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Perforce unifies enterprise compliance, security, and risk with Vanta to cut manual labor by 75%
Trust Center, Questionnaire Automation, Vendor Risk Management, Risk Management, Custom Frameworks, Access Reviews
“Security is now a business driver.”
TL;DR
- Challenge: With more than 20 products, multiple business units, and six frameworks, Perforce’s fragmented security and compliance work consumed up to 60% of the team’s time, causing burnout, limited risk visibility, and sales slowdowns.
- Solution: Consolidated compliance, enterprise risk, vendor management, and trust workflows in Vanta’s Agentic Trust Platform.
- ROI: Cut compliance labor from 60% to 15%, reduced questionnaire work by 60%, cut security drag on the sales process by half, and created a scalable path to consolidating all audits in Vanta.
The company
The global DevOps platform powering modern software delivery
Founded in 1995 as a version control system pioneer, Perforce has evolved through years of growth and acquisitions into a global DevOps platform offering tools for versioning, collaboration, testing, automation, and software delivery.
The challenge
When enterprise complexity outpaces manual compliance
As Perforce grew, its security team faced mounting security and compliance challenges: Managing more than 20 products, multiple business units, and six frameworks across spreadsheets and legacy tools consumed up to 60% of the team’s time and made it difficult to confidently assess vendor risk or manage multiple large-scale audits.
“It was brutal,” said Chrysa Freeman, Senior Manager, GRC at Perforce. “We had all hands on deck, and it still felt like we were getting behind the eight ball every day.”
The manual drag also took away from the security team’s goal of being a business driver. Instead, the sales team found itself frequently waiting on questionnaire responses.
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The Vanta impact
A consolidated GRC foundation built for enterprise scale
Perforce chose Vanta for its breadth and depth of automation and integrations, its intuitive UI, and a partnership approach that matched Perforce’s long-term vision for trust at scale.
“It wasn’t about selecting a point tool,” said Kiemele. “We were looking for a platform that could help us pivot our security program around a singular pane of glass. Vanta’s vision aligned with the problems we’re trying to solve.”
With Vanta, Perforce replaced its scattered processes and tools with a single Agentic Trust Platform that streamlines compliance, risk, and proof. Perforce deployed the following:
With Vanta in place, Perforce shifted from constantly reacting to issues to confidently getting ahead of them. By centralizing answers and automating repetitive work, the security team gained lasting relief from burnout.
“Vanta has given us the relief of not being overwhelmed all the time,” said Freeman. “My people are happy. They can breathe and still get the business the answers that they need.”
Backed by a close partnership with Vanta’s team, Perforce is reinvesting reclaimed time into advancing its program, including plans to consolidate all 14 audits in Vanta by 2026. Together, Vanta and Perforce have built a compliance function that keeps pace with the business—and helps move it forward.
“The partnership with our Vanta representatives has been top-notch. Customer service is almost equally important as product—and Vanta definitely delivers.”
— Chrysa Freeman, Senior Manager, GRC, Perforce
