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Vanta makes compliance possible for small teams
What do you like best about the product?
Vanta provides a low friction path to SOC2 certification, enabling our small team to go from zero to starting our observation period in under 30 days. Our Customer Success team was always available to answer questions, offer advice, and keep us moving forward. I can't imagine going through compliance preparation and the audit without Vanta.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited integration with lesser known service providers, however, Vanta continues to improve their coverage and is responsive to feature requests.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our business never had a good answer to how we addressed compliance. Vanta has given us the tools, guidance, and partnerships to build a comprehensive compliance regime in record time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Vanta immediately impressed us with their product and their commitment to client success. Their deep network of contacts has allowed us to find the best match for our needs on penetration testing and audit partner selection.
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Great integration and automation of SOC2 controls
What do you like best about the product?
Vanta gives great value to its customers by integrating with popular tools and automating most of the SOC2 controls. By monitoring our technological stack, it clearly defines the steps that we have to take to implement the controls relevant to a SOC2 audit. It is a helpful tool to manage corporate devices, manage onboarding and monitor our risk.
The support team is responsive and our success manager has always been a great help. It shows that Vanta takes into account their customers needs.
The support team is responsive and our success manager has always been a great help. It shows that Vanta takes into account their customers needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Vanta agent has difficulty reading Linux devices and windows servers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vanta allowed us to start our SOC2 audit in a fraction of the time that it would have taken us with the traditional method. The platform allows us to see exactly which controls need to be implemented and to what depth. It is allowing us to monitor for vulnerabilities and monitor our inventories. We are saving time and money by knowing exactly where to put our efforts to achieve our SOC2 certification.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best automated tool for SOC2 compliance.
Excellent product & great staff
What do you like best about the product?
Cost savings and speed of execution of the SOC 2 accreditation process. Vanta is also very responsive to feedback and their staff are well trained in the product too.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting is fixed and 'clunky'. Better access to data via an API would be good
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SOC 2 Type 2 certification for Tessian.com
SOC2 Compliance user
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to navigate, very clear what is passing and what isn't.
What do you dislike about the product?
wish it mapped to SOC2 controls better/more clear
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping everyone on track. Everyone knows what they are responsible for. Hub for security related tasks.
Vanta makes the process of becoming compliant very easy and straight forward.
What do you like best about the product?
It is logically built up with the automatic detection of security gaps in our IT infrastructure is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not all of our tools can integrate yet, so we still need to control access to some systems manually.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SOC 2 compliance and we achieve that with very little resources.
Vanta - SOC2 compliance made easy
What do you like best about the product?
Vanta made our first SOC2 audit as seamless of an audit process as I could ask for. The real-time monitoring of user accounts, advice on security configuration, and the out of the box policies all helped us pass the audit with flying colors. We use it to manage vendor security as well, which has allowed us to store all of our security and compliance documentation in one spot. I've been through a number of these security audits in my career, and the process with Vanta made it more seamless and straightforward for us than I could have imagined. I've already recommended Vanta to peers at other companies and will continue doing so.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd love to see Vanta make some improvements to their stock policies. I've spoken with their team and they've indicated this is something on their radar and they will be updating these soon.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are monitoring all user accounts with Vanta for onboarding, offboarding, and ongoing security. This allows us to manage our security infrastructure from one place which consolidates multiple tools/spreadsheets/processes down into one thing. It's awesome!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you talk with your SOC2 auditor to ensure they understand how to use Vanta. There is a separate login for auditors to review, which makes the whole process 100x easier, but the auditors have to understand what they need to do.
We would have been LOST without Vanta!
What do you like best about the product?
Do I have to pick just one thing?! In short, Vanta was able to simplify what is otherwise an extremely difficult project (especially for a company our size, about 75 people). Their employees are passionate and great to work with, from the very first call to handing off to a Customer Success Manager (CSM).
To explain in more detail, when we started the SOC II Type I Audit process we had no idea where to begin, and had previously spent 6-8 months attempting to complete things on our own, barely making any progress. As soon as we found Vanta, we immediately felt relief and confidence that we could complete the work required to pass our audit. The platform is easy to use, user-friendly, gives great insight into our high-priority risks, computers that need additional features, has a great email notification system for sending employees invites and reminders, and has very well thought out policies that allowed us to complete the work within a couple of months rather what I’m sure would have taken us more than a year. Our CSM met with us weekly to help us figure out where to start first, what to focus on each week, etc. and there is no way we could have completed this audit without them!
To explain in more detail, when we started the SOC II Type I Audit process we had no idea where to begin, and had previously spent 6-8 months attempting to complete things on our own, barely making any progress. As soon as we found Vanta, we immediately felt relief and confidence that we could complete the work required to pass our audit. The platform is easy to use, user-friendly, gives great insight into our high-priority risks, computers that need additional features, has a great email notification system for sending employees invites and reminders, and has very well thought out policies that allowed us to complete the work within a couple of months rather what I’m sure would have taken us more than a year. Our CSM met with us weekly to help us figure out where to start first, what to focus on each week, etc. and there is no way we could have completed this audit without them!
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't think of a single critique, Vanta is worth every penny!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vanta helps point out where our biggest security risks are, and points us in the direction to solve them, even down to the employee and device level. Vanta also helps us write and improve our security policies to continue improving our security posture. Because of Vanta, we were able to complete our SOC II Type I Audit in only a couple of months.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for a platform that is easy to use, user-friendly, gives great insight into your high-priority risks, computers that need additional features, a great email notification system for sending employees invites and reminders, very well thought out policies, and to essentially take something as complex as a SOC II audit and simplify the work so it can be completed within a couple of months, all while working with an awesome CSM who helps as much as needed the entire way, Vanta is for you. I do not think we could have completed our audit without them!
Great help for SOC2 compliance
What do you like best about the product?
Vanta is a huge help for on-boarding and off-boarding employees and recording that it was done correctly for compliance purposes. For example, they correlate GitHub accounts with employees names. When an employee leaves they alert me if I have not removed their GitHub account from our org. It's little things like this that prevent me from making mistakes. It also allows auditors to see that we have been following our policies and best practices.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their risk register needs more work. It should be more flexible. I would also like to see more Kubernetes focused security monitoring.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us maintain compliance, particularly SOC2 compliance. It also keeps us more secure.
High Impact Software for a fast growing business like RFP360
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to implement and provides high impact to our prospects and customers with very little time investment from an administration stand point.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like better education on other solutions/uses Vanta could provide to our business.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are automating and simplifying security reviews for our customers and prospects.
Okay for speeding up a “check the boxes” audit
What do you like best about the product?
Has a lot of the checks you need for a SOC 2 built in. For example, it auto tracks all employees and installs an agent on their machine to make sure you have malware protection and encrypted hard drives.
What do you dislike about the product?
A lot of the checks are not necessary. Things like the Vanta agent “check the box”, but they don’t actually add a lot of security.
It’s not super configurable. You can link Datadog, but when it looks for monitoring on certain things, it only looks at CloudWatch. Why even allow to link Datadog?? When linking your ticketing system, it assumes the `Security` label means p0. If that’s not the convention you use, tough luck!
It’s not super configurable. You can link Datadog, but when it looks for monitoring on certain things, it only looks at CloudWatch. Why even allow to link Datadog?? When linking your ticketing system, it assumes the `Security` label means p0. If that’s not the convention you use, tough luck!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SOC 2, continuous monitoring. It’s nice to be alerted when things go out of compliance or when new servers pop up without monitoring, or when vulnerabilities pop up.
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