November 2, 2021

What’s New in Vanta 11.2.21

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What a month it’s been here at Vanta! We launched two new products, PCI DSS and GDPR. If your business is innovating in fintech or payments – you’ll want to attend our upcoming PCI Webinar. If your company has, or is looking to attract more, EU or UK customers, then our GDPR solution is a must-have heading into 2022.

The Vanta platform also received big updates this month, including the launch of recurring security awareness training, automatic employee reminder emails, a revamped Vanta Help Center, new integrations, and more. Read on to learn more about what’s new this month!

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New products: PCI DSS and GDPR

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Vanta now supports PCI DSS and GDPR compliance!

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‍PCI DSS is centered on protecting customer cardholder data and is a perfect fit for any business innovating in fintech, payments, insurance, or lending. Our PCI DSS product automates over half of the evidence collection work needed to prove compliance, and if you’re an existing SOC2 customer, then you’re more than halfway done with proving PCI DSS compliance.

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‍GDPR is all about protecting the personal data and privacy of EU and UK residents. If your business collects, targets, or processes data related to people in the EU or UK, then you’re required to be GDPR compliant. Vanta’s GDPR solution includes step-by-step guidance on how to get and remain GDPR compliant, including 77 controls and 22 legal-vetted policy templates. Plus, for existing SOC2 or ISO 27001 customers, you’re nearly halfway there to proving GDPR compliance. Learn more on GDPR

Recurring Security Awareness Training

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Security awareness trainings help your employees stay informed about best security practices. A good security training program refreshes regularly so your organization has the most up to date knowledge and remains compliant. Vanta now helps you manage a dynamic security program with annual trainings.

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Employees will automatically be reminded to complete their required training beginning 10-months after their previous completion date – giving your organization ample time to get trained-up and remain in good standing.

Automatic Email Reminders for Employees

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No one likes chasing down employees to remind them to complete required tasks like security awareness training – so now Vanta does that for you!

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A screen shot of the employee notifications page.

This new feature is automatically set to ‘never’, but when enabled, employees will automatically be reminded of overdue tasks related to security trainings, Vanta Agent installations, background check completions, and policy acceptances. So long Slack pings about incomplete onboarding!

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Renewed Vanta Help Center

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We’ve completely revamped the Vanta Help Center to make it even easier to get the most out of Vanta. Within the new help center, you’ll find upcoming and previously recorded webinars, tips on using Vanta, FAQs, and a clear way to contact our support team.

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You now have easy access to our entire collection of help articles on topics including, getting started, audit readiness, employee management, resource management, using integrations, and managing tests within Vanta. Give the new Vanta Help Center a visit!

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New Tests, Integrations, and Improvements

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Tests

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

Numerous tests to support PCI DSS and GDPR compliance

Integrations

The following Integrations have been released to further support your organization’s tech and business stack:

KnowBe4 integration for custom security awareness training and automated completion tracking
JumpCloud (beta) integration for MDM resource management

Improvements

Screen-lock status is now viewable within the Computers page, Employee drawer, and via CSV export
PCI DSS and GDPR standards are now visible within the Vanta Standards page
Security awareness training for PCI DSS now available
Vanta Agent support for Windows 11
Employee Groups can now be applied to Policies for improved policy management and tracking

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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.

Let’s keep in touch on LinkedIn.

– 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