Vanta Announces AI Agent for Security & Compliance Teams

Vanta AI, an AI-powered trust management platform, is launching Vanta AI Agent to autonomously handle end-to-end workflows across a company’s entire GRC program.

Time-consuming and error-prone GRC workflows get agentic AI boost

The workflows that the Vanta AI Agent can handle include identifying issues and inconsistencies that individuals might miss and proactively taking action on their behalf while keeping teams informed and in control.

The new solution automates time-consuming and error-prone GRC workflows. By reducing manual effort while maintaining control for security teams, organizations can enhance their compliance programs and expand their impact without increasing headcount.

“AI has promised productivity gains for years, but it can be difficult to know where to begin,” said Jeremy Epling, the chief product officer at Vanta. “We built the Vanta AI Agent to meet teams exactly where they are, stepping in during the most manual parts of compliance and surfacing issues they may not catch on their own across policies, audit, controls, vendors, questionnaires, and more. By minimizing human error and taking on repetitive tasks, the Vanta AI Agent enables teams to focus on higher-value work– the work that truly builds trust. Today’s launch is just the beginning of how we’re using intelligent agents to reduce complexity, keep their entire GRC and Trust program in sync, and reshape how companies manage compliance and security at scale.”

The Vanta AI Agent is currently available in private beta and will be generally available in July.

Further, the Vanta AI Agent will expand in the coming months to autonomously manage more workflows across the Vanta platform, including policy management, risk oversight, and security reviews.

“The Vanta AI Agent complements my team’s expertise by filling in knowledge gaps, helping us learn faster, and double-checking critical information– ultimately saving us 12 hours weekly. And in our organization, time is money,” said Anne Simpson, the head of privacy, security, and compliance at Databook.

Vanta AI Agent features

The agent connects every part of Vanta’s compliance program, keeping information aligned, current, and easy to manage. It utilizes centralized data and intelligent automation to deliver real-time visibility, faster execution, and stronger collaboration.

Among the features of the Vanta AI Agent are:

• Policy onboarding automation and annual reviews: The agent scans uploaded policies, extracts key details, and reviews an organization’s existing controls to suggest which ones should be mapped to the policy. The agent then provides rationale for its recommendations to enable faster decision-making and save time on control mapping.
• Finds and patches inconsistencies with speed: The AI agent identifies inconsistencies between the SLAs defined in policy documents and those defined in settings. When the agent detects mismatches, it flags the error and recommends fixes, catching issues ahead of and in between audits.
• Instant answers to policy and program questions: The tool enables teams to quickly find answers to policy and compliance questions, eliminating the need to search through documentation. Security teams can also ask the AI agent questions and receive real-time, accurate, and clear answers.
• Evidence verification: The agent reviews uploaded documents as evidence against audit requirements to ensure accuracy and help teams avoid delays and reduce back-and-forth with auditors. It identifies gaps early and recommends fixes before they become issues, enabling organizations to stay ahead of audit timelines and requirements.

This new AI agent comes on the heels of Vanta’s recent announcement of a new AI Security Assessment offering. Read more about how this offering enables organizations to demonstrate AI security and evaluate AI risk.