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Controls Page

Updated over a week ago

The Controls Page within Vanta shows all of your account's controls. You can then filter, edit, and assign them.

Accessing the Controls Page

  • From the left-hand navigation panel, select Controls

  • This will take you to your company's custom controls page, which lists all of the customer controls created within your account

Searching & Filtering Controls

  • To search for a specific control, use the search bar at the top left-hand corner of the page. The results will appear in the list below.

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Editing Controls

  • Click on the Control you would like to edit

  • Edit the summary and description to your needs, and select Save Changes.

  • You can also map tests, documents, frameworks, and risk scenarios related to the control from here.

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Modifying your controls may affect your audit. Please inform your auditor and Success Manager of any changes.

Custom Fields

  • You can add additional fields to your controls from the Compliance Settings page.

    • In your account header, click the Settings icon

    • In the Settings page menu, scroll to the Features section and select Compliance

  • Go to the Custom fields for controls section. Common examples of a custom field include:

    • Revision number

    • Date last updated

    • Applicability

    • Process/Procedure

    • Frequency

    • Various Statuses

  • From here, select + Add in the top right-hand corner

  • Add a label and description, and choose the field type. Once the data type is selected, it can not be changed

  • Selecting the Share with auditor option will dictate whether auditors with access to a control can see this field.

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  • Select Add

  • New fields will automatically be added as a column on the Controls page

  • Clicking on a control will allow you to edit the information in all available fields

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  • From the import controls page, you can choose to add new controls or update existing ones. Both import options allow users to populate their new custom fields.

Removing Controls

  • On the right-hand side of the control, click the three dots

  • Click Remove

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  • A pop-up modal about the control and its mapped frameworks will appear.

  • Update the Effective date for when control deprecation went into effect

  • Click the Delete button

This will remove the control from the control page. Please note that Removing a Custom-Created control will permanently delete it.

Bulk Deactivate Controls

  • If you would like to deactivate multiple controls at once, select the checkbox next to the controls you would like to deactivate

  • Select Deactivate

  • Confirm that you would like to complete this action, by selecting Deactivate

Adding Removed Controls

  • Click on the More button on the top right corner of the Controls page

  • Select View deactivated controls

  • This will bring you to your deactivated controls

  • Find the control in the list

  • Click Add Control

  • A dialogue box will pop up

  • Update the Effective Date when the control went into effect

  • Click the Add button