A-SCEND makes it easier to work through audits by connecting your Vanta evidence directly to A-LIGN’s compliance platform. When paired with Vanta, the integration helps teams reduce duplicate work, prevent version drift, and collaborate with auditors in real time. This is especially useful for customers completing audits with A-LIGN and looking to streamline the evidence review process.
Customers using A-LIGN as their auditor can take advantage of a direct integration between Vanta and A-SCEND. When enabled, evidence and metadata from your Vanta audit sync into the auditor workflow inside A-SCEND.
How It Works
When your audit observation window is active, your A-LIGN auditor will connect Vanta to A-SCEND. Customers complete a few steps in Vanta:
Create the audit in Vanta
Add the assigned A-LIGN auditor to the audit
Upload any additional requirements requested by the auditor, or ask Vanta Agent to import (Compliance program import).
Once the audit window begins, or when early access opens, Vanta starts pushing evidence into A-SCEND.
A-SCEND uses the Auditor API to pull new evidence from Vanta on an ongoing basis so that evidence remains up to date.
Product Capabilities
Below is a list of capabilities currently supported through the Vanta and A-SCEND integration:
API Capability | Currently Available |
Control mapping | One direction sync to A-SCEND |
Evidence files | One direction sync to A-SCEND |
Evidence name | One direction sync to A-SCEND |
Evidence status | One direction sync to A-SCEND |
Evidence workpaper for automated tests | One direction sync to A-SCEND |
Use Cases
Removes duplicated efforts of uploading evidence in multiplace places since “audit ready” evidence in Vanta syncs automatically to A-SCEND.
Auditors can review evidence in A-SCEND without needing manual uploads or chasing updated files.
Evidence linked to its control is pushed into A-SCEND reducing mismatches and version issues.
Requirements
Customer must have a Vanta account with an open audit engagement.
Auditors must be working with an A-LIGN auditor.
Auditor must be added to customers audit engagement in Vanta.
How to Connect the Integration
No customer action is required. Once A-LIGN is assigned to your audit, the auditor handles connecting Vanta to A-SCEND.
Limitations
• Export history of code changes is not currently supported.
• Criteria mapping is not currently supported.
• Evidence description and commenting is not currently supported.