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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    KCM GRC Platform

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AKnowBe4 headquartered in Clearwater offers their governance, risk, compliance platform, the KCM GRC Platform.N/A

    Vanta

    Score1 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
    KCM GRC PlatformVanta
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KCM GRC PlatformVanta
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    KCM GRC PlatformVanta
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    Vanta
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    80%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    78%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    KCM GRC PlatformVanta
    Governance, Risk & Compliance
    Comparison of Governance, Risk & Compliance features of KnowBe4 KCM GRC Platform (discontinued) and Vanta
    Feature
    KnowBe4 KCM GRC Platform (discontinued)
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Vanta
    1.0
    9 Ratings
    153% below category average
    Common repository of GRC items10.01 Ratings1.09 Ratings
    Risk management10.01 Ratings1.08 Ratings
    GRC policy management8.01 Ratings1.06 Ratings
    Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems00 Ratings1.05 Ratings
    Incident management00 Ratings1.07 Ratings
    User Ratings
    KCM GRC PlatformVanta
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 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
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    10.0
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    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KCM GRC PlatformVanta
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    KnowBe4 KCM GRC Platform is well suited for a company that knows what they're doing compliance wise and needs to save time doing it. It won't be something you can spend a few hours on and then put on autopilot. It was made to create a rhythm within your own team, and you'll need to have the buy-in. It's useful for IT and Legal teams that already have a vendor risk management process, but want to have a better handle on it. Giving an outside auditor read-only access to a scope is also a huge time saver.
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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
    Discontinued Products
    • Mapping controls across different compliance frameworks. It saves you a ton of time and energy!
    • Performing risk assessments at the granularity that you prefer, splitting assessments across departments and teams if you wish.
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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
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    • Vendor management has a few kinks to work out. We want to be able to do internal questionnaires for vendors as a compliance checklist before we sign off on a contract. Nothing in the works yet, but there are a few workarounds.
    • The navigation between different tasks in scope is clunky, and it's easy to lose your place, and it forces you back to the main page of the scope to retrace your steps.
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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
    Discontinued Products
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    Vanta
    Great to maintain for our SOC2 compliance and further compliance evolutions
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    Usability
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    Vanta
    In my experience, the sheer volume of tasks and to do items is a bit inundating.
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    Reliability and Availability
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    Vanta
    Always available
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
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    Vanta
    Fast although the agent may take some time to reping on checks
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Support from KnowBe4 KCM GRC Platform is always great. It's always in-house localized support, with excellent response times, and dedicated Customer Success Managers to answer the bulk of your questions or take your suggestions and make them a feature request. They will also reach out at least quarterly and do health checks to make sure you're using the platform to the best of your ability.
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    Vanta
    Direct support and replies in a timely manner to tickets submitted
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
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    No answers on this topic
    Vanta
    Pretty straight forward
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    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
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    Vanta
    Straight Forward
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
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    Vanta
    Pretty seemless and did it almost entirely myself
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Quantivate and Fusion were the other two options we checked out. The quantity was high, and a good bit more expensive, but it was the best performing with its platform. They also had more modules that each cost extra to add to your subscription. KnowBe4 KCM GRC Platform was all-in-one and a little less mature, but the better buy. Fusion was hard to follow in the demo, and I was not overly impressed. I may have made my decision early enough in the demo to not pay much more attention to it.
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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!
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
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    Vanta
    Works as intended
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Just having the capacity to do things the right way, and formally, has driven some of our compliance efforts.
    • Due to licensing limitations, we likely overspent on seats to the platform that we didn't need but also didn't want to miss out on.
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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%
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    KCM GRC Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of View All Compliance Requirements: View all your compliance requirements with details, descriptions, status, scope, and controls for each requirement.Screenshot of View All Compliance Tasks: The “My Dashboard” view narrows focus to tasks assigned to an individual end user, allowing your entire organization to work together towards compliance.Screenshot of View by Scope and Scope Status Report: Scopes enable you to track multiple projects in one place simultaneously allowing you to provide granular user permissions across each project.Screenshot of View Policy Campaign: See all campaign details and easily keep track of your policy campaign completion percentage and user acknowledgments.Screenshot of View Risk Breakdown and Risk Categories: The Risk Dashboard gives you high-level details on your risk categories and risk score associated with these categories.Screenshot of Easily Add Risks: The Risk Wizard makes it easy for you to create unique organizational risks or import risks from existing spreadsheets to your risk register.

    Vanta Screenshots

    Screenshot of Vanta's task management, used to monitor a control system and take action on outstanding configuration issues, security issues, and required compliance tasks.Screenshot of the results of a risk assessment and identified risks to a business.Screenshot of policy that can be generated from templates or by uploading a company's existing policies that describe the business' internal and external commitments to security and compliance.Screenshot of vendor assessments.Screenshot of employee and contractor task completion status monitoring. Take action to flag ex-employee accounts to be deprovisioned or service accounts that are not included in onboarding processes.Screenshot of Vanta's monitoring, used to take action to remediate package vulnerabilities that have been detected on a company servers.