How Zerberus Automates ISO 27001: A Deep Dive

Ramkumar Sundarakalatharan
May 14
4 min read

Updated: May 29

New here? This article builds on our earlier pieces on the cost of manual ISO 27001 compliance and why automation is gaining ground in the UK & EU. 📍 Start here if you missed them

Why ISO 27001 Still Sucks in 2025 (Yes, Even for SaaS Companies)

Let’s be honest: the traditional ISO 27001 compliance journey is a slog. Especially for SaaS startups trying to win enterprise deals in the UK or EU.

The problems are well known:

Spreadsheets and static templates.
Long consultant calls that lead to more documentation.
Engineers screenshotting cloud configs instead of shipping features.

Most tools don’t fix this. They help you track the mess, but don’t clean it up.

That’s the trap. In 2025, with SaaS teams moving faster than ever, ISO 27001 still feels like it was built for another era. And that’s a problem.

What Makes Zerberus Different?

Checklist to automate ISO 27001 compliance

Zerberus doesn’t just automate ISO 27001. It reframes it as a dynamic, system-aware process—not a static checklist.

Traditional compliance tools are like Starship sensors that warn you once the damage is already done. Zerberus is the forcefield that deploys itself the moment it senses a ripple in space—shielding your systems, locking down breaches, and rerouting power with zero hesitation. For teams used to delays, documentation chaos, and audit anxiety, what Zerberus delivers feels less like automation and more like a miracle engineered into your cloud. It's not just defence—it's foresight engineered into your infrastructure.

Embedded in your infrastructure: Zerberus operates natively within your AWS, Azure, or GCP stack—no sidecar agents or mirror environments.
One-Click Remediation™ (Patent Pending): Drawing inspiration from self-healing systems in resilient computing, Zerberus eliminates misconfigurations at the source through secure, guided remediation pipelines.
Just-in-Time Provisioning (Patent Pending): Dynamic, ephemeral access to service accounts that adapts to operational context and expires by design—aligned with Zero Trust and built to withstand audit scrutiny.
Continuous Auditability: Real-time artefact collection with cryptographic integrity checks. No screenshots. No simulation. Actual proof.

This isn't just automation—it's secure-by-design, infrastructure-native compliance.

Zerberus integrates with the full SaaS ecosystem: GitHub, GitLab, Okta, Jira, GSuite, and more.

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ISO 27001 automation lifecycle in 10 days

The Automation Lifecycle: How It Works

When a SaaS company in the UK or EU plugs into Zerberus, the platform becomes a live interpreter of their infrastructure in the language of ISO 27001.

1. Instant Discovery

Zerberus securely interfaces with your cloud and code environments, creating a topology-aware map of your systems, data flows, identities, and policies.

2. Contextual Control Mapping

Instead of retrofitting controls to documentation, Zerberus dynamically maps Annex A controls to live system states. Using policy-as-code principles, it removes the guesswork and keeps alignment continuous.

3. Remediation with Guardrails

Zerberus doesn't just suggest. It remediates. Using automation hooks and pre-validated playbooks, changes are pushed directly into infra—secure, reversible, and traceable.

4. Cryptographic Proof of Control

Every compliance state is backed by tamper-proof logs and signed artefacts, ensuring evidence withstands audit scrutiny.

📈 Reduce ISO 27001 certification prep from 12 weeks to under 10 days.

Real Stories, Real ROI

A UK-based fintech SaaS reduced external consultant spend by 60% using Zerberus.
A healthtech startup in Berlin onboarded in 2 hours and passed ISO 27001 audit in under 3 weeks.
An EU cloud provider automated 90% of documentation and cut engineering context switching by half.

We don't just make ISO 27001 faster—we make it fade into the background of your engineering workflow.

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Why We Built Zerberus

After launching a PCI-aligned credit card issuing and management platform for B2B SaaS companies in under 100 days, we came face-to-face with a paradox: the faster we shipped, the more time we lost to compliance overhead.

Why were senior engineers wasting hours capturing screenshots? Why did every security control need to be explained three different times—in a Jira ticket, in Confluence, and again during an audit call? And why was it easier to build a new feature than to prove an old one was secure?

These weren’t just nuisances—they were productivity black holes. Our velocity didn’t stall because of security; it stalled because context kept switching.

Because compliance wasn’t designed to work inside modern stacks.

So we asked: what if it could?

What if compliance ran inside your infrastructure, like observability or CI/CD?
What if risk controls could be codified, monitored, and auto-remediated like bugs?
And what if audits didn’t mean panic, but proof on tap?

Zerberus was born from that thinking—a platform built by security engineers who lived the pain, for SaaS teams that refuse to trade innovation for red tape.

Let’s Fix Compliance Together

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