Vanta acquires security review startup Trustpage to expand product line

Safety compliance startup Vanta Inc. at this time introduced that it has acquired safety assessment automation startup Trustpage for an undisclosed sum.

Based in 2020, Trustpage gives a man-made intelligence-assisted service that may automate questionnaires, share paperwork and handle safety critiques. The corporate pitches itself as a centralized hub that reimagines how firms talk their safety posture.

Trustpage gives organizations what it calls “dynamic belief facilities” to collaborate on, automate and speed up end-to-end safety critiques and questionnaires, resulting in happier clients and sooner deal cycles. Advantages of the Trustpage platform embody no want to rent contractors to reply safety questionnaires, with the corporate’s question-answering extension in a position to full complete questionnaires in minutes.

For these coping with buyer safety questions, Trustpage’s expertise can precisely reply questions with technical references. The service streamlines the assessment course of and is claimed to offer a “seamless InfoSec expertise from begin to end.”

Utilizing Trustpage, clients have questions answered sooner and extra precisely whereas distributors are now not restricted to utilizing electronic mail, spreadsheets and exterior portals to speak belief. Distributors additionally acquire full visibility into the belief course of, serving to them shorten gross sales cycles and higher prioritize roadmaps.

For Vanta, the acquisition of Trustpage will enable it to increase its product line and to monitor, enhance and show safety whereas establishing and deepening belief.

“Making safety steady, not only a point-in-time verify, is extra important than ever within the face of the rising frequency and value of breaches,” Christina Cacioppo, chief government officer of Vanta, mentioned in an announcement. “By increasing our workforce and choices with the acquisition of Trustpage, the conviction in our capacity to attain our shared mission of securing the web has by no means been deeper.”

Trustpage has greater than 4,000 present clients, with notable purchasers that embody Autodesk Inc., Fashionable Treasury Corp. and Quora Inc. Coming into its acquisition, Trustpage had raised $5 million in venture capital funding from buyers, together with Bonfire Ventures, Ludlow Ventures and Basement Fund.

Vanta was within the information in June when it raised $110 million in new funding on a unicorn valuation of $1.6 billion. Vanta buyers embody Craft Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator, amongst others.

Rob Picard, safety lead at Vanta, spoke with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media Inc’s reside streaming studio, in October to debate the corporate’s fundraising, together with an funding from CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. “When you ask any given SOC 2 auditor, ‘Hey, what controls ought to I be utilizing that you simply’re going to audit me in opposition to?’… they’ll present you some, you realize, their set, however it’s going to be totally different between them, proper? The usual itself isn’t an inventory of controls,” Picard defined within the interview.

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