Win of the Day

July 10th, 2025 | Head-to-Head Competition

A Specialty Pharma Company just joined Drata!

Why Now: Previously, SOC 2 was managed manually by one team member, creating risk and confusion. They needed a more visible, sustainable system to build organizational trust.

How Drata solved it: By partnering with Compass IT and leveraging Drata’s automation, they gained visibility, clear milestones, and support tailored to their lean team.

Competitive Landscape: Drata outpaced Vanta by aligning closely with a trusted partner and offering more tailored guidance and visibility.

July 9th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

An Email Security Platform just joined Drata!

Why Now: Manual compliance workflows were too time-consuming for the size and scale of the organization. They needed to automate evidence collection and shift bandwidth back to strategic teams.

How Drata solved it: Drata delivered preferred automation, seamless integrations, and strong executive trust via key partner influence.

Competitive Landscape: Drata replaced both due to better executive visibility, automation readiness, and trusted partner alignment.

July 8th, 2025 | Head-to-Head Competition

A Leading Security Services Firm just joined Drata!

Why Now: They had access to free tools but lacked the expertise and automation to manage ISO 27001 at scale—especially with customers now requiring formal certification.

How Drata solved it: Drata gave them onboarding guidance, policy mapping, and smart automation—all while aligning to their preferred controls and timeline.

Competitive Landscape: Drata beat Vanta by offering more structured ISO onboarding and context-aware support for security-focused teams.

July 7th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A Compensation Intelligence Platform just joined Drata!

Why Now: After years of managing compliance across multiple platforms with low visibility and high cost, they needed a modern solution to handle ISO 27001, SOC 2, and internal controls at scale.

How Drata solved it: Drata’s automation, transparency, and ability to consolidate frameworks helped them transition off AuditBoard and Anecdotes with confidence.

Competitive Landscape: Drata outperformed legacy tools by offering unified frameworks, automation, and cost-effective growth for ISO and SOC 2.

July 4th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A Code Quality Insights Platform just joined Drata!

Why Now: Their enterprise clients required audit-grade SOC 2, and their existing tools didn’t scale. They needed a fast, credible way to elevate trust.

How Drata solved it: Drata delivered a better launch experience, stronger support, and eliminated concerns around Vanta’s inconsistent pricing and onboarding delays.

Competitive Landscape: Drata won due to trust, pricing transparency, and a stronger go-live experience.

July 3rd, 2025 | Head-to-Head Competition

A Revenue Cycle Management Firm just joined Drata!

Why Now: With budget finally approved and pressure from clients building, they needed a solution that could move quickly and align to frameworks without overwhelming staff.

How Drata solved it: Through tight coordination with their partner, Drata enabled fast onboarding, clear milestone planning, and automated controls mapping.

Competitive Landscape: Drata replaced ServiceNow’s complexity with speed, simplicity, and a friendly audit-ready interface.

July 2nd, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A Social Marketing Automation Platform just joined Drata!

Why Now: Audits were becoming too reactive, with heavy manual lift and little flexibility. They needed a tool that could reduce workload and adapt to evolving security goals.

How Drata solved it: Drata delivered automation across SOC 2 and PCI workflows, while Vanta was seen as too inflexible and Secureframe as too opaque.

Competitive Landscape: Drata won for its adaptability, modern automation stack, and partnership approach.

July 1st, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

An Industrial Analytics Platform just joined Drata!

Why Now: Compliance was entirely manual, owned by one internal resource, with growing audit scope. They needed automation and monitoring—fast.

How Drata solved it: Drata delivered SOC 2 automation, monitoring tools, and audit-friendly dashboards that replaced ad-hoc spreadsheets.

Competitive Landscape: Drata replaced Vanta by offering better automation depth, visibility, and customization.

June 30th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A European E-Commerce Logistics Firm just joined Drata!

Why Now: Their team needed to move beyond SOC 2 basics and build a flexible, audit-aligned risk platform to meet growing enterprise and cross-border requirements.

How Drata solved it: Drata delivered GRC maturity with built-in AI automation and helped them displace Vanta and Scrut by offering greater adaptability.

Competitive Landscape: Drata outperformed both on enterprise support, scalability, and framework agility.

June 27th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A Leading Online Fashion Retailer just joined Drata!

Why Now: With a new CISO and pressure to formalize GRC practices, they needed a faster, smarter system to organize controls and reporting—without derailing roadmaps.

How Drata solved it: Drata delivered pricing clarity, a consultative approach with their tech stack, and ease of use that restored confidence and beat legacy competition in speed-to-value.

Competitive Landscape: Drata beat Vanta through speed, consultation, pricing discipline, and tighter alignment to strategic leadership.

June 26th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

An Event Ticket Management Platform just joined Drata!

Why Now: With growing customer demand and a need to automate security questionnaires and GRC management, they were looking for a complete solution to pair with their trust center.

How Drata solved it: Drata delivered automation, AIQA, and seamless Trust Center integration—unlocking deal velocity and audit readiness at once.

Competitive Landscape: Drata won by delivering a Safebase + Drata integrated workflow Vanta couldn’t match.

June 25th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A Student-Run Venture Services Firm just joined Drata!

Why Now: As they expanded partnerships with major organizations, SOC 2 became table stakes. Manual processes wouldn’t scale or inspire buyer confidence.

How Drata solved it: Drata offered scalable automation, regular CSM-led guidance, and support for meeting regulatory and customer-specific frameworks.

Competitive Landscape: Drata outpaced Vanta by being consistently present, educational, and flexible for an evolving org.

June 24th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A Next-Gen AI Infrastructure Company just joined Drata!

Why Now: As they prepared to scale their AI platform, demonstrating compliance maturity became essential. Their small team needed speed, support, and affordability.

How Drata solved it: Drata built trust with their champion, adapted quickly to constraints, and won with a cost-effective launch package.

Competitive Landscape: Drata overcame FUD from competitors by offering better trust enablement and a calmer, faster onboarding.

June 23rd, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A Canadian AI Development Firm just joined Drata!

Why Now: Their customers were demanding SOC 2 and ISO from day one. With three vendors competing, they prioritized ease, ecosystem strength, and audit quality.

How Drata solved it: Drata outperformed Vanta, Scrut, and Sprinto on usability and alignment with their development lifecycle.

Competitive Landscape: Drata beat three competitors by delivering stronger audit partnerships and dev team alignment.

June 20th, 2025 | Head-to-Head Competition

A Senior Healthcare Provider just joined Drata!

Why Now: Their compliance effort relied on spreadsheets and email threads, with no clear process to track evidence or controls—making audits stressful and inconsistent.

How Drata solved it: Drata’s automation, integrations, and AIQA gave them a single pane of glass across frameworks and teams.

Competitive Landscape: Drata beat out all manual and point solutions with breadth, usability, and audit maturity.

June 19th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A Prison Communications Platform just joined Drata!

Why Now: Manual coordination and tool limitations from AuditBoard were wasting their team’s time. Their new CISO needed an immediate change.

How Drata solved it: Drata automated their evidence workflows, consolidated frameworks, and delivered faster time-to-insight—beating out ZenGRC and AuditBoard.

Competitive Landscape: Drata replaced both with greater automation, cleaner onboarding, and better scalability.

June 18th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A Global Pipeline Services company just joined Drata!

Why Now: Their leadership team saw KCM’s limits and needed something that could support multiple frameworks and automate the roadmap.

How Drata solved it: Drata gave them a clear path forward with deeper automation and visibility across evidence collection, controls, and assurance.

Competitive Landscape: Drata beat both on implementation ease and compliance-specific automation.

June 17th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A Government Software Provider just joined Drata!

Why Now: They needed to automate compliance for customers and manage internal frameworks with a single, flexible system.

How Drata solved it: Drata integrated with their cloud stack, centralized multi-framework mapping, and streamlined customer audit requests.

Competitive Landscape: Drata won by offering superior integration and control flexibility.

June 16th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A Healthtech Claims Platform just joined Drata!

Why Now: They were juggling both HITRUST and SOC 2 requirements with manual work and poor support from previous tools—slowing audits and increasing risk.

How Drata solved it: Drata’s HITRUST integrations and support team gave them confidence, reduced noise, and simplified the entire compliance lifecycle.

Competitive Landscape: Drata won by offering better HITRUST support and integration depth, backed by strong trust with their auditing partner.

June 13th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A Professional Sports Organization just joined Drata!

Why Now: With both ISO 27001 and SOC 2 targets on the roadmap, their team needed a platform to unify policy templates, guide onboarding, and automate audit prep in one place.

How Drata solved it: Drata delivered centralized frameworks, automated evidence gathering, and expert onboarding—all while maintaining the trusted partner status they had through legacy relationships.

Competitive Landscape: Drata beat Vanta by offering stronger onboarding support and smoother legacy platform migration from KCM.

June 12th, 2025 | Head-to-Head Competition

A Managed IT and Cyber Firm Just Joined Drata!

Why Now: Their leadership had been told SOC 2 was essential, but the team didn’t know where to begin or what a modern path looked like—and deadlines were looming.

How Drata Solved It: Drata’s platform laid out a step-by-step path that their small team could follow, giving them structure, clarity, and confidence to proceed.

Competitive Landscape: Drata stood out against Vanta for its usability, speed, and clearer onboarding process for smaller IT-led teams.

June 11th, 2025 | Head-to-Head Competition

A Digital Product Development Partner just joined Drata!

Why Now: With client demands around SOC 2 growing and no compliance infrastructure in place, their small team needed a way to build trust fast without hiring new headcount.

How Drata Solved It: Drata’s automation and easy onboarding helped them go from zero to confident SOC 2 readiness with minimal effort, eliminating uncertainty and enabling faster deal velocity.

Competitive Landscape: Drata beat Vanta by offering better guidance, a more scalable onboarding experience, and stronger adaptability to engineering workflows.

June 10th, 2025 | Head-to-Head Competition

A Managed Services and IT Operations Firm Just Joined Drata!

Why Now: After acquiring a managed services firm, they faced fragmented tools, misaligned policies, and manual processes. They needed a single system to drive audit prep for SOC 2 Type 2.

How Drata solved it: Drata helped unify compliance efforts across both legacy and new systems, even without ConnectWise integration, by delivering audit confidence and centralized visibility.

Competitive Landscape: Drata edged out competitors by mapping to their new org structure faster, despite lacking one requested integration.

June 9th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A Healthcare Staffing Consultancy Just Joined Drata!

Why Now: Facing a hard SOC 2 deadline from a top-tier hospital client, their team needed rapid implementation, real-time evidence collection, and hands-on help every step of the way.

How Drata solved it: Drata’s guided experience and quick-launch templates enabled them to accelerate readiness and replace disengaged competitor support with proactive collaboration.

Competitive Landscape: Drata replaced Strike Graph and outpaced both Hyperproof and Vanta by offering faster implementation and clearer customer care.

June 6th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

An Environmental Monitoring Provider Just Joined Drata!

Why Now: Their prior solution lacked flexibility—manual workarounds for custom fields and poor support delayed audit timelines and drained engineering time.

How Drata Solved It: Drata delivered consistent, fast responses and outperformed Vanta in a direct POC, showing more flexibility and automation where it mattered.

Competitive Landscape: Drata won due to superior customization, speed, and audit alignment that outpaced both competitors in side-by-side testing.

June 5th, 2025 | Competitive Takeout

A European Lending Marketplace Just Joined Drata!

Why Now: Frustrated with OneTrust’s clunky workflows and weak integration support, they needed a system that automated their evidence collection and centralized risk visibility for SOC 2.

How Drata Solved It: Drata delivered a streamlined experience, accelerated POC win over Vanta, and restored confidence across risk and compliance stakeholders.

Competitive Landscape: Drata won a live bake-off by outperforming both on usability, integrations, and implementation experience.

June 4th, 2025 | Head-to-Head Competition

A Staffing and IT Services Firm Just Joined Drata!

Why Now: After realizing competitors had ISO 27001 in place, they needed a clear path to catch up quickly, without burdening already busy delivery teams.

How Drata Solved It: Drata gave them a structured roadmap and automation to help the business meet ISO goals while saving time and improving clarity.

Competitive Landscape: Drata beat Vanta by offering deeper education, stronger sales guidance, and clearer value to stakeholders.

June 3rd, 2025 | Head-to-Head Competition

A Financial Authentication Provider Just Joined Drata!

Why Now: Managing frameworks across multiple regulatory environments without a centralized platform created duplicative work, audit stress, and inconsistent controls visibility.

How Drata Solved It: Drata provided automation across all core functions, audit-ready reporting, and seamless control mapping to streamline risk for both internal and external auditors.

Competitive Landscape: Drata won by centralizing fragmented local compliance operations and offering a globalized alternative.

June 2nd, 2025 | Head-to-Head Competition

An Identity Assurance Platform Just Joined Drata!

Why Now: Faced with ISO 42001 requirements from banking partners in Ireland, they needed a compliance vendor trusted by auditors and built to handle complex data security expectations.

How Drata Solved It: Drata’s strong reputation, flexible frameworks, and integrations helped them quickly gain credibility—and proved adaptable across global client demands.

Competitive Landscape: Drata won against Vanta’s lower pricing by offering deeper alignment with regulated industries and trusted track records with banking auditors.