Drata is a security and compliance automation company co-founded by Adam Markowitz that helps organizations achieve and maintain certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR. The platform automates evidence collection and continuous control monitoring by integrating with a company's cloud infrastructure, identity systems, and internal tools.
Drata's core value is replacing manual, audit-driven compliance work with continuous automation. It maps technical and process signals to framework requirements, monitors controls in real time, alerts on drift, and provides workflows for policies, personnel onboarding and offboarding, risk management, and auditor collaboration so organizations can stay continuously audit-ready.
The company serves startups through larger enterprises and has expanded its framework coverage and trust management capabilities, including trust centers and questionnaire automation to support sales-related security reviews. Drata works with a network of partner auditors who operate within the platform to streamline certification.
Drata competes directly with other compliance automation vendors, differentiating on automation depth, integration breadth, and user experience. As with similar platforms, the value depends on the relevance of integrations to a customer's stack and the internal effort still required to author policies and remediate findings. Prospective buyers should evaluate framework fit, pricing at their stage, integration coverage, and audit support.
Drata is most relevant for organizations that need to obtain and continuously maintain multiple security certifications efficiently while keeping ongoing visibility into their compliance posture.