doing business with. It’s a concerted and intentional effort to both become more secure and communicate that security to instill confidence in your prospects and customers.
Trust management is a strategic investment in your business, especially as increasing scrutiny on risk and vendor management have raised the bar for proving security. Trust management can help you:
Now that we’ve established what trust management is, you may be wondering, what’s a trust management platform?
Essentially, a trust management platform is a tool that centralizes, streamlines, and automates your trust management efforts. At Vanta, we consider the following capabilities as essential to a trust management platform:
- Holistic risk visibility: A trust management platform provides a unified view of your security landscape to identify and address risks before they can cause financial or reputational damage to your organization.
- Enriched contextual findings: With a trust management platform, you gain a deeper understanding of the interaction between your various risk surfaces, so you can better prioritize remediation and improvements to your security program.
- Efficient remediation: In order to quickly address vulnerabilities and stay compliant, you need real-time alerts and remediation workflows built into your trust management platform.
- Continuous trust: Trust management platforms also offer ways to easily demonstrate the strength of your security programs so you can establish, maintain, and deepen trust with your customers.
An effective trust management platform helps you plan, execute, and demonstrate the strength of your security programs. Remember that trust management is not just about making your business more secure, compliant, and trustworthy. It’s also about communicating that security to your customers and partners. A trust management platform centralizes and streamlines both of those components in a single tool.
A trust management platform can be a powerful investment for growing companies that are looking to win more customers and expand into new markets. If your trust management platform is effective, it can offer several advantages:
- Expert guidance in developing a more robust security postureVanta is the leading trust management platform that has helped more than 7,000 customers streamline their security and accelerate growth. Our platform helps you create a holistic trust management strategy with several key features and functions:
- Centralize, automate, and organize all of your trust management needs with Vanta’s unified platform, including 300+ pre-built integrations- While establishing a trust management strategy might seem daunting, especially if you try to tackle it on your own, Vanta gives you a powerful platform to meet your security needs today and tomorrow.
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