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11 statements about SOC 2, every show
Cacioppo: SOC 2 and ISO 27001 overlap by roughly 60% to 65%
“I think our fish like mapping is like sixty-ish, 65%.”
Cacioppo: Vanta found PMF by prescribing SOC 2's ambiguous rules
“I think for a startup that's never done this, it is unhelpful, because it sort of opens up, you know, a maze in a way that's just not great, and that's why being prescriptive, like, is part of, I think, the, and Vanta's initial product market fit, I think it's…”
Cacioppo: Tying brand identity to a category standard backfires when competitors emerge
“In the early days, before we had competitors, we tried to basically make this call response of, like, someone says, talk to you, someone says Vanta. And this really close association, which in the early, again, when we were just competing against consultants. …”
Kenney: SOC 2 compliance improved OutboundSync's product and support
“Investing in that has improved our product improved our customer support, and increased our sales.”
Reimer: HIPAA compliance is self-attesting and requires no external audit
“The nice thing about HIPAA is it's self-attesting so you don't pay for an external audit or it's not required to basically to claim HIPAA compliance.”
Cacioppo: Vanta began with SOC 2 as business software's de facto standard
“We started with SOC two SOC two, which was the closest thing that existed at the time to like a default business software standard. It's not a law. It's more like a de facto standard, but that seemed like the first thing companies get, so the first thing we st…”
Landsman: On-prem software allows bootstrapped founders to bypass SOC 2 requirements
“Well, it also gives you some advantages of like, you're a tiny bootstrap company. You're not going to be able to be SOC two compliant, for example, and there's going to be these type of companies that are like, well, you're SOC two, let me talk to your securit…”
Carbide Focuses on Clients With Complex Multi-Compliance Needs Over Vanta
“Now I would say that in, you know, we definitely do end up competing with Vanta in, in, in the SOC two example where we generally focus our energy and where we have more you know, success with customers is when their needs are more complex than just simply get…”
LaCivita: First-Year SOC 2 Compliance via Vanta Costs Around $20,000
“Yeah, I think, yeah, I think for the first year, you budget, budget around 20 grand, you know, inclusive of the auditor fees too, they kind of bundle everything together.”
Bird Eats Bug lost enterprise leads lacking SSO, SOC 2, and self-hosting
“A few bigger companies reached out to us like with thousands of people and we couldn't cater to them because all of them wanted things like single sign on, for example, self-hosted solution, and also SOC two and ISO 2001 certifications.”
Developers ignore SOC 2, leaving enterprise white space that GitHub misses
“GitHub is a great company, but it's a developer company. It's a developer tool loved by developers. You show me a developer that's concerned about SOC two or GDP or you know, I'll buy a bottle of Dom Perignon. They just aren't.”