Expanding the Vanta API to connect auditor tools

Vanta has helped auditors automate and simplify thousands of compliance audits, and we’re now making the process even easier. Today we’re excited to share that we’ve added new endpoints for auditor tools to the Vanta API, leading to a better collaboration experience for auditors and customers.

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With our new API endpoints, audit partners can integrate their tools with Vanta, allowing them to work in their preferred systems. A-LIGN, the largest issuer of SOC 2 reports globally, is the first auditor to integrate with the expanded Vanta API, transforming their audit processes with seamless integration and data synchronization, eliminating redundant work, and improving client collaboration.

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Streamlined audit workflows across tools

Auditors can easily conduct audits and resolve issues within the Vanta platform, collaborating with over 7,000 Vanta customers globally. For auditors who use their own technology, however, managing audit processes across multiple disconnected systems can lead to inefficiencies and potential errors. 

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The expanded Vanta API allows audit firms to integrate Vanta with their preferred audit tools, pulling data from Vanta into their tool and pushing data back into Vanta. By centralizing customer interactions and evidence handling within Vanta, auditors can optimize processes in the tools they already use, allowing them to focus on strategic analysis rather than manual tasks. 

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"Allowing auditors to work in the tool of their choice is crucial for maximizing efficiency and accuracy. Our system integration results in streamlined workflows and a focus on high-value tasks."  -  Sam Bradley, Director of Audit Partners at Vanta.

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Seamlessly sync data

Completeness and accuracy are paramount in auditing. Vanta's API supports one-way and bi-directional syncs between Vanta and auditor tools. One-way sync handles evidence collection and status transfers from Vanta to the auditor tool, while bi-directional sync manages evidence and comment syncing across platforms. This ensures auditors have up-to-date information, significantly reducing time spent switching between systems for data checks, evidence assessments, status updates, and comments.

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Enhanced client collaboration and communication

Effective communication and collaboration between auditors and clients are crucial for a successful audit process. The API centralizes communication, allowing auditors and their clients to exchange comments and update evidence statuses within Vanta, eliminating duplicate entries and minimizing potential errors.

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The API ensures auditors and clients are always in sync, leading to smoother and more efficient audits. Directly connecting Vanta with auditors’ tools streamlines communication and centralizes interactions. This approach fosters stronger collaboration, improves client satisfaction, and enhances the efficiency of the audit process. 

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A-LIGN improves auditor efficiency and accuracy with the Vanta API

A-LIGN is the first auditor to leverage the expanded API to build an integration between Vanta and its auditing platform, ensuring a seamless audit experience for customers. With the Vanta API, A-LIGN can sync evidence, controls, status updates, comments, and attached files directly from Vanta to their tools. This automation eliminates the need for manual export and upload processes, simplifying the workflow and ensuring consistency across platforms.

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"We're thrilled to be first-to-market to leverage Vanta's auditor API to support our clients through our high-quality audit. This integration allows us to store evidence efficiently, reduce redundant work, and increase data accuracy–ensuring our auditors have the most up-to-date information and can deliver an efficient and simplified audit experience for our customers." - Andrew Steioff, Vice President, Global Strategic Alliances at A-LIGN.

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Get started with the Vanta API

To learn more about how Vanta's API can transform your audit processes, connect with our audit team.