Drata is a security and compliance automation platform. Its mission is to help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. Another stated mission is to make compliance effortless and accessible. Drata aims to achieve this by continuously monitoring and collecting evidence of a company’s security controls, while streamlining compliance workflows to ensure audit readiness.
Drata’s primary goal is to simplify and automate security and compliance for modern businesses. The company’s vision is to be the trust layer between companies, enabling seamless and transparent relationships. It strives to become an industry leader in cloud security and compliance automation by setting new standards for efficiency and effectiveness. Drata focuses on helping companies streamline compliance for various frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR, among others.
Drata has established a reputation as a leader in the security and compliance automation industry. The company is recognized for its advanced platform and its commitment to helping businesses of all sizes maintain compliance, monitor risks, and stay audit-ready. Customers and industry observers often praise Drata for its user-friendly platform, automation capabilities, and customer support. The company is considered one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies and has garnered significant venture funding, indicating investor confidence in its market position and growth trajectory.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Drata is a security and compliance automation platform designed to help companies continuously monitor and collect evidence of their security controls, streamline compliance workflows, and ensure audit readiness. Drata’s platform automates the traditionally manual and time-consuming processes associated with compliance management, enabling organizations to achieve and maintain certifications more efficiently. This is accomplished through features like continuous automated control monitoring, automated evidence collection, and a real-time view of compliance posture. Drata integrates with a wide array of applications and systems, including cloud providers, HR platforms, identity providers, and ticketing systems, to automate data collection and ensure information is up-to-date. This automation, extensive integration ecosystem, and support for numerous compliance frameworks (such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI DSS) give Drata a competitive edge by reducing manual effort, minimizing errors, and allowing companies to build trust and accelerate growth.
Products and Services
- Compliance Automation Platform: Drata’s core offering is its SaaS-based platform that automates security and compliance processes. It provides continuous monitoring of security controls, automated evidence collection for audits, and supports over 20 compliance frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, and custom frameworks. This is Drata’s flagship product.
- Risk Management: Drata offers capabilities to help companies manage their GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) programs, including features for risk assessment and vendor risk management. The platform includes a Risk Library with DCF-mapped controls to streamline linking risks to compliance controls.
- Trust Center: Drata provides a Trust Center (SafeBase by Drata) that allows companies to share their real-time compliance posture and security documentation with prospects and customers, helping to build trust and accelerate sales cycles.
- AI Security Questionnaire Automation: A newer capability, Drata AI Questionnaire Automation, streamlines the process of responding to security questionnaires by automatically parsing questions and generating responses using existing data within the Drata platform.
- Vendor Risk Management: Drata includes tools to streamline vendor risk assessments, including AI-powered summaries of vendor SOC 2 reports.
- Compliance as Code: Following the acquisition of oak9, Drata introduced “Compliance as Code” capabilities. This feature integrates compliance into the software development lifecycle (SDLC), allowing teams to identify and remediate potential compliance violations as code is developed, before it’s deployed to production.
- Integrations: Drata offers a wide range of native integrations (over 200) with various business systems, including cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP), HRIS (e.g., Zoho People), ticketing systems (e.g., Azure Boards, Zoho Desk), identity providers (e.g., PingOne), MDM solutions (e.g., Microsoft Intune GCC High), and more. Drata also provides an Open API for custom integrations.
- User Access Reviews (UAR): Drata facilitates user access reviews with numerous integrations to pull access data from various applications.
- Custom Frameworks and Controls: Users can create their own compliance frameworks and custom controls within the Drata platform.
Target Customers
Drata’s target customers range from startups and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to large corporations across various industries. The platform is designed to scale with a company’s growth and evolving compliance needs. Specifically, Drata targets:
- Technology Companies: Particularly those in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, and government, which require robust cybersecurity and compliance solutions.
- SaaS Companies: Companies offering software-as-a-service benefit from automating compliance to build trust with their customers.
- Companies Seeking Compliance Certifications: Organizations aiming to achieve and maintain compliance with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI DSS.
- Compliance Professionals: Individuals responsible for ensuring their organizations meet industry-specific regulations and standards benefit from Drata’s automation to streamline their processes.
- IT Security Teams: Teams tasked with protecting their organizations from cyber threats can leverage Drata to identify and mitigate security risks.
- DevSecOps, GRC, and Engineering Teams: With the introduction of “Compliance as Code,” Drata now also specifically targets these teams to embed compliance early in the development lifecycle.
These target customers benefit from Drata’s products and services by reducing the manual effort and complexity associated with compliance, achieving audit readiness more quickly, lowering compliance costs, improving their overall security posture, and building trust with their own customers and partners, which can accelerate sales cycles and unlock new market opportunities.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplaces
Drata offers several cloud integrations to enhance its compliance automation platform and has a presence on major cloud marketplaces.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Integration: Drata integrates with AWS for infrastructure connection and access review. This allows for continuous automated monitoring of security controls and the collection of evidence necessary for compliance. Drata’s platform can connect with numerous AWS services and supports AWS Organizational Units.
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Integration: Drata integrates with Google Cloud Platform for both access review and infrastructure connection. This integration facilitates the automated monitoring and collection of evidence for infrastructure security controls, aiding in compliance efforts.
- Microsoft Azure Integration: Drata provides integration with Microsoft Azure for user access review through Microsoft Entra ID and for infrastructure connections. This enables the automation of evidence collection for security controls. Drata also integrates with Azure Boards (DevOps) for managing tickets related to vulnerability management.
Regarding its cloud marketplace presence:
- AWS Marketplace: Drata is available for purchase on the AWS Marketplace. Drata offers a Quick Launch feature for its solution in the AWS Marketplace, allowing customers to buy, configure, and deploy the platform efficiently. Furthermore, Drata collaborates with AWS to enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to embed their Drata-powered Trust Centers directly within their own AWS Marketplace product listings.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: While Drata integrates its services with Google Cloud Platform, and collaborates with partners to facilitate its Go-To-Market strategy with Google Cloud, a direct, purchasable listing for Drata’s primary compliance automation platform was not found on the Google Cloud Marketplace based on the available information.
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace: Drata is listed on Microsoft AppSource, which is Microsoft’s marketplace for business applications. Drata also works with partners to support its Go-To-Market strategy with Microsoft.
Key People
- Co-Founder & CEO: Adam Markowitz
- Co-Founder & CTO: Daniel Marashlian
- Co-Founder & COO: Troy Markowitz
- VP, Security & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO): Matt Hilary
- Chief Customer Officer (CCO): Conor Nolen
- VP, Customer Success: Ashley Hyman
- VP, Product: Brian Elmi
- VP, Finance: Timothy Jackson
- VP, Engineering: Dave Knell
- VP, Software Architecture: John Eisberg
- VP, Marketing: Sarah Lubeck
- VP, Engineering, Infrastructure: Sławomir Zabkiewicz
Key Facts
- Headquarters Location: San Diego, CA 92122 US.
- Number of Employees: Approximately 680.
- Annual Revenue: $100 million+ (ARR as of February 2025).
- Parent Company: None.
- Subsidiary Companies: SafeBase, Oak9.
- Publicly Listed: No.
Analyst Recognition
Drata has been recognized by Gartner in the Market Guide for DevOps Continuous Compliance Automation Tools. Drata was named as a Representative Vendor in the 2024 report, marking the second consecutive year Drata has been recognized in this category.
Information regarding Drata’s inclusion in specific reports or categories by Forrester, IDC, or Everest Group was not readily available in the provided search results. Therefore, no specific recognitions from these three analyst groups can be detailed at this time.
