Barrchives How Vanta Helps Customers Build Secure and Compliant AI Products, with Christina Cacioppo, Co-founder and CEO, and Iccha Sethi, VP of Engineering
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Apr 8, 2025 
In this engaging discussion, Christina Cacioppo, Co-founder and CEO of Vanta, and Iccha Sethi, VP of Engineering, share their insights into the intersection of AI with security and compliance. They explore how compliance serves as an ideal landscape for AI innovation and reveal the importance of building reliable, explainable systems. The duo discusses their innovative approach to using large language models for automating security questionnaires and maintaining 'golden datasets,' all while emphasizing the crucial human oversight needed to foster trust in automated processes.
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Christina's Early Beanie Baby Venture
- Christina Cacioppo started entrepreneurial ventures flipping Beanie Babies at age 11 driven by the puzzle and need to overcome allowance constraints.
- She later found and bought her favorite retired Beanie Baby, Humphrey, at a thrift store years later, illustrating a lasting personal connection.
Compliance Bottleneck Sparks Vanta
- Compliance was a huge bottleneck for new product launches, costing Dropbox a year of engineering time.
- This gap inspired Vanta's founding to automate and accelerate security compliance workflows.
Human-in-Loop Ensures AI Trust
- Always include a human in the loop to verify AI-generated outputs in high-stakes compliance tasks.
- Provide transparency and explainability to build user trust and reduce errors.