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How JetBrains turned SOC 2 into scalable infrastructure for a global engineering org
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"Vanta helps us save time. That’s the most important impact for us.”
TL;DR
- Challenge: JetBrains needed SOC 2 to maintain customer and partner relationships—but had just two people managing a complex, multi-product environment.
- Solution: JetBrains chose Vanta for its flexibility, integrations, and hands-on support, deploying it across SOC 2, Trust Center, and Questionnaire Automation.
- ROI: 5+ SOC 2 audits with different scopes completed, customer due diligence requests automated end-to-end, 20% time savings on questionnaire completion, 70% time savings on routine NDA execution tasks, and a scalable GRC foundation built around time savings.
The company
The tools developers rely on every day
JetBrains builds some of the most widely used developer tools in the world, including IntelliJ IDEA. As the company scaled across seven countries and expanded its enterprise customer base, so did the compliance expectations it needed to meet.
The challenge
A small team, a growing compliance mandate
In 2020, JetBrains needed to achieve SOC 2 after customers and partners began requiring it to maintain business relationships. At the time, the company’s security team faced limited resources, so any path forward had to be highly efficient.
What JetBrains tried first: JetBrains needed to manage SOC 2 across 10-plus in-scope products, many of which had multiple AWS accounts, creating a large and complex environment for a lean team to oversee.
JetBrains' pivot point: JetBrains knew manual processes would not scale, so the team ran a proof of concept to evaluate compliance automation vendors. JetBrains needed a solution with strong integrations, intuitive usability, and enough flexibility to work within JetBrains’ security requirements from the start.
Why JetBrains chose Vanta: Some vendors insisted that JetBrains connect sensitive systems during the POC, but the team was unwilling to do so. Vanta stood out by being more flexible during evaluation and showing the level of support JetBrains would need long-term.
The Vanta impact
From audit project to GRC infrastructure
JetBrains adopted Vanta to support SOC 2, automate customer-facing security processes through Trust Center, and expand access to security knowledge through Questionnaire Automation and AI features. What began as a way to make compliance possible for a two-person team has become core infrastructure for a much larger GRC function.
Here's how JetBrains deployed Vanta:
As JetBrains’ security organization grew, Vanta scaled with it. Today, the platform supports a broader, more mature GRC operation while continuing to deliver the same core benefit that mattered at the start: saving time.
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