January 23, 2026

New in Vanta | January 2026

Written by

Amulya Uppala

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Accelerating security solutions for small businesses
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Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses.

A partnership that can scale
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Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate.

Standing out from competitors
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Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

This past month, the Vanta team launched new features to help you with:
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Streamlined employee offboarding with automated deprovisioning in Access Management
Smarter Questionnaire Automation with automated insights and flagged responses
Faster vendor reviews with automated evidence collection from trust centers
Quicker questionnaire turnaround with Vendor AI Answers
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Streamlined offboarding with automated deprovisioning

Offboarding is now a first-class workflow in Vanta’s Access Management suite.

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With a new, dedicated offboarding experience, teams can centralize employee offboarding in one place and automatically deprovision access for supported systems—while assigning and tracking tasks for everything else. Vanta captures ownership, status, and an audit trail automatically, helping teams reduce risk and prove access was removed when it matters most.

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Generally available in January.

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Smarter questionnaire automation with Questionnaire Automation insights

Questionnaire Automation now comes with built-in intelligence to help teams trust automation and know exactly where to focus review.

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Vanta now highlights gaps in your knowledge base based on real questionnaire history, flags conflicting or duplicated answers, and surfaces responses that need closer attention. Instead of reviewing everything the same way, teams can prioritize fixes, strengthen coverage, and move faster with confidence.

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Available in public preview in January.

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Faster vendor reviews with automated evidence collection

Security reviews don’t have to stall on document chasing.

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Vanta’s new automated evidence collection experience helps teams instantly see what evidence exists in a vendor’s trust center. This starts with Vanta Trust Centers and expands to external providers. Reviewers can request access, understand required steps like NDAs, and import available documents directly into the review workflow.

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Generally available for Vanta Trust Centers in January.

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Vendor AI answers now generally available

Vendor questionnaires just got faster.

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With Vendor AI Answers, vendors can review and submit AI-prefilled answers backed by evidence while buyers stay in control. Answers are clearly labeled, vendors can edit or accept them, and responses lock once submitted to create a stable, auditable record. The result is less back-and-forth and faster completion without sacrificing trust.
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Generally available in January.

Try it for yourself!

Log in to your Vanta account to try out these new features today. 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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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