ISO 27001-Ready in 72 Hours

ISO 27001 certification typically costs $40K+ and takes 6–12 months. Databunker gets your cloud scan and Annex A technical controls live in 72 hours — then PII tokenization cuts your certification scope by up to 80%.

Works with: Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, AWS, Azure, GCP, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Annex A Live in 72h 1,000+ Cloud & DB Checks 80% Scope Reduction
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2–4
Months to ISO 27001
80%
Certification scope reduction
1,000+
Automated cloud & database checks
$40K+
Avg. certification cost savings

Cloud or self-hosted · AWS, Azure, GCP

Four Problems That Block Most ISO 27001 Certifications

Your compliance platform organizes the audit and tracks policies — but the hardest technical problems are still yours to solve.

Enterprise & Government Deals Blocked Without It

ISO 27001 is the global price of entry for European enterprise, government, and regulated-industry procurement. Without it, you're disqualified before the conversation starts.

93 Annex A Controls Across 4 Domains

ISO 27001:2022 requires 93 controls across organizational, people, physical, and technological domains. Working out which apply — and implementing the technical ones — takes months.

Cloud Misconfigurations Surface at the Worst Time

Unencrypted storage, excessive IAM privileges, missing logs, inadequate monitoring — auditors find these during Stage 2. Databunker Radar runs 1,000+ checks before the auditor arrives.

Your Compliance Tool Tracks Controls — It Doesn't Build Them

Vanta and Drata flag open controls and organize evidence — but per-record encryption, deep cloud scanning, and DSR automation are still your engineering team's problem to solve.

Three Tools. Data, Cloud, and Legacy Systems.

Each one closes a gap your compliance platform leaves open — all three work without rebuilding your stack.

1

Connect Legacy Systems with Databunker DPO

Timeline: Days

Connect your CRM, ERP, helpdesk, and databases to Databunker DPO. Gain data discovery, privacy-rights automation, and audit trails for Annex A — no code changes required.

  • Automate access, correction & erasure requests
  • Full audit trail for every data operation
  • Pre-built connectors for SaaS & databases
2

Scan & Fix Cloud Violations with Databunker Radar

Timeline: Hours to scan, days to remediate

Run 1,000+ automated checks across your cloud and databases. Each finding is linked to the specific Annex A control it violates.

  • Annex A-mapped findings with remediation steps
  • Continuous monitoring for new issues
  • Audit-ready reports: ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR & more
3

Reduce Audit Scope with Databunker Pro

Timeline: Days to weeks, with AI dev tools

Replace your user table with Databunker Pro. Your database stores only tokens — removing most systems from ISO 27001 audit scope.

  • AES-256 encryption with key rotation
  • Record versioning & auto-expiration
  • REST API, SDKs & AI-assisted migration
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How a data subject request flows

Request received

User submits an erasure or access request via your privacy page or API

Data discovered

DPO Portal scans all connected systems to locate the user's personal data

Action executed

Data is deleted, anonymized, or exported across every connected source — automatically

Evidence logged

Full record of the request, actions taken, timestamps, and completion — ISO 27001 audit-ready

Databunker DPO — Automate ISO 27001 Privacy Controls

Annex A control A.5.34 (Privacy and protection of personal data) requires you to handle data subject requests, manage retention and deletion, and maintain evidence of every action taken on personal data. Databunker DPO automates all of it — across every connected system.

  • Data discovery — automatically map where personal data lives across all connected systems
  • Automated DSR processing — handle data subject requests for access, erasure, correction, and portability end-to-end
  • Record masking & versioning — mask sensitive fields and maintain a full history of every change made
  • Unlimited data sources — connect your CRM, ERP, support platform, and databases with no per-source limits
  • Audit-ready reporting — generate ISO 27001 evidence packages for your certification body at any time

Full ISO 27001 Coverage — Three Tools, Every Annex A Control

Map the Annex A controls Databunker covers directly — so you know exactly what's automated and what's still on your compliance platform.

Access Control & Privileged Access
A.5.15–A.5.18, A.8.2
Restrict logical access by role and least privilege; protect privileged accounts.
Databunker Pro CRBAC policies, field-level masking, multi-tenancy with PostgreSQL row-level security.
Databunker Radar Scans IAM for overly permissive roles and public-access misconfigurations.
Cryptography
A.8.24
Use cryptography effectively to protect confidentiality, authenticity and integrity.
Databunker Pro AES-256 per-record encryption + TLS in transit + FIPS 140-2 primitives + automated key rotation.
Databunker Radar Detects unencrypted S3, RDS, and in-transit gaps.
Logging
A.8.15
Produce, retain and protect logs of user activities, exceptions and security events.
Databunker Pro Per-record audit — who accessed what, when, and why.
Databunker Radar CloudTrail / VPC Flow Logs gap detection across cloud accounts.
Monitoring
A.8.16
Continuously monitor networks, systems and applications for anomalous behavior.
Databunker Radar 1,000+ continuous checks; configuration drift detection across cloud accounts.
Data Masking
A.8.11
Limit exposure of personal data through masking, pseudonymisation or anonymisation.
Databunker Pro Field-level masking + tokenisation removes raw PII from your app database entirely.
Databunker DPO Record masking on connected legacy systems.
Information Deletion & Retention
A.8.10, A.5.33
Securely delete information when no longer needed; protect records in line with retention policy.
Databunker Pro Sliding and absolute TTLs auto-delete records on schedule.
Databunker DPO Erasure requests fan out across every connected source.
Backup & Resilience
A.8.13–A.8.14
Maintain redundancy, backup capability and recovery procedures.
Databunker Pro Stateless HA, multi-AZ PostgreSQL, Shamir's Secret Sharing key backup (3-of-5).
Databunker Radar Resilience checks: backup configuration, failover, monitoring gaps.
Network Security
A.8.20–A.8.21
Secure networks and the services that use them; segregate where appropriate.
Databunker Radar Detects public-facing resources without controls; missing encryption in transit; open ports.
Privacy & Personal Data Protection
A.5.34
Identify and meet requirements regarding the protection of personally identifiable information.
Databunker DPO Automates access, correction, erasure and portability across every connected system.
Databunker Pro Built-in consent storage, withdrawal, full audit history per user.
Audit Evidence Exports
All Annex A
Generate evidence packages for your certification body at any time.
Databunker Radar Exportable cloud compliance reports mapped to ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR.
Databunker DPO Per-DSR audit trail with timestamps and completion status.
Databunker Pro Per-record access logs ready for forensic review.
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Get Your Free ISO 27001 Readiness Report

✅ 100% Free — No credit card required

A 30-minute working session with our compliance team plus a written assessment of where your stack stands against ISO 27001:2022.

  • Per-control Annex A gap analysis against your current setup
  • Cloud + database compliance scan via Databunker Radar — 1,000+ checks mapped to Annex A
  • Remediation roadmap — concrete next steps prioritised by certification risk
  • Tool / tier recommendation across Pro / Radar / DPO

Drill into findings by Annex A control — and export an audit-ready report.

ISO 27001 compliance dashboard — your assessment results

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Tell us a bit about your stack — our compliance team will respond within 24 hours.

✓ 24-hour response · ✓ 30-minute call · ✓ No credit card required

5 min
Avg. DSR Response Time
Zero
PII in Your App Database
93
ISO 27001:2022 Controls
20M+
Records Secured

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See what CTOs and security teams say about ISO 27001 certification with Databunker

★★★★★

"We needed ISO 27001 certification to close a €2M government contract. Databunker Radar identified every Annex A gap across our AWS infrastructure in hours, and PII tokenization with Pro cut our audit scope in half. We passed certification in under 3 months — the auditors specifically praised our built-in access controls and per-record encryption."

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Thomas Jensen
CTO, VerifyStack
★★★★★

"We were about to spend six months building ISO 27001 controls from scratch. Databunker Pro gave us per-record encryption, access logging, and DSR automation out of the box — covering a dozen Annex A controls immediately. Saved us four months of engineering time and shrunk our certification audit scope materially."

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Lisa Reynolds
CISO, NexaCloud

ISO 27001 Compliance FAQs

Common questions from teams already using Vanta, Drata, or Secureframe

Yes — they solve different problems and work well together.

Vanta and Drata track whether your controls exist, manage policies and SoA documents, and help organize evidence for your certification body.

Databunker implements the technical controls they require you to have:

  • Vanta flags "PII encryption not implemented" → Databunker Pro implements it (A.8.24)
  • Vanta flags "Privacy rights automation missing" → Databunker DPO automates it (A.5.34)
  • Vanta flags cloud issues at a surface level → Databunker Radar runs 1,000+ deep checks across Annex A

Most teams run both: Vanta/Drata for policies and audit workflow, Databunker for the actual security infrastructure.

The fastest path focuses on scope reduction and automating Annex A technical controls — not building everything from scratch:

  • Day 1–2: Connect DPO to your existing data sources — instant privacy controls and data discovery, no code changes
  • Day 1–3: Run Radar to scan your cloud and get a prioritized Annex A gap list
  • Week 1–3: Remediate critical findings and export audit evidence
  • Ongoing: Migrate application code to Databunker Pro to reduce audit scope for the full certification

Most teams reach ISO 27001 certification readiness in 2–4 months. Scope reduction via PII tokenization is the biggest lever for cutting certification cost and timeline.

ISO 27001 audit scope includes every system that stores or processes personal data. Once you tokenize PII with Databunker Pro:

  • Your application database holds only UUID tokens — no PII, out of audit scope
  • Your logs, backups, and caches contain no personal data — they fall out of scope
  • Only the Databunker vault itself is in scope — one system to certify instead of many
  • Your certification body spends less time auditing, and your fees drop significantly

Most customers see 80%+ reduction in the number of systems their certification body needs to assess.

Databunker directly addresses key Annex A technological and organizational controls:

  • A.8.2 — Privileged access rights: built-in RBAC in Databunker Pro
  • A.8.5 — Secure authentication: token-based access, no raw PII in transit
  • A.8.11 — Data masking: record masking and field-level controls
  • A.8.15 — Logging: complete per-record access logs
  • A.8.16 — Monitoring: Radar continuous cloud monitoring
  • A.8.24 — Use of cryptography: per-record AES-256 with automated key rotation
  • A.5.34 — Privacy and protection of personal data: DPO automates data subject rights

Databunker handles the technical controls. You still need a compliance platform and certification body for the full certification process.

No — you can get ISO 27001-ready without touching your code at all.

  • Databunker DPO connects to your existing systems and automates privacy controls with no code changes — immediate Annex A coverage for data subject rights and access management
  • Databunker Radar scans your cloud infrastructure without any integration — run it today
  • Databunker Pro does require a code migration, but it's optional and can happen after you're already certified — using our REST API, SDKs (Node.js, Python, PHP, Go), and AI-assisted migration tools

Start with DPO and Radar for fast certification readiness. Add Pro to reduce your long-term audit scope and ongoing certification costs.

Databunker Radar scans your AWS, Azure, GCP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server environments and flags issues mapped to Annex A controls:

  • A.8.24 Cryptography: Unencrypted storage, databases without encryption at rest, missing TLS
  • A.8.2 Privileged access: Overly permissive IAM roles, excessive admin rights
  • A.8.15 Logging: Missing CloudTrail, incomplete VPC Flow Logs, gaps in audit logging
  • A.8.20 Network security: Public-facing resources without access controls
  • A.8.16 Monitoring: Missing alerting, no anomaly detection configuration

Each finding includes the specific Annex A control it affects and step-by-step remediation guidance.

Databunker is not a compliance platform — it's the technical security infrastructure that makes ISO 27001 faster and cheaper to achieve:

  • You still need an accredited certification body (BSI, Bureau Veritas, etc.) to issue your ISO 27001 certificate
  • You may still want a compliance platform for policies, risk registers, and Statement of Applicability
  • Databunker Radar provides the technical evidence those tools need
  • Databunker Pro reduces the scope of what your certification body audits

Databunker handles what compliance platforms don't: the actual technical security controls — encryption, access management, audit logging, and data subject rights.

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ISO 27001 for Your Data and Your Cloud

Built for teams using Vanta, Drata and Secureframe. Databunker implements the technical Annex A controls your compliance platform requires — PII tokenization, deep cloud scanning, and legacy system integration — without rebuilding your stack.

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✓ 1,000+ cloud & database checks ✓ Annex A controls automation ✓ PII tokenization ✓ Audit evidence exports ✓ GDPR-ready ✓ Cloud or self-hosted