Drata – Simplifying Compliance for Businesses with Automated Security Controls and Trustworthiness

Compliance automation employs advanced technology to automate tasks previously handled manually by employees. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and cutting-edge technology, compliance automation simplifies procedures and ensures that compliance activities are executed promptly in response to regulatory requirements. This technology enables businesses to optimize compliance-related workflows, including risk assessments, control evaluations, testing, and corrective action planning. Automation tools are tailored to a company's security frameworks and compliance needs, incorporating industry regulations, policy management, standards, contracts, and clauses into the compliance automation software to identify violations. By centralizing all compliance issues and activities in one platform, compliance automation provides peace of mind, replacing scattered information in web browser bookmarks, word documents, and spreadsheets.

Drata stands out as a leading compliance and security Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, revolutionizing compliance workflows related to security controls. With a mission to help companies gain and maintain the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects, Drata automates security compliance processes, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, CMMC, and NIST CSF. By offering continuous, automated control monitoring and evidence collection, Drata reduces costs and time spent preparing for annual audits. Founded in 2020 by Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian, and Troy Markowitz, Drata's team of experts, seasoned in SaaS, security, compliance, and audit domains, has harnessed the power of automation to simplify the journey toward achieving and sustaining compliance. Based in San Diego, California, Drata is dedicated to providing efficient and error-free solutions for businesses navigating the complexities of compliance.

Making Compliance Effortless and Accessible through Robust Services

SOC 2 Compliance: Drata revolutionizes the SOC 2 compliance journey, providing comprehensive guidance and automation to businesses at every stage. Whether you're well-versed in audits and frustrated by the complexities of manual processes or you're a newcomer trying to navigate SOC 2 requirements, Drata tailors its approach to meet your specific needs.

One of the most significant challenges in compliance often involves manual evidence collection; a cumbersome process often managed through spreadsheets and disconnected tools. Drata also addresses this issue head-on by automating these processes, freeing companies from the labor-intensive task of manually gathering evidence.

For businesses just starting their compliance journey, Drata's novel approach is a game-changer. It replaces the painstaking task of building reports and tracking security posture across various platforms. With over 75 integrations, Drata centralizes data from existing systems, ensuring a real-time, holistic view of your security landscape.

Drata's automation capabilities don't stop there. Its platform offers more than just convenience; it empowers businesses with quick-start capabilities, ensuring setup takes mere minutes. This rapid deployment is supported by automated evidence collection from a wide array of integrated systems.

Moreover, Drata's platform isn't just about automating data collection. It streamlines and scales various activities crucial to compliance, such as control monitoring, evidence collection, asset and personnel tracking, and access control reviews. By automating these tasks, Drata helps businesses create a single source of truth within its platform.

This centralized source of truth is a game-changer during audits and compliance checks. By consolidating all necessary information and automating responses to auditor inquiries, businesses save valuable time and resources. This efficiency not only enhances the compliance process but also significantly reduces overall compliance costs.

In essence, Drata transforms the compliance landscape. It simplifies complex processes, reduces manual workload, enhances accuracy, and, most importantly, provides businesses with a streamlined, automated path to SOC 2 compliance. By utilizing Drata, companies can confidently navigate compliance requirements, focusing on their core business while Drata takes care of the intricate details of regulatory adherence.

ISO 27001 Compliance: Compliance comes with a lot of steps that you need to document. Drata’s platform provides the compliance playbook that takes you step-by-step through the process and gives you access to experts to fill in the rest.  Their platform’s automated asset inventory, pre-built risk self-assessments, endpoint monitoring tool, and built-in security training ensure that you streamline and document activities in a single location to reduce manual and tedious tasks. Many frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001 have overlapping controls and should only require doing the same work once.

With Drata, you automatically map controls across frameworks reducing work and saving time. Using their workflows, you can streamline activities like formal documentation, employee acceptance, and version history to accelerate your compliance program with a single source of audit documentation. Drata empowers you to stand up your ISMS rapidly. You need visibility into your security posture and control over compliance to drive revenue. With Drata, you get automated monitoring, evidence collection, asset and personnel tracking, and access control workflow automation that allows you to be transparent with customers.  Use their Security Reports to provide real-time assurance over your security posture so that sales can rapidly respond to due diligence requests and reduce time-to-contract.

HIPAA Compliance: Safeguarding protected health information (PHI) is necessary for any businesses handling private health data and seeking to build trust. As companies scale, Drata streamlines compliance with workflow automation such as automated monitoring, evidence collection, asset and personnel tracking, and pre-mapped HIPAA-specific controls.

Drata’s workflows eliminate cumbersome spreadsheets that document controls and decisions so you can reduce response times for requests and any other privacy questions. Drata’s compliance-driven partnerships are built on an automated compliance platform with access to privacy and security experts. The platform walks teams step by step through HIPAA, showing them how to save time by automating manual tasks. With customizable HIPAA-specific policy templates and HIPAA-approved employee training directly in the platform, Drata creates a single source of documentation. As businesses grow, teams can map current HIPAA controls to new frameworks, reducing duplicate work.

Adam Markowitz | Co-Founder and CEO

Prior to Drata, Adam was the founder and CEO of Portfolium, an academic portfolio network for students and alumni to visually showcase their work and projects directly to employers, faculty, and fellow students and alumni.

He has also worked as an aerospace engineer designing, analysing and testing liquid rocket engines for NASA’s next-generation space launch vehicle, as well as the Space Shuttle Main Engine.

“Drata is on a mission to revolutionize the world of compliance and security by automating the complex tasks that once burdened businesses. Our platform is a game-changer, reducing costs, saving time, and ensuring that companies can navigate the intricate landscape of regulatory requirements with ease.”