CipherStash accelerates compliance and strengthens customer trust with Vanta

The company

CipherStash revolutionises data security with searchable encryption

CipherStash helps businesses keep their sensitive data protected, with pioneering encryption-in-use technology. By ensuring data remains encrypted even while it’s being accessed, CipherStash provides complete confidentiality without compromising usability.

Offering seamless integration into a wide range of databases—including PostgreSQL and DynamoDB—CipherStash enables organisations to maintain strict security controls while keeping data searchable and accessible.

Backed by leading investors and a global team, CipherStash is at the forefront of modern data protection, empowering businesses to safeguard information with confidence.

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The challenge

Proving compliance in a security-first business

While CipherStash’s innovative approach to securing sensitive information sets them apart in the data security industry, proving their security posture to customers is a key challenge that requires a robust compliance strategy.

Ensuring ongoing compliance meant dealing with extensive manual processes—tracking security controls across multiple systems, managing spreadsheets, and manually preparing for audits. 

CipherStash needed a solution that would streamline their compliance processes, reduce overheads, and allow their team to focus on what they do best: building cutting-edge security solutions for clients.

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The solution

From manual compliance to automated assurance

CipherStash selected Vanta to automate and simplify its security compliance journey, with a focus on achieving and maintaining key security standards such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001. 

As a result of Vanta’s extensive integrations, CipherStash enjoyed a seamless fit with its existing tech stack. This allowed for centralised, real-time monitoring of security controls, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual tracking. 

Paul Hawkins, CISO of CipherStash, was impressed by Vanta’s breadth of integration with their existing technology such as G Suite and AWS, which he says provided “an automated view of the state of our control environment”.

Beyond automation, Vanta provided a positive collaborative experience. Paul is keen to highlight the responsiveness of Vanta’s team, sharing that “we get feedback, we’re able to put in feature requests, and we understand where the product is going”.

More than just an automated compliance tool, Vanta has become an integral part of CipherStash’s security program, enabling the organisation to continuously prove its commitment to security excellence.

“We have a lot of our visibility and our posture centralised through Vanta, which we found is a really good place to orchestrate the business of running a security program," says Paul.

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The impact

Compliance as a competitive advantage

With Vanta, CipherStash has significantly reduced the manual burden of managing security compliance. Their team can now concentrate on building and delivering their product without being held back by time-consuming compliance tasks.

Achieving and maintaining compliance with security standards such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001 has opened new opportunities for CipherStash, as security-conscious customers now have clear visibility into their compliance status.

One of the biggest advantages has been the implementation of Vanta’s Trust Centre, which has helped the company proactively communicate its security posture to potential customers, building trust and credibility.

According to CipherStash CTO, Kate Andrews, the Trust Centre “is already a game changer…enabling us to have confidence that our security questionnaires are being answered reliably, in a way that genuinely reflects CipherStash's position."

With the Vanta solution taking care of compliance, Kate notes that ”the team can spend more of their time building value for customers, rather than constantly in that burn of reacting to security risks and incidents.”

Looking ahead to the future, CipherStash is now well-positioned to scale with a compliance framework that grows with the organisation.      

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