Vanta automates security compliance for companies that need to prove they are secure to customers, auditors and regulators.
It connects to the tools an organisation already uses, collects the evidence auditors ask for, and monitors controls continuously so certification stops being a once-a-year scramble.
At A Glance
| Vendor | Vanta |
|---|---|
| Category | Governance, risk and compliance |
| Identities covered | Personnel user accounts through access reviews; AI agents through AI Governance |
| Deployment | Cloud platform pulling data from 400+ tools through integrations and an API |
| Agentic AI | Vanta Agent, Vanta AI, agent discovery and access controls in AI Governance |
| Customers | Snowflake, GitHub, Ramp, Duolingo, Samsara |
| Founded | 2018 |
| Market classification | Governance, Risk & Compliance |
What Vanta Does
Compliance work has traditionally meant screenshots, spreadsheets and weeks of evidence gathering before each audit, and the result is only true on the day it is checked. Vanta replaces that with automation: integrations pull evidence straight from cloud, identity, HR and device systems, and tests run against controls all the time, so the organisation always knows where it stands. Because the same evidence also feeds risk registers, vendor reviews, questionnaire answers and the Trust Center, one data set serves both proving compliance internally and showing it to buyers.
Products
Compliance And Continuous GRC
The core product is for teams pursuing or maintaining certifications. It supports more than 35 frameworks, among them SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, HITRUST, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO 42001, CMMC, NIS2, DORA, the EU AI Act, Cyber Essentials and FedRAMP, plus custom frameworks. It automates evidence collection and audit preparation, and runs continuous control and test monitoring, so audits draw on evidence that is already collected rather than gathered by hand.
Personnel And Access
Personnel and Access helps IT and security teams keep user access under control. Pre-built integrations gather account data from every connected system into one interface for access reviews, and continuous monitoring flags leavers so they are de-provisioned from systems faster.
Risk And Third Party Risk
| Risk Management | Proactive management of risk to support better decisions. |
|---|---|
| Third Party Risk Management | Vendor onboarding and security reviews in one place. |
| Questionnaire Automation | Drafted answers to the security questionnaires customers send. |
| Customer Commitments | Tracking of the security promises made in customer contracts. |
Trust Center
The Trust Center is a branded page where buyers find security documentation and see live control status, cutting down on back-and-forth security reviews. Vanta AI answers buyer questions through a chatbot, and add-ons handle access approval through HubSpot and Salesforce and NDA collection through DocuSign and Ironclad. Analytics show how customers engage, and subscribers are notified of updates.
AI Governance
AI Governance is for organisations adopting AI agents faster than they can review them. It discovers agents across developer laptops, production code and vendor platforms, rates each by the models, prompts and database access it can reach, and sets access controls that limit agents to the data and tools they need. Boundary monitoring detects activity outside approved limits, and custom risk tiers and use-case attestation for the EU AI Act produce evidence that can be published to the Trust Center. It is offered through a waitlist for early access.
Vanta Agent
The Vanta Agent works as “your 24/7 GRC engineer”, drafting policies, completing questionnaires and calling out issues for the team to fix.
How It Works
Vanta is a cloud platform that sits alongside an organisation’s existing systems rather than replacing them. It pulls data automatically from more than 400 tools across cloud providers, identity providers, HRIS, MDM, version control and vulnerability scanners, and the Vanta API lets customers build their own integrations and workflows. Controls and tests then run continuously against that data, so posture stays current between audits and drift shows up as soon as a control fails. In AI Governance, discovered agents are mapped to the Trust Graph, Vanta’s model of how systems, controls and risks connect.
Identities And Systems Covered
| Human users | Account access across connected systems, reviewed and de-provisioned through Personnel and Access. |
|---|---|
| AI agents | Agents on developer laptops, in production code and on vendor platforms, with the MCPs and tools each can access. |
| Identity providers | Okta, used as a deep source of compliance evidence. |
| Cloud providers | AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. |
Integrations
| Area | Integrations |
|---|---|
| HRIS | 7shifts, ADP Workforce Now |
| MDM | 1Password Device Trust, Addigy, Agency |
| Ticketing | Jira, for automated ticketing workflows |
| Trust Center add-ons | HubSpot, Salesforce, DocuSign, Ironclad |
Company Background
| Founded | 2018. |
|---|---|
| Offices | Remote first, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, Dublin and London. |
| Leadership | Christina Cacioppo, CEO and Founder. |
| Investors | Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Atlassian Ventures, HubSpot, CrowdStrike and Wellington Management. |
| Customers | More than 16,000 reported customer businesses, from startups to enterprises. |
Note: This overview is compiled from Vanta’s publicly available information as of 3 November 2026. It is provided for information only. NHI Mgmt Group does not endorse any vendor, and nothing on this page represents the opinions of NHI Mgmt Group.