July 30, 2021

What's New in Vanta 7.30.21

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What's New in Vanta 7.30.21

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This month we’ve shipped a number of highly visible features, including a new Tests Dashboard, new Vanta security awareness training (SAT), more automated security tests, and new HR integrations. Read on to learn more about what’s new in Vanta this month!

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Introducing the Tests Dashboard

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The Tasks page is now the Tests Dashboard. We’ve revamped this highly used page to make it even more informative and actionable. In a glance, quickly understand your company’s security posture, spot shifts in performance, and recognize progress made towards getting compliant.

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Tests are now organized by category, so your team can easily view and navigate tests by their subject area, such as engineering or employee tests. Now, your head of engineering has a focused list of engineering action items, while your head of people can filter down to view only employee items that need attention.

New Security Awareness Training (SAT)

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Vanta now offers free security awareness training developed in partnership with Living Security. With this release, Vanta’s security awareness training is housed directly within the Vanta client, so that your employees may view and complete the 30min video without having to leave the Vanta onboarding page.

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Vanta’s SAT video covers various information security topics including:

Reporting Suspicious Activity, Passwords, Password Managers, MFA, Malware, Ransomware, Phishing, Work From Home (WFH), Mobile Security, Cloud Security Threats, Policy Violations, Data Classification, and Data Privacy

Vanta admins can select this free option from within the onboarding settings page. We recommend not making this change during an audit window, but in case a change is made, Vanta maintains all prior evidence of SAT completion. Previous SAT options are also still available (ESET, Cybrary, and Custom) and new tool-tips explain the differences between these options.

New tests, integrations, and improvements

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Tests

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The following Tests have been rolled out to further automate security and compliance:

Check for MFA enabled for Bitbucket, Clubhouse, Github, Heroku, and Slack
Check for screen lock enabled for Windows Agent and Intune
Check that AWS EC2 Instances, GCP Compute Instances, and DigitalOcean Droplets are closed to public ports

Integrations

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The following Integrations have been rolled out to make onboarding and offboarding employees easier:

ADP Workforce Now
Paychex Flex

Plus, a historical record of onboarding checklists for offboarded employees is now accessible within Vanta.

Documents Tab Improvements

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The Documents tab now supports restricted evidence so that only admins and auditors may upload or download these sensitive documents. This restriction is automatically placed on uploaded background checks, employee exit interviews, org charts, and board notes.

A screenshot of a payment page on a website. — New Restricted Documents Option

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As always, we welcome your feedback on these changes! Please let us know what you think by reaching out to your Customer Success Manager.

– The Vanta Team

Access Review Stage	Content / Functionality
Across all stages	Easily create and save a new access review at a point in time View detailed audit evidence of historical access reviews
Setup access review procedures	Define a global access review procedure that stakeholders can follow, ensuring consistency and mitigation of human error in reviews Set your access review frequency (monthly, quarterly, etc.) and working period/deadlines
Consolidate account access data from systems	Integrate systems using dozens of pre-built integrations, or “connectors”. System account and HRIS data is pulled into Vanta. Upcoming integrations include Zoom and Intercom (account access), and Personio (HRIS) Upload access files from non-integrated systems View and select systems in-scope for the review
Review, approve, and deny user access	Select the appropriate systems reviewer and due date Get automatic notifications and reminders to systems reviewer of deadlines Automatic flagging of “risky” employee accounts that have been terminated or switched departments Intuitive interface to see all accounts with access, account accept/deny buttons, and notes section Track progress of individual systems access reviews and see accounts that need to be removed or have access modified Bulk sort, filter, and alter accounts based on account roles and employee title
Assign remediation tasks to system owners	Built-in remediation workflow for reviewers to request access changes and for admin to view and manage requests Optional task tracker integration to create tickets for any access changes and provide visibility to the status of tickets and remediation
Verify changes to access	Focused view of accounts flagged for access changes for easy tracking and management Automated evidence of remediation completion displayed for integrated systems Manual evidence of remediation can be uploaded for non-integrated systems
Report and re-evaluate results	Auditor can log into Vanta to see history of all completed access reviews Internals can see status of reviews in progress and also historical review detail