IDC highlights the business value of Vanta

More than ever, business growth is reliant on proving security and compliance. According to Vanta’s State of Trust Report, nearly two-thirds (65%) of organizations say that customers, investors, and buyers require proof of compliance.

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GRC and security teams are on the frontlines managing these requests. Yet these teams are too often under-resourced and burdened with processes and systems that waste their time. To make matters worse, these teams have no clear way to demonstrate how their work contributes to the bottom line.

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At Vanta, we’re relentlessly focused on delivering value for organizations—and the GRC teams that help them build and manage trust. We see this new data from IDC as validating what we’ve heard from countless customers. IDC’s analysis found that customers see a 526% return on investment in just three years of using Vanta—with their initial investment being paid back in just three months. Read IDC’s full analysis in this IDC White Paper.

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Vanta customers achieve $535,000 per year in benefits

As the Chief Revenue Officer for Vanta, I know how important it is for teams across the organization to show how they’re impacting outcomes. The tools teams use need to both amplify their work and clearly contribute to the success of the organization. 

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According to IDC's analysis, Vanta helps our customers achieve significant value by automating compliance, streamlining security tasks, and centralizing visibility across GRC programs. By increasing staff productivity and reducing operational costs, IDC calculated that the Vanta customers who were interviewed achieved an average of $535,000 per year in benefits. This breaks down to a $107,000 benefit each year per 10 internal users.

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IDC also found that Vanta pays for itself in just three months—including deployment. Customization can be difficult and time-consuming with legacy GRC solutions—but not with Vanta. We can help GRC teams get to time to value in half the time it would take to get there with legacy providers. Get a detailed look at IDC’s calculations for this by checking out the ROI Summary section of the white paper. 

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Compliance teams are 129% more productive with Vanta

Vanta's ROI is impressive, but how do we do it? We achieve this by automating previously manual and time-sucking tasks for audit preparation and ongoing program management. Ultimately, making GRC teams more productive and giving them time back to focus on their critical and strategic work.

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IDC found that compliance teams are 129% more productive with Vanta—which IDC equated to 3.2 full time employees at a $70K salary. Vanta customers interviewed also completed 142% more framework and attestation-related audits prepared per year, which enables them to more effectively enter new markets, close bigger deals, and ultimately, build trust. 

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Not only were these teams able to achieve more frameworks with Vanta—they were also able to finish these frameworks and attestations in less time. IDC found that teams saved 82% of time per framework and attestation-related audit through the automation and centralizing of tasks in Vanta.

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Just look at Ironclad. Their team used Vanta to automate evidence collection and streamline certifications across multiple frameworks. They achieved their ISO 27001 certification in their first year with Vanta and then quickly expanded their compliance program to include ISO 27017, ISO 27018, and ISO 27701. 

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“Using Vanta, we’ve saved hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars. The time the team spent working on audits can now be dedicated to other projects.”

- Nicole Dobias, Senior Counsel at Ironclad

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Get a detailed look at IDC’s calculations for improved team productivity by looking at the Compliance and Audit Benefits from Vanta section of the white paper. 

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Vanta makes it easier than ever to manage your security program 

There’s so much more you can achieve with Vanta. The tasks you do every day to manage your GRC program can be more automated, integrated, and continuous. 

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Here are some additional findings from IDC: 

• Security teams see 66% more efficient writing and reviewing of policies with Vanta 
• Third-party risk management teams are 54% more productive with Vanta
• Security teams complete access reviews 57% quicker
• Vanta customers complete security reviews and questionnaires 81% faster

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One customer interviewed for the white paper shared:

“Prior to using Vanta, vendor risk management took our team four days; now it takes 30 minutes. In our security program, everything revolves around Vanta.”

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Adding value back to your business

This study from IDC shows that there’s a better way of working for GRC teams. The analysis proves that you can build trust without manual evidence collection, time-consuming audit processes, and inefficient work. It shows that the future of GRC is automated, integrated, and continuous. 

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We now have the data to back up what we’ve been saying all along: Vanta helps organizations demonstrate their strong security posture and build customer trust, which enables them to improve retention and drive new business.

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And if the numbers aren’t enough, here are the real results our customers shared with IDC:

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“Vanta enables my organization to prove our security posture. We have all the security documents in one centralized location, which helps our teams illustrate and highlight to  customers that we maintain our certifications. By showing that we have a strong security posture, we’re building customer trust, improving customer retention, and driving new business.”

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“Security compliance has been a deciding factor in some of our sales to customers, especially having SOC 2. It is almost table stakes, and I believe we would be losing out on quite a bit of business if we didn’t have that and ISO 27001. Having those frameworks was cited as the deciding factor in a few sales last year. We’ve grown business because of our attestations and certifications, and importantly, we have maintained or gained customer trust.”

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To read IDC's full analysis, download the white paper. If you’re interested in connecting with my team to get started with Vanta, request a demo here.

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We also have an upcoming conversation with the IDC analyst who authored the white paper, GRC expert Phil Harris. Register for our webinar on February 27th to join us.  

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*Source: IDC White Paper, The Business Value of Vanta (doc #US52656824), January 2025. Sponsored by Vanta.