Vanta
by Vanta · SOX & Internal Controls
Automated SOX ITGC compliance monitoring, evidence collection and audit readiness platform.
Updated August 2026 · By the ERP Research Editorial Team · Independent and vendor-neutral.
- Deployment
- Cloud
- Company size
- SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
- Pricing
- Tiered / Quote-based
- Founded
- 2018
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
Overview
Vanta is a compliance and trust management platform, founded in 2018 by Christina Cacioppo after she experienced the manual overhead of achieving SOC 2 compliance firsthand while leading Dropbox Paper. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York, Sydney, Dublin and London, and reports more than 16,000 customers, including Atlassian, Snowflake, GitHub, Ramp and Duolingo. Vanta is privately held, backed by investors including Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs.
For the SOX-adjacent use case, Vanta offers a dedicated SOX IT General Controls (ITGC) product: a pre-built control library covering access management, change management and IT operations, continuous automated testing, and control mapping to an organization's financial applications with adaptive scoping for complex environments. Vanta positions the product for public US companies (for whom SOX ITGC compliance is mandatory), companies preparing for an IPO, and organizations that already run SOC 2 or ISO 27001 programs and want to reuse overlapping evidence. Vanta estimates roughly 40 hours of initial preparation time for SOX ITGC and cites a 50% reduction in audit completion time among customers using the platform.
Beyond SOX ITGC, Vanta's broader platform spans continuous compliance monitoring across 35+ frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP and others), a risk register with continuous monitoring and reporting, third-party vendor risk management, and a public-facing Trust Center. Evidence collection is automated through more than 400 integrations across cloud, code, identity and device tools, with AI-assisted remediation guidance. Vanta does not publicly document connectors for specific ERP or accounting systems; its SOX ITGC controls are scoped to an organization's financial applications generically rather than through named ERP integrations.
Screenshots & demo
Screenshots sourced from Vanta.
Features & capabilities
SOX ITGC Compliance
Purpose-built controls, testing and evidence workflows for Sarbanes-Oxley IT general controls.
- Pre-built SOX ITGC control library covering access management, change management and IT operations
- Continuous automated testing of controls
- Control mapping to an organization's financial applications with adaptive scoping
- Custom integrations and custom tests for complex environments
- Cross-framework evidence overlap with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programs
- Auditor collaboration workspace with secure auditor access
- Access to Vanta's audit partner network
Automated Evidence Collection & Monitoring
Continuous, integration-driven collection of control evidence.
- 400+ tool integrations across cloud, code, identity and device systems
- Automated technical tests and document requests for each control
- AI-powered guidance for faster remediation
- Centralized tracking of controls, policies, documents and evidence
- Progress monitoring with control-owner assignment
- Real-time alerts when control tests fail
Audit Management
Centralized workspace for running SOX and other framework audits with external auditors.
- Single workspace for controls, policies, documents and evidence tracking
- Secure auditor access with collaboration tools
- Connection to Vanta's audit partner network
- Progress and completion tracking across control status
Risk Management
A centralized risk register with continuous monitoring and reporting.
- Risk register with owner assignment, inherent and residual risk scoring, and treatment plans
- Continuous risk monitoring linked to associated controls and tests
- Point-in-time risk register snapshots for auditor sharing
- Risk reporting dashboards showing heatmaps, top categories and trends
- 100+ pre-built risk scenario library with suggested control mapping
- Customizable risk scoring dimensions, terminology and register columns
- Automated reminders for recurring risk assessments
Third-Party & Vendor Risk Management
Automated vendor discovery, risk scoring and continuous monitoring of the vendor landscape.
- Automatic vendor discovery to surface shadow IT and unsanctioned AI tools
- Automated, customizable inherent risk scoring
- AI-powered extraction of risks, SLAs and DPA terms from vendor documentation
- Automated evidence requests and vendor follow-up reminders
- 24/7 monitoring of the vendor landscape for breaches and material changes
- Direct retrieval of verified documentation from vendor Trust Centers
Trust Center
A public-facing page for showcasing live compliance posture to customers and prospects.
- Public Trust Center displaying real-time evidence of active controls
- AI chatbot that answers visitor security questions from published documentation
- Automated document-access approvals and NDA collection
- Salesforce, HubSpot, DocuSign and Ironclad integrations on the Advanced tier
- Visitor analytics (downloads, page views, chatbot interactions) with ROI reporting
- Custom branding, tags and filtering by product, region or industry
Common use cases
- Preparing SOX ITGC controls and evidence ahead of a US IPO
- Maintaining continuous SOX ITGC compliance as a newly public company
- Running SOX ITGC alongside SOC 2 or ISO 27001 programs and reusing overlapping evidence
- Centralizing IT general controls evidence across multi-cloud environments such as AWS, Azure and GCP
- Automating vendor security reviews and continuous third-party risk monitoring
- Building a public Trust Center to answer customer security questionnaires and NDA requests
- Maintaining a centralized risk register with continuous control-linked monitoring
Strengths & considerations
Strengths
- A dedicated SOX ITGC product with a pre-built control library mapped to financial applications, rather than a generic GRC template
- Documented evidence overlap between SOX ITGC and Vanta's SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programs
- Broad automated-evidence footprint of 400+ integrations with hourly control tests across cloud, code, identity and device systems
- Backed by institutional investors including Sequoia Capital, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Atlassian Ventures, with 16,000+ reported customers
- G2 Summer 2026 Leader recognition in the Audit Management and Cloud Compliance categories
Pricing
Four published tiers -- Essentials, Plus, Professional and Enterprise -- scaling from a single compliance framework to full risk, reporting and access-management functionality. No dollar amounts are published; pricing requires a personalized quote. Get an independent shortlist with pricing guidance below.
About the vendor
- Founded
- 2018
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Ownership
- Private (backed by Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Atlassian Ventures, HubSpot, CrowdStrike and Wellington Management)
Alternatives to Vanta in SOX & Internal Controls
Vanta — frequently asked questions
Does Vanta support SOX ITGC compliance?
Yes. Vanta offers a dedicated SOX IT General Controls (ITGC) product with a pre-built control library, automated testing and evidence mapped to financial applications, aimed at public US companies and pre-IPO companies preparing for SOX compliance.
Who is required to use SOX ITGC controls?
SOX ITGC compliance is mandatory for all publicly traded US companies, regardless of industry, and is commonly adopted by companies preparing for an IPO. Vanta estimates roughly 40 hours of preparation time to stand up the framework on its platform.
Can SOX ITGC evidence be reused across other frameworks in Vanta?
Vanta notes significant overlap between SOX ITGC and its SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programs, though the scope of in-scope systems often differs, so only some evidence carries across frameworks.
Does Vanta integrate with specific ERP systems for SOX controls?
Vanta does not publicly document connectors for named ERP systems. It maps SOX ITGC controls to an organization's financial applications generically and automates evidence collection across 400+ integrations spanning cloud, code, identity and device tools.
How is Vanta priced?
Vanta does not publish list prices. It offers four tiers -- Essentials, Plus, Professional and Enterprise -- with pricing available only via a personalized quote.
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