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New in Vanta: Save time and avoid surprises with Smart System Description
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Vanta provides the fastest path to compliance by automatically collecting up to 90% of the evidence needed to prove SOC 2 controls. But those who’ve gone through the SOC 2 process before will know there are certain artifacts like a System Description which still require a great deal of manual, and at times, duplicative work.
Until now. With Smart System Description, exclusive to the Vanta platform, you can generate a System Description in a fraction of the time, and at no additional cost.
A foundation for your SOC 2 report
The System Description is a detailed overview of the scope of your SOC 2 report. It describes your company's product or service, approaches to security, and the controls you have in place to meet the standard. It also outlines which areas of security you manage and which areas are managed by a third party (like your cloud service provider).
Creating a thorough System Description is foundational to your SOC 2 audit. A poorly written or incomplete system description can result in delays to your audit. Providing misleading or incorrect information in a System Description can create problems later on as your downstream customers rely on this information being accurate.
Save up to 10 hours and $1000s in hourly fees
Before Smart System Description, preparing this dozen-plus page document could take between 8-15 hours and require you to go back and forth with your auditor - incurring additional fees.
Vanta’s Smart System Description solves these challenges by walking you through 13 required sections to complete: including your service description, people, and data operations. Best of all, Vanta pre-populates parts of these sections based on your existing work in the platform or allows you to add custom input and tags.
"Smart System Description took what would have been a time-consuming, highly manual process and made it simple. Not only did we save 10+ hours of time, we feel more confident in our system description and overall audit readiness." -Ryan Hess, CEO of Connective Health
Easy to create. Easy to assign. Easy to renew.
Like all policies created with Vanta, managing workflows for your system description is easy. Assign an owner for your system description in Vanta so the right member of your team is looped in. Receive an annual alert when it's time to review and renew your system description, so you never fall out of compliance. And find all your previous system descriptions in one place, so you can easily track changes.
Available now, at no additional cost
Smart System Description is available now for all SOC 2 customers. View Smart System Description within the Documents page to get started.
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