AuditBoard vs. Vanta

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AuditBoard
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
AuditBoard is a cloud-based audit management software solution from the company of the same name in Cerritos.N/A
Vanta
Score 4.2 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Vanta is an automated security and compliance platform. Vanta helps businesses get and stay compliant by continuously monitoring people, systems and tools to improve security posture.N/A
Pricing
AuditBoardVanta
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AuditBoardVanta
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
AuditBoardVanta
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Comparison of Governance, Risk & Compliance features of Product A and Product B
AuditBoard
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Ratings
Vanta
2.6
8 Ratings
98% below category average
Common repository of GRC items00 Ratings3.38 Ratings
Risk management00 Ratings3.28 Ratings
Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems00 Ratings1.95 Ratings
GRC policy management00 Ratings2.26 Ratings
Incident management00 Ratings2.67 Ratings
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AuditBoardVanta
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User Ratings
AuditBoardVanta
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(10 ratings)
3.7
(9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AuditBoardVanta
Likelihood to Recommend
AuditBoard
Auditboard is especially useful for SOX control testing. It is very convenient having all our information on a single platform. It is easy to communicate PBC requests to clients, store control testing working papers for review, communicate deficiencies and build dashboards to provide visual statistics. Situations where it might not be useful are for organizations that are smaller in size where the templates don't fit well with their internal audit/controls program. There is a significant amount of testing required before using the platform, and adapting working papers to fit in well with AuditBoard
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Vanta
Vanta seems excellent for startups, but I expect that they would be even more useful at bigger companies. I think it really helps people that haven't done SOC2 before. I also think it would help in monitoring compliance across teams with many users. If the budget is extremely tight, I think it would be possible to save money by not using it.
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Pros
AuditBoard
  • AuditBoard allows real-time collaboration between control and business owners and auditors.
  • AuditBoard has a lot of fantastic training sessions and office hours to help users make the most of the product.
  • AuditBoard has great customer service personnel to answer questions and troubleshoot any issues.
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Vanta
  • API driven capabilities offer a very easy way to connect your systems to their application.
  • It was mostly intuitive to figure out what needed to be configured.
  • I like how responsive they have been and how they have been able to outline the entire process for us from the start to the end.
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Cons
AuditBoard
  • We used to perform our Risk Control Analysis (RCA) for each audit's planning in an Excel spreadsheet. Once we purchased the Risk Oversight module, AuditBoard helped us convert the RCA to a system function rather than a spreadsheet. At first, we lost some of the functionality the spreadsheet provided, but AuditBoard did continue to help us build and work towards a solution more similar to what we previously had. Though happy with it, it's still not perfect. As one example, I'd like to be able to link actual Ops Audit work steps that cover the risk and controls being outlined in the RCA, rather than just adding a comment to state which steps cover them. More of a preference, I suppose.
  • I also had demoed their beta Resources and Scheduling module, but it didn't have enough functionality at the time to work for how we put the quarterly Internal Audit schedule together (using Excel). One thing I recall was that you couldn't pull in SOX controls or non-chargeable work (such as education or administration) to auditor's schedules; it was meant to schedule the Ops Audits only. It is possible they have already fixed or improved this; I just haven't seen the updated version.
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Vanta
  • In my opinion, they make it very hard to contact them when you need something.
  • In my experience, they write their contracts to make it difficult to cancel service.
  • In my experience, they have no policy for refunds in addition to their [...] contacts.
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Likelihood to Renew
AuditBoard
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Vanta
Great to maintain for our SOC2 compliance and further compliance evolutions
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Usability
AuditBoard
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Vanta
Pretty intuitive and great integrations
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Reliability and Availability
AuditBoard
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Vanta
Always available
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Performance
AuditBoard
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Vanta
Fast although the agent may take some time to reping on checks
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Support Rating
AuditBoard
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Vanta
Direct support and replies in a timely manner to tickets submitted
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In-Person Training
AuditBoard
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Vanta
Pretty straight forward
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Online Training
AuditBoard
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Vanta
Straight Forward
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Implementation Rating
AuditBoard
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Vanta
Pretty seemless and did it almost entirely myself
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Alternatives Considered
AuditBoard
I remember there were a lot of sync issues when I used the internally developed software, but that's probably because a few people were working on the same project at the same time. I have not come across this issue in AuditBoard
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Vanta
Vanta's reporting was far superior, the price was competitive but my engineers running the project said that working with vanta would save them significant amount of time. Secondly vanta had more integrations so they could plug directly into the systems we use!
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Scalability
AuditBoard
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Vanta
Works as intended
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Return on Investment
AuditBoard
  • Hard to quantify. It was cheaper than the tool we had and we were able to get rid of standalone tool for surveys. overall, just better user experience for all.
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Vanta
  • We were able to close contracts because we had our SOCII compliance in place
  • SOCII certification process was reduced by at least 80%
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ScreenShots

Vanta Screenshots

Screenshot of Monitor your control system and take action on outstanding configuration issues, security issues, and required compliance tasks to improve security and achieve continuous compliance for your business.Screenshot of Review results of your risk assessment and identified risks to your business.Screenshot of Generate a policy from our templates or upload your company's existing policies that describe your business' internal and external commitments to security and compliance.Screenshot of Conduct an assessment of vendors essential providing your business' services and take action to assign ownership and review each vendors' own security assessments.Screenshot of Monitor employees and contractors task completion status. Take action to flag ex-employee accounts to be deprovisioned or service accounts that are not included in onboarding processes.Screenshot of Monitor and take action to remediate package vulnerabilities that have been detected on your servers.