Creating a comprehensive inventory list is a crucial first step in a successful compliance project. Vanta gathers information from your connected services and pre-populates this information in Inventory. For all other components, you must manually enter those within your organization's control or on your corporate network.
Tracking Items Outside of Integrated Services
First, determine the items used to provide your business’s services and log them here. We’ll have you assign ownership to each item and flag sensitive items so we can monitor their configuration.
This includes office network devices, end-user devices, or additional infrastructure components not hosted on a Vanta-supported cloud provider.
Examples:
Corporate network devices include ISP modems, wireless routers, office switches, and more.
Corporate office devices: copiers, printers, and sign-in iPads that typically connect to the corporate network.
End-user devices not assigned to a specific person, such as laptops stored for future employees.
On-premise data center presence (servers, databases, etc.)
Domains and subdomains that require vulnerability scanning
To track an item that’s not on the drop-down list:
Select All Custom Items from the list on the Inventory page
Select Add Item
You can find the new item and add the needed information by clicking the pen icon in each column category.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is the number of computers detected in my Inventory different from the number on the Computers page?
The Computers page displays devices with a User registered as their owner, while the Inventory page displays all devices that either have the Vanta Device Monitor installed or have been synced from your MDM. The inventory list can be filtered by 'No Owner' to identify which devices have not been registered to a user.