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6 Best Compliance Tools in the UK for 2026: Your Complete Guide
Finding the best compliance tool for your UK business can be challenging. With regulations constantly evolving and enforcement becoming stricter, organisations need robust solutions to manage their compliance obligations effectively. This comprehensive guide explores the top six compliance management platforms available in the UK market today.
Debadrita Banik
Dec 22, 20254 min read
OneTrust Sale Rumours: Have Smart Teams Already Planning Their Switch
For the past decade, privacy and compliance teams have relied on OneTrust as the “safe” enterprise default. It wasn’t perfect - complex, heavy, often slow - but it was predictable. Trusted. Stable. That stability is now in question. Rumors of a OneTrust sale to private equity aren’t just industry noise—they are a turning point. When the largest player in privacy operations enters a consolidation cycle, it signals something bigger: the end of the one-size-fits-all privacy sui
Aravintharaj G
Dec 3, 20254 min read
Transitioning to Guardianship in AI Security: A New Era of Assurance
Artificial intelligence is shifting from passive prediction engines to agentic , autonomous systems that reason, coordinate, and act across digital environments. These systems do not wait for instructions. They interpret goals, make decisions, invoke tools, and interface with critical infrastructure . Yet, the security approach used for this new intelligence remains anchored in the past. The Limitations of Traditional Security Approaches Today’s industry still relies on stat
Ramkumar Sundarakalatharan
Nov 19, 20255 min read
EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Compliance Guide: Part II
The EU Cyber Resilience Act transforms open-source and firmware security from voluntary practice to legal requirement. By December 2027, every organization building digital products must prove components are secure, traceable, and continuously maintained. SBOMs become mandatory under Article 10, firmware vulnerabilities must be disclosed to ENISA within 24 hours, and secure-by-design principles must be embedded across CI/CD pipelines. Compliance is now a competitive advantage
Ramkumar Sundarakalatharan
Nov 6, 20254 min read
ISO 42001 Implementation: A 2026 Step-by-Step Guide for UK and EU Organisations
Get a detailed step by step guidance of how to implement ISO 42001 if you're a UK or EU organisation.
Debadrita Banik
Nov 3, 20259 min read
Decoding the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) : Part 1
The EU Cyber Resilience Act, enforceable December 2027, transforms cybersecurity from voluntary guidance to binding law. It mandates SBOMs, 24-hour vulnerability reporting to ENISA, and secure-by-design principles for all digital products sold in the EU. Penalties reach €15M or 2.5% of global turnover. Together with EO 14028 and NIST CSF 2.0, these frameworks make supply-chain transparency the new baseline for market access and customer trust.
Ramkumar Sundarakalatharan
Oct 26, 20254 min read
ISO 42001 for SaaS Startups: How to Build Trust, Win Deals, and Stay Ahead in the AI Governance Era
Introduction: The New Frontier of AI Governance Artificial intelligence is no longer an experimental feature; it’s at the core of how modern SaaS companies compete. But as AI scales across products, so does scrutiny — from regulators, customers, and investors alike. The new ISO 42001 standard has emerged as the first global AI management system framework . It’s the ISO 27001 moment for AI, setting the foundation for responsible, transparent, and auditable AI governance . For
Ramkumar Sundarakalatharan
Oct 21, 20254 min read
Resilient by Design: Why Zerberus Survives What Brought AWS Down
📅 Updated 21 October 2025, 17:20 BST 🟡 Developing incident: AWS continues gradual recovery across its US-EAST-1 region following widespread DNS degradation affecting DynamoDB, EC2, and Lambda. The AWS Outage 2025: What Actually Happened At 12:11 AM PDT on 20 October 2025, Amazon Web Services confirmed an “operational issue” in its US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region. The root cause was a DNS resolution failure within DynamoDB , cascading to services such as EC2, Lambd
Ramkumar Sundarakalatharan
Oct 20, 20255 min read
AI Compliance and Software Supply Chain Security: The Trace-AI Metadata Model
The Compliance Blind Spot in the AI Era Artificial intelligence has revolutionized how we build software, but the tools we use to prove it’s secure are stuck in the past. Today’s applications are complex assemblies of pre-trained models, microservices, and countless open-source dependencies. While this accelerates innovation, it also creates a critical challenge for software supply chain security : how do you secure what you can't see? Traditional vulnerability scanners were
Ramkumar Sundarakalatharan
Oct 8, 20254 min read
Complete Guide to Security Questionnaire Automation in 2025
Discover how questionnaire automation transforms security assessments in 2025. Reduce completion time by 85-90% with AI-powered platforms. Learn implementation strategies, essential features, and best practices for automating security questionnaires while improving accuracy and freeing your team for strategic work.
Debadrita Banik
Oct 7, 20256 min read
How to Automate EU Cyber Resilience Act Compliance in Your CI/CD
Meet EU CRA SBOM Requirements and Prepare for the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, Without Slowing Engineers Why This Matters Now The EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance bar is rising for anyone shipping software. UK organisations face comparable duties under the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill . If you deliver via CI/CD, you will need machine-readable SBOMs, lifecycle vulnerability handling, and audit-ready evidence that does not throttle delivery. This guide shows
Ramkumar Sundarakalatharan
Sep 20, 20255 min read
From SBOM to ZSBOM: Why Metadata-First Risk Classification Matters
Why Today’s SBOMs Aren’t Enough Every major breach in the last five years has one thing in common: the attackers didn’t break through the front door, they slipped in through dependencies. That’s why governments rushed to make Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) mandatory. From the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in Europe to Executive Order 14028 in the United States, SBOMs are now table stakes for selling software. But here is the problem: most SBOMs are glorified spreadsheets
Ramkumar Sundarakalatharan
Sep 19, 20254 min read
25 Questions To Ask While Choosing A Cybersecurity Vendor
Choosing the right cybersecurity vendor is critical for your organization's security posture. Our comprehensive 25-question evaluation checklist helps you assess potential partners across key areas including technical capabilities, compliance, support, and cost-effectiveness to make the best decision for your business.
Debadrita Banik
Sep 17, 20255 min read
How to Prepare for a PCI DSS Audit in 7 Steps in 2025
Navigate your PCI DSS audit confidently in 2025 with our comprehensive 7-step preparation guide. From gap analysis to documentation, learn how to achieve compliance efficiently while safeguarding sensitive payment data and avoiding costly penalties.
Debadrita Banik
Aug 30, 20254 min read
Common ISO 27001 Implementation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
ISO 27001 implementation mistakes cost organizations thousands in failed audits and create security gaps. Many companies stumble during certification due to inadequate leadership commitment and poor risk assessment. This guide reveals 7 common mistakes and actionable solutions for successful ISMS implementation. Learn proper scoping, risk assessment, documentation balance, and long-term compliance. Discover why ISO 27001 requires ongoing commitment and how expert guidance ens
Debadrita Banik
Aug 26, 20254 min read
Go From CVE to Contract in 60 Seconds
Most security teams drown in CVE alerts, but can't identify which vulnerabilities truly threaten revenue. Trace-AI solves this with metadata-first CVE prioritization, taking you from raw CVE to business decision in 60 seconds. Unlike traditional CVE scanners that create noise, our research-backed approach contextualizes risks using dependency graphs, maintainer data, and compliance mapping for faster, smarter vulnerability management.
Ramkumar Sundarakalatharan
Aug 25, 20253 min read
Compliance Automation: A Game Changer for SaaS Founders
Compliance as a Revenue Enabler, Not Just Risk Reduction Almost every founder we met started the conversation with a similar anxiety: “How quickly can we get ISO 27001 or SOC 2? We’re losing deals.” On the surface, this sounded like a risk problem. In reality, it was a revenue one. Their boards and CROs were not asking for a compliance certificate to look good on the wall – they needed it because enterprise customers were holding back contracts without it. This matches what E
Ramkumar Sundarakalatharan
Aug 24, 20253 min read
The True Cost of Data Breaches: Why Small Businesses Are at Risk
Small businesses face devastating consequences from data breaches, with costs averaging $4.88 million per incident. Beyond financial losses, companies suffer reputation damage, legal complications, and customer trust issues that can permanently impact their future.
Aravintharaj G
Aug 15, 20254 min read
5 Best GRC Software Solutions for 2025
In continuation of our previous blog, we list down the 5 top GRC software solutions with detailed breakdown to aid in your decision making process.
Debadrita Banik
Aug 11, 20257 min read
How to Choose the Right GRC Solution: A Complete Guide for 2025
Choosing a GRC solution that suits your company needs can seem like a mammoth task. In this blog, we have broken down the fundamentals, as well as the criteria you should take into consideration while selecting one.
Aravintharaj G
Aug 5, 20254 min read
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