Continuous Compliance
Learn to continuously manage your compliance through Vanta
Security and Compliance: Industry Topics
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What Should be in Scope for Vendor Reviews?
When conducting vendor reviews for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, you should focus on vendors that ar...
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RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective)
What is RTO? RTO (Recovery Time Objective): RTO is the maximum acceptable amount of time th...
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Security Frameworks
Security Frameworks Security frameworks are structured guidelines, best practices, and sta...
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Gap Assessments
What are Gap Assessments? A gap assessment identifies the differences, or "gaps," between ...
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Cyber Insurance
Cyber insurance is a type of insurance that helps protect businesses and individuals from t...
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Frequently Asked Questions: SOC 2 Bridge Letter
What is a bridge letter? A SOC 2 bridge letter, or gap letter, can be used to vouch for yo...
Access
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Access Reviews: System Reviewer Role
For more information about plan types and capabilities, see Vanta's pricing page With Van...
Vulnerabilities
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Automatically Reopen Vulnerabilities when a Fix is Available
Regardless of fixability status, Vanta will pull in all vulnerabilities detected from a vul...
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Vulnerability Status: Managing Scenarios and Errors
Scenario What is Visible Suggested next steps A scanned asset with no vulnerabil...
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Deactivate Vulnerabilities until a Specified Date
Vanta now allows to ignore or pause vulnerabilities until a specified date. This is helpful...
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Deactivate Monitoring for a Vulnerability
Navigate to the Vulnerabilities Page in Vanta From the Findings by Vulnerability tab or Vu...
Audits
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Adding and Managing Auditors on your Account
Adding an Auditor to Your Domain From the top right-hand corner, select Settings (gear ico...
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Where to see observation window for your audit
Administrators can view their observation period by navigating to the Audits page, located ...
Inventory
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Bulk Upload Custom Inventory Items
Inventory items that exist outside of the services you have integrated in Vanta can be manu...
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Assigning Group Ownership to Inventory Items
With custom ownership functionality, Vanta users can enter any value as an inventory owner ...
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Tracking Inventory in Vanta
Creating a complete inventory list is a significant first step to a successful compliance p...
Vendors
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Vendor Risk Management Settings
Security questionnaires A security questionnaire is a document or survey used by organizati...
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Vanta & ZIP Integration: Vendor Risk Management
This integration is available for Vanta VRM customers who also have Zip accounts. With this...
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FAQs: Vendors
How do I think about this section of the product? The Vendors page is where you will revie...
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Collecting Vendor Documents with a Private Link
When performing a security review on a vendor, you may need specific documentation to compl...
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Vendor Risk Management
For more information about plan types and capabilities, see Vanta's pricing page With the ...
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Task Tracker: Vendor Risk Management
Connecting task tracker accounts If you already have your task tracker connected to your Va...
Risk Management
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FAQs: Risk Assessments
A risk assessment is a process that companies use to find and understand possible problems ...
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Risk Assessment Report
For more information about plan types and capabilities, see Vanta's pricing page With Vant...
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Risk Management Customization
For more information about plan types and capabilities, see Vanta's pricing page Risk Man...
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Creating a Risk Snapshot
Create a Snapshot Snapshot records your risk assessment at a given point in time. It allow...
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Update Risk Assessment to Risk Management
Vanta has created a new tool within the platform to help your team better manage risk withi...
Controls
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Delete all Custom Controls
Deleting all Custom Controls From the left-hand navigation panel, select Controls From ...
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Custom Notes for Controls
With Vanta's notes for controls feature, users can add notes to controls to allow for bette...
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Creating Custom Controls
Creating Custom Controls From the Controls Page, select +Add Control Select + Add Custom...
Trustpage
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Questionnaire Automation Resources
On September 1, 2024 we will be sunsetting Trustpage functionality, and utilizing Vanta's T...
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How do I direct prospects to my Trust Center?
The following information applies to Trustpage Trust Center, which is different from the Va...
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Using Auto-complete for Security Questionnaires
On September 1, 2024 we will be sunsetting Trustpage functionality, and utilizing Vanta's T...
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What Makes an Effective Trust Center?
On September 1, 2024 we will be sunsetting Trustpage functionality, and utilizing Vanta's T...
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Publishing a Trust Center Update
The following information applies to Trustpage Trust Center, which is different from the Va...
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How do I configure resource request auto-approval in Trustpage?
On September 1, 2024 we will be sunsetting Trustpage functionality, and utilizing Vanta's T...
Policies
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Policy Writing Resources
Creating effective policies is essential for ensuring consistency, clarity, and compliance ...
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Creating Policies with Policy Builder
Vanta’s Policy Builder is a policy creation and editing tool that helps you quickly create ...
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Policy Templates Updated: November 2023
Vanta released updates to a number of Policy Templates in November 2023: 01-ISMS Scope of ...
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Commenting in the Policy Editor
Vanta now supports commenting on any policy document using our in-product Policy editor! Us...
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V2 Policy Migration
Vanta is excited to offer customers our updated policy stack. This comprehensive new pack i...
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Adding Custom Notes to Policies
Adding Custom Notes to Policies From the left-hand navigation panel, select Policies Op...
Documents
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Audits Page
The Audits Page in Vanta is your one-stop location for all things related to your complianc...
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Marking Custom Documents as Sensitive
Marking a Custom Document as Sensitive When creating a custom document from the documents...
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What is a Security Questionnaire?
A security questionnaire is a tool used to assess an organization's security posture and pr...
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Adding Custom Evidence
Add a Custom Document Click Add Document in the top right-hand corner of the Documents pag...
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Recurring Document Updates
Leverage Vanta's document recurrence functionality to keep all of your documents up to date...
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Preferred Documents
Customers can opt into their auditor's preferred requirements, removing any previous audito...
Tests
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CIS Foundation Benchmarks Available in Vanta
For more information about plan types and capabilities, see Vanta's pricing page .CIS Benc...
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Tracking Incident Management and Resolution Tickets in Vanta: Jira
Vanta can track tickets you use during and after incidents to help provide evidence of your...
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Remediating Cloud Tests with Terraform
Vanta provides instructions to help customers remediate tests. When remediating Cloud tests...
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Vanta & Vouch Cyber Insurance
Vanta now offers Vouch cyber insurance within our platform. From Vanta, you can apply for i...
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Creating Custom Tests
For more information about plan types and capabilities, see Vanta's pricing page With Cust...
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CIS Benchmark Tests for Kubernetes
CIS Benchmarks are a globally recognized best practice for securing IT systems and data. CI...
Reports
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Vanta Reports
For more information about plan types and capabilities, see Vanta's pricing page Vanta off...
Vanta Trust Center
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Connecting Trust Center & HubSpot
For more information about plan types and capabilities, see Vanta's pricing page Trust Ce...
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Collaborating on Questionnaires
Vanta Questionnaire Automation provides various tools for your cross-functional teams to co...
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Trust Center NDA: DocuSign
For more information about plan types and capabilities, see Vanta's pricing page With Van...
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Questionnaire Automation for Multi-product Organizations
For more information about plan types and capabilities, see Vanta's pricing page As an orga...
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Adding Vanta Trust Center to your G2 Profile
Trust Center users can now connect their Trust Center to their G2 profile to share security...
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Excel Questionnaire Column Mapping Options
When importing or completing an Excel questionnaire, it’s important to map the correct ques...