The Vanta 25 to Trust: Nominations are now open for 2026

We’re excited to announce that nominations for the 2026 Vanta 25 to Trust Awards are officially open.

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The Vanta 25 to Trust honors 25 standout individuals who are advancing trust, security, and compliance through leadership, innovation, and real-world impact. These are the practitioners pushing the industry forward and setting a higher bar for what trust looks like at every stage and scale.

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The opening of nominations also kicks off our annual Customer Week at Vanta—a moment to bring our community together, spotlight customer impact, and celebrate the work happening across the trust ecosystem.

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Read on to learn more about The Vanta 25 to Trust, how to submit a nomination, and what’s ahead for Customer Week.

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What you need to know about The Vanta 25 to Trust

The Vanta 25 to Trust celebrates individuals who are making measurable contributions to trust, security, and compliance. This year, we’ll celebrate five finalists driving measurable impact in each of the following categories:

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• Security culture: Leaders who embed security into how their teams work, driving quantifiable adoption and behavior change
• AI innovation: Individuals leading the way for responsible AI deployment, with real governance, controls, and risk management practices
• Operations excellence: Individuals who excel at scaling security or GRC programs with rigor, repeatability, and outcomes
• Industry influence: Individuals who actively advance trust beyond their roles through community, influence, and knowledge sharing
• Business impact: Leaders who translate security and compliance into real customer trust and tangible business impact

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After our 25 finalists are honored, we’ll announce one overall winner in each category. We’ll celebrate those five winners at VantaCon later this year. 

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Nominations are sourced both internally by Vanta teams and externally from the broader security and compliance community to ensure a diverse, high-impact group of candidates.

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Beyond individual recognition, the Vanta 25 to Trust shines a light on the ideas and approaches shaping the future of trust. By connecting practitioners and leaders across the ecosystem, the program helps foster collaboration, learning, and progress industry-wide.

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Check out last year’s Vanta 25 to Trust winners here.

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General timeline 

While exact dates will be shared later, here’s what to expect for this year’s Vanta 25 to Trust program: 

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• February 17: Nominations open, kicking off Customer Week at Vanta
• Spring: Winner review, selection, and notification
• Ongoing: We’ll recognize and celebrate the 25 finalists across Vanta channels and experiences
• End of year: We’ll celebrate our five winners at VantaCon 2026

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How to submit a nomination 

Nominations are officially open. You can nominate yourself, a colleague, or someone you admire in the trust, security, and compliance space. Nominees do not need to be Vanta customers.

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Here’s how it works:

1. Review the nomination form below
2. Select a category and share more: Tell us how you or the person you’re nominating leads the way in advancing trust, security, or compliance with specific details
3. Submit your nomination: Submit your form before the closing deadline

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Official rules shared here.

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Celebrating Customer Week at Vanta

Customer Week is our chance to celebrate the people and teams building trust every day—and it comes at an exciting milestone.

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Vanta now serves more than 15,000 customers around the world. Each one has pushed us to think differently about what trust needs to look like at different stages and different scales.

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Customer Week is about celebrating the people behind the work—and we’ll be doing that all week through customer shout-outs on social media, a live, customer-led webinar, and other moments designed to spotlight how teams are building trust in practice. 

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Keep an eye out for customer stories that show what trust looks like when it’s embedded into how teams operate, sell, and scale, including:

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• GitHub: See how GitHub accelerated sales of GitHub Copilot by automating 93% of its security questionnaires
• DocGo: Explore how DocGo transformed security from a manual process into a growth driver—while shaving weeks off sales cycles
• Perforce: Dig into Perforce, which unified enterprise compliance, security, and risk to cut manual work by 75%
• Accumulus Technologies: Discover how this life sciences company centralized 13,000 controls to scale trust across a complex global compliance program

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Explore more customer stories here. 

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Introducing early access to our new community experience

We’re also excited to offer early access to a new, Slack-native community for Vanta customers. 

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This new customer community exists to bring practitioners together—so you can ask real questions, share what’s working, and learn how teams like yours build and scale trust with confidence.

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Want to join the fun? Sign up for early access here. 

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Join our Customer Week live session

To bring customer conversations to life, we’re hosting a live, customer-led discussion on how teams build trust, keep commitments, and stay responsive at scale. 

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Our live webinar, “Committed to Trust: How Our Customers Turn Promises into Proof,” will take place on February 25, 2026. 

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Join leaders from GitHub, Modern Treasury, and Vanta’s GRC team for a practical conversation on:

• What it really takes to build trust into daily workflows
• What’s worked (and what hasn’t) at scale
• How leading teams are turning trust into a growth driver

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As a special Customer Week bonus, we’ll also share a sneak peek of Vanta’s Customer Commitments, the only solution in automated compliance that lets you centralize, track, and act on every promise you’ve made—think subprocessor updates or breach notification SLAs. Customer Commitments is now in public preview.  

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Register to attend here. 

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A final note

Whether you’re nominating someone for the Vanta 25 to Trust, joining us for Customer Week, or connecting with peers in the community, this moment is about celebrating the people doing the work to move trust forward.

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We can’t wait to see who you nominate—and to celebrate another year of trust, together!