The Policies Page

You can utilize the features and corresponding tests on the Policies page to manage your policies. You will enforce processes around your company's security policies that are both good practices and required for audit. Vanta's provides you with policy templates that you can edit to fit the needs of your organization.
 

The Policies Page

  • From the left-hand navigation panel, select Compliance, then Policies
  • If you are new to Vanta, the Policies page will show you a list of Templates you can leverage to being the process of drafting policies 
  • If your team has been using Vanta, you will see a list of all of the policies being used within your organization 
  • From the top-right corner, you can +Add custom policies 

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Policy SLAs

  • Select Edit SLAs
  • The SLA categories will be shown, as well as the deadline you are going to adhere to
  • These can be edited to fit your needs, and Vanta also provides a recommendation. 

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Policy Status

Latest Policy Status Column: The status of the most recent policy version
  • Not Started: No work has begun on drafting this policy
  • Draft: The most recent policy version has been started but has not been sent for approval.
  • Pending approval: The most recent policy version has been sent for approval.
  • Approved: The most recent policy version has been approved, and the policy approval test is now being passed. Your Overall policy status is OK
  • Renew soon: The most recent policy version has been approved, and the policy approval test is now passing. However, it will expire within 6 weeks.
  • Expired: The most recent policy version has expired, causing the Overall Policy Status to move to Needs remediation.

Overall policy status Column: Aligns with the status of the policy approval test

  • OK: A version of this policy has been approved and is unexpired.
  • Needs remediation: This policy has yet to be approved and is unexpired.

Other Options

  • Select More 

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  • This dropdown will allow you to
    • Bulk update policies 
    • Download Vanta's policy templates
    • Download policy packet
    • Download policy acceptance history
    • Download editable policies from before July 2021

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