Managed Vanta

Managed Vanta: your instance, run by compliance engineers

Vanta tells you what’s broken. Agency fixes it. Our U.S.-based forward-deployed engineers, supercharged by proprietary AI, operate your Vanta instance end to end — evidence collection, failing tests, policies, integrations, and auditor coordination — so your engineers ship product instead of screenshots.

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Last updated September 11, 2026

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In this guide01What a managed Vanta service is 02What Agency operates in your Vanta instance 03How onboarding works 04Buying Vanta? The partner channel is the move 05Managed Vanta vs doing it yourself 06Frequently asked questions

Guide · Managed VantaOperator’s perspective

Six sectionsManaged Compliance Services

Vanta tells you what’s broken.

Managed Compliance Services · Managed Vanta

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What a managed Vanta service is

Vanta is excellent software, and it is honest about what it is: a platform that monitors your controls and shows you what needs attention. It does not write your policies, remediate your failing tests, chase your engineers for access reviews, or sit on calls with your auditor. Someone still has to do that work — and at most companies it lands on an engineer or founder who has a full-time job already.

A managed Vanta service closes that gap. Agency’s forward-deployed compliance engineers work inside your Vanta tenant as operators, not advisors: they configure the platform, connect and maintain integrations, collect and validate evidence, fix what monitoring flags, and run the audit end to end. You keep full visibility in Vanta; the checklist stops being your team’s problem.

Agency is a top-ranked Vanta and Drata partner and has helped 1,000+ companies with security and compliance — which means the people running your instance do this across hundreds of environments, not one. Patterns that take a first-timer a week to debug are usually things we have fixed dozens of times before.

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What Agency operates in your Vanta instance

Week-in, week-out operation — not a readiness assessment that leaves the work with you.

01Evidence collectionAutomated evidence validated and gap-filled by engineers, so every control has current, audit-grade proof — no screenshot-and-spreadsheet cycles. See evidence collection for how auditors evaluate it.

02Failing tests, actually fixedWhen a Vanta test goes red, Agency remediates it — cloud misconfigurations, missing MDM coverage, stale access — and documents legitimate exceptions instead of letting them rot.

03Policies and trainingPolicy drafting, annual reviews, employee acceptance tracking, and security-awareness training campaigns, mapped to the controls Vanta monitors.

04Integrations and connectorsCloud, identity, HR, MDM, and ticketing integrations connected, deduplicated, and kept healthy so monitoring reflects reality instead of sync errors.

05Access and personnel workflowsOnboarding and offboarding checklists, quarterly access reviews, and background-check tracking run on schedule and evidenced in the platform.

06Audit-window managementAuditor selection support, PBC list handling, evidence delivery, and finding remediation — through the observation period and the audit itself.

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How onboarding works

From kickoff to a clean, operated instance — without pulling your engineers off roadmap.

Connect and baseline (week 1)Agency joins your Vanta tenant with scoped access, connects or repairs integrations, and produces an honest baseline: what’s passing, what’s failing, what’s missing for your target frameworks.

Remediation sprint (weeks 2–6)Engineers work the failing-test list in priority order — infrastructure fixes, policy rollout, access cleanup — while AI agents handle the repetitive evidence work. You see progress directly in Vanta.

Steady-state operationWeekly operating cadence: monitoring triage, evidence upkeep, personnel workflows, vendor reviews, and customer security questionnaires as they arrive.

Audit windowWhen the audit lands, Agency runs it: auditor coordination, evidence packages, and remediation of anything the auditor raises — so the observation period is a formality, not a scramble.

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Buying Vanta? The partner channel is the move

If you don’t have a Vanta license yet, don’t buy direct before checking partner pricing. Agency resells Vanta at negotiated partner pricing. Same product, same onboarding, same support — details on the Vanta partner page.

Already on Vanta? Nothing changes contractually — Agency operates the instance you already own, and can take over renewals at partner pricing when your term is up.

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What clients get back

200+Hours saved per year — what clients reclaim by handing compliance busywork to our engineers and AI.

1,000+Companies helped with security and compliance — Agency is a top-ranked Vanta and Drata partner.

4.9/5Rating on G2 from the companies whose programs we run.

$2,500 to $12,500All-in startup packages — GRC platform, audit, and pen test — versus the $25,000–$60,000+ most startups pay piecing it together.

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Managed Vanta vs doing it yourself

DIY Vanta works when someone on your team genuinely has the hours and the compliance context — budget a real fraction of an engineer through readiness and every audit window after. The math changes when that engineer is your CTO. Our Agency vs Vanta page covers the software-versus-operated decision in depth, and if you’re still choosing a platform, start with the Vanta vs Drata comparison — Agency operates both, so the recommendation isn’t tied to a resale commission.

Case in point: Gorgias, the e-commerce helpdesk, cut compliance costs by $100,000+ a year and took security-questionnaire turnaround from 7 days to 48 hours by handing the program to Agency.

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Frequently asked questions

Five questions

Do I still need my own Vanta subscription?Yes — Vanta is your platform and your data; Agency operates inside it. If you don’t have a license yet, buying through Agency gets negotiated partner pricing on the same product; if you do, we simply take over operations and can handle the renewal at partner pricing.

What does a managed Vanta service cost?For startups, Agency publishes all-in packages — platform, audit, pen test, and the managed work — from $2,500 to $12,500 depending on funding stage and stack, versus the $25,000–$60,000+ most teams spend assembling the same outcome. Later-stage pricing is scoped to your environment and framework mix.

Can you fix failing Vanta tests, or just report them?Fixing them is the point. Agency’s engineers push the actual remediation — infrastructure-as-code changes, access cleanup, MDM enrollment, policy rollout — and document legitimate exceptions properly, rather than emailing you a list of red tests. If you’re mid-fire-drill, that remediation sprint can start immediately.

Who owns the Vanta instance and the data?You do, always. Agency works with scoped, auditable access inside your tenant. If we ever part ways, you keep the instance, the evidence history, the policies, and every artifact — there’s no lock-in mechanism.

Which frameworks can Agency run on Vanta?Everything Vanta supports that you need — SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, FedRAMP, CMMC 2.0, ISO 42001, HITRUST, and US data privacy laws. Cross-framework mapping means work done for SOC 2 carries forward to ISO 27001 and beyond instead of starting over.

Managed Vanta

Hand Vanta to a team that runs it every day

Scoped access, a remediation sprint, and a weekly operating cadence — Top-ranked Vanta & Drata partner · 1,000+ companies served since 2021 · 4.9/5 on G2.

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Quick answers

Do I still need my own Vanta subscription?Yes — Vanta is your platform and your data; Agency operates inside it.

What does a managed Vanta service cost?For startups, Agency publishes all-in packages — platform, audit, pen test, and the managed work — from $2,500 to…

Can you fix failing Vanta tests, or just report them?Fixing them is the point.

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Common GRC Questions

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Answers to common managed-compliance questions — what Agency operates, how it fits with Vanta or Drata, and what a virtual CISO actually does for your program.

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