Vanta Inc. is a company specializing in compliance automation, improving clients’ security and simplifying their audits to allow for easier certification in many compliance standards.

The company automates many auditing aspects; for example, instead of a business manually submitting a thousand screenshots to an auditor, it can completely automate the process.

“Vanta ultimately is a tool that gives you an automatic way to prepare for your SOC 2 audit, or your ISO 2701 audit — or insert a long list of dozens of standards we’re working on here,” said Rob Picard (pictured), security lead at Vanta.

The company recently received an investment from CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s Falcon Fund, allowing it to make use of CrowdStrike’s security infrastructure to provide an even better service, Picard added.

SiliconANGLE Media looks back on our coverage of Fal.Con 2022, when industry analyst Dave Vellante spoke with Picard. During an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, they discussed what Vanta can do for businesses of all sizes and CrowdStrike’s Falcon Fund’s investment in Vanta. (* Disclosure below.)

How Vanta turns cumbersome audits into a smoother process

Vanta does more than just pull a service organization control report from a business’ cloud provider and send it in. It also integrates with identity providers and endpoint systems to allow it to see that all the systems are working in sync and are therefore compliant.

“If you ask any given SOC 2 auditor for like, ‘Hey, what controls should I be using that you’re going to audit me against?’ It’s your job to come up with the controls,” Picard explained. “They’ll provide you … their set, but it’s going to be different between them. The standard itself is not a list of controls, but what we can do is we can provide you that list of controls … and we can say this is what you need to do to get started here.”

This lack of standardized controls can be daunting for a business. Vanta uses its expertise to not only check off as many requirements before the first talk with an auditor, but the company also has a team of experts who regularly talk to auditors over the phone, thus simplifying the process as much as possible on a business end, according to Picard.

“We can get you 80% of the way there without having to send a single screenshot,” hesaid.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of theCUBE @ Fal.Con 2022:

(* Disclosure: Vanta Inc. and CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Vanta and CrowdStrike nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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