New in Vanta | December 2022

We continue to innovate quickly to help you improve your compliance and security programs. This past month, we launched our own security awareness training video, along with these exciting platform updates:

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• Multi-IdP group membership options
• Integrations page design update
• Inventory group owners & default details
• Create tasks from Documents
• New Access integration: Intercom
• Monitors page for non-admin users
• New Checklist user interface and Reusable custom tasks

Security awareness training by Vanta

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Vanta released its own security awareness training, developed by our in-house team of security and compliance experts.

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Our new video covers information security topics in a way that nurtures a positive, empowering, and strong culture of security at your organization. As with your current Vanta experience, employees can learn about information security best practices and complete their security training directly within Vanta to fulfill their annual training requirement.

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Customers may preview and opt-in to the new training video in Vanta today by contacting your Customer Success Manager.

Multi-IdP group membership options

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Vanta lets you import employee groups from your organization’s IdP so that you may seamlessly manage employees in Vanta in ways that make sense for your organization. 

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For employees with membership across multiple groups in your IdP, you may now select which group to associate the employee with in Vanta. Upon group import or from the People page, you can easily assign an employee’s primary group membership. 

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We’ll soon support even more identity providers and allow employees to be assigned to multiple-groups at once in Vanta.

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Learn more about Dynamic IdP Groups

The Integrations page got a design update

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The Integrations page has a new look.

With this updated design, you can view all integrations on a single page, view by category, or search by name. Integration details are provided explaining what the service does, which permissions are required, and which tests or automations the integration powers within Vanta. Partner-built connectors are now displayed alongside native Vanta-built connections for easier discoverability. 

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Vanta’s fast-growing integration network and continued improvements to how integrations are presented and leveraged by Vanta means we have your organization’s tech stack covered for the long-term.

View the updated Integrations page

Inventory page – group ownership and default details

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We’ve made improvements to how resources are managed on the Inventory page. 

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Several compliance standards, such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001, require operational resources to have a defined description and owner. For resources that lack this information, Vanta now provides default details based on the resource type and who originally connected the service. These details can be updated at any time.

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In addition, we’ve listened to your feedback and made it easy for you to type in a group name, such as ‘infrastructure team,' as the owner of a resource. Now, resources can have an individual or group assigned as an owner. 

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View these updates on the Inventory page

Create tasks from Documents

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Tasks can now be created directly from any document on the Documents page. Similar to tests within Vanta, documents can house tickets to assign and track the work needed from your team to complete a required piece of evidence. This feature is currently available to users of Asana, Jira, Linear, and Shortcut. 

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Try creating a task from any document on the Documents page

New access integration – Intercom

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Vanta now offers an integration to track user access to Intercom. Because Intercom may hold sensitive customer data, it’s important to keep access to the service up-to-date and limited to users who need it for their jobs. 

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Our Intercom integration is available to all customers and can be added from the Integrations page. Access Reviews customers can add Intercom to their list of services to review, thereby reducing risk of unwanted access and lowering costs associated with unused user licenses.

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View the Integrations page to connect Intercom

Monitors page for non-admin users

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Our Monitors page has been enhanced. For employees in your organization without admin or editor access to Vanta, a new “Monitors” page will be visible if they have a test, document, or other item to complete.

For example, an employee from your sales department may be assigned as the owner of a document within Vanta. For this non-admin user, their Monitors page will only display their required task and no other sensitive information or access to other areas of Vanta.

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New checklist user interface and reusable custom tasks

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Setting up employee tasks on the checklists page has been redesigned to simplify the process and remove any duplicate steps. The new checklist user interface intuitively guides new Admins through the four key steps to complete their employee tasks setup. And reusable custom tasks mean Admins can now apply a single custom task to multiple checklists. Also, employees only need to complete a custom task once, even if they move groups or checklists after completing it. 

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The phased GA rollout of this functionality will start in January with a target to complete by the end of the month.

See our Release Notes for all updates this month.

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Try it out

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Log in to your Vanta account to try out these new features. For prospective customers, 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 via LinkedIn.

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