WordPress VIP Achieves SOC 2 Type I Attestation, Expanding Enterprise-Grade Compliance

Earlier this year, WordPress VIP secured FedRAMP Moderate authorization, establishing us as the only managed WordPress provider authorized for use at the federal government level. Just last week, we announced our GovRAMP and TX-RAMP authorizations, further extending our leadership in public sector compliance. 

Today, we’re proud to announce another major milestone: the successful completion of our SOC 2 Type I attestation. With this achievement, WordPress VIP continues to raise the bar for security and compliance in open source content management systems (CMS). 

Why SOC 2 Matters for CMS Customers

SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2), developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), provides an independent framework for evaluating how organizations manage and secure customer data. Through a third-party audit by Fortreum, WordPress VIP has demonstrated that our practices and controls are designed to meet the highest standards of AICPA’s Trust Services Criteria for Security and Availability. For customers, this means:

• Sensitive data managed within their CMS is protected by robust, multi-layered security.
• Access controls, monitoring, and safeguards align with enterprise-grade requirements.
• Infrastructure is resilient, redundant, and designed to mitigate downtime or disruption.
• CMS operations meet the strictest standards of reliability and compliance.

In an environment where CMS decisions increasingly influence brand reputation, regulatory exposure, and customer trust, SOC 2 attestation provides confidence that WordPress VIP not only enables innovation, it secures it.

Setting a Higher Standard in CMS Security

This SOC 2 Type I milestone builds on our FedRAMP Moderate authorization, making WordPress VIP one of the only enterprise CMS platforms to meet both federal and enterprise compliance standards. That unique positioning empowers organizations across industries — including enterprise, media, and government — to innovate at scale within some of the world’s most stringent regulatory frameworks.

As Avik Mohan, Chief Governance, Risk and Compliance Officer at WordPress VIP, explains:

“For enterprises, the CMS is no longer just a publishing tool — it’s a mission-critical platform for growth and customer engagement. With SOC 2 attestation and FedRAMP authorization, we’ve proven that organizations don’t have to choose between flexibility and compliance. WordPress VIP delivers both.”

Empowering Customers to Scale Securely

With both SOC 2 and FedRAMP assurances, WordPress VIP gives enterprises and public sector agencies the opportunity to embrace the flexibility of WordPress with the security of an enterprise CMS.  Customers can confidently leverage innovations like Remote Data Blocks, which bring composability and real-time integrations directly into the editor — while knowing their CMS is operating within the most demanding compliance frameworks.

The result: a platform that combines the speed and agility of open source with the security, reliability, and governance today’s organizations demand.