April 8, 2024

New in Vanta | April 2024

Written by

Brian Retson

Product Marketing

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Over the past month, we’ve rolled out several new capabilities, including:

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General availability of the ISO 42001 standard
Usability improvements to tables
New system integrations
Plus much more!

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ISO 42001

The ISO 42001 standard is now generally available in the Vanta platform.

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ISO 42001 is designed for organizations that provide AI-based technologies or use AI sub-processors in their systems. It helps these organizations by outlining the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and improving an AI Management system (AIMS).

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Vanta’s ISO 42001 solution simplifies AI system management through a lifecycle approach, ensuring that ethical considerations and risk management are embedded throughout the product development, deployment, and operational stages. Vanta centralizes all the ISO 42001 requirements in one place and helps customers document their AI policies.

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You can learn more here.

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Table customization

We've made a number of usability improvements to tables within Vanta that let you operate more efficiently. You can now select, resize, and reorder columns, and tables handle horizontal scrolling seamlessly. You can also choose your preferred visual density based on your personal preference and needs.

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The new tables are currently available on the Controls and Tests pages, with more coming soon.

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Seven new integrations

Over the past month, we’ve added seven new integrations:

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MicrosoftPlanner (task tracking)
Workable (people)
Lever (access)
Lumenova (vulnerabilities)
OpsGenie (incident response)
Agency (MDM)
EdgeBit Security (vulnerabilities).

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See all integrations or let us know about additional ones you need.

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Vendor Risk Management & risk register integration

You can now link vendor findings to existing risk scenarios, connecting Vendor Risk Management (VRM) and risk management. Using Vendor Risk Management, you can create many-to-many connections between findings and risk scenarios. In the risk register, you can see which findings are linked to a specific risk and filter risks by vendor.

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We’ve also redesigned the overview tab for individual vendors in Vendor Risk Management to be more intuitive. You can now see the summary of the most recent security review so that you can quickly understand the current state of the vendor in the security review process.

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New security training videos

You can now access three new security and privacy training modules: Secure Code, Social Engineering, and Insider Threat. If you have the relevant frameworks for these videos, you can access the training at no additional charge. You can preview content directly from the Checklists page.

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Vanta now offers 8 different training modules, with more on the way.

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Support for employees in multiple groups

Employees can now be added to multiple groups, each with their own tasks and checklists. The employee’s task list will be the sum of the tasks from all of their groups. This enables you to create and scale much more sophisticated employee task programs based on the subdivisions within your company. .

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Admins can easily add or remove employees from groups on both the People and the Groups pages.

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Try it out

Log in to your Vanta account to try out these new features. If you’re not a Vanta customer and want to learn more, request a demo.

As always, we welcome your feedback. Let us know what you think by reaching out to your Customer Success Manager. And stay in the loop on Vanta news on LinkedIn.

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Or see it live - What’s New in Vanta: April Webinar

Join us for our monthly “What’s New in Vanta” webinar taking place April 24, 8:30am PST/4:30pm BST. This series provides you a live look at some of our newest releases and product improvements, including the new features mentioned in this blog.

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Access Review Stage	Content / Functionality
Across all stages	Easily create and save a new access review at a point in time View detailed audit evidence of historical access reviews
Setup access review procedures	Define a global access review procedure that stakeholders can follow, ensuring consistency and mitigation of human error in reviews Set your access review frequency (monthly, quarterly, etc.) and working period/deadlines
Consolidate account access data from systems	Integrate systems using dozens of pre-built integrations, or “connectors”. System account and HRIS data is pulled into Vanta. Upcoming integrations include Zoom and Intercom (account access), and Personio (HRIS) Upload access files from non-integrated systems View and select systems in-scope for the review
Review, approve, and deny user access	Select the appropriate systems reviewer and due date Get automatic notifications and reminders to systems reviewer of deadlines Automatic flagging of “risky” employee accounts that have been terminated or switched departments Intuitive interface to see all accounts with access, account accept/deny buttons, and notes section Track progress of individual systems access reviews and see accounts that need to be removed or have access modified Bulk sort, filter, and alter accounts based on account roles and employee title
Assign remediation tasks to system owners	Built-in remediation workflow for reviewers to request access changes and for admin to view and manage requests Optional task tracker integration to create tickets for any access changes and provide visibility to the status of tickets and remediation
Verify changes to access	Focused view of accounts flagged for access changes for easy tracking and management Automated evidence of remediation completion displayed for integrated systems Manual evidence of remediation can be uploaded for non-integrated systems
Report and re-evaluate results	Auditor can log into Vanta to see history of all completed access reviews Internals can see status of reviews in progress and also historical review detail