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December 11, 2023

New in Vanta | November 2023

Written by

Brian Kuan

Product Marketing Manager

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This past month, we hosted our second annual customer conference, VantaCon, and shipped some major updates to the Vanta platform, including our Improved audit experience, five new integrations (bringing the total number of supported integrations to over 300!), Risk Management dashboard and updates, and more:

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Updates to Vendor Risk Management
Plus additional updates!

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VantaCon 2023 product announcements & Vanta AI updates

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Last week, we hosted our second annual customer conference, VantaCon, which revolved around the theme of the future of trust in an AI world.

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At VantaCon, we announced offerings that include advanced reporting and dashboards, additional integrations and customization, support for the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and new Vanta AI capabilities like policy generation and automatic mapping across risks, controls, tests, and frameworks.

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We’ve also made two improvements to Vanta AI, including adding semantic search within Questionnaire Automation for more accurate answer generation and implementing AI to auto-generate control names, control domains, and IDs for custom controls.

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Read VantaCon announcements

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Now in GA: Improved audit experience

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We recently announced our Improved audit experience, a collection of new capabilities that improve the audit process for Vanta customers and their auditors.

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The improved audit experience streamlines the end-to-end process of adding a new audit in Vanta, viewing audit progress, and, coming soon — collaborating with your auditor. Now, creating, editing, and assigning audits within Vanta is easier than ever before.

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5 new integrations: Bringing us to over 300

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Last month, we released five new integrations, ranging from Access-only integrations to task tracking — bringing the total number of supported integrations to over 300! Read more about the announcement.

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Access Reviews customers now have additional systems for access-only integrations, including Zero, HelloID, and Blinq. We’ve also added Freshservice as a task-tracking integration. For integration requests, whether you want to integrate with your in-house tools or an unsupported vendor, please fill out the integrations feedback form.

View available integrations

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Now in Beta: Risk Management dashboard plus additional updates

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Vanta’s Risk Management solution now offers a dashboard that lets you quickly get up to speed on risk management.

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You can understand your company’s risk distribution with a risk heat map and identify areas that may need investment before they become critical with the Top Risk Categories graph. In addition, you can see the overall status of risk treatment, including unapproved risks by treatment type and overdue tasks, and view risk trends to understand how your company is progressing over time.

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We’ve also added the ability to easily track changes to your Risk Management program over time by saving the risk scenario’s data, tasks, and controls. Additionally, we’ve improved the navigation bar's design and the guided tours within the module. The Snapshots drawer has also gone through UI improvements to make it easier to navigate.

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Reach out to your Account Manager to join the Beta

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Updates to Vendor Risk Management

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Vendor Risk Management is now more flexible than ever before.

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Customers of Vendor Risk Management can now use and view XLSX files within the Document preview page. Additionally, we’ve created a dedicated Settings tab where users can easily access and manage their Security questionnaires and Risk Rubric — as well as configure the frequency of their security reviews. Private Links now allows for multiple questionnaires to be added, plus, the Vendor details page received a facelift!

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Learn more about Vendor Risk Management

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

Join us for our monthly “What’s New in Vanta” webinar taking place December 20, 11am PT/2pm ET. This series provides you a live look at some of our newest releases and product improvements. This month we’ll talk through the new Risk Management dashboard, Vendor Risk Management improvements, and our latest integrations.

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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