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How Accumulus Technologies centralized 13,000+ controls and scaled trust with Vanta
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“Vanta paid dividends for us within the first week.”
TL;DR
- Challenge: Accumulus needed to centralize and scale a complex, global compliance program—spanning 13,000+ controls—without slowing the business or overloading a lean team.
- Solution: Vanta centralized Accumulus’ entire compliance ecosystem—making it easier to achieve compliance, accelerate customer assurance, and turn trust into a growth engine.
- ROI: SOC 2, ISO, and HITRUST achieved in parallel, customer reassessments cut from months to 45 minutes, and enterprise-grade compliance without adding headcount.
The company
Connecting the healthcare ecosystem
Founded in 2025 as a spinout from the nonprofit Accumulus Synergy, Accumulus Technologies was created to accelerate the drug development lifecycle. The company supports life science organizations and regulatory authorities around the world with a cloud-based collaboration platform designed to operate within some of the most highly regulated environments for faster, more efficient collaboration from drug discovery through global availability. At Accumulus, trust, security, and compliance aren’t check-the-box requirements—they’re foundational to business.
The challenge
Wrangling the global compliance Wild West
As a one-person compliance team, Stepheni Norton, Director of the Integrated Assurance Office at Accumulus, led an ambitious compliance program spanning more than 13,000 controls across frameworks, countries, and health authorities as the company scaled across complex regulatory environments.
To support this growth, Accumulus leveraged a mix of consultants and tools—including spreadsheets, Smartsheet, and Confluence—to manage compliance requirements. As the program matured, the team saw an opportunity to centralize their approach, improve visibility into compliance posture, and deliver a smoother experience for customers navigating security reviews.
When a new CISO set an aggressive timeline to achieve SOC 2 by year-end, Stepheni proactively sought a partner to help identify gaps, streamline workflows, and reduce manual effort—so she could cut through the noise and scale the business with confidence.
The Vanta impact
A single platform for global compliance
Vanta centralized Accumulus’ entire compliance ecosystem—making it easier to turn trust into a growth engine.
Freed from manual noise, the team now focuses on higher-impact work—planning 18–24 month roadmaps, preparing for new countries and regulations, collaborating with control owners, and continuously maturing the program.
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