To split up work across your team, you can assign items in Vanta to specific people. Vanta will automatically notify that person of work so that you don't have to. This article will explain how assignment works and how to set them up.

Who and what you can I assign?

Vanta supports assignment in the following places:

• Tests page
• Documents page

You can assign any person in your Vanta account, not just admins! If the user is not a Vanta admin, they'll see a stripped-down test and document view.

Assigning owners

• To assign an owner to an item, click Edit under the owner column. Hover over the owner name, or the word Unassigned. You will see a pen icon become available to edit ownership

• Select a user from the dropdown to configure an assignee.

• You can quickly find which items are unassigned or assigned to a specific person by using the filter at the top.

Assignment behavior

• By default, Vanta will send alerts on each item to the assigned people.

• Each assignee can see the list of alerts and configure the behavior on their own Account notifications page.

What non-admin assignees can do

Test Notifications

If there are individuals on your team outside of the test owner who would benefit from receiving notifications of test failures, you can now add up to ten emails as subscribers to the test.

• Open the Test page
• Click into the test you would like to add additional subscribers to

• Scroll to the bottom of the page and find the Subscribers fields
• Add up to ten emails
  • This can also include a team’s mailing list or the mailing address of a slack channel
• Notifications will be batched and sent every a team’s mailing list or the mailing address of four hours in the event of any test failures