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Makes getting certified super easy and helps setup ongoing monitors. Drata staff is amazing!
What do you like best about the product?
- I had never done an audit before, Drata made it super easy, though.
- The staff was amazing; they were available for calls, emails, Slack, etc., almost all day, every day.
- The software provides a ton of integrations: to cloud platforms, HR software, and many other tools.
- The checklist system of setting up monitors is really great for someone whose never done an audit before.
- The monitoring system is excellent for renewals and making sure you don't fall behind on any promised SOC2 Type2 checks.
- Overall the software is super functional and easy to user, the company is constantly making updates to improve.
- The staff was amazing; they were available for calls, emails, Slack, etc., almost all day, every day.
- The software provides a ton of integrations: to cloud platforms, HR software, and many other tools.
- The checklist system of setting up monitors is really great for someone whose never done an audit before.
- The monitoring system is excellent for renewals and making sure you don't fall behind on any promised SOC2 Type2 checks.
- Overall the software is super functional and easy to user, the company is constantly making updates to improve.
What do you dislike about the product?
- We didn't have a need for this, but if you have multiple cloud offers that you want to monitor, make sure you can connect to multiple accounts. e.g., Azure, AWS, GCloud. I don't think this is a very common scenario, but some companies might need this. Drata might already support this BTW, I know they didn't support it in early 2021, but they constantly release improvements, so it might already be resolved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Becoming SOC2 Type2 compliance
- Easy audit/renewal
- Easy audit/renewal
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Drata - Saved weeks on our way to SOC2
What do you like best about the product?
Drata makes a complex process orderly. SOC2 is a process that contains multiple stages and requires coordination and review. Drata simplifies something that once requires a full-time consultant and allows you to federate it amongst your team. We are a small group, but Drata allows us to move from nothing to our auditor in a few weeks because it kept us on track and let us to know where to focus.
I thought the templated policies (our auditor told us, if you just do those - you will pass) were a gamechanger. Writing those from scratch would not have been fun.
The onboarding checklist made connecting the monitored systems very easy and the overall UX made usage very easy. It was a good feeling when we saw all green checkmarks signifying that all of our connected systems were passing Drata's automated test. We also had weekly check-ins with our CSM who was incrediblly responsive
I thought the templated policies (our auditor told us, if you just do those - you will pass) were a gamechanger. Writing those from scratch would not have been fun.
The onboarding checklist made connecting the monitored systems very easy and the overall UX made usage very easy. It was a good feeling when we saw all green checkmarks signifying that all of our connected systems were passing Drata's automated test. We also had weekly check-ins with our CSM who was incrediblly responsive
What do you dislike about the product?
We used GCP and there was one test that kept failing and it was incredibly frustrtating. After a few rounds of reviews, we (both our team and Drata) knew that we had configured everything correctly. Turns out the Drata agent for GCP wasn't detecting our configuration properly. That said, our Customer Success agent connected us with Drata Engineering, and within two days, they had rolled out a fix.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our software product connects to customers systems and ingest data that they may consider sensitive. As such many customers have asked us for our security procedures and our certifications. SOC2 was required to continue growing our business. The benefits have been the ability to target larget customers than we were able to do so before.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get a basic understanding of what is required for SOC2 and then do some pre-work. Drata wont help you write your architecture diagram or the like, but it does help you understand what is needed to pass an audit and what is required to maintain a secure system. The customer support is exceptional, and it is clear to understand where you are in the process. There is still work to do on your part, but Drata helps you understand what is left on your checklist. Make sure your auditor is Drata familar as it helps the process.
Impressive automation for this new up and coming vendor
What do you like best about the product?
User interface is above and beyond the best of the 4 vendors we reviewed. Customer support is incredibly responsive, and they have actual auditors on hand from some of the big firms who can help answer compliance-related inquiries. Bravo to Erin and Ashley and Troy for helping us through our SOC 2 compliance effort.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Drata Agent definitely still needs some improvements. Each small hiccup/glitch becomes something that the person coordinating the effort has to answer for every single employee over and over. I know they are putting a ton of development resources into the agent and adding new features every month it seems, so I am sure this will improve over time. They are very open to customer feedback.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are going for SOC 2 compliance with the hopes of better protecting our data, our customers' data, and speeding up our sales cycle.
Drata has taken the effort out of obtaining SOC 2 and allows continuous compliance going forward.
What do you like best about the product?
The overview is excellent, giving you a percentage to completion and makes monitoring the whole SOC 2 compliance very easy. The help articles linked to each control that fails are brilliant and offer you semi-guided advice on what you need to do to get that control working. The support from the Drata is also second to none.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some checks are ran on a daily schedule not when the test on the control is ran, eg some GItlab checks, however my guess is this allows Drata to avoid being throttled by the GitLab.com API so it is something that can be lived with.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to up our baseline security along with obtaining SOC 2 compliance. Drata has flagged many things that we didn't do that we should have and makes doing them going forward much easier, things such as risk assessment, pen testing etc.
Drata is Awesome
What do you like best about the product?
Intuitive interface. A lot of automation. New features are released almost every week. CS people are amazing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some support articles are missing. Some evidence still has to be added manually.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SOC2 automation. Compliance monitoring.
Makes a Complex Certification a Breeze
What do you like best about the product?
Hundreds of integrations automate everything
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing! We're big fans of everything they're building, and whenever an issue does arise, they fix it within hours.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Drata took what is an inherently complicated certification and made it easy to follow and understand. We've improved our security significantly and fixed things we never even thought of as risks.
Dashboard that works for you paired with excellent customer service
What do you like best about the product?
There are quite a few compliance solutions that perform similar tasks. Drata's dashboard/checklist is easy to use and gives a solid overview of where you stand but where they really stand out is with their customer success team. Their team's frequent follow-ups help keep the project on track and they are extremely helpful in answering questions and navigating the compliance process.
What do you dislike about the product?
While they are growing the number of partnerships they have, growing this bench of integrations is something this can be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No problems. As far as benefits, having a dedicated customer success manager has helped us keep our project on track. Other offerings failed us in the past as we did not have the help navigating the process and answering all of the questions that come along with SOC 2 complaince.
Making SOC compliance easy
What do you like best about the product?
The Drata dashboard makes monitoring outstanding compliance items easy to identify and resolve. The policy editor is also much easier tool to create and edit compliance documents, especially compared to competing products. Finally, the chat support has been helpful in clarifying compliance questions.
What do you dislike about the product?
At this time, we haven't encountered anything we disklike. Having worked with the Vanta product previously our transition to Drata has been easy and has eliminated all the pain points we felt with the Vanta platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Consolidating all our outstanding SOC compliance items in 1 place to ensure all items are accounted for as we move towards our Type 1 compliance and future Type 2 as well.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The Drata tool is a must-have for any company looking to obtain SOC certification. In addition, Drata would be a tremendous resource for an organization just looking to follow best practices even if certification isn't the immediate goal. If you are considering a compliance management tool I couldn't recommend Drata enough.
Application is easy to use, and the onboarding experience is amazing
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface is intuitive, very easy to identify monitoring errors and quickly resolve them.
What do you dislike about the product?
SOC 2 is tedious and requires the preparation of a lot of documents. I wish that process was a bit smoother; perhaps they could use a service like useanvil.com to generate the documents with the relevant company information pre-populated automatically
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Achieving SOC2Type2 compliance has allowed us to work with many industries we previously had to avoid, such as Banking.
We loved our experience with Drata
What do you like best about the product?
Drata's team/customer service (especially Fox!) is responsive and knowledgeable. Auditors highly recommend the platform, and it walked us through everything we needed to do. I especially appreciated the Framework tool, where you could go through all of the required controls one by one and add evidence to Drata as needed. The Monitoring feature is also superb.
What do you dislike about the product?
The policy editing view was hard to use; there is no track changes feature. Also, the monitoring feature doesn't catch changes right away. It would also be nice to have more templates available for required evidence, such as an incident response test template.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Drata helped us prepare for our SOC 2 Type 1 audit, and we will be using it to go through our Type 2 audit as well.
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