How Everstake Strengthened Security and Partner Trust with Multi-Framework Compliance
Prescient Security
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About Everstake
Founded in 2018, Everstake is the largest global non-custodial staking provider, serving both institutional and retail clients. With over 1 million delegators and more than $7B in digital assets staked, Everstake operates across 80+ blockchain networks, running enterprise-grade validator infrastructure for major ecosystems such as Ethereum, Solana, and many others.
In a high-value, high-risk industry where billions in delegated assets are at stake, trust is non-negotiable. Everstake has made security and compliance a core priority, ensuring that its infrastructure and operations not only support network performance but also meet the rising expectations of institutional partners and retail clients.
The Challenge: Robust Security Posture & Bandwidth Crunch
Everstake's journey began with a focus on SOC 2 and ISO 27001, two globally recognised frameworks for information security and operational resilience. Achieving readiness for these standards was already a complex task, requiring continuous control monitoring, cross-functional alignment, and evidence gathering at scale.
As the process unfolded, Everstake's management realised that compliance gaps extended beyond these initial frameworks. To meet growing regulatory and stakeholder expectations, the scope was broadened to include the GDPR and CCPA for data privacy, as well as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) for enhancing overall cyber resilience.
This expansion introduced additional layers of operational complexity. Multiple frameworks had to be harmonised, privacy obligations mapped to existing systems, and cybersecurity controls embedded into daily operations. Attempting to manage this manually quickly proved unsustainable: controls were difficult to track, expertise was stretched thin, and critical operations risked being slowed by compliance overhead.
Unless addressed, these challenges risk failed audits, reputational damage, exposure to cyber threats, and loss of customer confidence. For Everstake, credibility in the blockchain ecosystem depended on demonstrating not just point-in-time compliance, but a holistic approach to cybersecurity and regulatory alignment.
The Solution
To meet growing compliance complexity, Everstake partnered with a GRC automation platform to embed security and compliance into daily operations. What once required manual effort, gathering logs, screenshots, and change documentation, was automated and streamlined. Evidence collection and control monitoring became continuous, reducing team burden while improving audit evidence quality and reliability.
Having partnered with Prescient Security as their audit partner, provided the company with the technical depth and industry perspective needed to guide Everstake through an expanded scope of compliance. Prescient Security's strong partnerships with GRC solutions helped them offer Everstake the scale, speed, and reliability needed in order to cross the finish line without diverting engineering focus away from core tasks.
"Prescient Security's proven expertise across diverse cybersecurity and compliance frameworks made them the clear choice for our audit. By consolidating multiple compliance requirements under a single trusted partner, we not only streamlined the process but also laid a solid foundation to elevate our security posture today and in the future." - Denys Avierin, CIO at Everstake.
This dual partnership with Prescient Security and GRC automation transformed the audit process. Instead of relying on lengthy interviews or redundant documentation, Prescient Security worked with already-mapped, continuously monitored controls. This eliminated bottlenecks, shortened audit cycles, and reduced repetitive iterations.
Eventually, Everstake could focus on validation services and critical operations, while the compliance activities ran smoothly in the background. The outcome was not just successful audit readiness, but a future-proof compliance framework that reinforced Everstake's cybersecurity resilience and long-term credibility within the blockchain ecosystem.
Outcomes: Confident in Compliance, Strength in Security
To develop a strategy aligned with Everstake's goals, Prescient Security's audit team invested time in understanding the company's unique decentralised infrastructure, risk profile, and regulatory frameworks. This approach led to fewer generic requests and more relevant assessments, while at the same time making the audits efficient and credible.
"With the help of Prescient Security, not only did we achieve compliance attestation but also identified critical gaps and reinforced our overall security program, aligning with industry standards and positioning us for continuous improvement." — Denys Avierin, CIO at Everstake.
Each NIST subcategory was rated on a 1–5 maturity scale, with written justification provided for every score, along with tailored recommendations outlining what it would take to reach the next level.
Working with Prescient Security helped Everstake avoid the drag and uncertainty associated with audits. The audit team's guidance made requirements clear from the outset, reducing audit friction and ensuring compliance controls were validated in a way that actually strengthened security practices.
How Prescient Security Supported Everstake's Security Culture That Demands More Than Compliance
Unlike companies that pursue frameworks for the sake of optics, Everstake approached their multi-framework program spanning SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, and NIST CSF with the same rigor they apply to engineering and infrastructure. Everstake’s commitment to security excellence, outpacing competitors and industry standards, was reflected in the comprehensiveness of their assessment and their acute attention to resulting action items and furtherance of their security program, in equal parts to their pursuit of it.
Prescient Security supported this approach by treating compliance as an operational roadmap, something to act on, measure against, and continually refine. This resulted in one of the highest NIST CSF segment maturity ratings Prescient Security has assigned to date, underscoring a security culture built on rigor, credibility, and continuous improvement.
How Everstake Used Compliance as a Growth and Credibility Factor
Achieving SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, and NIST CSF compliance wasn't just about meeting technical requirements. It played a strategic role in strengthening credibility with existing and potential partners. Given the nature of the service, the audits signalled to stakeholders that the company not only met stringent standards but also embraced security and privacy as core business principles.
By working with Prescient Security to achieve multi-framework attestation, Everstake gained a clear proof point: its infrastructure and processes could withstand scrutiny at the highest level.
This assurance strengthened trust with institutions and retail customers alike, while opening doors to new partnerships and opportunities with organisations that require strict compliance as a prerequisite. Compliance thus became more than risk management; it became a driver of responsible growth and competitive advantage in a rapidly maturing market.
Read Everstake's announcement post here.
The Result and Final Thoughts
The partnership with Prescient Security enabled Everstake to complete its SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, and NIST CSF compliance programs with clear guidance, a tailored approach, and top-notch audit and assessment reports. With Prescient Security's expert support, Everstake efficiently achieved its compliance goals with confidence, laying a foundation for responsible growth in a trust-driven market.
This project highlights the importance of collaborating with an audit firm that comprehends both the technical and business aspects of cybersecurity audits.
