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What is Vanta?
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.
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- Common repository of GRC items (8)2.929%
- Risk management (8)2.929%
- Incident management (7)2.323%
- GRC policy management (6)2.020%
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What is Vanta?
Vanta provides automated security and compliance, boasting the trust of hundreds for SOC 2 preparation. The vendor aims to give clients everything needed to get compliance audit ready, fast. Touting easy-to-use gap assessment, risk assessment, and remediation tools, they aim to cut SOC 2 prep time - saving users and their engineers time, money, stress, and tedium. When a company is ready for that SOC 2 audit, Vanta helps find an auditor that is right for any particular compliance needs.
Use Vanta’s auditor-vetted controls or define custom controls to reflect your company’s unique workflows. Receive alerts and guidance via email and Slack or use Vanta’s task-tracker integrations to stay on top of fixes. Vanta can help streamline the auditor selection process and enables them to complete an audit entirely in Vanta.
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Governance, Risk & Compliance Features
- Supported: Common repository of GRC items
- Supported: Risk management
- Supported: Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems
- Supported: GRC policy management
- Supported: Incident management
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Vanta Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | United States, Canada |
| Supported Languages | English |
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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.
Reviewers rate Common repository of GRC items and Risk management highest, with a score of 2.9.
The most common users of Vanta are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
Vanta Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 87% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 12% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 1% |
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Vanta has become an essential tool for users in addressing security concerns and meeting SOC2 compliance requirements. Users rely on Vanta to simplify the complex process of achieving SOC2 compliance, saving them valuable time and effort. With Vanta's continuous monitoring feature, users can ensure their systems are secure and compliant on an ongoing basis.
One key use case of Vanta is its ability to streamline the SOC2 process. Users have found that Vanta's automation capabilities make evidence collection for SOC controls much easier and more efficient. The software integrates seamlessly with the tools used by users' teams, allowing them to collect and organize the necessary documentation without the need for additional staff.
Another use case of Vanta is its active monitoring of various systems, such as user management, payroll, and cloud platforms. Users appreciate how Vanta actively keeps track of these systems, easing their day-to-day tasks and providing peace of mind knowing that their systems are being monitored for potential security issues.
Overall, users have found that Vanta accelerates the path towards SOC2 compliance, enabling fast completion and reducing overall costs in engineering and auditing. The support provided by Vanta's customer success team has also been highly praised, as they assist users throughout the entire compliance journey, from preparation to monitoring. As a result of these positive experiences, many users plan to continue using Vanta in the future as it has been instrumental in enabling their compliance efforts.
Intuitive User Interface: Multiple users have found Vanta's user interface to be intuitive, allowing them to easily navigate and configure their systems for SOC2 compliance.
Responsive Customer Support: Several reviewers have praised the responsiveness of Vanta's customer support team. They appreciated the team's ability to provide guidance throughout the entire process of SOC2 certification, ensuring a smooth experience from start to end.
API-Driven Capabilities: Many users have highly valued Vanta's API-driven capabilities, which offer an effortless way to connect their systems with Vanta's application. This integration allows for seamless data exchange and enhances overall efficiency in achieving SOC2 compliance.
Limited API requests: Some users have experienced issues with Vanta's API, specifically receiving a "Request failed with status code 429" error. This has caused inconvenience and frustration for several reviewers.
Lack of customization options: A few customers have mentioned that Vanta lacks flexibility in terms of customization. Users have expressed a desire for more control over the appearance and functionality of the software to better align it with their specific needs.
Steep learning curve: Several reviewers have found Vanta to have a steep learning curve, making it challenging to fully grasp the software's features and capabilities. Some users felt that additional documentation or tutorials would be helpful in overcoming this initial hurdle.
Users frequently recommend using Vanta for achieving and maintaining compliance certifications such as SOC2. They find it to be a fast, easy, and trusted tool that helps them navigate the compliance process efficiently and without headaches. Users appreciate Vanta's commitment to client success and its simplicity in accomplishing certifications.
Another common recommendation is to take full advantage of Vanta's functionality and learn all of its features. Users believe that going all in with Vanta can greatly benefit their organization by automating security and compliance monitoring, as well as providing cost-effective management of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes. They also highlight Vanta's ability to integrate with cloud resources and recommend it for cloud infrastructure monitoring.
Users suggest using Vanta for onboarding services, especially for guiding novices through the SOC2 compliance process. They find Vanta to be a great tool for SOC2 setup and audit, helping them get their systems up to SOC2 standards efficiently. Additionally, users recommend Vanta for measuring the time taken to stay compliant with security standards and for conducting inventory assessments of organizational setup and controls.
Overall, users highly recommend Vanta for its ability to automate security and compliance monitoring, streamline the certification process, and provide effective tools for achieving and maintaining desired security compliance levels.
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We hired them to help us with SOC (System and Organization Controls) compliance.
- They were supposed to help me create and store documents, but ended up losing them.
- 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.
The Vanta software tool is being used with our Information Technology & Information Security departments to continue our SOC2 compliance after the company-wide SOC2 audit from August to November 2021.
This is helping us address any security concerns before the auditor needs to inquire on a resolution or require an exemption to be implemented.
This is helping us address any security concerns before the auditor needs to inquire on a resolution or require an exemption to be implemented.
- SOC2
- Ease of Use
- Explanation of Steps to Resolve
- Better Explanations.
- More Detailed Resolutions.
- Allows Greater Auditor Editing of Extraneous Tasks.
March 29, 2022
Great tool to get ready for Soc2
We've begun our journey for Soc2 certification. Vanta helped us with any steps required for preparation, contacts, and monitoring. Their customer success is great. The tool works fine and we're reaching the end of our audit period without any trouble. We just did what Vanta suggested we do.
- Soc2 guidance and contacts building.
- Well monitoring the infrastructure.
- Well monitoring the people requirements.
- Cannot differentiate Heroku review apps.
- Vanta agent misses some HD encryption settings.
- More than one Google Workspace setup.
March 10, 2022
Vanta saves us valuable time
Vanta has made it much easier than expected to get started with the SOC2 process. They streamline a lot of the confusing pieces and save us valuable time. We had never gone through a SOC2 before, so the help getting started was crucial, as otherwise, it would be hard to keep track of what is involved. My understanding is that they also streamline things on the auditor's side, which made the total price of the SOC2 audit more reasonable than I feared.
- SOC2 compliance tracking
- SOC2 outline
- SOC2 auditor search process
- Some of the technical integrations are still buggy
January 05, 2022
Great tool to accelerate SOC2 process
Fast SOC2 type 2 completion. Needed it done in less than a year. We were able to get there and also reduces our overall cost in engineering and auditing by at least 60%. When using Vanta for a SOC2 audit, it actively monitors things like user management, payroll, and other HR systems, Cloud platforms. For users that also have their day-to-day tasks to complete, this is a huge help
- 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.
- Alerts and employee onboarding and offboarding were not entirely complete when we started using the product.
- It would be nice if we could assign policies to specific people in the Vanta app.
- Sometimes, refreshing the tests when you make the changes to pass takes a little more time than desired.
December 07, 2021
Vanta, a great tool for bootstrapping your compliance program
Vanta does an excellent job automating evidence collection SOC controls by providing integrations with the tools my team uses. They've made it very easy to bootstrap and execute a compliance program without hiring additional staff.
- Integrations with source control and infrastructure providers.
- Guidance around what makes a company's policy secure.
- Portals that supply our auditors with everything they need to write their reports.
- I'd love to see more options for integrations. ie a Datadog integration that checks on infrastructure monitoring.
- Providing a general area for document sharing.
November 10, 2021
Vanta is a no-brainer to enable SOC 2 compliance
We are using Vanta as a software solution to accelerate our SOC 2 compliance path. The software and whole team at Vanta have been great at helping enable our compliance path on a rapid trajectory. It would have taken us much longer to get everything together without Vanta's help and we plan on continuing to use it in the future.
- SOC 2
- Compliance
- Security review
- International background check verification
- Seamless connection to audit firms
- Changing tests in the middle of a review period
November 10, 2021
Vanta paid for itself 100x over
Companies looking for HR SaaS products have a checklist of items they need before moving forward. The companies required us to be Soc2 Type 2 and with Vanta it was a breeze. They did and do continuous monitoring of our systems and it truly just makes security and compliance easy. I'm not sure what the process would have been like for Assembly's security team if we had to do it manually or with archaic processes but it would not have been as easy as it was. I'm truly appreciative of Vanta and how amazing of a partner they have been to Assembly!!!!
- Compliance
- Security
- Partnership
- Ongoing support
- They truly do what we needed them to do really well
November 10, 2021
Vanta made SOCII certification fun!
We use Vanta for our SOCII certification and ongoing compliance.
- Streamlines reporting and compliance
- Provides an easy administrative platform for ongoing usage
- Made SOCII certification easy
- Add NDA signatures prior to sharing SOCII info in automatically