Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Evaluating risk management software in 2026? Here is the moment it has to survive. A board member or an auditor asks what your risk posture is today, not last quarter. You either have it ready to show, or you are rebuilding a register that went stale weeks ago. This video follows one risk through its entire life inside a platform, and uses that path to lay out five criteria for judging any tool, plus the question to put to each vendor.

Choosing compliance software in 2026? Every platform on your shortlist says the same three things: automation, AI, and audit-ready. What none of them show you in a demo is whether the tool keeps you ready all year or leaves you scrambling every audit season. This video walks through five criteria that separate the two, and the exact question to ask a vendor on each one.

You're the CISO at Larkfield Health, a 9,500-person health tech company. A little after 9:00 AM on a Tuesday, your Head of Detection forwards you a message from a security researcher you've never heard of. They say they've found a way to make Wingman—the AI assistant you rolled out company-wide six months ago—hand internal data to an outsider, and that a collection server that isn't theirs is already receiving it. Nothing in your own stack has made a sound.

What's new this month in Vanta? Agentic onboarding—Upload your controls, policies, and custom framework docs. The agent builds your framework and suggests policies and evidence (nothing writes without your approval). Dark mode—Now available, and follows your OS or browser setting automatically. C5:2026—Germany's leading cloud security attestation standard is now a supported framework. Customer Commitments—A contract can carry 50+ commitments. The Vanta Agent checks each against your live program and ranks them by the risk they carry.

AI is part of everyday life now, which means trust and privacy aren’t just security team questions anymore. So naturally, we needed to know how New Yorkers are handling it. Vanta on the Street is back.

Plenty of tools can check a box at audit time. Vanta runs continuous compliance, so you're secure every day, not just the week before your audit. It runs on the Trust Graph, Vanta's data and intelligence layer that connects 400+ tools across your stack (cloud platforms, identity providers, task trackers, and more) and gives specialized agents the context to automate accurately. The difference isn't how many tools you connect. It's what happens after. In this video, you'll see Vanta in action.

Advice for non-chopped founders.

Between audits, most GRC teams are managing risk with one eye closed. Vanta gives you the whole view: internal and third-party risk in one connected system, monitored continuously, not once a year. Vanta's Third-Party Risk Management discovers new vendors, cuts assessment time by 50%, and watches your vendor landscape for breaches and emerging threats. Vanta's Risk Management runs your full enterprise program: risk register, likelihood and impact scoring, residual risk, treatment plans, and board-ready reporting.

Your compliance program never sits still. Controls drift, tests fail, policies go out of date. The Vanta Agent keeps up. It has full context on your program through Vanta's Trust Graph, so it never hits a dead end. It always recommends the next step. The Trust Graph is Vanta's data and intelligence layer, powered by 400+ integrations that map your risks, controls, policies, and vendors. Add continuous monitoring, risk scoring, automated testing, and framework mapping, and the Agent works with the full picture.

SOC and Roll Let your engineers do what they do best, and let Vanta be your compliance co-founder.