Vanta's Agentic AI Aims to End 'Audit Chaos' with a New Trust Platform

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 19, 2026 – Vanta, a prominent player in the compliance automation sector, today announced a significant evolution of its services with the launch of its Agentic Trust Platform. The new suite of products features context-aware AI agents, advanced enterprise controls, and integrated privacy automation, all designed to transform how Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and their teams manage governance, risk, and compliance (GRC).

The announcement positions the company to address what it calls 'audit chaos'—the constant, overwhelming flood of signals and manual tasks associated with maintaining security and proving trust. By embedding intelligent automation deeper into corporate workflows, Vanta aims to shift security teams from a state of perpetual reaction to one of proactive, strategic risk management.

The Rise of the 'Agentic' Security Team

At the heart of the new platform are Vanta Agents, which the company describes as a collection of '24/7 GRC engineers.' This move taps into the burgeoning trend of Agentic AI, where software goes beyond simple automation to autonomously understand goals, reason over complex data, and execute multi-step tasks. Industry analysts are taking note of this shift, with Gartner projecting that by 2028, a third of all enterprise software applications will incorporate Agentic AI, a dramatic leap from less than 1% in 2024.

Vanta's platform deploys this technology through three specialized agents:

• Compliance Agent: This agent automates the entire evidence lifecycle, from collection and review to remediation. It is designed with full program awareness to detect policy inconsistencies and provide actionable guidance for fixes.
• TPRM Agent: Focused on third-party risk management, this agent streamlines evidence collection from vendors. It leverages AI to generate risk analyses and summaries, with Vanta claiming it can enable up to 81% faster security reviews.
• Customer Trust Agent: This agent tackles the challenge of inbound security questionnaires by using a self-improving knowledge base. It learns from past responses to automate answers and intelligently routes new or complex questions to the correct subject matter experts within an organization.

“We aren't just helping companies with their audit; we're helping them build a foundation of trust that scales as they grow,” said Jeremy Epling, Chief Product Officer at Vanta. “By pairing agentic AI with deep enterprise customization, we are embedding 24/7 GRC engineers into every security team, allowing them to shift from constant firefighting to proactive risk management.”

Unifying Controls for the Modern Enterprise

A core challenge for growing businesses, particularly those operating across multiple regions or with diverse product lines, is the fragmentation of compliance efforts. Managing different regulatory frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR across various business units often leads to redundant work and a lack of centralized visibility.

Vanta's new enterprise capabilities directly target this issue. The platform now includes adaptive business unit scoping, which allows a company to segment its compliance program by product, region, or team within a single workspace. This eliminates the need to duplicate controls and provides leadership with a unified view of the organization's risk posture. Furthermore, a new standardized control framework enables companies to map and reuse controls across multiple standards, saving significant time and effort during audits.

This move toward a unified platform reflects a broader need for strategic GRC. “What sets Vanta apart is their understanding of how CISOs are accountable to the business and the board,” commented Aaron Kiemele, CISO at Perforce. “They focus on outcomes — risk clarity, operational efficiency and trust at scale. Compliance is not an end in itself, it is a tool to improve security and build trust. That approach has made security a more strategic, credible function across Perforce.”

Integrating Privacy into the Security Ecosystem

Historically, privacy compliance has often operated in a silo, managed by legal or dedicated privacy teams using separate tools. Vanta's announcement signals a push to break down these barriers by integrating critical privacy functions directly into its trust platform.

The new privacy automation features bring Record of Processing Activities (ROPA), data inventory management, and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) into the central compliance environment. This integration continuously links sensitive data flows and high-risk processing activities to their relevant security controls. For privacy officers and data protection officers (DPOs), this provides a real-time, audit-ready view of how personal data is governed, reducing the operational overhead of maintaining parallel systems.

“Privacy can quickly become a massive manual overhead,” noted Becky Paton, Information Security Analyst at Typeform. “Vanta integrates our core privacy workflows directly into our broader security ecosystem. Centralizing these processes does more than just check a box; it strengthens our entire risk posture. Having that single source of truth gives us actual clarity on how we're performing.”

A Proactive Edge in a Competitive Market

Vanta's launch comes as the compliance automation market, valued at over $15 billion, continues its rapid expansion. It operates in a competitive space with rivals like Drata, Secureframe, and OneTrust, all vying to simplify the complexities of modern compliance. Vanta's strategic emphasis on 'Agentic AI' and a fully unified platform appears to be its key differentiator, moving the conversation from automated checklists to intelligent, autonomous risk management.

The company's timing aligns with a critical industry need. Vanta’s own 2025 State of Trust report found that 79% of business and IT leaders are already using or planning to use AI agents to combat increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven cyber attacks. However, the report also highlights a knowledge gap, with 65% of leaders admitting their use of agentic AI outpaces their understanding of it. By providing a structured platform for these agents, Vanta is betting that it can offer both the power of AI and the governance needed to control it.

The new features were debuted at Vanta's quarterly virtual launch event, “Vanta Delivers,” and will be showcased at the upcoming RSA Conference. This move solidifies the trend away from episodic, manual audits and toward a future of continuous, automated, and intelligent trust management for businesses of all sizes.