Vanta helped reduce the complexity of maintaining PCI-DSS compliance by centralizing controls, automating evidence collection, and giving us real-time visibility into gaps that need remediation.”

A GRC tool can tell you what’s failing, but it won’t tell you why. Vanta told us exactly what artifact was missing and what we needed to fix.”

Privacy can quickly become a massive manual overhead. Vanta integrates our core privacy workflows directly into our broader security ecosystem. Centralising these processes does more than just check a box; it strengthens our entire risk posture. Having that single source of truth gives us actual clarity on how we're performing.”

Customer Commitments is very accurate, structured properly, and already feels like a huge step toward making it manageable at scale.”

When an incident happens, the first question is always: who do we need to notify, and by when? To manually dig through our top customer contracts during a crisis is not sustainable. Customer Commitments simplifies that completely by making those obligations clear and actionable upfront—it’s exactly the kind of structure we need to plug into our incident response workflows.”

Customer Commitments gives teams confidence in how they manage customer obligations and turns trust into a growth driver.”

Essential Eight is about more than just ticking compliance boxes, it helps drive real operational resilience and protects you against real-world threats.”

One of the great things about Vanta is that it gives us broad visibility across our business, from our cloud environment to our vendors. We are immediately alerted to any critical vulnerabilities that crop up, so we can deal with them straight away. It’s a really good single pane of glass for us.”

Vanta gave us a structured way to map the directive’s requirements to the controls and processes we already maintain for SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Instead of starting from scratch, we were able to use Vanta’s existing control framework, risk register, vendor management, and continuous monitoring to show how we meet many of the security and governance expectations under NIS 2.”

Vanta supported our efforts by mapping existing ISO 27001 controls to NIS 2 requirements, centralizing evidence, and tracking remediation tasks, which helped us build a structured and auditable approach to NIS 2 alignment.”

Vanta’s given us visibility and guidance that we didn't have before, as NIS 2 was a completely new standard. It allows us to self-attest in the event of an audit spot check by the authorities.”

Vanta has significantly impacted our business by enabling us to successfully achieve ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials+ certifications, leveraging the evidence gathered on the platform. It has streamlined processes, saving at least 48 man-hours by centralizing and organizing information.”

We primarily focused on SOC 2 initially, and it was a huge benefit to see how much our SOC 2 effort also got us most of the way there for GDPR. Vanta made the process less daunting.”

Vanta helped us manage GDPR compliance more effectively by centralizing privacy-related controls, policies, and evidence and enabling continuous monitoring, which improved transparency and reduced manual effort across our compliance workflows.”

Vanta has helped us manage GDPR compliance more effectively by centralizing our controls and automating evidence collection for key data protection requirements. This provides us with real-time visibility into our compliance posture and reduces the need for manual coordination across teams.”

Vanta’s platform provides automatic monitoring of controls and this allows us to effectively manage any issues discovered. Because of this, we saved hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars in costs.”

The crossover of controls from SOC 2 already has 41% of the HIPAA controls passing.”

We can show our trust center to partners and potential partners and easily refer to HIPAA controls when needed. Vanta also ensures that training requirements are always satisfied.”

At the end of the day, the worry is gone with Vanta. I'm confident that we tick every box needed when attesting to the federal government. I wouldn't feel that way doing this manually."

For many public safety vendors, CJIS feels like navigating a maze. Vanta provides a clear, scalable path to compliance, ensuring you meet agency expectations and maintain compliance long-term.”

As government agencies, national labs, and other critical organizations evolve their technology, they’ll increasingly benefit from leveraging cloud service providers that bring innovative, modern solutions to stay ahead of evolving threats.”

Vanta was a game-changer. Not only did it cut our audit time in half, but it saved well over six figures in costs and ultimately helped us build more trust with the enterprise prospects we want as clients.”

There’s no anxiety. I don’t have that sneaking feeling I missed something. I just open Vanta, filter by framework, and start working.”

In IDC's 2025 Business Value of Vanta report, IDC found Vanta customers see a 3-month payback period and a 526% return on investment over three years.”

The amount of time that Vanta has saved us is likely equal to a full-time employee. Without Vanta, we would not have known where to direct our efforts. Vanta gave us visibility and kept us organized and efficient, preventing us from spending time on manual work.”

Using Vanta, we’ve saved hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars. The time the team spent working on audits can now be dedicated to other projects."

The biggest challenge for SaaS teams is operationalizing the controls, not writing policies. Founders think ISO 27001 is paperwork, but auditors want evidence that access, logging, vendor risk, and change-management actually run every day. That requires process owners, monitoring, and documentation they rarely have resourced until enterprise buyers demand it.”

For us to become ISO compliant, it took us around six to seven months. Then to upgrade from ISO to DORA, it only took us two months.”

Following a known standard like ISO 42001 let us build trust early. It didn’t eliminate all the questions—but it made them easier to answer.”

Vanta isn’t just talking about AI—they’re building it in ways that genuinely deliver value to my team. As a small but mighty group at a company set to double in size, we need tools that help us scale without adding complexity. Vanta’s new agentic capabilities are unlocking a level of efficiency and scalability we simply couldn’t achieve before.”

Vanta just worked out of the box. It pulled in the right data, is powered by automation and AI, and gave us a solid foundation for a secure, audit-ready program.”

With AI in Vanta, we spend about an hour a week on compliance tasks instead of seven or eight. Compliance has moved from a resource-draining task into a function that strengthens our overall security posture.”

The Vanta AI Agent complements my team's expertise by filling in knowledge gaps, helping us learn faster, and double-checking critical information—ultimately saving us 12 hours weekly. And in our organization, time is money."

Boards want clarity. CRI helps consolidate overlapping expectations (e.g., FFIEC, DORA, MAS, APRA) into one evidence-backed narrative that regulatory bodies can trace during exams and boards can understand."

As the GDPR matures, data protection officers are evolving from compliance administration-focused roles to strategic data governance leaders. They may start leaning more toward balancing risk, legal, and technical considerations in a dynamic regulatory environment.

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RISCPoint is excited to support Vanta's mission to accelerate CMMC programs. Together we're making compliance more accessible and empowering organizations of all sizes to meet the requirements of the Defense Industrial Base and meet the DoD's requirements.”

Vanta is our one-stop shop for all things compliance and GRC. We use Vanta to conduct our risk assessments, continuously monitor our controls, user access reviews, as well as conduct our audits with our external auditors.”

Everything is in Vanta—automated tests, manual tests, policies, vendor security assessments, and more.”

Vanta's AI has significantly streamlined the management of our ISO 27001 and SOC 2 control suites. The automated control mapping simplifies our compliance process, allowing us to efficiently adhere to both frameworks through a centralized control suite.”

Vanta has been a game-changer for Citadel AI. Citadel AI was able to successfully meet our ISO 27001 compliance goals in less than 50% of the time it would’ve taken manually. Vanta streamlined our ISO 27001 compliance process, saving us valuable engineering time and resources, and accelerating growth in our enterprise business."

We’re a small team supporting some of the biggest names in healthcare. Vanta gives us the scale and confidence to do that.”

Vanta AI has saved us a ton of time—probably around 40–50% on evidence collection and control testing. It’s made our SOC 2 and HITRUST prep way smoother by automating monitoring and giving us great visibility into our assets and risks.”

We would always rather be one step ahead than one step behind when it comes to protecting sensitive data. By working with Vanta, we’re able to stay ahead."

I felt like I needed a lot of guidance, I didn’t know what I was doing. But with my CSM at Vanta we got ready for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 in a couple of months.”

My favorite feature is automated compliance. You integrate your cloud environment and key tools, providing full visibility of configuration settings and automatically mapping that to your compliance frameworks.”

Vanta helps us make sure our controls are in place and working well. This is essential not just for the sake of SOC 2, but for the sake of Ashby protecting our customers and demonstrating our strong security posture.”

We needed a compliance system that could support work with a sensitive government defense program or a startup building nuclear fusion. Testing is an accelerant—it has to work.”

When organizations leverage Vanta to automate evidence collection for audit preparation, they accelerate audit readiness and reduce overall audit completion time by as much as 50% compared to manual compliance.”

Vanta is the tool I wished existed 20 years ago. It automates and helps you achieve compliance in a way that’s predictable and saves resources.”

With Vanta, everything is in one place. We’re actually doing more risk management work now because we see our risks more clearly! It has definitely improved our security posture.”

We continue to choose Vanta because it’s a one-stop shop for our vendor due diligence and risk reviews. It allowed us to streamline our processes and move as quickly as the crypto industry does.”

We don't have to have 10 different spreadsheets for every different framework and regulation that comes out...we build a lot of our own control set and then be able to map that to all the different frameworks that we have to adhere to, and all the new ones that come out.”

Vanta cut our SOC 2 audit time in half, if not more. Now we can continuously measure our performance from a compliance and a security perspective.”

Vanta allows us to house everything in one place, so we can keep track internally, but also share our security and compliance approach with customers.”

Vanta allowed us to reduce our time spent on manual activities to less than 10% so we can focus on what's important to the business.”

Our SOC 2 ‘must-have’ was to have as many automated checks as possible, and it had to work on the AWS infrastructure that hosts Peak.”

We've really seen a hockey stick growth curve, and that growth coincides with our adoption of Vanta. I definitely believe that our ability to demonstrate trust to our users has been a critical part of that growth.”

Vanta is a slam dunk. From excellent customer care, suite of products, to real-time compliance monitoring, Vanta ensures my company is at the cutting edge of global trust and safety.”

We’ve gone into every single deal thinking security would be the bottleneck, but thanks to Vanta, we’ve moved through these security processes a lot quicker than a lot of our peers, which has been a huge advantage.”

We wanted faster deal cycles and to make sure that security does not slow anything down. Thanks to Vanta, we get to focus more on building and less on security. Setting the foundation for compliance early was the key for us.”

Vanta gives us a really clear workflow on what needs to be done, who’s in charge of doing it, if it’s been done yet, and how many security tasks are sitting there. It’s helped me and my co-founder save lots of time.”

Access reviews that used to take 4 to 5 hours, now take 15 to 20 minutes. Plus, Vanta helped us identify and address access issues such as unused service accounts, which reduces potential threats.”

The auditors were service oriented—quick reply times, minimal meetings. They worked asynchronously as well, which was convenient for us.”

With A-LIGN and Vanta, we conducted two audits simultaneously. A-LIGN had their SOC 2 auditors and ISO 27001 auditors on the calls and in Vanta at the same time. Providing direct access to Vanta ensured an efficient audit process by reducing unnecessary emails and delays.”

Vanta has impacted our business by helping us [take] our third party risk management from hours to minutes.”

We use Vanta for TPRM, which helps us immensely. The AI feature pulls out the most important details so we don’t have to spend time combing vendor documentation word for word.”

Questionnaires that would usually take our team a week, can now be completed in a matter of hours with Vanta's AI.”

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Our big opportunity as a compliance team is looking at every compliance activity as a sales activity. With the Salesforce integration, we’re able to see exactly how many dollars in revenue are directly touching the Trust Center.”

Vanta's integrations and automation saved us countless hours on auditing and validating internal controls, helping us maintain continuous compliance.”

Vanta cut our security audit time in half—if not more—compared to the manual route we originally took.”

The team at Vanta have been amazing partners in helping us find and work with our auditors. They have our back from both the software side as well as the process side, and made it easy for us to navigate this process for the first time.”

Implementing Vanta has allowed our security team to scale its questionnaire processing capabilities exponentially, without requiring additional personnel. The efficiency gains are remarkable.”

It used to take us 50 hours per vendor to perform a security assessment —a process my team had to repeat across more than 50 vendors annually. Vanta's TPRM solution cut that to only a few hours a week for each vendor, freeing up time for us to focus on more strategic security objectives.”

If you give a vendor 400 questions, you won’t get real engagement—ask the 10 or 12 that truly matter and they’ll respond meaningfully.”

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By integrating Vanta’s API with our audit tool, Peer Reviewer, we’ve doubled the speed of report delivery and saved 3–5 hours of manual work per engagement. Thanks to the automated data flow between Vanta and our system, this integration has eliminated over 5,000 hours of manual effort since its implementation.”

Using Vanta, we achieve greater audit efficiency with streamlined evidence collection. Vanta’s cross-mapping capabilities for frameworks like SOC 2, ISO, PCI, and HITRUST reduce manual evidence requests and client audit fatigue. This allows us to focus on enhancing our clients' security posture. Vanta consolidates compliance frameworks into one manageable system, simplifying the compliance journey.”

Combining our audit expertise with Vanta’s vast automation library and cutting edge AI capabilities opens the door to many new and innovative ways to build trust in the marketplace, delivering enormous value for our joint customers.”

We are excited to partner with Vanta to bring unparalleled security and compliance solutions to our customers. By combining our audit expertise with Vanta's automation capabilities, we can offer customers a faster, more efficient path to compliance.”

When organizations leverage Vanta for automated compliance, they reduce their audit completion times by 50%.”

You can't eliminate risk. You can only accept it, avoid it, transfer it or mitigate it. So we have to accept that some risk is part of the process—and prioritize the ones that are most impactful to what we want to do.”

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CPS 234 requirements were specifically designed to align with ISO 27001 standards, so if an organisation has implemented ISO 27001, CPS 234 should be easier to meet. It has no formal certification process, so demonstrating ISO 27001-certified best practices would help to maintain compliance.”

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CCM and automation are inevitably going to become the bedrock of compliance because of how they allow organizations to monitor and triage controls in real-time, as opposed to during audit engagements when the stakes are higher."

Third-Party Risk Management is a crucial function of security teams. Understanding the risks and vulnerabilities that third parties may introduce to your organization is critical for securing assets and ensuring business continuity. Security standards and regulations dictate the need to manage third-party risk in a formalized and effective manner. Implementing ongoing monitoring of your organization’s vendors is a key mechanism for effectively identifying and managing vendor risk.”

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One of the most challenging aspects is embedding compliance into day-to-day business and technical operations, rather than treating it as the responsibility of a single team. To overcome this, organizations should start by cultivating a culture where compliance is seen as a shared responsibility, including getting cross-functional stakeholder buy-in to integrate it into everyday workflows.”

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Centralized risk management enables continued information intelligence by ensuring that risk isn't confined to single departments or silos. It fosters a company-wide understanding of impact—a data loss incident, for example, doesn’t just affect IT or development; it can ripple through HR, finance, and beyond. With a centralized system, those interdependencies become visible, empowering leadership to plan more strategically, which is core to frameworks like ISO 27001.”

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Leveraging cross-mapping provides another lens to analyze risk. Most organizations utilize cross-mapping frameworks to understand how close they are to achieving another assurance report or certification. However, the delta between frameworks can identify a legitimate need for additional controls to combat risk—this is the biggest benefit, often an output of cross-mapping.”

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SOC 2 gap assessments should at the very least be performed on an annual basis. It’s ideal for organizations to continuously monitor their compliance posture to ensure that their SOC 2 controls are operating effectively.”

If you are in an organization that handles healthcare information (especially one that provides technology services), adding SOC 2 to your existing HIPAA compliance may unlock competitive opportunities and ultimately increase trust in the services you provide to customers and society.”

If you’re a contractor or subcontractor to the Department of Defense (DoD) that processes Federal Contract Information (FCI) and/or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), you need to be CMMC certified. Otherwise, if you don’t, SOC 2 is great.”

It may make sense for organizations to implement both CMMC and NIST 800-53, depending on their cybersecurity requirements. If an organization handles Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), it must be CMMC compliant but may also need to comply with NIST 800-53 if it works with other federal agencies.

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Implementing both frameworks ensures organizations are able to work with various government agencies and results in a strong security foundation.”

The answer to this question will depend on the type of contract an organization is seeking (DoD vs. non-DoD), infrastructure (on-premise, cloud, or hybrid), and timelines. It's important to pay attention to the requirements of an organization's contracts and speak to their agency contact first.”

We often hear organizations say, ‘As long as I am NIST 800-171 compliant, I’m compliant with CMMC,’ and that’s not right. While CMMC is based on NIST 800-171 practices, it goes a step further in requiring companies to define the level of data they interact with (FCI vs. CUI), the sensitivity of that data, and applying additional controls beyond NIST 800-171 to ensure protection of that data.”

As organizations going for CMMC Level 3 must have Level 2 first, some may think that it is mostly a more rigorous version of Level 2. In reality, CMMC Level 3 is an augmentation to CMMC Level 2 with additional advanced cybersecurity measures to protect very highly sensitive Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).”

Once a business meets Level 2 requirements, it’s important to implement a robust continuous monitoring program for high-risk controls. This helps to ensure the business can maintain Level 2 compliance.”

Pursuing CMMC Level 1 compliance helps mitigate common threats by implementing controls to protect against common attacks. For example, implementing access controls helps protect sensitive information. Another example is ensuring patches are regularly applied to all systems, where possible, to address vulnerabilities. Weak access controls and lazy patch practices are two of the most common ways systems get exploited, so having these controls in place reduces those risks.”

The Cyber AB (the entity that accredits and certifies the authorized CMMC assessors) has stated that the DoD is unlikely to grant many self-assessments for CMMC Level 2 (less than 5 percent). Organizations should prepare for a full CMMC assessment at Level 2 by a Cyber AB-authorized CMMC Third Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO).”

An effective strategy for continuously monitoring and reevaluating security controls is to set up processes to test your CMMC practices regularly. This ensures they operate effectively, securing ongoing alignment with CMMC requirements.”

Automating processes for any framework, including CMMC, helps reduce the room for human error and offers a streamlined way of approaching compliance management operations within an organization.”

Be mindful when selecting a C3PAO. Due to different auditor viewpoints, what might be okay for one C3PAO might not be okay for another, resulting in evidence inconsistencies and differing levels of compliance and focus. C3PAOs not being fully qualified poses risks, including failed CMMC audits, financial loss (contracts, penalties), and reputational loss due to a breach.”

Framework changes can substantially prolong certification times. The fact that the change from CMMC 1.0 to 2.0 was given a 9-24 month rollover period should show the level of impact changes could have. Traditionally, teams would have to do gap analysis, restructure their compliance teams, get legal representatives involved in decisions on evidence, and more.” 

To streamline CMMC compliance and reduce costs, organizations should consider isolating sensitive data assets within a secure enclave, minimizing complexity while maintaining robust security controls.”

With limited resources and time it’s paramount that an organization focus on completing steps 1 and 2 accurately. Understanding the need for a specific assessment level can minimize the need for other steps (e.g., Level 1 doesn’t require the need for Step 6). "

One of the key ways to demonstrate compliance with documented policies is by having the controls that map to the policies showcased on Vanta’s Trust Center. Having controls shown on your custom Trust Center shows real-time compliance and builds trust with your prospects and customers that your organization is following documented policies.”

If there is a specific DoD contract you wish to bid on, carefully read the request for proposal (RFP). Those will typically tell you which level of CMMC is required (and thus the one you should choose).”

CMMC practices are largely sourced from NIST 800-171, so that’s the framework that significantly overlaps with CMMC. At Vanta, we have already done this work for our customers and cross-mapped these frameworks.”

Organizations seeking CMMC compliance need to foster a culture of security for their organizations. This includes setting the tone at the top with leadership buy-in and governance, alignment of the specific requirements with existing policy and operations, and providing ongoing security training across all personnel.”

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CMMC is one of the biggest cybersecurity initiatives in United States history, so it undoubtedly has a profound impact on the future of cybersecurity in the U.S. With CMMC, the bar is being raised to a new standard for contractors within the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), and it will impact thousands of government contractors and their subcontractors.”

Compliance provides the structural backbone for businesses to manage operations consistently and effectively, ensuring alignment across business and technical functions.”

Implementing ISO 27001’s Annex A is relative to the scope of applicability you define, which includes assessing risks to your organization and determining where specific controls are necessary. It’s important to evaluate risks from multiple angles to ensure that the controls you apply aren’t just a compliance measure but a critical part of strengthening your overall security posture.”

While the core risk assessment requirement for ISO 27001 didn’t change with the update to the new 2022 version, it remains crucial to consider a wide range of risks to ensure that the controls your organization applies adequately address your identified security risks and contribute to strengthening the security posture of your organization.”

The risk assessment wears a couple of hats in an ISMS internal audit. It must be reviewed to ensure compliance with the 27001 standard regarding control mapping and other notable aspects.

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The risk assessment can also provide insight into controls that internal auditors assess as part of a risk-based auditing approach. Specifically, auditors can assess controls mapped to risks with higher scores instead of assessing random control areas.”

Scoping an ISMS can be challenging for organizations of all sizes. Small organizations want their scope to encompass as much of their environment as possible, whereas larger organizations with many interdependencies will focus on the key components of their environment. 

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The trick is crafting a Scope Statement for your ISO 27001 certification that provides value for your customers and includes relevant systems and processes within the scope.”

ISO 27001 certification cost and timeline vary across organizations with different size, scope complexity, and resource availability—but with Vanta, you can expect to invest as little as 20–40 hours to become audit-ready at any scale”

Vanta streamlined our compliance processes. Through automated evidence collection and continuous monitoring, we have reduced the time we spend on manual compliance tasks by 50 hours per month. Now our team can focus on strategic initiatives, rather than repetitive tasks.”