Vanta

Vanta automates the evidence-gathering side of compliance across many frameworks at once, with PCI sitting alongside SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and GDPR rather than being the sole focus. For a company that needs several attestations, that breadth is the argument: controls are mapped once and reused, so a second framework costs far less effort than the first.

The platform extends past pure compliance into continuous GRC, risk management, third-party and vendor risk, personnel and access control, and questionnaire automation for answering inbound security reviews. A Trust Center publishes compliance status to prospects, which shortens sales-side security questions, and AI governance has been added for organisations adopting AI faster than their policies cover. Note what it does not do: PCI still requires an ASV scan and, above certain merchant levels, a QSA, neither of which an automation platform replaces.