Transform the audit experience with Vanta

Audit firms today face pressure to deliver faster, more accurate audits while meeting rising client expectations. Clients often operate with complex tech stacks, outdated evidence-gathering workflows, multiple frameworks, and numerous workspaces—all of which auditors must manage alongside their own established tools and processes.

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Audit firms supporting these sophisticated clients need more than point-in-time assessments—they require scalable, automated tools that streamline audits from end to end. Vanta’s auditor experience enables auditors to deliver fast, accurate, and scalable engagements by reducing manual evidence requests and improving client collaboration.

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Today, we’re excited to introduce information requests lists (IRLs), adaptive framework scoping, and controlled audit views to streamline the audit experience and accelerate audit review times. These new capabilities further help auditors minimize manual requests and back-and-forths required during an audit—eliminating inefficiencies, improving audit quality, and creating a more seamless client experience. By automating evidence collection, enabling continuous monitoring, and centralizing audit visibility, Vanta helps firms modernize audits and strengthen their client relationships.

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Simplify audits with centralized evidence and seamless collaboration

Auditors are often slowed down by disjointed tools, inconsistent documentation formats, and scattered communication channels. This extends review timelines, creates friction for auditors, and results in time-consuming back-and-forth with their clients. Vanta simplifies the audit process by centralizing evidence management and enabling real-time collaboration between auditors and clients. 

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With integrations to over 375 cloud, security, and IT systems, Vanta automatically ingests real-time security and compliance data from the tools clients already use. Auditors no longer need to chase screenshots or documents from disparate sources—instead, they get immediate, streamlined access to evidence directly from their client's tech stack.

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Vanta also enhances collaboration through in-app evidence requests and comment tracking, allowing auditors to ask questions and clarify responses directly within the platform. Managing all of this in a single location significantly accelerates the review process for auditors and their clients.

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“When organizations leverage Vanta for automated compliance, they reduce their audit completion times by 50%.” 

– Andrew Steioff, Global Strategic Alliances, A-LIGN

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Vanta’s controlled auditor view provides auditors with targeted visibility into only relevant population data—delivering the insights they need to conduct the audit without adding administrative overhead or exposing unnecessary client data. This centralized, audit-ready evidence gives auditors exactly what they need to verify the credibility of compliance controls.

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Streamline your workflows with the Vanta API and information request lists

Managing audits across disconnected systems often results in inefficiencies, increased errors, and poor customer experiences. Vanta’s API for auditors enables seamless integration between your preferred tools and our platform, helping you easily pull data from Vanta and push updates back. With bi-directional syncing, customer communications and evidence stay centralized within the tools you already use, enabling auditors to focus on the most strategic work to improve the audit experience.

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“The API integration enhances the audit experience by streamlining evidence storage, reducing redundant tasks, and improving data accuracy, so we stay aligned with our clients and deliver more efficient and simplified compliance audits.” 

–  Andrew Houshian, Vice President, Service Delivery Operations, A-LIGN

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Vanta’s new information request lists (IRL) feature makes it easier than ever for auditors to integrate their existing workflows directly into the platform. By uploading their own IRLs, auditors can standardize and streamline evidence collection across multiple clients without needing to recreate processes from scratch. This gives your clients the exact evidence requests needed for an audit, making it easier for them to prepare and ensure a seamless audit experience.  

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A key advantage of this feature with Vanta is the ability to define upload windows, ensuring that evidence is submitted at the right time—not too early, not too late. Auditors can set due dates for each request, triggering automated reminders that keep clients on track and reduce the need for manual follow-ups. This level of control helps ensure that only relevant evidence is submitted, improving both the quality and efficiency of audits.

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Improve client readiness with continuous monitoring

Unlike point-in-time compliance tools, Vanta continuously monitors client systems and collects data year-round. This means that when an audit engagement begins, the majority of the necessary evidence has already been captured and is ready for review. This helps clients come to audits more prepared and auditors receive fully mapped evidence that’s ready to review. 

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Vanta’s latest capability, adaptive scoping, strengthens this process by ensuring clients only share assets in scope for each framework under audit review. This targeted approach ensures all evidence is relevant to the audit, streamlining the review process for auditors.

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With Vanta, clients spend 82% less time on audits while completing 142% more attestations per year by reducing manual work. As a result, auditors work with well-prepared, engaged clients who are more organized and responsive—making it easier to hit deadlines, avoid scope creep, and maintain audit quality across multiple frameworks and cycles.

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"By leveraging even a modest amount of upfront preparation, we’re able to walk into readiness discussions with a clear understanding of a client’s technology stack, organizational structure, and baseline compliance posture. This level of insight accelerates trust and enables us to deliver immediate value. The days of spending early meetings just getting oriented are behind us—we’re able to meet clients where they are and move forward with purpose." 

– Dariek Howard, Director, Core SOC BARR Advisory

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Ready to deliver quality audits faster and easier?

Whether you’re working with complex, multi-framework clients or scaling your firm’s operations, the Vanta Auditor experience was built for modern CPA firms ready to evolve. Vanta can help your firm streamline audits, improve quality, and delight clients—from readiness to report. 

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If you’re interested in learning more about how to work with us, register for our upcoming webinar on July 15, From Preparation to Review: Navigating Audits Seamlessly with Vanta or contact our Audit Partner team.