May 2, 2022

What's New in Vanta 5.3.22

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This month we’re excited to highlight new services and features designed to give you more customization over your security program. As your organization grows, the tools you depend on should be able to adapt to those changes. In our latest product update, you’ll find a host of new features aimed at personalization and control, including:

Our newly released Vanta API (beta)
Integration support for Snowflake
Enhanced support for MDM migrations
New custom evidence features

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Easier management

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The Vanta API (beta)

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Vanta’s API is now available in beta to all users. We launched our beta API to help customers unlock Vanta’s platform capabilities for custom solutions that meet the needs of their teams.

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With the Vanta API, users can develop scripts that further automate work completed in Vanta as well as subsequent tasks completed outside of the platform. Customers can securely access their account data to power custom dashboards, reports, or notifications outside of Vanta.

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Ultimately, the Vanta API encourages users to explore unique and creative ways to streamline the management of their security programs in Vanta and beyond.

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The beta launch of our API marks an exciting development for Vanta and our customers. We’re thrilled to begin opening Vanta’s platform capabilities and excited to see the many creative solutions users will develop to enhance their security.

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Visit our new Vanta developer site to get started with the Vanta API beta.

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More configurability

Snowflake integration

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Vanta now offers an integration with Snowflake’s cloud data platform. This new integration helps users meet the user access and inventory management controls required to maintain a strong security posture and undergo a successful audit.

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With Vanta’s Snowflake integration, users can review and define who should have access to the data platform. Snowflake databases are now tracked on the Inventory page, where they can be tagged as holding ePHI or other sensitive customer data. Additionally, new tests are available that check Snowflake for MFA and user access review.

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Users can enable Snowflake from the Connections page. Future customers can view our growing list of Vanta integrations.

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Enhanced MDM migration support

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As organizations grow in size and technical complexity, new tools are often needed to help meet their emerging operational and security requirements. One such tool is a mobile device management service, or MDM.

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While Vanta already provides MDM-like capabilities, companies seeking more options can now easily transition from the Vanta agent to their preferred MDM.

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Our latest enhancement to MDM migrations helps Vanta admins define which devices should be marked as monitored by Vanta or another provider. Additionally, if a new MDM isn’t set up to cover all machines, the Vanta agent can continue to monitor unmigrated devices.

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Users can enable their MDM from the Connections page. Future customers can view our list of supported MDMs on Vanta’s integrations page.

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Faster path to audit

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New custom evidence features

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During a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit, it’s common for an auditor to seek clarity on their client’s security practices by requesting additional evidence. Traditionally, these requests come in the form of long email threads with sensitive information sent back and forth until the request is resolved.

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Fortunately, Vanta users and their auditors can avoid this time-consuming process by using Vanta’s latest custom evidence request, comment, and approval features.

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Auditors can request custom evidence for a single control, or map these requests across multiple controls and security frameworks. Users can review all custom requests through their Documents page and receive email notifications for custom requests as part of the daily summary for all outstanding work.

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Upon submission, auditors can signal whether the provided evidence has been approved or rejected. Auditors can also provide additional information via comments to help users resolve any rejections quickly and efficiently.

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A pillar of our product roadmap is ensuring that every customer experiences a seamless audit process. We’re excited to see Vanta customers and their auditors use these new features to enhance productivity, reduce audit prep time, and streamline the audit evidence collection process.

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Tell us what you think

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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.

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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