Drata review: Compliance automation, GRC and vendor risk platform with AI agents

What Drata does

Drata is a compliance and trust platform that the vendor positions for startups, mid-size businesses and enterprises. Its core job is to automate the mapping of controls, the gathering of evidence and the ongoing monitoring that audits depend on, across several frameworks. The site names SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 42001, DORA, FedRAMP and CMMC, plus custom frameworks.

The Enterprise GRC area puts controls, risks, policies and evidence into one system of record. It covers policy and personnel management, user access reviews, separate workspaces for programs or business units, an internal risk register, asset and vulnerability views, and an Audit Hub where auditors and evidence requests meet. Workflows can be designed without code, and Compliance as Code checks code during development for control gaps.

For customers and prospects, Drata offers a Trust Center and an AI assistant that drafts questionnaire answers from a Knowledge Base. For vendors, AI agents assess third parties against criteria you set, a risk register tracks owners and status, profiles are enriched with extra data, and vendor lists can be synced with procurement and CLM systems. An MCP connection lets AI assistants such as Claude query vendor risk data with SSO and audit logging.

• Automated control mapping and evidence collection
• Continuous control monitoring
• Trust Center management
• AI questionnaire answers from a Knowledge Base
• Agentic third-party risk assessments
• Audit Hub for auditor collaboration
• No-code event-driven workflows
• Compliance as Code scanning
• Vendor sync with procurement and CLM systems

Our take

Drata looks aimed at security, GRC and compliance teams that want audit readiness, vendor risk reviews and customer-facing trust documents managed in one place, and that expect to cover more than one framework over time. The long module list suggests organizations running ongoing programs rather than a one-off certification. This assessment rests only on the official pages; the product itself was not used.