By Sukanya Ganesh in AI — Apr 23, 2025

Vanta

With AI built into the core, Vanta helps fast-moving teams stay secure, compliant, and always ready—without slowing down for manual audits.

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Keeping your company secure and compliant is tough—especially as you grow.
That’s why so many teams use Vanta, a platform that helps you prove you’re doing the right things when it comes to security. But what really makes Vanta powerful is how it uses AI to do the hard parts for you.

Instead of manually collecting files, checking settings, or worrying about audits, Vanta’s AI watches your systems, spots issues, and helps you fix them—automatically. It saves time, reduces mistakes, and makes staying compliant way easier.

Automated Evidence Collection

AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) Monitoring
Vanta’s connector to AWS CloudTrail continuously pulls in IAM activity logs. AI parses these logs to answer: “Are any IAM users without MFA (Multi-factor Authentication)?” If it detects a user login without MFA enabled, it automatically flags that control as “non‑compliant” and surfaces the exact log entry and username for your security team to review.

Intelligent Risk Prioritization

Dynamic Risk Scoring of Vulnerabilities
Imagine you have dozens of running EC2 instances. Vanta pulls in CVE data from your AWS Inspector scans and, using AI, scores each vulnerability not just by severity (e.g., “Critical”) but by context—like whether the instance is internet‑facing or hosts PII. A critical CVE on a public‑facing database scores higher risk than the same CVE on a dev sandbox, guiding your team to patch the database first.

Natural‑Language Compliance Guidance

In‑Dashboard Q&A
A security engineer types, “Which endpoints lack antivirus?” Vanta’s AI reads your endpoint management integration data, identifies ten machines without up‑to‑date AV, and replies:

“Machines  A, B, and C haven’t reported antivirus status in 48 hours. Consider pushing the latest AV agent version 3.2.1.”

Continuous Audit Readiness

Mock Assessment
Ahead of the real audit, Vanta runs a “mock” SOC 2 control test. Its AI engine asks, “Can you demonstrate your backup‑restore process?” then checks your documentation and backup logs, identifies a missing step in your disaster‑recovery drill, and sends remediation tips.

Insights & Trend Analysis

Peer Benchmarking
Vanta anonymizes metadata across customers. Its AI reports:

"Within fintech companies our size, the average time to remediate critical misconfigurations is 24 hours. Your team averages 72 hours—consider automating patch deployments.”

By embedding AI throughout its platform, Vanta transforms compliance from a periodic, manual chore into a continuous, data‑driven capability—ultimately helping organizations build and demonstrate trust more effectively.