Drata

Drata is a modern compliance automation platform designed to help organizations achieve and maintain compliance with security frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and more. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Drata has experienced remarkable growth, becoming one of the fastest-growing compliance technology companies in the market. The platform's core value proposition is automating the traditionally manual, time-consuming process of collecting compliance evidence, monitoring controls, and preparing for audits. Drata's automated evidence collection is its standout feature. The platform connects to an organization's technology stack, including cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), identity providers (Okta, Azure AD), HR systems (BambooHR, Rippling), developer tools (GitHub, GitLab), and endpoint management platforms (Jamf, Crowdstrike), to continuously monitor compliance controls and automatically collect evidence. This automation dramatically reduces the manual effort required to maintain compliance, transforming what was traditionally a periodic, labor-intensive process into continuous, real-time compliance monitoring. The platform provides pre-built control frameworks mapped to major compliance standards, allowing organizations to quickly identify applicable controls, assign ownership, and track implementation progress. Drata's trust center feature enables organizations to publicly share their compliance posture with customers and prospects, turning compliance investment into a sales enablement asset. The audit-ready reporting and workpaper generation streamline the audit process, reducing preparation time from weeks to days. Drata's user interface is clean, modern, and intuitive, with a dashboard-driven experience that makes compliance status immediately visible across the organization. The platform is particularly popular among technology companies, SaaS vendors, and startups that need to achieve SOC 2 or ISO 27001 compliance quickly to satisfy enterprise customer requirements. However, Drata is primarily a compliance automation platform rather than a full-featured GRC solution. Its risk management capabilities are less developed than dedicated GRC platforms, and organizations with complex governance requirements spanning beyond security compliance may need to supplement Drata with additional tooling. The platform's strength is depth within compliance automation rather than breadth across the full GRC spectrum.