Powering the future of GRC: New capabilities bring continuous visibility and automation to GRC teams

Security is a top buying requirement for businesses today. In fact, two-thirds of respondents to our State of Trust survey say that customers, investors, and suppliers are increasingly looking for proof of security and compliance. As concerns around in-house security practices, third-party tools, and access to customer data grow, customer expectations for trust continue to rise.

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To help organizations meet the security needs of their buyers, build trust, and modernize their GRC programs, we’re excited to announce new features in Vanta’s trust management platform, including the launch of Report Center, enhancements to Vendor Risk Management, and two new milestones—integrating with 350 leading software vendors to power evidence collection now across 30 security and privacy frameworks. These features give scaling GRC and security teams continuous visibility and automate manual processes, giving them more time to work on strategic initiatives.

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These new capabilities are built on top of Vanta’s existing platform that has helped more than 8,000 customers scale, automate, and continuously monitor their GRC programs.

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The future of GRC is automated and continuous

Legacy GRC solutions require significant manual work in the form of screenshots, spreadsheets, folders, emails, and one-off requests. These legacy tools lack real-time visibility, limiting GRC and security teams to point-in-time insights and creating hours of reactive work. But with rising security expectations, greater reliance on third-party vendors, and the addition of new technologies like AI, scaling a GRC program manually is unsustainable.

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Security teams have an opportunity to make trust a strategic lever for their business. They need solutions that provide actionable reporting, robust automation, deep integration into their tech stack, and extensive pre-built and customizable capabilities. They need a new way to GRC.

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Let’s start with Vanta’s Report Center. 

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Actionable reporting on the state of your security program

Stakeholders across the business look to the security team to get a pulse on how the organization is tracking against its goals. However, reports often require manual effort to prepare and share; they become outdated quickly when created at a single point in time. This makes it hard for the organization to make informed decisions and to improve their security.

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With the launch of Vanta’s Report Center, you get actionable reporting that centralizes visibility across your program and gives teams and stakeholders the information they need to drive the business forward. Vanta now offers six reports that provide insight based on what’s important to your organization: Program Overview, Compliance, Risk, Trust, Vendors, and Personnel.

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These new reports allow you to:

• Monitor program status: Get up to speed on your program using real-time data, rather than relying on reporting generated at a single point in time.
• Drive continuous improvement: Visualize progress toward goals and view trends to identify program opportunities.

• Make informed decisions: Set business strategy and make decisions confidently with actionable insights. 
• Articulate the value of your program: Share status updates with stakeholders on the impact of your program against revenue and other business metrics. 

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Report Center is available in all Vanta plans; some capabilities require our Collaborate or Scale plan.

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Customize vendor risk management to fit your organization’s needs

Vendor risk looks different for every organization. GRC and security teams need a way to define, track, and efficiently complete vendor assessments. Teams also need a way to ensure that their organization’s risks are mitigated in a timely manner. 

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To help our customers manage their vendor risk programs, we’re also excited to unveil new features in our Vendor Risk Management offering that provide more flexibility to the vendor security review process.

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These new VRM features include:

• Customizable Inherent Risk Rubric: You can now customize the Inherent Risk Rubric to match definitions of inherent risk set by your team.
• Follow-up on findings: Now you can create follow up tasks in Jira for any findings you identify in VRM so you can track remediation status
• New residual risk field: After you’ve completed your analysis, you can summarize the vendor's risk in the new residual risk field to accurately determine each vendor’s risk profile.

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"I was logging risks into another site dedicated solely to vendor risk before. Now I can pop it into a single view and avoid mixing mediums. Since I’m in Vanta regularly for my security reviews, I save time switching between these tabs, which used to slow me down." - Jennifer Hunt, Security Engineer, Pigment

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Vendor Risk Management is available as an add-on to any Vanta plan.

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Power extensive automated tests with 350+ integrations 

Traditionally, managing compliance involves manual evidence collection which only validates compliance at a single point in time. Teams need a way to continuously verify their compliance in real time and automatically collect evidence for audits. 

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We're excited to share that Vanta now supports more than 350 integrations with leading software providers. We've recently expanded our vulnerability management category, launching pre-built integrations with Orca Security, SentinelOne, and CrowdStrike. Vanta continuously collects evidence to prove that you’re meeting your SLA requirements and alerts you when your SLAs aren’t met so you can get back on track. 

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With this vast library of integrations, Vanta can pull data and run automated tests to continuously collect evidence, monitor controls, and verify compliance. For example, Vanta provides pre-built automated tests that check for your alignment against the CIS Kubernetes Benchmarks, alerting you to your gap areas and providing remediation guidance so you can improve your security posture quickly and easily.

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This enables you to:

• Continuously monitor and automate evidence collection: With more than 350 integrations, you can easily automate evidence collection and continuously monitor your security controls. We’ve made it simple to authenticate, scope, and even build your own custom integrations.
• Run hourly automated tests: Our integrations power extensive automated, hourly tests, which help you streamline audit prep and ensure real-time visibility into the state of your compliance program.
• Get deeper program insights: Do more than just check the box. Our integrations and automated tests satisfy audit evidence requirements while providing actionable security alerts and remediation guidance. 

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The fastest path to 30 security and compliance frameworks

Compliance frameworks are a proven way to demonstrate trust and show you have a strong security posture. We're excited to share that Vanta now supports 30 of the most in-demand frameworks—like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST CSF, CIS CSC v8.1, and others including custom frameworks—making it the fastest path to compliance. 

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Powered by a robust set of integrations, Vanta automatically collects evidence, eliminating the need to track compliance in spreadsheets or across multiple tools. Intelligent cross mapping across frameworks reduces duplicative work when attaining multiple frameworks with overlapping controls. Vanta also provides the necessary controls, document and policy templates, and expertise to help you get compliant fast. 

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This robust library of frameworks allows you to:

• Get compliant quickly: With necessary document templates, tests, and policies for 30 of the most in-demand compliance frameworks, including custom frameworks, Vanta streamlines your path to compliance. 
• Customize where needed: Vanta's custom frameworks and controls offer your organization the flexibility to create and operate a personalized security program. 
• Eliminate duplicate work: With extensive customization capabilities and intelligent cross mapping, Vanta maps overlapping evidence across multiple frameworks you're working toward.
• Maintain visibility into compliance: Powered by extensive automated tests, Vanta automatically collects evidence and provides alerts when items fall out of compliance.

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Using Vanta, Newfront attained a SOC 2 Type 2 report in just 10 months and saved an estimated $100,000 per year. Danny Macias, VP of IT and Enterprise Security at Newfront says, “Now that I’ve used Vanta, I’ll never go back to manual audits. Vanta has been a huge win for the business and we are excited to see how it can help us in other areas.” 

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Each Vanta plan comes with one compliance framework. More frameworks can be added or purchased individually. 

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Seamless auditor coordination

The audit process often requires extensive back-and-forth communication between you and your auditor. Vanta centralizes all audit-related activities to streamline this process, providing a unified platform where you and your auditor can collaborate effectively. With Vanta, you can work within our platform, and many auditors choose to do the same because of our superior experience. 

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However, we recognize that some auditors prefer to use their own tools. The Vanta API allows audit partners to connect their preferred systems to Vanta, enabling you to continue working within Vanta while your auditor uses their tool of choice. This integration ensures a smooth and efficient audit process without compromising collaboration. Partners like A-LIGN, BARR Advisory, and Prescient Security already leverage this capability to streamline audits, reduce redundancy, and improve client collaboration.

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This new API will:

• Allow everyone to work in their tool of choice: The Vanta API seamlessly pulls data from Vanta into your auditor’s preferred tool and pushes the data back into Vanta, enabling businesses to collaborate with their preferred auditor, regardless of their auditing tool.
• Enable easier collaboration: The API supports endpoints for auditors, making it easy to interact with them at any point during your audit and enabling straightforward and efficient communication and coordination.
• Provide visibility into your audit: Vanta gives you real-time visibility into what’s pending and what needs your input or attention, including ongoing discussions and resolved issues. This transparency helps keep the audit on track and ensures nothing falls through the cracks.

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Ready for the future of GRC?

We’re excited to continue to launch new features that help teams accelerate their security maturity and scale into the future of GRC. If you’re interested in learning more about Vanta, request a demo of the platform. If you’re already a Vanta customer and are interested in adding any of these new functionalities to your existing Vanta instance, talk to our team.

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