Guidelines for Configuring Audora Connect / Vanta Integration

Dec 10

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Audora Connect integrates the platform with the leading compliance automation tool Vanta.

Through Audora Connect, auditors can pull policies, tests, and standard evidence requests from Vanta into Audora’s collaborative dashboard, resulting in:

Time and effort saved for auditors and auditees, who no longer need to bounce between multiple compliance platforms;
Reduced time and resources spent on training auditing teams to use multiple tools; and,
Improved continuity for organizations, which can rely on Audora as a single, unified solution.

We have outlined the pre-requisites and processes for configuring Audora with your Vanta Auditor instance.

Pre-Requisites for Vanta Integration

As the auditor app admin, you will need your audit firms client ID and client secret in order to utilize Audora’s integration, Audora Connect. Audora needs your client ID and client secret information. Below are steps on how to get this information from Vanta. Once you input the information using the steps below, you will be able to pull information for your auditees from Vanta upon engagement creation.

Enable your Vanta Auditor dashboard to support creation of an “Auditor API”

Login into your Vanta account as an Auditor
Go to the left hand side of the screen to navigate to the “Auditor API”

If you can see this, you will be able to set up your Vanta instance to integrate with Audora
If you can’t see this, you will need to contact your Vanta relationship manager to enable this on your auditor dashboard

Once your Vanta instance is enabled, you create your Audora Connect integration to Vanta.

Ensure your Vanta audit client has authorized you to access their Vanta audits

Even though you are now synced with Vanta, you will not be able to set up your Audora audit engagement to sync with your audit client unless you are authorized to do so.

If you have worked with this client before in Vanta, you will be authorized and able to set up the audit in Audora.

Typically, this is established already if you plan to do the audit using Vanta but wanted to ensure you were authorized or Audora will not be able to create an audit for this audit client.

Creating your Audora Connect Integration to Vanta

Login into Audora as the Auditor App Admin
From the dashboard, select the integrations button on the left hand side
The integrations screen will come up providing you with a box to create your Vanta Integration
Log into your Vanta Auditor instance
Go to the “Auditor API” on the left hand side of the screen
Click on “Create” on the top right hand side of the screen
Enter a “Name” and “Description.” It does not matter what you enter here.

We suggest using something that will remind you this is your Audora Application integration

Click on the application you created
Copy the client ID into the Audora integrations page
Click “Generate client secret” and copy this information into Audora into the Audora integrations box
Click on “Connect”
A green box will appear in Green showing you are successfully connected