Trust Center: block access requests by country
Keeping certain locations out of your Trust Center documents no longer means maintaining a list of email domains. Admins can now choose countries to block, and access requests from those locations are blocked automatically. This is now generally available.
To set it up: Settings > Customer trust > Trust Center > Blocked countries
What to know:
The country block takes priority over auto-approval rules, so an allowlisted domain requesting from a blocked country is still blocked
It covers access requests only. Publicly viewable content stays visible, and access already granted to existing viewers isn’t revoked
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68 (!!) more MCP tools, now open to non-admins
No admin badge required. 68 additional MCP tools are now available to non-admins and the agents they connect, so more of your team can pull answers and take action from the AI tools they already use.
Each tool follows the permissions of the person who’s connected, so everyone sees and does only what their role allows.
See thread for list of updated capabilities 🧵
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Availability: Customers with the MCP connected
Quick turnaround!
Not scoped currently, but good feedback and reported. PMs aware 
Will continue to keep an eye on it.
Manage audits without leaving the Vanta Agent
Two audit chores you can now hand to the Vanta Agent, or to any tool connected through Vanta’s MCP.
Modify audit dates. Update an existing audit’s dates in conversation. Changes are checked against audit date eligibility rules and your permissions, anything you don’t change stays as it was, and you get clear feedback if an update can’t go through.
Delete audits. Remove an audit right from your agent workflow instead of switching to manual steps.
Cheers to a less-clicky audit todo list 
This week (and last week! since I was away) in the Vanta Community
Members we met in Intros: Adarsh k. Rachael H. Farbs Phil C. Nathan W. Kara H. Ibitola jschuster Linda B.
New members we welcomed this week and last week (please share your intro in Intros when you're ready!) Cris G. Tom C. nissim_b frank.xu Kayode O. Harsha neha.chandra sequoia.sutherland Dutch C. Ed H. Zoe C. julien.triau bernard.pratz hannah.draper Kyle J. Kelsey P. Kyle L. Craig B. littleneal.felton josephine.tam Julien R. Alaia M. Barnes M. Kimberly M. Laura N. augusto.freitas Eli P. jeroen Parag S. Chi P. yevgeny.ioffe Isabel M. Adnan K. Wania I. Rodrigo M. julian.dieleman natasha.moore Ethan G. jguerra services Jason B. Lokesh K. Todd S. Laurentiu M. Ignacio A. kevin.pierce Jason W. Jake U. Andra N. Mike S. Mike P. Sameer A. Mayra F. Itzik ndaddona Brandon C. Luying W. paul.stamour Alisha Yuichi H. kosei tbadlani aaron.pickell Elahe M. znoor David C. Andy B. Scott B. Cyril M. william.mcguire Linda B. anne.simpson Ryan M. Collin R. Benjamin L. Madhav fernando.nin Tushar B. Alexander J. Elsa Y. Rob L. Tab P.
Get your GRC questions answered by the GRC expert himself: Kareem M.!
Direct access to Vanta's in-house GRC subject matter expert.
Bring your questions; it all goes down on October 21st at 1pm ET in the Slack huddle in GRC
NEXT WEEK: Learn how your peer, Geert V., is building out his GRC program with Vanta and AI
Geert V. from Snitcher (a Vanta customer, just like you!) is hosting a session right here in the Vanta Community, giving a peek inside his GRC program program workflows, using Vanta and AI. Register here
🎨 Anyone here an artist?
Don't look at me (lol) I am definitely not one.
If you had to design the entrance to VantaCon, what would it look like?
Pop in here to submit your design 
btw, who is going to vantacon? if you see this, and youre registered, pop into the thread and tell me top 3 things you're excited about. first one to do that will receive all 3 brand new vanta community merch items when they land in the coming weeks.
Discussion-starters and highlights: Please jump into these conversations and offer your POV
Rudy M. says it's a random question, but I would say it's a great question: Anyone found a way to get a claude generated slack msg post into your desired channel or DM, to actually notify you in slack when it's posted? Respond with your POV here
Farbs is looking for insight on how are others handling Vanta tests for AI-assisted code reviews, single-developer projects, and database access. Respond with your POV here
william.mcguire is hiring! Check it out in 🔒[private feed]
Linda B. wants your take re: ISO 42001 and vendor reviews. Respond with your POV here.
Jake T. wants to know your pentest vendor recommendation! Respond with your rec here.
Where are my CASA folks? Greg B. wants to hear from you. Respond with your POV here.
sandro is looking for your recs for an independent auditor to conduct their internal ISMS audit. Share your rec here.
Vanta CEO, Christina Cacioppo was here, answering your questions.
Start here and scroll down to see the questions she answered.
Vanta engineers, Dennis C. and Enrique F. were here, answering your MCP questions
Start here and scroll down to see the questions they answered
Nathan W. found the 
stuff inside vanta
Also new: ask what’s on your Trust Center
“What resources do I have published?” is now a question you can just ask.
The Vanta Agent, and any tool connected through Vanta’s MCP, can answer questions about your Trust Center resources and categories, with no manual digging through the product.
Your Trust Center FAQs, now one question away
The Vanta Agent can now answer questions about the FAQs published on your Trust Center, and so can any tool connected through Vanta’s MCP. Skip the manual hunt through the product and ask in plain language instead.
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Availability: Across all plans / customers who are using Trust Center and have AI activated in Vanta
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