Goodbye audit chaos, hello Calm-pliance

Map controls. Remediate gaps. Answer auditor questions. Map, remediate, answer. Map. Remediate. Answer questions. Map—remediate—answer… 

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…Security leaders, does this never-ending audit loop sound all too familiar? 

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If so, it’s time to say goodbye to chaos disguised as process, and say hello to calm-pliance.

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Calm-pliance is knowing that your controls are effective, not just documented. It’s knowing you’re audit-ready, anytime. It’s knowing you truly own your program.

With this edition of Vanta Delivers, we’re introducing new product updates that let CISOs banish compliance chaos and work how they actually want to: with control, focus, and a unified view. 

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Take control of program complexity

As your organization grows, your trust program grows with it: more frameworks, more business units, more auditors, more moving parts. But most GRC systems weren’t built for that level of complexity. They force teams into rigid structures that don’t reflect how the business actually operates.

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Vanta’s enterprise capabilities give you customized control—so your program mirrors your business, not the other way around.

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What’s new:

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• Adaptive business unit scoping: Define exactly what’s in scope for each framework, product, or region. Share only the relevant evidence with auditors to reduce back-and-forths. Update scopes automatically as your program evolves—so your compliance program grows with your business without manual updates.
• Vanta control framework: Instead of remapping controls for every new framework, the Vanta control framework standardizes and centralizes a reusable set of common controls—serving as a single source of truth that you build once and map everywhere.
• Information request lists (IRLs): Import your auditor’s exact request list into Vanta and manage it end-to-end—assign owners, review and approve evidence before sharing, and track progress across requests. Work in the format your auditor expects and maintain full control.

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“Previously, our SOC 2 came with the usual pain: two full weeks of daily, multi-person, eight-hour audit meetings. The next time, our auditor had Vanta’s IRL access before kickoff. Within the first 10 minutes of the kickoff call, they canceled the entire two weeks of all-day meetings. We synced again two weeks later for a 15-minute close out, and that was it. This is how audits should run.” 

— Stepheni Norton, Accumulus Technologies, Director, Integrated Assurance

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What this means for you: With Vanta’s enterprise capabilities, audits stop being disruptive, all-hands fire drills. Scope stays accurate. Controls stay reusable. Evidence stays organized. And trust compounds as your program grows.

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How to get it: Adaptive business unit scoping and IRLs are currently in public preview on Professional plans and above. The Vanta control framework is currently in early access and will be part of Professional plans and above. 

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Find your focus—and move faster—with Vanta Agents

Modern compliance programs produce a constant flood of signals—system changes, control updates, policy edits, vendor activity. But without context, meaningful risk can get lost in routine noise. This slows decisions and execution. 

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That’s where Vanta Agents come in. They’re your 24/7 GRC engineers, operating across your compliance program, vendor ecosystem, and customer trust workflows. Vanta Agents coordinate tasks, collect and review evidence, surface material risk, and accelerate resolution—keeping you in the loop for final decision-making. 

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Compliance Agent

The Compliance Agent now automates the full evidence lifecycle, from generating tailored documents to collecting, reviewing, and validating evidence. 

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What’s new:

• Full program awareness: Follow agent recommendations grounded in your full trust program—drawing context across frameworks, controls, policies, and more
• AI service account detection: Quickly identify likely service accounts, surface them for quick review, and pause irrelevant tasks to keep compliance signals clean and save your team hours of manual account cleanup
• Policy-to-program consistency checks: Detect inconsistencies between your policies and programs so you can address gaps before they become audit issues
• AI-driven remediation guidance: Take corrective actions in Vanta based on precise fix recommendations and guidance

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What this means for you: When systems change, the Compliance Agent flags impacted controls and missing evidence before issues reach audit. Instead of scrambling at audit time, your controls stay current by default. 91% of users say Vanta Agents have increased their audit readiness, according to a product survey.

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How to get it: The Compliance Agent’s new features are generally available or in public preview.

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TPRM Agent

The TPRM Agent now oversees the full vendor lifecycle—from discovery and due diligence to continuous monitoring.

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What’s new:

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• Automated evidence collection: Keep vendor reviews moving with automated public evidence collection and streamlined access to private vendor documentation
• Vendor risk analysis: Address vendors that pose meaningful risk with agent-generated vendor strengths and areas of risk
• Decision-ready vendor risk summaries: Quickly understand your vendors’ strengths, gaps, and any elevated risks with concise, decision-ready security posture summaries generated from automatic vendor evidence analysis
• Context-aware vendor Q&A: Ask ad hoc vendor questions and receive context-aware answers grounded in collected evidence and flagged findings

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What this means for you: No more restarting full vendor reviews. The TPRM Agent surfaces only what changed and where risk actually shifts—driving 81% faster security reviews with up to 95% answer acceptance and less drag on the business.

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How to get it: The TPRM Agent’s new features are generally available or in public preview.

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Customer Trust Agent

The Customer Trust Agent handles inbound security questionnaires end-to-end.

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What’s new:

• Self-improving knowledge base: Reuse answers with confidence with a knowledge base that continuously learns from past responses, approvals, and outcomes to strengthen future answers 
• Automated question routing: Say goodbye to manual triaging with questions that are automatically assigned to the right owners 
• Questionnaire intake via Trust Center: Centralize questionnaire intake in Vanta by accepting security questionnaires directly through your Trust Center 

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What this means for you: Up to 87% of trust reviews are deflected before becoming manual work, with most responses ready instantly and improving over time—turning one-off fire drills into reusable, continuously strengthened trust proof.

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How to get it: If you have Questionnaire Automation, you can use the self-improving knowledge base today. The rest of our Customer Trust Agent features will be available in the coming months with related Vanta trust products. 

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Bring privacy into one system

In many organizations, privacy operates as a parallel workstream—separate owners, separate systems, separate timelines. The result is a compliance program that looks complete, but lacks a clear, defensible view of how personal data is actually governed.

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With Vanta’s new privacy automation capabilities, you can manage and streamline privacy inside the same system you use to run compliance—so governance, controls, and data practices stay aligned.

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What’s new: 

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• ROPA management: Maintain structured, audit-ready records of processing activities directly within Vanta, so you can say goodbye to tabbing between tools at review time
• Data inventory: Understand what sensitive data you collect, where it resides, and who has access—connected to your broader control environment for a clear, defensible view of how data flows across your business
• DPIAs: Assess high-risk processing activities proactively, link them to relevant controls, and operationalize privacy risk before it becomes a regulatory or customer issue

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What this means for you: Privacy stays continuously organized and audit-ready. Records update in real time, data inventories connect to controls, and DPIAs link to the safeguards they impact—eliminating manual reconciliation and reducing operational overhead.

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How to get it: ROPA management, data inventory, and DPIAs are all generally available with Essential plans and above for anyone with a privacy framework (GDPR, USDP, ISO 27701, or ISO 27018).

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GRC built for calm and control

Calm-pliance isn’t about doing less work. It’s about doing the right work—with the right level of control.

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More than 15,000 customers rely on Vanta to operate trust at scale, with compliance teams reporting 129% greater productivity. Ready to join them? Request a demo. Already a Vanta customer? Reach out to your account manager.

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You can also find us at RSAC. Book a meeting with us to talk about your calm-pliance program.