So, you’re considering SOC 2 or ISO 27001 for the first time – and realizing just how much time and expertise it takes to actually get there. That’s where Vanta (and Rhymetec!) comes in:
Vanta automates 90% of compliance monitoring through integrations with 300+ systems, real-time control insights, and automated evidence collection—enhancing your visibility into your security posture. Rhymetec handles the hands-on readiness tasks for you. The combination of Vanta with our tailored services delivers a faster, more manageable path to audit success.
Our team of experts at Rhymetec, by leveraging Vanta for you, accelerates every step of your compliance journey from the initial scoping phase to auditor handoff. We’ve helped over 1,000 organizations efficiently meet their security and compliance goals with this method. Here’s how Vanta works in conjunction with our services, and how the platform can benefit you immediately, especially if you are early on in the process of compliance:
Vanta Automates Compliance Workflows
Vanta automates the visibility into tasks required to build a compliance program. One of the main value adds of Vanta is that it will handle the repetitive work for you and give you back your time to focus on what really matters – growing your business. Here’s how it works, particularly for organizations early in their compliance journey:
Using Vanta circumvents the need to even get started on tedious manual spreadsheets and checklists. Instead, Vanta enables organizations to jump right in and leverage its capabilities, including system integrations and automated collection of evidence.
For instance, a startup pursuing SOC 2 may need to prove that it restricts employee access to production systems, monitors for security incidents, and keeps its asset inventory up-to-date and in line with SOC 2 requirements. Vanta connects to systems including AWS, GitHub, Google Workspace, and Okta to automatically accomplish the following:
- Display passing controls.
- Simplify policy management.
- Collect the evidence needed for an audit.
It also includes pre-built policy templates for every framework, so teams can work from a baseline and avoid having to write everything from scratch. Leadership is able to track compliance status in real time and improve visibility tied to audit preparation for employees—resulting in efficiency and reduced time to compliance.
Who Uses Vanta And Why
Vanta is primarily used by fast-growing, cloud-native organizations that are seeking to meet relevant security and data privacy requirements in the most efficient way possible. Often, these organizations are trying to avoid dedicating excessive internal resources to manual compliance work. However, we’ve seen companies from all sizes—startup to enterprise—with varying environments—such as multi-cloud and hybrid—utilize Vanta to streamline their compliance efforts.
Some of the main reasons companies opt to use Vanta are to help them:
- Reduce their audit timelines.
- Improve visibility into their security posture.
- Lower the overall cost of compliance.
Vanta connects to the tools you use via API, the cloud infrastructure you’re set up in, and your internal systems to give you a complete view of your security and compliance.
This eliminates the need for fragmented spreadsheets and manual checklists, providing leadership more control over compliance progress and unburdening technical teams that are already stretched thin.
Another core value add is that Vanta enables a single source of truth for audit readiness, helping leaders and your sales team demonstrate you’re where you need to be in terms of security and compliance to auditors, customers, your partners, and other stakeholders.
What Does Vanta Do? Vanta Supports Continuous Compliance
It’s important to know going into your compliance journey that compliance doesn’t stop after one audit.
Frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA require ongoing evidence of control effectiveness, which means you need continuous monitoring rather than only point-in-time documentation.
Vanta is built precisely to support this model. It runs in the background, constantly monitoring your infrastructure and systems for changes that could impact compliance. It will flag any issues in real time, such as expired access, unapproved software, or missing security training. The platform centralizes the evidence you’ll need to show controls are operating continuously.
This approach replaces manual check-ins and periodic reviews with continuous visibility. Combined with Rhymetec’s guidance and remediation support, clients stay audit-ready year-round without having to rebuild compliance work from scratch each cycle.
What Does Vanta Do? Vanta Streamlines The Work of Cybersecurity & Compliance Experts
Vanta automates the visibility into tasks (While Rhymetec can support the completion of them) that are most likely to slow down compliance teams, allowing the experts to focus on higher-impact and more specific work. Tasks like collecting screenshots, tracking evidence, and managing spreadsheets shift to automated processes within the platform.
For Rhymetec’s team, the platform provides a centralized source of truth and allows us to spend more time analyzing results and guiding clients through control implementation. Our team uses Vanta in every step of the compliance automation process on your behalf. By handling repetitive tasks and bringing issues to our attention automatically, Vanta allows us to carry out a more efficient process to compliance readiness for your organization.
How Rhymetec Leverages Vanta To Deliver Compliance – Fast
Rhymetec leverages Vanta as a core part of our compliance delivery model.
Our approach combines all of the benefits of automation with hands-on cybersecurity expertise to shorten the path to audit readiness. Our team configures Vanta for your systems and selected framework. We work hard to eliminate common setup delays and create alignment between compliance goals and actual business operations.
Once deployed, Vanta automatically monitors your cloud infrastructure and systems for compliance-related activities. But automation alone doesn’t get you audit-ready. That’s where Rhymetec comes in. After the initial setup, our team steps in to:
- Interpret and prioritize Vanta’s findings based on your unique business needs
- Remediate flagged issues with hands-on support — not just advice
- Tackle all remaining manual components like policy creation, access reviews, evidence collection, and control implementation
The combination of automated and manual work keeps the momentum going and gets clients through readiness assessments and audits on a much faster timeframe. By managing both Vanta and the ‘hands-on’ components of compliance readiness work on your behalf, we’re able to accelerate every phase of the compliance process.
Why Pairing Vanta and Rhymetec Delivers Better Outcomes
Most frameworks require an array of expert judgment, manual implementation of certain controls, and a level of preparation that automation can’t complete 100% of on its own.
Rhymetec fills that gap by managing the manual work and aligning Vanta specifically to your environment. We interpret control requirements, resolve flagged issues, write custom policies, manage communication with auditors on your behalf, and more.
By using Vanta for compliance automation – and Rhymetec filling in the gaps for you when needed – clients move faster and meet their compliance goals with less internal burden. Together, we consistently generate strong audit readiness and stronger security programs.
Accessing Vanta Through Rhymetec
Rhymetec is proud to offer Vanta (in conjunction with our Vanta compliance services) directly to clients who haven’t yet selected a compliance automation platform.
Particularly in the case of clients early in their compliance journey, this vastly simplifies the buying process by providing both the technology and the services needed to meet requirements in one engagement. We give clients access to a world-class platform without requiring them to manage separate vendor relationships or navigate pricing and setup alone.
Our team at Rhymetec handles everything from the initial deployment and setup in Vanta to ongoing administration of the platform on your behalf. This allows you to adopt automation earlier, which will accelerate your compliance timelines and help you avoid missteps that a self-directed rollout could entail.
Contact us today to get started.