Introducing AI Governance from Vanta

Ask a security lead how many AI agents are running inside their business, and most can't give you a straight answer. One customer we spoke with found 900+ Copilot agents they'd never inventoried. Another customer discovered an approved vendor had switched on an AI feature with access to customer data, without the team knowing.

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Most companies today are adopting AI faster than they can govern it. These agents do real and sensitive work querying databases, calling tools, moving data, and they're running everywhere from approved platforms to developers' laptops to production code.

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The risk picture these agents present doesn't hold still. A vendor retrains a model, and an agent that looked harmless suddenly becomes a liability. Point-in-time risk reviews were never built for this pace of change.

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We believe AI governance should not be solved in isolation. As Cristina Costache, CISO, Global DPO & AI Council Chair at Noventiq, said, "I don't see AI governance as a different domain. It's the next logical layer on the trust architecture that already covers privacy and security."

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That's what we're launching today: AI governance built on the trust foundation you already run.

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Observe your agents across multiple surfaces

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An agent's risk lives in what it can reach, the model behind it, the systems it touches, the data it can move, and how all of that connects to the controls and risk you already manage. Which is why a bare list of agents tells you so little.

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That context is already the foundation of Vanta’s platform. Vanta maps your controls, vendors, and risk through the Trust Graph, so your inventory of agents across your business arrives pre-loaded with context, not a blank row. It arrives already wired to the systems it touches, the data it can reach, the vendor behind it, and the controls that are supposed to cover it, which is what lets you rank a high-risk agent above a low risk one on day one, instead of spending months assembling that picture by hand.

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Changes to a vendor's agents can ultimately change your obligations under frameworks like the EU AI Act. When an approved vendor flips on a new AI feature, it shows up in the Trust Graph, and your risk updates before it becomes your problem.

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"Every company is just throwing AI tech into their toolsets and enabling it, without even necessarily notifying you. We suddenly find that it's enabled, accessible, and employees have been using it without IT's knowledge because, well, it's there."

—John Mettam, Senior Director of Information Security at Position Imaging

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Turn visibility into actionalbe intelligence

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Visibility only gets you halfway. The next thing we're building is the ability to act on what you see. 

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Vanta will help you define what each AI agent is allowed to do and detect when it operates outside those boundaries, so you can take action when needed. To make that possible, we're expanding our integrations across agent platforms, endpoints, and gateways to continuously monitor agent behavior. 

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Because Vanta has context across these surfaces, it can tell a routine activity from risky behavior, and you can intervene if necessary. For example, you might allow a code review agent to access its assigned repositories while preventing it from reading your customer data. You define the guardrails. Vanta helps enforce them.

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Prove your AI behaves continuously

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Then turn all that work into evidence. Instead of point-in-time checks, keep continuous proof that agents you deploy are acting in accordance with your policies and existing controls, ready the moment a regulator or customer asks. 

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And if you are building agents, demonstrate your agents are secure and governed effectively in your Trust Center, in real time, where your prospective customers are already looking. 

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The Trust Graph is already live, running for thousands of companies today, and AI governance is the next layer we're building on it, starting with AI inventory and the impact assessments that align to frameworks like ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act. We're opening early access so your team can help shape where it goes.

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Adopting AI and staying in control of it shouldn't be a trade-off. That's what we're building toward: the ability to govern AI as fast as you adopt it, on the Trust Graph already powering your compliance and risk management programs. 

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Apply for early access to build the future with Vanta.