For a growing SaaS company, there’s a predictable moment when security compliance stops being a “someday” item and becomes urgent: an enterprise prospect’s procurement team asks for a SOC 2 report or an ISO 27001 certificate, and suddenly the deal is on hold until the paperwork exists.
Most founders aren’t prepared for how confusing that process turns out to be. That’s the gap CyberForge Consulting, founded by Ana Tozer, has built itself around replacing the usual scramble with a structured, hands-on path to becoming audit-ready.
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The Problem: Compliance Prep Eats Time, Focus, and Deals
CyberForge’s own framing of the problem is blunt: “we should probably get SOC 2” tends to spiral into a familiar mess. Checklists that don’t seem to move anything forward. Conflicting advice from software vendors, auditors, and AI tools that all say something slightly different. Last-minute scrambling to prove controls that were never actually tracked in the first place. And in the background, an enterprise deal quietly stalling while the security review drags on.
The company’s diagnosis of why this happens is straightforward: most SOC 2 and ISO 27001 offerings fall into one of two unhelpful categories. Either a vendor hands a team a software platform and leaves them to self-serve their way through it, or a consulting firm buries them in generic advice that doesn’t map cleanly onto their actual business. CyberForge positions itself as deliberately avoiding both extremes offering direct, expert-led support instead of another dashboard to manage alone.
The Two Frameworks: SOC 2 vs. ISO 27001
CyberForge works with SaaS companies across the two frameworks that come up most often in enterprise procurement conversations, and is explicit that the right choice depends on who a company is selling to:
SOC 2 is positioned as the better fit for SaaS companies selling primarily into the US enterprise market. It’s built around the Trust Services Criteria, and it’s the report most commonly requested during American procurement processes.
ISO 27001 is positioned as the stronger option for companies that need global credibility or are building a formal Information Security Management System (ISMS) particularly useful for regulated industries and international buyers who expect a recognized international standard rather than a US-centric report.
For companies unsure which path applies to them, CyberForge offers a free initial consultation specifically to sort that out before any commitment is made.
Inside the SOC 2 Process
CyberForge lays out a defined, four-stage path for SOC 2 readiness, designed to remove the guesswork that usually derails these projects:
1. Gap Assessment: The starting point is an honest evaluation of a company’s current setup what’s already in place, and what’s genuinely missing tailored to that specific business rather than a generic checklist.
2. Control Implementation: From there, CyberForge builds a tailored control framework suited to the company’s actual operations, with an emphasis on getting things set up correctly the first time so there’s no expensive rework later.
3. Pre-Audit Readiness: Before an external auditor ever gets involved, CyberForge runs a full readiness review, the goal being that by the time the real audit starts, the company already knows it’s going to pass.
4. Ongoing Monitoring: For clients who want it, CyberForge continues supporting the company after certification, so nobody is stuck searching old email threads to reconstruct evidence when the next audit cycle rolls around.
Inside the ISO 27001 Process
The ISO 27001 engagement covers similar ground but is structured around building a formal ISMS rather than a single audit report. CyberForge’s stated scope includes:
- Defining ISMS scope, policy framework, and asset inventory
- Running and building risk assessments / treatment plans
- Mapping controls and collecting the evidence auditors will actually ask for
- Supporting internal audit preparation and management review
The intended outcome, per the company, is a clear roadmap, audit-ready documentation, and a calmer path to certification.
Who CyberForge Is Built For
CyberForge is unusually direct about who its service is and isn’t designed for. Its ideal client is an early-stage or growth-stage B2B SaaS company that needs to unlock enterprise deals but doesn’t yet have in-house compliance expertise.
By its own description, the service is not aimed at:
- Larger teams that already have in-house compliance capability
- Businesses unlikely to sell into enterprise accounts in the first place
- Companies comfortable with a slower, trial-and-error approach and the staff bandwidth to pull people off daily work to manage it.
- Companies without near-term plans to scale
That kind of explicit “this isn’t for everyone” framing is itself part of the pitch a signal that CyberForge is optimizing for a specific type of client rather than trying to be everything to everyone.
Results the Company Points To
CyberForge backs its process up with a couple of concrete outcomes. One client a 15-person B2B SaaS business needed SOC 2 to unlock enterprise deals and became audit-ready in 10 weeks, closing an enterprise client within two months of that milestone. Another, an early-stage SaaS company with a strong product but little existing security focus, used the engagement to build its full SOC 2 foundation ahead of its next funding round arriving at the audit already prepared.
Client feedback referenced on the site echoes a consistent theme: teams that felt overwhelmed or unsure where to start describe the process becoming manageable once they had a consultant walking them through it directly, rather than being handed a tool and left to figure it out alone
A Human-Led Alternative to Compliance Software
CyberForge sets itself apart through its responsiveness and hands-on approach, working closely with clients to ensure a smooth and efficient compliance journey. The company advertises a 10-minute live support SLA, and rather than pushing a single proprietary platform, it says it works across most of the market-leading compliance tools meaning clients aren’t locked into a specific vendor’s software just to work with CyberForge. The company frames its own value proposition as more cost-effective than hiring a full-time compliance employee, while still being more hands-on than a self-serve software product.
Beyond direct client work, CyberForge also maintains an education hub covering topics like what actually matters in SOC 2 for SaaS companies, realistic compliance timelines, and frequently asked questions aimed at helping teams understand the landscape even before they engage a consultant.
The Bigger Picture
Enterprise buyers increasingly treat SOC 2 and ISO 27001 as baseline requirements rather than nice-to-haves, which means compliance readiness has quietly become a genuine growth lever for SaaS companies rather than a purely defensive checkbox. A company that can get audit-ready quickly and credibly is a company that can close bigger deals faster.
CyberForge Consulting registered as CyberForge Consulting Limited in London is positioning itself as the guide that gets SaaS teams there without losing months of focus along the way, betting that the market for that kind of hands-on, human-led compliance support will keep growing as more companies hit the same wall.
