December 5, 2022

New in Vanta | November 2022

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Joe Goldberg

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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.

Enhanced Access Reviews solution

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We're thrilled to announce our enhanced Access Reviews solution.

Access Reviews is a robust, automated offering that aligns to the main stages of an access review. It makes it easy to perform reviews on a proactive, continuous basis; not just point-in-time reviews for compliance purposes. The result is faster, more accurate reviews that lead to streamlined audits, lower labor costs, and a stronger security posture.

Access Reviews is now available for purchase. Contact your Customer Success Manager to get started. Learn more about Access Reviews.

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Support for OFDSS & ISO 27001:2022

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This month, we launched support for the Open Finance Data Security Standard (OFDSS), a next-gen, cloud-first security framework for FinTech companies. If you’re a participant in the Open Finance system or work with entities such as Plaid, use Vanta to get OFDSS complaint in just 40 hours.

As of last month, Vanta is the first security compliance platform to support ISO 27001:2022.

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While the core of ISO 27001 remains the same, there are some updates to the clauses and a significant reorganization of Annex A controls. See our post on 27001:2002 to learn more.

New Monitors page for Tests & Documents

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The Tests page is now the Monitors page!

The Monitors page combines your Tests and Documents into a unified view, so you can easily track progress towards meeting your SLA deadlines. Quickly view upcoming and overdue tasks, assign owners, or dive into items to take action.

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We’re constantly improving our UI to make it fast, easy, and intuitive for your team to get work done in Vanta. Let us know what you think by reaching out to your Customer Success Manager.

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New integrations: Personio, incident.io, Termius, and more

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Vanta now supports Personio, a popular HR information system used by many of our international customers. Sync critical employee data from Personio to Vanta to power automated onboarding and offboarding workflows.

Partner-built integrations are now available on the Integrations page, including: BreachRX, EasyLlama, Haekka, incident.io, Kintaba, Kitemaker, Kolide, Riot, and Termius.

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Explore our growing collection of integrations to help streamline your team's ongoing compliance and security workflows.

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Enhanced support for AWS GovCloud

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For software companies interested in selling to the US government, AWS GovCloud provides a secure and compliant solution for cloud storage and compute instances. We’ve recently improved the setup process when connecting AWS GovCloud to Vanta and now support multiple GovCloud accounts.

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Our updated integration flow for AWS GovCloud can be accessed from the Integrations page. Vanta provides step-by-step instructions on how to integrate using AWS Console or Cloudformation.

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For more information on adding AWS as a cloud provider, read our help article.

See our Release Notes for all our recent updates.

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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. Keep in touch 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