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Compliance made easy
What do you like best about the product?
Vanta is super easy to use. We used a different compliance software for several years before switching to Vanta, and wish we would have made it sooner - the user-friendliness of the platform is leagues above.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some components, particularly related to HR, that are automated, and there are not manual overrides (like for off-boarding an employee if the HR software hasn't "exited" them yet). It would be great if there was a way to manually update some items.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're a small team, so we do not have one employee dedicated to security and compliance. Vanta takes all of the guess-work out of it, allowing our team to manage compliance, even with limited human resources.
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Vanta makes SOC2 readiness a breeze.
What do you like best about the product?
The two best things about Vanta are the policy templates and the integrations. The policy templates allowed us to jump-start our readiness program, and the breadth of integrations made onboarding a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Vanta agent for monitoring end-user computers leaves something to be desired. I'd suggest using a proper MDM solution (Jamf, etc) instead of the Vanta agent. It had several issues detecting hard drive encryption status with various flavors of Windows.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vanta made SOC2 readiness a snap. We completed our readiness program in under four weeks from starting from absolute zero; we are on track to be SOC2 Type 2 certified in under six months from signing up with Vanta. I'm not sure how else we could have achieved it that quickly with another tool.
Great SOC2 management software
What do you like best about the product?
Their platform automates a lot of the manual tasks involved in the SOC2 process. Saved us a ton of time
What do you dislike about the product?
I really don't have much to complain about but if I could choose one thing it would be more integration/automation with the auditors so it goes seamlessly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use them to deliver our yearly SOC2 report to clients and stay compliant 24/7/365
The perfect blend to security and support
What do you like best about the product?
The specific modules and documents and the ease of seeing your progress to completing the certification.
What do you dislike about the product?
I had some challenges uploading a screenshot for a security requirement and could not figure it out on my own or with the FAQs on the site. But Vanta's support helped me expedite this and we were able to qualify for our security clearance that moved things forward with a client.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest problem Vanta is solving is providing guidance to accomplish our security goals.
Very useful, streamlined service
What do you like best about the product?
It was very streamlined and easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
We had trouble getting a couple of our security settings to be reflected in Vanta but we got through it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used it to complete our SOC2 audit.
Unbelievably Great Introduction To Vanta
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpful about Vanta was the customer support team who did not skip a beat in helping me. They were very timely with their emails. I never had to wait for a reply if I was having difficulties. They were kind and courteous and new what they were talking about and how to solve my issues. I can't say enough about the customer support team. I love how Vanta sends you a login link code via email instead of just putting in a password and possibly saving it. I found this very secure and when Im working with sensitive information that is truly important to me.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I can say were the downsides is I was unable to download Vanta onto my Chrome OS, therefore, I had to get another laptop as Vanta can only be downloaded on a Mac or Windows. This was the only downside for me. I was given ways to fix this dilemma, but it wouldn't work still unless I had a Windows or a Mac.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I haven't had a lot of time with Vanta to necessarily answer this question, however, I will assume Vanta is helping with privacy concerns since I deal with sensitive information and making sure my hard drive is encrypted so noone can get into it. The encryption is key to a lot of these leakages of information so I think it is great that they encrypt your hard drive.
Easy to configure and get started
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to download and start right away. I have used it on Windows, macOS and Linux and had no problems so far. The documentation is also comprehensive, so there's no need to google every time you need to perform a task from the checklist.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's easy to trick Vanta by creating a separate partition and using another OS. For example, if you have a Windows machine, you can dual boot Ubuntu and install Vanta on it, which makes the Ubuntu partition compliant, but won't have any effect on the Windows partition. Not sure this is Vanta's one of the goals, but they should look into it and come up with a solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vanta makes sure a work machine has those necessary software and configurations to protect it from malicious attacks. For me, I have my drives encrypted; therefore, I'm certain my important data is protected all the time.
Does the job well, got us ready for SOC2 in a week and has kept us compliant since
What do you like best about the product?
I'm a big fan of Vanta. Since they've been around the longest they are incredibly good at the core feature set. It's easy to see what needs to be updated and how to update it to keep compliant. They also helped us quickly find an auditor, and their customer support team personally worked to help us address and complete a big security questionnaire doc we had. Really went above and beyond. Shout out to Emmett our original customer success person!
What do you dislike about the product?
The user experience is updating very regularly, so tbd if this review even holds a few weeks from now, but I'd really like a single page or graph showing everything across my entire instance that needs to be done instead of triaging between SOC2, HIPAA, docs, and tests.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vanta automates and continually monitors our company and systems for SOC2 compliance and HIPAA compliance. This gives us a sense of security and gives our customers confidence in our product. It also speeds up our SOC2 audits significantly.
Super Easy
What do you like best about the product?
Usually security is a big headache. I like that Vanta turns it into downloading an app, reviewing a few links, and watching a video to get up to complience. It's a really easy, well-packaged solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes on the Mac client in the past its taken more than one try to get the installer to fire. There is also not a visually confirmation when you are done installing which can be confusing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vanta makes it easy to have your company reach full compliance to pass a Soc II audit. For those in start-up land, it's almost impossible to book any large, enterprise customers without it.
Least painful compliance I've had!
What do you like best about the product?
I have performed compliance audits in the past, but always with an external expert. When I went to a small startup, I was on my own figuring out how to get our SOC2 compliance taken care of. Vanta was very easy to set up, and had very non intrusive monitoring of employee laptops. Vanta helped me to find an auditor and that process was so much smoother than it would have been without vanta collecting a lot of information. The list of needed policies helped us to create internal policies, and saved me weeks of writing and anguish.
Thanks Vanta!
Thanks Vanta!
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish that Vanta integrated with Render (our infrastructure platform) for easier tracking of those settings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vanta enabled our small startup to get our SOC2 certification at a much lesser cost than we otherwise would have and with way less pain that I have ever experienced during this audits.
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