Vendor Security Alliance (VSA), a coalition of companies aiming to improve internet security, has announced it will be conducting outsourced audits for member companies that satisfy the third-party requirement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

VSA launched at the end of September 2016 as the side project from Ken Baylor, Uber's head of compliance. It caught on more quickly than Baylor and his co-founders expected -- around 8,000 companies had downloaded its survey by February 2017.

VSA kicked things off initially with nine member companies -- Uber, Docker, Dropbox, Palantir, Twitter, Square, Atlassian, GoDaddy, and Airbnb.