How SanctumShield works alongside Vanta

By Lindsay Hiebert · Founder · CISSP

Vanta runs the continuous compliance program. SanctumShield adds a dated set of AI governance records, built from your own answers and your own network logs, that your board, auditor and insurer can read and confirm. Many organizations use both.

What Vanta does well

A continuous compliance program

SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA, GDPR and PCI programs run continuously, with framework coverage that includes the EU AI Act and the NIST AI RMF.

Automated control testing

Automated control tests run across a large library of tool integrations, so evidence collects as the program runs.

A Trust Center

A prospect-facing Trust Center shares security posture with customers and prospects.

Questionnaires and vendor risk

Third-party risk management and questionnaire automation, plus AI features for policy work, evidence checks and control mapping.

Sources for these capabilities are listed in our research foundations. Check Vanta’s own pages for its current features.

What SanctumShield adds

An AI Acceptable Use Policy written for you

A policy of up to 16 sections generated from a guided assessment, customized to your industry, jurisdictions and the AI your people actually use, with every clause tied to a regulation.

An Executive Risk Report and a Board Memo

Prioritized findings with owners, regulatory citations and a 90-day plan, plus a one-page memo a board can read, all as documents you download and keep.

Observation from your own network logs

Firewall, proxy or DNS hostnames matched against a catalog of 130 AI tools and built-in AI features, and a registry of 118 known AI endpoints matched against your network logs, so the record shows the AI that is actually in use.

A Verification URL for each document

Anyone you share a document with can confirm when SanctumShield produced it and for whom. The assessment is self-serve: Light, Standard or Complete, as much time as you choose, with the same four documents at every level.

Using both

A clean way to split the work: Vanta for the continuous SOC 2, ISO and HIPAA program; SanctumShield for the AI Acceptable Use Policy, the Executive Risk Report, the Board Memo and the Verification URL. The SanctumShield documents are files you keep, so they can sit in whichever evidence store your program uses.

If you do not use Vanta yet, SanctumShield gives you the AI governance records your board is likely to ask for first.

What SanctumShield covers

For organizations that run a compliance program in Vanta and want dated AI governance records beside it.

130 AI tools and built-in AI features (82 tools, 48 built-in features) and 118 known AI endpoints matched against your network logs.

The assessment covers your company profile, the AI tools in use, AI built into the business software you already pay for, personal and unmanaged devices (BYOD), MCP gateways, the assurance record, document-grounded AI answers, the agent inventory and agentic posture, agent permissions and your network logs.

You receive the Executive Risk Report, AI Acceptable Use Policy, Board Memo and AI Posture Summary, each dated and downloadable as PDF, Word, HTML, Markdown and plain text, with a Verification URL for each.

Catalog and registry refreshed monthly. Latest update: October 27, 2026

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