New to Vanta or ready to level up?
Our live training sessions are designed to meet you where you are. This roadmap shows which sessions to take, in what order, and why. Think of it as your own personal compliance quest complete with checkpoints and power-ups.
Training Path
Step | Training | Description |
1 | Learn the fundamentals, integrations, and platform basics | |
2 | Write, manage, and collaborate on policies with confidence | |
3 | Manage onboarding, offboarding, and access | |
4 | Streamline vendor reviews and third-party risk | |
5 | Identify, assess, and mitigate risks | |
6 | Get fully prepped for a successful audit | |
7 | Showcase your security and automate trust-building |
Vanta Essentials: Your Compliance Launchpad
Start here. This foundational session is designed for new customers and teams getting started with Vanta.
In this interactive session, you’ll learn the fundamentals of how Vanta works, beginning with the platform’s foundations and how evidence collection plays a critical role. You’ll explore how integrations and automation streamline compliance efforts, discover how to implement and manage policies, and navigate your account settings for a tailored experience. The session wraps with a live Q&A so you can get real-time answers from our team.
Why take this training?
You’ll understand the core functionality of Vanta and how the pieces fit together to support your compliance goals.
Policy Writing Workshop: Get It in Writing
Take your first step toward documentation success. This beginner-friendly session walks you through the policy-writing process in Vanta.
In this session, you’ll explore why policies matter to your security program, learn best practices for writing clear and effective policies, and understand how to manage and collaborate on them directly in Vanta. We’ll also include a live writing exercise to help you put concepts into practice, followed by an open Q&A with our GRC expert.
Why take this training?
Strong policies are the foundation for compliance. This session helps you write, edit, and manage them collaboratively.
Personnel Management: Manage People & Access
With your policies in place, it’s time to focus on the people in your organization. Learn how to securely manage onboarding, offboarding, and access control.
This session shows you how to use integrations for managing personnel, set up user groups and task lists, and build smooth onboarding and offboarding workflows. You’ll also learn how to conduct access reviews that keep your organization secure. A live Q&A rounds out the training to address your team’s specific needs.
Why take this training?
Ensuring the right people have the right access at the right time is key to both security and audit success.
Vendor Risk Management: Trust Your Third Parties
This training helps you gain visibility and control over your vendors and third-party tools.
In this session, you’ll learn how to identify and catalog all third-party applications used in your organization, manage vendors and procurement workflows, and initiate vendor security reviews. We’ll walk through requesting and storing necessary security documentation and how to communicate your decisions with internal stakeholders effectively.
Why take this training?
External risk is internal risk. Use this training to implement a smart, efficient vendor review process.
Risk Management: Proactively Address Risk
Take a proactive approach to identifying and managing risk within your organization using Vanta’s Risk Management features.
This session explores how to define risk and understand the key concepts that guide assessment. You’ll walk through realistic risk scenarios, learn to navigate the Risk Management tool within Vanta, customize the settings to reflect your organization’s needs, and implement strategies to manage and mitigate risk over time.
Why take this training?
This session equips you to turn risks into opportunities for smarter, stronger security.
Audit Readiness: Nail Your Next Audit
Get expert-backed guidance on how to prepare for your audit using Vanta’s tools and processes.
You’ll learn how to start your audit process within Vanta, what key items need to be completed before your audit window, and how to use our proven audit readiness checklist to stay on track and organized throughout.
Why take this training?
We’ve supported thousands of successful audits. This session brings all that knowledge to you.
Trust Management: Share Your Security Story
This session shows you how to turn your compliance work into a powerful trust-building tool with Vanta’s Trust Center and Questionnaire Automation features.
You’ll gain an understanding of the principles of trust management, learn how to create powerful executive reports, and see how to build and launch your own Trust Center to proactively share your security posture with customers. We’ll also explore how to distribute your Trust Center effectively and automate security questionnaires using AI to save your team time and effort.
Why take this training?
Compliance is about more than checking boxes. This session helps you tell a clear, compelling story about your security posture.
Not sure where to start? Try this:
I’m brand new to Vanta → Start with Essentials
I need help writing policies → Check out Policy Writing
I’m working with vendors → Go to Vendor Risk Management
I’m prepping for audit → Head to Audit Readiness