Metadata’s Success in Streamlining Audits and Maintaining Complex Control Frameworks with Drata

Before Automation: Metadata’s Compliance Hurdles

Before adopting Drata, Metadata, a B2B AI-driven social media marketing platform, compliance efforts relied on a cumbersome system of spreadsheets, Google Drive, and nested folders to gather and manage evidence. This manual process was not only time-consuming but also resource-intensive, requiring substantial input from the DevOps, engineering, legal, and compliance teams. The manual nature of these tasks led to diverting focus and resources from other critical areas.

Reducing Time and Resource Strain

To address these challenges, Metadata implemented Drata's compliance automation platform. Drata's core features, particularly its automation capabilities, were instrumental in transforming Metadata's compliance processes. By integrating with tools like Jira, Slack, and AWS environments, Drata automated the previously manual and labor-intensive evidence-gathering process, significantly reducing the time and resources needed for compliance activities. 

The support team at Drata played a crucial role during the onboarding process, helping Metadata import over a hundred custom controls and cross-map them across multiple frameworks. This support saved Metadata at least six months of work and provided ongoing assistance, ensuring that Metadata could adapt to new control frameworks efficiently.

60% Time Savings: Drata’s Efficiency Boost

The implementation of Drata had a profound impact on Metadata's compliance management. Before Drata, preparing for audits was a stressful and resource-intensive process, involving months of evidence gathering and management. With Drata, this process became significantly more efficient. Metadata has been able to conduct six SOC 2 Type 2 audits and an ISO 27001 audit seamlessly within the Drata platform. The time spent on audit preparation was reduced from a month and a half to just two weeks, with the majority of the evidence already gathered and accessible within Drata.