March 6, 2023

New in Vanta | February 2023

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February’s product update includes many exciting announcements from Vanta. We announced Custom Frameworks and Controls and other improvements to the Vanta experience:

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Vanta Questionnaire Automation
Six new access-only integrations
Improvements to Risk Management
Localized employee notifications
New automated tests for Cloudflare and GitHub
Custom notes for tests
Enhanced search, sort, and filter through Inventory

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Introducing Custom Frameworks and Controls

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As your organization grows in size and complexity, so do your security and compliance needs.

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Custom Frameworks and Controls allow you to tailor-make frameworks and controls according to the needs of your growing business. Use internal expertise to build a framework that Vanta doesn’t support or create custom controls - offering you the flexibility to create and operate a personalized security program in a single solution.

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Vanta Questionnaire Automation

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Since acquiring Trustpage, we’ve worked hard to integrate our products and are excited to announce Vanta Questionnaire Automation - the fastest and most accurate way to automate security questionnaire responses.

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Vanta Questionnaire Automation automatically syncs Vanta policies and documents to create an answers database for a seamless questionnaire experience.

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‍Learn more about Vanta Questionnaire Automation

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Six new integrations: Notion, Segment, PagerDuty, and more!

A group of logos that include pageduty, dropbox, notion, and neftely. — *Vanta Integrations*

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We’ve added six more integrations to our ever-growing list of access integrations: PagerDuty, Netlify, Dropbox, Notion, Calendly, and Segment.

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Customers that use Vanta’s Access Reviews product can now integrate even more of their tech stack to automatically and continuously monitor access and automate the offboarding process in even more vendors - without logging into each admin portal.

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‍View the full list of available integrations

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Improvements to Risk Management

Vanta’s Risk Management product has two new updates that allow admins to customize what people can see.

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Admins can now mark risks as sensitive, ensuring that confidential risks are still stored in your risk register, while hiding them from the view of auditors, non-owners, or non-admins.

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Auditor sharing settings allows customers to choose which risk snapshots are shared with auditors, allowing customers to create draft risks for internal feedback and reporting, and to choose to share them with auditors when ready.

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Visit the Risk Management page

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Localized employee notifications

*Company-wide and individual user-level language settings*

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Vanta can now send user notifications in four languages: English, French, German, and Spanish.

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Admins can select a language for company-wide user notifications, while individual users can choose one for their personal notifications. Currently, these only apply to employee Slack and email notifications.

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Visit the Settings page to set up company and user languages

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New automated tests for Cloudflare and GitHub

Cloudflare and github logos. — *New automated tests for Cloudflare and GitHub*

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Vanta is introducing seven new tests for our Cloudflare integration and three new tests for our GitHub integration.

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For customers that use Cloudflare and GitHub, more tests mean better alignment for your audit. These new tests fetch for more pieces of data, including detecting repository privacy settings, pending organization invitation age, Cloudflare notifications settings, and more.

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‍Visit the Monitors page

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Custom notes for tests

Vanta users who are working through tests can now annotate information in those tests.

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Custom notes can be used to note things down about a test to a user themself or to their collaborators. Every user who has access to the test details page will be able to see custom notes about each test, ensuring for effective collaboration between users, admins, test reviewers, and remediators.

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Learn more about adding custom notes to tests

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Enhanced search, sort, and filter through Inventory

A screen shot of a web page showing a list of items. — *Enhanced search, sort, and filter through Inventory*

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We’ve added more capabilities to searching, sorting, and filtering through items in the Inventory page.

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Users will now have many more capabilities in the Inventory page, including the ability to filter for values in user data, sort by the description column, search by serial number for computers, and more. This added functionality allows for a more intuitive page navigation experience and better overview of Inventory items.

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Visit the Inventory page in Vanta

See our Release Notes for all updates this month.

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Try it out

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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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