Vanta

What do you like best about the product?

What I like most about Vanta is how easy it makes managing security and compliance. Everything is organized in one place, which saves time and makes it easier to track progress, identify gaps, and stay on top of requirements. It also helps teams work together more efficiently without making the process complicated.

What do you dislike about the product?

One thing I dislike is that some integrations and evidence checks can take time to configure or troubleshoot. Also, navigating through multiple compliance requirements can sometimes feel a bit overwhelming. It would be nice if certain workflows were simpler and offered more flexibility.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vanta helps us manage security compliance and keep track of everything in one place instead of handling things manually across different tools. It makes collecting audit evidence, monitoring security controls, and identifying gaps much easier. This saves time, reduces manual work, and helps us stay organized and prepared for audits without having to chase everything separately.

What do you like best about the product?

Vanta has been so helpful for Cedar. We have streamlined our compliance program tremendously. We are over 95% automated in audit tests now.

What do you dislike about the product?

I would like to see a few more tweaks on what auditors can see. Like the asset management inventory.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vanta is streamlining our compliance, audits, access reviews, vendor reviews, and so much more.

What do you like best about the product?

Vanta Agent is great for getting quick help with Vanta platform features, whether in general or specifically in the context of our policies and controls.

Vanta's UI is clean and well organized - the features are relatively easy to find. The UI and system have been responsive to low to moderate usage.

Their out of the box integrations with a lot of the systems that we were already using has been greatly helpful in helping us better meet the controls.

Vanta's sales team was great to work with in negotiating a good multi-year price for multiple frameworks that we wanted to use.

Given what we have seen of the Vanta agent their AI-backed questionnaire module should also be very helpful: we are in the process of inputting our previous questionnaires and haven't fully tried it yet.

What do you dislike about the product?

The policy builder has been confusing to use at times. We migrated our established policies—many of which have already cleared multiple SOC2 audits—into Vanta as .docx files. A lot of our policy documents include figures, and that has prevented us from editing and managing those policies directly in Vanta. We still haven’t found a good solution for this.

We also tried creating the policies directly in the Policy Builder/Editor, but that felt restrictive as well. We couldn’t find any way to insert figure images (other than our company logo), which makes it difficult to build and maintain our policies in the tool.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vanta's vast array of out-of-the-box integrations make it easy to view and fix issues with controls on an ongoing basis. This is great when you are trying to continuously comply with multiple frameworks. Their AI-backed Vanta Agent and Questionnaire modules further help with the day-today cybersecurity tasks, including pre- and post-sales cybersecurity risk assessments by our customers.

What do you like best about the product?

The best part of Vanta is that it makes security and compliance management much easier and less time-consuming. Instead of manually collecting all the documents, checking security requirements, and keeping track of everything, Vanta automates many of these tasks in one place. It continuously monitors systems and helps identify potential security gaps before they turn into bigger problems.

What do you dislike about the product?

Vanta takes some time to understand and set up, especially for teams using it for the first time. Although it automates many compliance tasks, there are still situations where we need to review information manually, update documents, and make sure everything is correct. Sometimes the alert notifications can also feel a little overwhelming, especially when several things need attention at once.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vanta addresses the main challenge of managing a company’s security, compliance, and risk-related tasks, which would otherwise require a great deal of manual effort. Keeping track of security policies, collecting evidence, monitoring systems, and preparing for audits can become quite difficult, especially when everything is handled through different tools and spreadsheets. It helped me quickly check whether everything meets the required security standards and identify areas that need attention.

What do you like best about the product?

I find Vanta simple and streamlined, and it was very simple to set up and use. It saves me time that would otherwise be wasted on compliance, and I also thought the videos they made were really nice.

What do you dislike about the product?

I had an issue with Vanta’s monitoring software installer on Linux. The installation went smoothly, but it didn’t work in some cases.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Vanta for security compliance, and its simple, streamlined setup saves me time I’d otherwise waste on compliance. The videos are really nice, too.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that Vanta is an interactive, real-time learning platform with quizzes that help me better understand data protection principles. It gives me guidelines and connects my finance team with the cybersecurity team, so I can access policies and training and stay on top of industry best practices. The quizzes also help provide holistic protection from phishing and other threats. The initial setup was very easy.

What do you dislike about the product?

I think Vanta could improve its UI and UX. It’s already improved and consistently improving, but it could be made more fun.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vanta gives me guidelines and connects my finance team with the cybersecurity team. I can access best practices, policies, and training through Vanta and stay on top of industry best practices.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that Vanta works seamlessly and quietly in the background. It helps me feel that my work computer and its valuable information are protected, so I don’t have to worry about it. The support person I contacted was fantastic and fixed my issue easily.

What do you dislike about the product?

I had a hard time with the installation, though I’m not sure whether that was Vanta or my work laptop. I found installation difficult (9/10), but setup was easy (2/10).

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vanta helps me not have to worry about whether my computer, with valuable information, is protected.

What do you like best about the product?

It's an all-in-one compliance tool, covers everything you need for compliance and also has an in-built Vanta AI tool to help with questions/ doubts. Upside is that a lot of manual work can be automated using a tool like Vanta

What do you dislike about the product?

There are some things yet to be improved: not all integrations are available, Vanta AI is indecisive or inaccurate sometimes, policy editor is not so great as tables break in the final versions, Vanta only checks (discovered apps) on Intune, and not the overall compliance/ policy status of devices, making it really hard for us to bring the necessary apps into discovered apps, that takes weeks for some device syncs.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vanta solves the problems of evidence collection, reduces a lot of manual efforts and automates most of it through tests, documents, etc making it really easy for audit.

What do you like best about the product?

The system is easy to use, well organized across a lot of different frameworks and tracks progress in easy to read dashboards.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some of the export functionality is not easy to use or the system doesn't have the choice of different types of exports.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vanta helps us centralize our GRS, CMS, vendor management, and policy management systems into one place.

What do you like best about the product?

I appreciate Vanta’s incredible ease of use, extensive integrations, and integrated AI agent features. It’s flexible enough for both technical engineers and non-technical stakeholders with no prior experience to navigate the portal successfully.

What do you dislike about the product?

When I connect Vanta to a client’s environment, it automatically pulls in every asset, user, and system and marks them in scope across active frameworks.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Vanta to manage the extreme complexity of multiple security frameworks across an organization without clear visibility.