Vanta

Score1 out of 10

13 Reviews and Ratings

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.

Categories & Use Cases

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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 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.

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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.

Common repository of GRC items
A common repository linking all GRC elements such as policies, risks, regulations, etc.) to give a 360 degree view
Category average: 7.6
Risk management
Risk management capabilities including alert engine to warn of trending risk exposure and risk visualizations like heat maps, dashboards, etc.
Category average: 7.4
Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems
Ability to integrate with external CPM software
Category average: 6.6

GRC policy management
Support for policy lifestyle changes including creation, approval, communication etc.
Category average: 7.3
Incident management
System captures risk-related incidents, including cause and result
Category average: 7.2

Wes Madrigal View profile

CEO in Corporate at Kurve Inc (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We originally purchased Vanta for SOC 2 compliance but did not derive any value or utility from it. Beyond that, even after stating to our reps we never hardly used the product nor derived value, in our experience, they forced us to pay and continue with a full 2-year term. In my opinion, this is terrible customer service and predatory behavior - I think you should stay away from Vanta.

Pros

Collects your money
Connectors to GitHub and AWS

Cons

Customer service
Price transparency
Value

Return on Investment

In our experience, $18,000 or so of lost precious capital

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Drata

Other Software Used

GitHub, Snowflake, Amazon Web Services

Joel Slatis View profile

President in Corporate at Timesheets.com (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We hired them to help us with SOC (System and Organization Controls) compliance.

Pros

They were supposed to help me create and store documents, but ended up losing them.

Cons

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.

Return on Investment

In my experience, they aren't really helpful after all. They ended causing more problems when documents went missing on our trust page. They caused us some embarrassment when we referred people to a mostly empty page.
They are now attempting to, in my opinion, force us to renew service.

Michael Martin, PMP CASP View profile

Cybersecurity Specialist in Information Technology at TSIA (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

SOC2
Ease of Use
Explanation of Steps to Resolve

Cons

Better Explanations.
More Detailed Resolutions.
Allows Greater Auditor Editing of Extraneous Tasks.

Most Important Features

Clarity of compliance.
Dashboard of tasks.
Ease of Use

Return on Investment

Will allow the company to attract more partners and clients.
Spotlight on deeper security needs
Provides better organization of assets

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Keeper, Bitdefender GravityZone

Usability

Ahmet Kara View profile

Head of Engineering in Engineering at Mobile Action - Mobile Data Intelligence & Actionable Insights (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Soc2 guidance and contacts building.
Well monitoring the infrastructure.
Well monitoring the people requirements.

Cons

Cannot differentiate Heroku review apps.
Vanta agent misses some HD encryption settings.
More than one Google Workspace setup.

Most Important Features

Easy process monitoring for Soc2.
Guidance for the process.
Alerts for the missing items.

Return on Investment

Process guidance.
Easy Monitoring.
Company restructure for better people & IT management.

Alternatives Considered

Drata

Other Software Used

Heroku Platform, Atlassian Confluence, GitHub

JONATHAN Fields

CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Corporate at Assembly (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

Compliance
Security
Partnership
Ongoing support

Cons

They truly do what we needed them to do really well

Most Important Features

compliance
security

Return on Investment

Money
Customers
Security checklists made easy

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What is Vanta?

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Common repository of GRC items

Risk management

Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems

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GRC policy management

Incident management

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