Easy to use, super intuitive!
What do you like best about the product?
Vanta makes compliance feel effortless. The automation features save hours of manual work, and the platform’s clarity helps everyone on the team stay aligned. I especially appreciate how intuitive the dashboard is.... it gives a real-time pulse on our security posture without needing to dig through spreadsheets or audit trails!!
What do you dislike about the product?
Occasionally, some integrations take a bit of fine-tuning to sync perfectly, and certain alerts could use more context or flexibility. But overall, the product team is clearly responsive, and improvements roll out frequently.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vanta centralized and automated much of the compliance work that used to take endless spreadsheets and back-and-forths between teams. It gives us a single source of truth for our security posture, makes evidence collection and audit preparation far more efficient, and ensures we’re continuously meeting requirements instead of scrambling at the end of the cycle. It’s also helped improve collaboration between People Ops, Engineering, and Leadership by making compliance a shared, visible process.. not a siloed or reactive one.
Comprehensive and User-Friendly, But Framework Gaps Remain
What do you like best about the product?
Vanta is a great platform. It is clear they have focused on comprehensively meeting the needs of those looking for unified compliance management and it is very easy to use!
What do you dislike about the product?
Some gaps between what auditors ask and what is available for a given framework in Vanta.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streamlined the process of achieving SOC2 Type 2 compliance.
Great Features, But Managing Multiple Groups Can Be Tricky
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, adding users, tracking progress, sending reminders
What do you dislike about the product?
Multiple groups can be confusing and hard to keep track of
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SOC-II compliance audits, ensuring employees complete their trainings on time
Adorable Llama and Helpful Info, But Needs More Interactions with User to help learn better.
What do you like best about the product?
The llama! Such a cutie and informative.
What do you dislike about the product?
More interactions for sure! I am a visual learner.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Information to users, and the security.
Effortless SOC 2 Prep, Minor Setup Hiccups with Older Tools
What do you like best about the product?
Vanta quietly pulls proof from our systems and shows exactly which controls are checked and which need work. During SOC 2 prep it gathered lots of the logs and access data for me, so I spent time fixing issues instead of hunting for screenshots.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some older tools didn’t connect automatically and required manual uploads during setup, which slows things down at first.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vanta turned compliance from a one-time panic into steady daily checks. Missing items show up early, many artifacts come in automatically, and audits need far less chasing.
Vanta Makes Compliance Effortless with AI Automation
What do you like best about the product?
What I appreciate most about Vanta is how it streamlines the entire compliance process. Normally, dealing with compliance can be a real headache, but the platform’s AI automation takes care of the difficult tasks, from gathering evidence to continuously monitoring everything. This has made our compliance efforts much more efficient.
What do you dislike about the product?
The primary downside is that getting Vanta completely set up can be a lengthy process. While they do provide guidance throughout the setup, it still requires significant time and coordination across various teams. This can be particularly challenging for smaller startups with limited resources. Additionally, their pricing structure isn't always very transparent at the outset, which makes it harder to budget for the service before you officially commit.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vanta’s main purpose is to centralize and automate security and compliance, eliminating the hassle that usually comes with managing these tasks. Rather than having to juggle everything manually,
Vanta Automates Evidence Collection
What do you like best about the product?
Vanta connects to our cloud and identity tools and starts pulling evidence on its own, so I don’t have to chase screenshots or logs. During our SOC 2 readiness it gathered user and access data automatically.
What do you dislike about the product?
A couple of legacy apps also needed manual evidence during initial setup, which took some extra engineering time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vanta automates continuous checks and evidence collection so gaps show up long before auditors arrive. That moved our compliance work from frantic, last minute effort to steady, daily tasks.
Has improved our compliance workflow and helped identify and fix security vulnerabilities
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Vanta is compliance in general, aiming for an ISO to be compliant with the standards.
A specific example of how I use Vanta for ISO compliance is that we have Vanta connected to our AWS account and our Azure DevOps repositories.
Regarding my main use case for Vanta, we are using it to make sure our security posture is good. For example Vanta has picked up all the AWS Inspector for our ECR repos vulnerabilities, and we create tickets and hand them out to our team, trying to remediate these images one by one, which provides a very useful view of our weak points.
What is most valuable?
The best features Vanta offers include reasonable recommendations, a nice user experience, and everything being organized. The remediation guidance is very nice, so if I don't have a clue about that item, Vanta gives me a hint on what to do and what the subject of that resource is.
Most of the time the recommendations are quite sufficient, which is great. Sometimes, if the task is a little bit complicated, it requires some extra research, but in general, it's good, especially for infrastructure as code. It even has solid examples on what to do.
Vanta has positively impacted my organization by helping us remediate a lot of vulnerabilities and bad practices, especially from vulnerable ECR repos, and enforced good behavior. For example, we enforce reviews for our pull requests, which wasn't mandatory before and was on a per-repo basis. Now, this enforcement is uniform across the entire organization.
After implementing those changes with Vanta, we tracked specific outcomes and metrics and improved compliance scores, which we can see in Vanta. We started out at around 17%, and we're now at over 80%. It's still a work in progress, but we've come a long way.
What needs improvement?
The only thing I wish for regarding the features is better RBAC. Permissions for platform users have been an issue. We've had to give admin access to Vanta for another team member to view all items. It would be great if the permissions of Vanta platform users had more verbosity to them, more dynamic.
To improve Vanta, I think the refresh after remediation takes place could be controlled more. If it could be faster, that would be great.
Besides the user permissions and the refreshing, which are improvements rather than issues, the rest looks fine. Vanta has been really nice, with a nice user experience, clear layout, and very reasonable recommendations compared to other platforms we've tried.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using Vanta for the past 10 months, starting in early January this year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Vanta is very stable; we haven't had any downtimes or weird behavior so far, which we really appreciate.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Regarding Vanta's scalability, our whole DevOps team and SRE teams have been onboarded, and it has been a smooth ride.
How are customer service and support?
I haven't interacted with customer support yet, as we haven't had any need to contact them so far. I'm sure they will be good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used Azure Defender, which was a hideous solution with inconsistencies. Connectors would go down randomly, and some suggestions from Azure Defender were very awful and unrealistic. We had a rough time with it; We've had a very nice time with Vanta so far compared to Azure Defender.
What was our ROI?
Besides achieving a better security posture and coming closer to ISO compliance, I have nothing else to share about return on investment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing isn't in my domain to give a good answer.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Vanta, our team lead evaluated other options, and I personally evaluated other options regarding security posture in general, mostly open-source ones.
What other advice do I have?
For others looking into using Vanta, I would say it's great, and if they're new to compliance, that's the perfect place to start. Start using Vanta, narrow down the scope, and take the items one by one to get one step closer to good compliance.
I think Vanta is one of the good platforms out there. I'm glad we're using it. I'm comfortable with it, and so is my team.
On a scale of 1-10, I rate Vanta a 9 out of 10.
Amazing product, amazing support, provides a complete end to end GRC solution
What do you like best about the product?
We’ve been using Vanta for a while now, and honestly, it’s been such a smooth experience. The platform is super easy to use, everything just makes sense, and it saves us so much time.
The support team is incredible. Whenever we have a question, they’re quick to respond and genuinely helpful. Plus, our account manager has been amazing, really proactive and always checking in to make sure we’re getting the most out of the platform.
What I love most is how comprehensive Vanta is. It truly feels like an end-to-end solution. It connects with nearly every tool we use, tracks compliance automatically, and works across pretty much any security framework. It takes so much of the stress out of staying compliant.
Overall, Vanta has made the whole compliance process simple, efficient, and honestly enjoyable, which I never thought I’d say about compliance!
What do you dislike about the product?
If I had to pick something I dislike about Vanta, its a little pricey for smaller teams, and some of the customization options are limited if you have really specific processes. That said, once everything’s up and running, it works seamlessly and more than makes up for those small challenges.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vanta helps us track our SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance all in one place. It makes it so much easier to manage everything, from policies and documentation to controls and compliance tasks. Instead of juggling multiple tools or spreadsheets, Vanta brings everything together in a single platform, so we always have a clear view of where we stand. It really streamlines the entire compliance process and keeps us audit-ready without all the manual effort.
Positive Experience
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, straightforward. The interface is very friendly
What do you dislike about the product?
Confusion around lots of redundant pieces, and some areas don't have clear guidance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is solving my problem of learning compliance and guiding me through the process of adopting protocols.
