Vanta Introduces New Capabilities to Help Security Teams Improve Their Posture and Reduce Risk
31 Julio 2024 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
New enhancements include Center for Internet
Security® (CIS®) Critical Security Controls® framework and advanced
security workflows via the Vanta API
Releasing new offerings ahead of Black Hat
August 7 - 8 in Las Vegas
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.
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The threat of security risks and breaches are increasing
rapidly, and according to Vanta’s State of Trust Report, business
and IT leaders globally cite that manual processes (32%) are top
blockers to proving security externally. With Vanta, companies can
improve their cybersecurity defense with tools that safeguard
sensitive data, eliminate manual, redundant work and are aligned
with industry best practices.
“In order for organizations to improve their security and
compliance posture, it requires putting the right people,
processes, and technology in place to ensure sensitive data is
properly protected,” said Jeremy Epling, Chief Product Officer,
Vanta. “Many solutions over-index on the technology piece of the
equation, but Vanta brings it all together in one platform to make
continuous and automated security achievable.”
CIS Critical Security Controls v8.1 Framework
Vanta now offers a pre-built framework aligned to the CIS
Controls v8.1, to help organizations quickly and efficiently
implement and maintain cybersecurity best practices. CIS Controls
is the industry standard for strengthening and maintaining a
business’ cybersecurity posture. Historically, manually aligning to
the CIS Controls best practices has been a large undertaking for
organizations, requiring a considerable amount of repetitive work
via spreadsheets, documents, phone calls, and more. Now, Vanta’s
pre-built CIS Controls framework makes it more efficient and
cost-effective for organizations to align with best practices that
keep sensitive data safe. Vanta’s new CIS Controls framework
includes over 150 controls that cover 18 cybersecurity categories,
170 tests, and 90 documents.
Automated Test for CIS Foundation Benchmarks™
Coming this fall, Vanta is releasing new, pre-built automated
tests aligned to the CIS Foundation Benchmarks to make sure that
organizations that store sensitive data in public clouds remain
secure and compliant.
These new tests, which leverage Vanta’s continuous monitoring
capabilities, enable organizations to maintain ongoing security and
compliance, and secure their public cloud with the correct
configurations. If a configuration falls out of compliance with the
CIS Foundation Benchmarks, Vanta sends notifications and provides
remediation steps so that issues can be quickly and easily
resolved.
In the coming weeks, CIS Foundation Benchmark-aligned automated
tests will be available for AWS, with over 35 new or enhanced
tests. Tests for Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure will be
available later this year.
Enhancements to the Vanta API
Earlier this year, Vanta announced a new REST API to extend the
power of Vanta and better integrate its data with the other systems
and applications an organization may use to manage their security
program. Since then, 35 new endpoints have been added to the Vanta
API that allow businesses to fully harness the power of Vanta’s
all-in-one trust management platform and the data it contains. The
endpoints enable teams to create custom, automated workflows that
provide a quick and automated solution to closing security gaps
that could otherwise be exploited.
By leveraging these endpoints, businesses can also reduce their
overall risk by eliminating manual work and the chance of human
error, including:
- Automated remediation: Setting up a recurring query to
monitor for failed tests and automatically fix issues as they
arise
- Automated employee compliance checks: Automatically
check an employee’s compliance status before granting them access
to high-risk systems or networks
“Within minutes we used the Vanta API to build an automated,
advanced workflow between Vanta and Border0 to perform real-time
compliance checks on employees requesting access to sensitive
networks,” said Andree Toonk, Founder and CEO, Border0. “There are
so many powerful and creative ways the Vanta API can be used to
automate and improve security posture.”
About Vanta
Vanta is the leading trust management platform that helps
simplify and centralize security for organizations of all sizes.
Over 8,000 companies including Atlassian, Omni Hotels, Quora, and
ZoomInfo rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their
trust—all in a way that's real-time and transparent. Founded in
2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin,
London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney. For more information,
visit www.vanta.com.
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