Vanta and Drata automate evidence collection and continuous monitoring so an organisation can prepare for and maintain audits such as SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001. Certisyn issues an independent, sealed determination that the organisation's counterparties can check themselves. The first helps an organisation run its programme. The second gives the people relying on that programme a record they can replay.
| Property | Compliance automation | Certisyn determination |
|---|---|---|
| Primary user | The organisation preparing for audit | The counterparty relying on the organisation |
| Role in the programme | Collects evidence and monitors controls inside the organisation | Examines evidence from outside the programme and issues a determination |
| Output | Readiness, evidence packages and dashboards | A sealed, policy-versioned, revocable determination |
| Independence | The organisation's own tool | A party with no hand in the subject, under a conflict-of-interest gate |
| Reader check | Via the organisation's trust centre or auditor | Public registry and recomputable derivation root, no account |
A compliance platform makes the organisation's evidence orderly. That evidence is the input to a Certisyn determination, which then travels to every counterparty as a record each can check without asking the organisation.
No. Compliance automation helps an organisation prepare for and maintain its audits. Certisyn issues an independent determination that a counterparty can check. An organisation can use a compliance platform to run its programme and Certisyn to give its counterparties a record they can rely on.
A determination is worth most to a counterparty when the party that issued it had no hand in the subject's compliance programme. Certisyn runs a conflict-of-interest gate at the point of sale and at issuance.