Vanta monitors your infrastructure
for you. BLACKOUT monitors your
vendors for you.
Vanta, Drata, and Sprinto automate compliance by continuously monitoring YOUR systems — your AWS config, your GitHub repos, your Okta policies. They make sure YOU are secure.
They don’t monitor what your vendors are doing to you.
Compliance automation looks inward. GTM Security looks outward.
What Vanta Monitors (Your Systems)
Direction: inward. “Is OUR infrastructure compliant?”
What BLACKOUT Monitors (Your Vendors)
Direction: outward. “What are VENDORS doing in our environment?”
Vanta makes sure your house is locked.
It doesn’t check what the guests are doing inside.
A company can achieve SOC 2 Type 2 through Vanta with a perfect compliance posture — every control green, every policy documented, every system monitored — while simultaneously having 43 third-party vendor scripts on their website exfiltrating visitor data, loading undisclosed subprocessors, and bypassing consent.
Vanta would show all green. BLACKOUT would show Grade D, Risk 65, 19 pre-consent violations. Both are looking at the same company. They’re looking at different surfaces.
executes in
your environment
Use both. They solve different problems.
Vanta answers: “Are WE compliant?” That’s your internal security posture. You need it for SOC 2, for customer trust, for your own risk management.
BLACKOUT answers: “Are our VENDORS compliant — with what they told us they’d do?” That’s vendor accountability. You need it because the biggest risk to your revenue isn’t your AWS configuration. It’s the 6sense script that’s selling your pipeline data to your competitors.
The compliance automation market monitors your own systems to prove you’re trustworthy. The vendor OPSEC market monitors your vendors’ systems to prove they’re honest. One protects your reputation. The other protects your revenue.