Drata – World’s most advanced security and compliance automation platform helping companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, and prospects

Compliance automation uses technology to automate compliance processes that employees had previously done manually. It is powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and uses cutting-edge technology to make compliance procedures easier. Automation assures that compliance activities happen when appropriate – namely, as soon as regulatory requirements come along. Compliance automation technology empowers businesses to streamline compliance-related workflows, such as risk assessments, control evaluations, testing, and corrective action planning. Automation tools operate based on a company’s security frameworks and compliance requirements. The compliance regulations that relate to an organization’s industry, configurations, accounts, inventories, and security procedures are copied into the compliance automation software to identify violations. It can provide peace of mind by tracking all compliance issues and activities in one place: industry regulations, policy management, standards, contracts, and clauses that may have once resided within web browser bookmarks, word documents, and spreadsheets.

Drata is one such compliance and security SaaS platform that automates the compliance workflows on a company's security controls. Drata is an advanced security and compliance automation platform with the mission to help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. Drata helps thousands of companies streamline their security compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, CMMC, NIST CSF, etc.) through continuous, automated control monitoring and evidence collection, resulting in lower costs and time spent preparing for annual audits. Outside of time, trust is its most important asset, especially when it comes to its customers and protecting their data.

As SaaS veterans Drata has experienced the pains and setbacks of building a strong security and compliance posture manually—it’s redundant, clunky, and worst of all, error-prone. And no matter at what stage of growth, compliance for any company only gets more complex and expensive over time. Drata’s team of SaaS, security, compliance, and audit experts have built a better way by using automation to streamline the path to achieving and continuously maintaining compliance.

Drata was founded in 2020 by Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian, and Troy Markowitz and is based in San Diego, California, United States.

Making Compliance Effortless and Accessible through Robust Services

SOC 2 Compliance: Drata walks you step by step through the compliance journey and automates almost all of the manual processes.

Whether you have been through an audit and experienced the pain of using spreadsheets and manually collecting evidence, or you just learned what SOC 2 was, Drata meets you where you are. With Drata, you will quickly and easily navigate SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001 and more. Companies just starting their compliance journey often rely on manual evidence collection, report building, and have to sift through disconnected tools to understand the state of their security posture. With Drata, you gain real-time visibility into your security posture through automated control monitoring, centralized dashboards, and reports that automatically pull data from your existing systems through over 75 integrations.

Your fast, frictionless SOC 2 journey starts with Drata. Built for powerful automation and designed by auditors and security experts for ease of use, Drata accelerates your SOC 2 compliance journey so you can land your next big deal. Their quick-start capabilities get you up and running in minutes, powered by automated evidence collection through 75+ integrations with your existing tech stack and 20+ editable, auditor-approved security policies. Easily leverage Drata's workflow automation to streamline and scale activities like control monitoring, evidence collection, asset and personnel tracking, and access control review. Creating a single source of truth in the Drata Platform saves you time responding to requests and answering auditor questions, reducing overall compliance costs.

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.