Cybersecurity Compliance Blogs for Sprinto
I wrote articles that covered SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and ISO 9001, plus four competitor reviews and comparisons.
Project snapshot
- Client
- Sprinto
- Work type
- Blogs
- Industry
- Cybersecurity, SaaS
- Year
- Jun - Aug 2025
On this page
About Sprinto and its readers
Sprinto sells compliance automation software to SaaS and security teams. Its readers are founders and security leads who check every claim, and they trust auditors more than marketers. A wrong control number or a vague line about a competitor gets caught fast.
I wrote 11 articles on SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA and GDPR. Sprinto published them under the names of people on its team, so each one had to be something that person would stand behind.
What I wrote
The articles fall into three groups. Explainers help readers who are new to a standard. ISO guides help teams prepare for an audit. Reviews and comparisons help teams choose a tool.
Explainers for readers new to a standard (2)
| Article | What it covers |
|---|---|
| System and Organization Controls (SOC) | SOC 1, 2 and 3, who the AICPA is and the five Trust Services Criteria. It uses a Gartner finding that 60% of companies check a vendor’s cybersecurity before signing. |
| SOC 2 exceptions | What an exception is, how it differs from an audit finding, how it affects the auditor’s opinion and whether you can still pass SOC 2 with one. |
ISO guides for teams preparing for an audit (5)
For these, I read the ISO standards themselves. They’re paid documents and the exact wording matters, so I didn’t rely on blog summaries.
| Article | What it covers |
|---|---|
| ISO 42001 vs ISO 27001 | Three comparison tables covering scope, the certification process and control frameworks, plus where the two standards overlap. |
| ISO 27001 vendor management | About 4,200 words on supplier controls, covering Annex A 5.19 to 5.23, clauses 6.1 and 8.1, what auditors check and who owns vendor management in the company. |
| ISO 9001 checklist | A checklist for clauses 4 to 10, a separate internal audit checklist and a table of common audit gaps, with why each happens and how to fix it. |
| ISO 42001 audit | The two audit types, a five-step process from gathering documents to fixing gaps, and a checklist. |
| ISO 42001 auditor | The types of auditor, what they’re responsible for, the skills they need and how to become one. |
Reviews and comparisons for teams choosing a tool (4)
| Article | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Oneleet alternatives | Five tools (Sprinto, Drata, Vanta, Secureframe and Thoropass) compared on eight criteria, with each one’s G2 rating and estimated price. |
| Sprinto vs Oneleet | A comparison of integrations, onboarding time, auditor access and the number of frameworks each supports. It recommends Oneleet for teams that want managed services and outside compliance leadership. |
| Vanta vs OneTrust | The page opens by explaining that the two tools do different jobs. Vanta suits engineering-led startups working toward SOC 2 or ISO 27001, and OneTrust is an enterprise privacy platform for GDPR and similar rules. Then it compares features and pricing. |
| Drata review | A score of 8.5 out of 10, with pricing tiers, pros and cons, and ratings from G2, Gartner, Capterra and PeerSpot. One of the cons is that pricing rises with team size and the number of frameworks. |
The Drata review states clearly that Sprinto, a Drata competitor, published it.
How I worked
For every article, Sprinto gave me an ICP and messaging framework, a long set of editorial guidelines and a brief with the angle, the audience and the points to cover. I read the ICP and the guidelines first, then started on the topic.
Most of my time went into research. I watched videos to learn ISO and SOC 2 from the basics, read the standards and went through Sprinto’s knowledge base and existing articles.
For the reviews and comparisons, I read each competitor’s website and materials, plus reviews on G2, Gartner, Capterra and PeerSpot. The pricing, ratings and weak points on those pages come from there.
Sprinto’s guidelines were strict about what each article could claim, which makes sense in compliance. My first articles went through a couple of rounds of revisions. After that, I knew what Sprinto’s editors looked for and wrote to it from the first draft.
Most of these articles open with a short summary (TL;DR), and end with FAQs. In the explainers and ISO guides, Sprinto comes up only in a closing section, after the reader has the answer.
