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Compliance
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Risk Management
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Third Party Risk Management
Manage vendor onboarding and security reviews in one place.
Questionnaire Automation
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Trust Center
Showcase your compliance status and documentation.
Streamlined audits
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Customer Commitments
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Vanta AI
Automate compliance and uncover insights with AI.
Agentic Trust Platform
Build and prove trust from a single, unified platform.
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PRODUCTS
Compliance
Get compliant quickly and painlessly with automation.
Personnel and Access
Easily control user access and permissions.
Risk Management
Proactively manage risk to drive smarter decisions.
Third Party Risk Management
Manage vendor onboarding and security reviews in one place.
Questionnaire Automation
Automate security questionnaire responses.
Trust Center
Showcase your compliance status and documentation.
Streamlined audits
Automate audit prep and evidence collection.
Customer Commitments
Centralize, track and act on every customer commitment.
Vanta AI
Automate compliance and uncover insights with AI.
PLATFORM
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Agentic Trust Platform
Build and prove trust from a single, unified platform.
Integrations
Automatically pull data from [integrations_count] tools.
Vanta API
Build custom integrations and workflows.
Solutions
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Startups
Automate compliance so you can keep building.
Mid-market
Expand your security and compliance program as you scale.
Enterprise
Gain a unified view of your compliance, security, and trust workflows.
Vanta is the one-stop shop that helps us scale as a business. The future of Vanta is an exciting one for us.
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Healthcare
Protect sensitive info more easily by automating HIPAA and HITRUST.
Government
Proactively monitor emerging threats and automate security workflows.
Fintech
Stay ahead of evolving regulations and keep financial data secure with ease.
Vanta has saved us hundreds of hours and well over six figures in potential lost deals or added headcount.
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GTM Engineering
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Automate compliance so you can keep building.
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Expand your security and compliance program as you scale.
Enterprise
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Vanta just worked out of the box. It pulled in the right data and gave us a solid foundation for a secure, audit-ready program.”
Industry
Healthcare
Protect sensitive info more easily by automating HIPAA and HITRUST.
Government
Proactively monitor emerging threats and automate security workflows.
Fintech
Stay ahead of evolving regulations and keep financial data secure with ease.
How Ramp keeps its global financial operations platform compliant with Vanta
Frameworks
SOC 2
ISO 27001
GDPR
HIPAA
HITRUST
USDP
NIST AI Risk Management Framework
ISO 42001
Custom frameworks
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Service provider directory
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Auditor directory
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AWS
Automate compliance across your AWS environment.
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Auditors
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Partner program overview
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Service providers
Build, scale, and grow your business.
Auditors
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We don’t partner with anyone else. We’ve gone all in on Vanta.
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Security
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SOC 2
Learn everything you need to know about SOC 2.
Trust
Get the guide to all things trust.
HIPAA
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TPRM
Implement and optimize your TPRM program.
GRC
Implement a GRC program with ease.
ISO 27001
Get the guide to ISO 27001 certification.
ISO 42001
Get your resource for ISO 42001 certification.
GDPR
Get the guide to GDPR compliance.
CMMC
Hear from leaders who trust Vanta
Cyber essentials
Get the guide to Cyber Essentials certification.
HITRUST
Get the guide to HITRUST certification.
FedRAMP
Get the guide to FedRAMP compliance.
All resources
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Explore security trends and thought leadership.
Guides and reports
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Customers
Customer stories
Hear from leaders who trust Vanta
Help center
Find the help you need to get started with Vanta.
Vanta Academy
Deepen your security knowledge and learn new skills.
Community
Connect with fellow Vanta users and security experts.
Instructor-led training
Live, interactive training to help you master the product and progress quickly.
Product updates
Learn what's new on the Vanta Platform.
Company
About
Learn more about Vanta.
Security
Understand Vanta's security and compliance strategy.
Press
See the latest in Vanta news and press releases.
Careers
Join our team!
Compliance resources
SOC 2
Learn everything you need to know about SOC 2.
Trust
Get the guide to all things trust.
HIPAA
Get the guide for HIPAA compliance.
TPRM
Implement and optimize your TPRM program.
CMMC
Learn everything to need to know about CMMC.
GRC
Implement a GRC program with ease.
ISO 27001
Get the guide to ISO 27001 certification.
ISO 42001
Get your resource for ISO 42001 certification.
GDPR
Get the guide to GDPR compliance.
Cyber essentials
Get the guide to Cyber Essentials certification.
HITRUST
Get the guide to HITRUST certification.
FedRAMP
Get the guide to FedRAMP compliance.
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All resources
Find all your security and compliance content here.
Blog
Explore security trends and thought leadership.
Guides and reports
Find ebooks, checklists, whitepapers, and more.
Events
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Vanta for startups
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Startups
Automate compliance, get back to building.
The fastest and most trusted way to prove security. Vanta’s Agentic Trust platform helps startups get compliant, build credibility, and win customers—faster. Save $1,000
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Automated evidence collection
Built-in security workflows
Expert audit Partners
The fastest path to compliance
Build a security foundation
Agentic compliance at
startup speed
Get audit-ready, fast. Vanta offers the most automated path to SOC 2, ISO 27001, and more—powered by AI and trusted by today’s top buyers.
The Vanta AI Agent handles the heavy lifting
Acting like your first security hire, the Vanta AI Agent creates tailored policies, validates evidence, and fixes failed tests with AI-generated code—so you can stay focused on building.
Built for credibility from day one
As the leader in continuous compliance, Vanta helps startups like Replit, Cursor, and Datacurve turn security into sales. Features like the Trust Center and Letter of Engagement prove you're ready for business—long before your first audit.
A real security foundation
—built for startup growth
Buyers won’t take chances on startups without proof of security and a clean audit report. Vanta helps startups build and prove an investor and buyer-ready foundation.
Real protection for infra, people, and vendors
Vanta delivers a complete stack—continuous cloud monitoring, workforce safeguards, vendor risk reviews, and automated access controls—right-sized for early-stage teams.
Securing user access
Vanta automates access management across the user lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding, so access stays secure as your startup grows.
Serious startups start up with Vanta
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Prove trust from Day 0
Vanta's your first step to building trust—and closing big deals fast. We help accelerate audit prep by pulling real evidence from [integrations_count] continuously monitored integrations—saving time while building a real security foundation.
Make Vanta your first security hire
Keep up with rising expectations as you grow—even before your first audit. Vanta acts like your startup’s first security hire—automatically handling evidence collection and guiding you step by step.
Grow with Vanta—from Seed to the moon
Vanta keeps you ahead of evolving requirements as you scale, so you never have to context switch. With [integrations_count] integrations, always-on monitoring, and 20,000+ audits under our belt, Vanta grows right along with you.
Trusted partners to scale security and compliance
Vanta works with leading MSPs, vetted auditors, and cloud providers like AWS to bring you tailored compliance services, automation, and procurement flexibility. From stack integrations to AWS Marketplace availability, our partners help you build a strong security foundation and get compliant fast.
Expert support at startup speed
From live chat to scoping calls, Vanta’s customer success team and help center keep you moving fast, every step of the way.
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Security partners, built for startup speed
Vanta’s service partners offer tailored vCISO support, implementation services, and security guidance to help you get audit-ready fast.
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Audits you can trust
Vanta partners with startup-friendly, AICPA peer-reviewed audit firms and provides a clear, structured audit process. No shortcuts, no surprises.
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Continuous compliance for your cloud—and your AWS stack
Vanta’s tools give you real-time cloud visibility, stronger security, and audit readiness. Our
deep AWS integration
automates infrastructure monitoring, maps controls to frameworks, and speeds compliance with Marketplace-ready procurement.
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Tailor-made
for startups
Everything you need to get compliant with SOC 2 and ISO 27001, fast—and build a security foundation for growth.
Essentials
The fastest, simplest path to compliance—for companies who want stay focused on building.
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One compliance framework with agentic policy generator
Vanta AI Agent, including agentic search and asking questions (across policies, controls, frameworks, tests, documents), evidence checks, policy template library, evidence collection
Automated evidence collection for audit readiness
Basic reporting and audit workflows, code change, and continuous controls monitoring
Auditor API
Trust Center
Access to expert partners for additional compliance services
Plus
A strong compliance foundation plus security—for companies who want to build trust and credibility early.
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Everything in Essentials, and:
Expanded Vanta AI Agent features including automated policy onboarding, control mapping to policies, policy change summaries, and SLA tracking and remediation
AI-powered Questionnaire Automation (25 questionnaires per year)
Access Management (reviews and requests)
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When organizations leverage Vanta for automated compliance, they
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Global Strategic Alliances,
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When organizations leverage Vanta for automated compliance, they reduce their audit completion times by 50%.”
Andrew Steioff
Global Strategic Alliances,
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When organizations leverage Vanta for automated compliance, they reduce their audit completion times by 50%.”
Andrew Steioff
Global Strategic Alliances,
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When organizations leverage Vanta for automated compliance, they reduce their audit completion times by 50%.”
Andrew Steioff
Global Strategic Alliances,
A-LIGN
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“
When organizations leverage Vanta for automated compliance, they reduce their audit completion times by 50%.”
Andrew Steioff
Global Strategic Alliances,
A-LIGN
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“
Vanta gives us a really clear workflow on what needs to be done, who’s in charge of doing it, if it’s been done yet, and how many security tasks are sitting there. It’s helped me and my co-founder save lots of time.”
Cyrus Shaoul
Co-founder and CEO, Leela AI
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“
We wanted faster deal cycles and to make sure that security does not slow anything down. Thanks to Vanta, we get to focus more on building and less on security. Setting the foundation for compliance early was the key for us.”
Danny Sheridan
Co-founder and CEO, Fern
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“
We’ve gone into every single deal thinking security would be the bottleneck, but thanks to Vanta, we’ve moved through these security processes a lot quicker than a lot of our peers, which has been a huge advantage.”
Eno Reyes
Co-founder and CTO, Factory
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“
Vanta is a slam dunk. From excellent customer care, suite of products, to real-time compliance monitoring, Vanta ensures my company is at the cutting edge of global trust and safety.”
Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami, PhD
Founder & CEO, Cell-Ed
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“
We've really seen a hockey stick growth curve, and that growth coincides with our adoption of Vanta. I definitely believe that our ability to demonstrate trust to our users has been a critical part of that growth.”
Sam Alba
Co-Founder, Dagger
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