Articles from Vanta

The U.S. Space Force is proud to announce the launch of the Quantum Esports Series, a groundbreaking esports league designed to cultivate and showcase the next generation of aspiring professional gamers. Powered by the U.S. Space Force and operated in partnership with Vanta, this 11-week tournament series will feature intense competition in VALORANT and Rocket League, with $20,000 in prize money and thousands of dollars in swag up for grabs.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today announced a series of new features and capabilities to help security and GRC teams seamlessly collaborate across their organization and extended network. These releases—including team-based collaboration and granular user access, an integrated Vanta Exchange for vendor security reviews, enhanced audit capabilities and expanded security questionnaire automation—reduce manual processes and enable companies to manage trust as a team.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today announced a number of new and upcoming products enabling customers to build, demonstrate and enhance their GRC and trust programs. The new offerings include Vanta for Marketplaces to strengthen trust across a company’s entire ecosystem; adaptive scoping; AI-powered chat for Trust Centers; developer-first workflows for faster remediation; and expanded reporting capabilities.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today announced new investments in the United Kingdom and Ireland, including new compliance frameworks, product features and the opening of its London office. These initiatives reflect Vanta’s ongoing commitment to help UKI and European businesses easily achieve compliance and scale security programmes by providing the technology, local expertise and trusted partnerships needed to compete on a global stage.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today announced the speaking lineup for VantaCon 2024, its third annual user conference on November 20 in San Francisco. VantaCon will feature keynotes, fireside discussions and product announcements bringing together experts and Vanta customers to discuss global trends in security, compliance and the future of trust.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today released its annual State of Trust Report 2024, an in-depth analysis uncovering global trends in security, compliance and trust.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today announced its expansion in the ANZ region with a new Australian data centre, support for local frameworks including CPS 234 and Essential Eight, and an increased in-region support team. Underscoring Vanta’s continued investment in the ANZ market, the new offerings will enable customers to streamline their compliance efforts and balance local regulations with international standards.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, announced today new product features and milestones, allowing customers to automate existing GRC workflows and gain continuous visibility across their security and compliance program. Vanta’s new Report Center, enhancements to VRM and milestone achievements for pre-built integrations and frameworks give GRC and security teams always-on visibility with actionable insights so they can establish and promote trust internally and externally.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, announced it has earned the #81 spot in the Forbes 2024 Cloud 100 list, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, announced today new offerings helping businesses of all sizes improve their cybersecurity posture, including a pre-built CIS Controls® framework and automated tests to easily manage security processes and policies directly within the Vanta platform. In addition, updates to the Vanta API enable customers to easily and automatically implement advanced security workflows to close security gaps and reduce risk. Vanta will showcase these new offerings at expo booth #2618 during Black Hat USA August 7 - 8 in Las Vegas.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, announced today that it has raised a $150 million Series C funding round at a valuation of $2.45 billion. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, in addition to new investors Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, J.P. Morgan and existing investors Atlassian Ventures, Craft Ventures, CrowdStrike Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, Workday Ventures and Y Combinator. The most recent funding brings Vanta’s total funds raised to $353 million since 2021.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, announced today a partnership with HITRUST® Services Corp., the leader in cybersecurity assurances, to be the first automated compliance partner for the HITRUST e1 Assessment and reseller for the HITRUST MyCSF platform. The partnership brings greater efficiencies to control monitoring, compliance management, and assurance for organizations wanting to achieve HITRUST e1 Certification and demonstrate their commitment to safeguarding data and protected health information (PHI).

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, announced today the addition of Vanta AI and Questionnaire Automation in Trust Centers, enabling enterprises to proactively and reactively demonstrate their security and compliance, automatically. To further meet the needs of the world’s largest organizations, Vanta introduced new enterprise-ready capabilities including an enhanced REST API, support for SCIM provisioning and more multi-instance integrations to help enterprises reduce risk while saving time and costs. Vanta will be showcasing the new offerings at expo booth #2166 in San Francisco’s Moscone Center during the annual RSA Conference, May 6 – 9.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024. Vanta ranked #1 on its Most Innovative Companies in Security list, as well as #35 on its overall Most Innovative Companies lineup.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today announced several growth, product and partner milestones showcasing the company’s continued acceleration as the platform of choice pioneering the next generation of Governance, Risk, and Compliance capabilities. Surpassing a number of growth metrics including $100M in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and nearly doubling customers to 7,000 companies around the world, Vanta's performance has been further powered by the announcement of new enterprise-ready features and the rollout of AI innovations, including support for the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, announced today that it has appointed Jadee Hanson as its CISO, overseeing Security, Enterprise Engineering, Privacy and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), reporting directly to Vanta’s CEO Christina Cacioppo. Hanson is the latest executive to join Vanta’s leadership team over the past year following the additions of David Eckstein, Chief Financial Officer and Jeremy Epling, Chief Product Officer.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today announced a number of new and upcoming product launches enabling customers to accelerate innovation and strengthen security. The new offerings include advanced Reporting to help security professionals measure the success of their security program and report the impact to key stakeholders; customization and enterprise readiness features for modern GRC leaders; and new Vanta AI capabilities including policy generation and automatic mapping across risks, controls, tests and frameworks.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today released its annual State of Trust Report, an in-depth analysis uncovering global trends in security, compliance and the future of trust. Despite their best efforts, two-thirds of businesses (67%) say they need to improve security and compliance measures with nearly one in four (24%) rating their organization’s security and compliance strategy as reactive.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today announced the launch of Vanta Trust Center, a single destination for companies to showcase their security and compliance posture, build trust and streamline security reviews. By automating time-consuming and tedious workflows while improving customers’ ability to communicate their real-time security, Trust Center reduces deal cycles by 30%, enabling organizations of all sizes to win more deals and grow their business faster.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today announced the speaking lineup for VantaCon, its second annual user conference. On December 5, VantaCon will feature keynotes, fireside discussions, hands-on workshops, and product announcements bringing together experts and Vanta customers to discuss global trends in security, compliance and the future of trust.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today announced the launch of Vanta AI, a new suite of tools leveraging the latest in AI and LLMs to accelerate compliance, efficiently assess vendor risk and automate security questionnaire workflows. Featuring AI-powered vendor security reviews, generative questionnaire responses and intelligent control mapping, Vanta AI significantly reduces the manual, repetitive tasks hampering security teams, freeing them up to focus on their most strategic work.

Vanta, a leading esports organization, is proud to announce a game-changing expansion of its highly anticipated Vanta National Esports League. Schools, organizations, and gamers across the nation can now compete in up to 30 game titles, an amount 3-4 times higher than most other organizations.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today announced its inclusion in the Forbes 2023 Cloud 100 list, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. Debuting at 82 among the top 100 world’s best private cloud computing companies, the ranking underscores Vanta’s rapid growth and position as the market-leading trust management platform over 5,000 companies—from scale-ups to enterprises—rely on today.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, announced today that it has appointed Jeremy Epling as its Chief Product Officer overseeing engineering, product and design, reporting directly to Vanta’s CEO Christina Cacioppo. Epling is the second C-Suite executive to join Vanta’s leadership team this year with David Eckstein coming onboard in February as Chief Financial Officer.

Vanta, East Metro STEAM Partnership (EMSP), Multnomah Education Service District (MESD), and Intel have joined forces to establish an esports community initiative that emphasizes accessibility and inclusivity for East Multnomah County high schools and middle schools. This collaboration will create a competitive and developmental esports league culminating in an in-person championship event.

Vanta, a leading trust management platform, announced today that it has expanded its partnership with CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data, with a new integration that improves compliance and security operations for organizations of all sizes. Vanta also announced three new strategic investors in their previously announced Series B — Atlassian Ventures, HubSpot Ventures and Workday Ventures.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, today announced it was named to the 2023 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, earning the No. 17 spot. The list highlights the 50 most innovative private companies, and is a testament to Vanta’s rapid growth and continued momentum in helping large enterprises and emerging companies achieve, maintain and demonstrate their trust.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, announced today the launch of its Vendor Risk Management (VRM) solution, enabling organizations to accelerate, automate and simplify third-party vendor security reviews and due diligence. Featuring vendor auto-discovery and continuous vendor assessment and remediation workflows, Vanta’s VRM offering significantly reduces the time and costs for security experts and novices alike to review, manage and report on third-party vendor risk.

Vanta, a leading trust management platform, announced today that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners who provide software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS. The program helps AWS Partners drive new business by directly connecting participating ISVs with the AWS Sales organization.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, announced today it’s scaling its investment in the European market with the opening of a new EU data centre, launching localized product features and updated policy frameworks, and expanding its partner ecosystem to better serve Vanta’s rapidly growing customer base in Europe.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, announced today the launch of its Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner Program, enabling partners to grow their business and deliver more value to their clients by transforming trust into a marketable advantage.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, announced today that it has appointed David Eckstein as its Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Eckstein will oversee accounting, finance and investor relations, reporting directly to Vanta’s CEO Christina Cacioppo.

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, announced today its acquisition of Trustpage to transform trust into a marketable advantage for companies around the world. With the addition of Trustpage, Vanta is accelerating its product innovation and continuing to scale its industry-defining trust management platform for thousands of global customers to monitor, improve and demonstrate their security, and ultimately, establish and deepen trust.

This weekend, youth esports organization Vanta is hosting the middle school and high school Texas Esports League finals at the Esposure arena in Duncanville, TX.

Vanta, the premiere K-12 esports organization in the US, raised over $2.5 million in an oversubscribed funding round, bringing their total amount raised to over $3.3 million. The funds will be used to expand access to Vanta’s free K-12 leagues in the US, further develop their COPPA compliant esports platform, and expand their esports coaching offerings.

Vanta, the leading automated security and verified compliance platform, announced today that it has closed $50 million in Series A funding. The new funding round was led by Sequoia Capital, along with participation from existing investor Y Combinator. Sequoia General Partner Andrew Reed will join Vanta’s board of directors. The company will use the new funding to meet customer demand, launch new products, and open a second office in New York.