Drata VS Secureframe: Compare All Differences 

While both, Drata and Secureframe are capable GRC automation tools, the nuanced differences in pricing, AI and automation capabilities, and support can make all the difference for your team. 

In this blog, we dive deep into the capabilities of the platforms and compare them against 10 key areas to conclude which platform is better suited for what kinds of use cases and teams. 

So, without further ado, let the battle begin!

TL;DR

Drata offers a scalable solution that suits the needs of all sizes that handle multiple parallel compliance frameworks. Secureframe is geared towards smaller and leaner teams, handling smaller compliance needs.

Drata’s AI capabilities are effective but Secureframe’s Comply AI helps with faster remediation and compliance.

In terms of ROI, Drata is the priciest, starting at a minimum estimated price point of 9K USD, while Secureframe is more cost-effective, starting at a price point of 7K USD.

Round 1: Introduction

Before taking a deep dive, let us introduce the champions – what they claim to do, in short. 

Drata in a nutshell

Drata is a security compliance automation tool that monitors your cloud environment and collects real-time evidence to ensure audit readiness. 

Drata also offers a partnership program for startups to scale faster and a trust center to accelerate security reviews. 

Secureframe at a glance

Secureframe is a compliance automation solution that leverages AI to automate compliance activities and enable organizations to leverage their compliance posture to gain a competitive edge.. 

It streamlines compliance processes, automated tests, and manages failing controls, collects evidence to help maintain a strong security posture, and minimizes the impact of security risks by remediating them immediately.

Based on the size of the business- customers can choose a solution suite that works well for them. Small and Enterprise are the prominent ones. Secureframe trust and Secureframe Comply help to improve the security posture and maintain compliance respectively. 

Round 2: Major differences at a glance

	Secureframe	Drata	Sprinto
Who is it for?	Secureframe is better suited for smaller companies looking to run one or two compliance programs. If you are an enterprise level company, Secureframe may not be your best bet as the platform is not equipped to process large volumes of data or scale efficiently as the level of complexity goes up.	Drata on the other hand is suitable for both small and enterprise level companies. Their solution is highly responsive and offers advanced automation capabilities to process large and complex data fed into the system.	Sprinto caters to small, medium sized, and enterprises. The tool is designed to accommodate and process larger volumes of complex data to ensure uninterrupted growth without hindering compliance activities.
AI capabilities	Secureframes’ Comply AI feature offers faster and custom cloud remediation for a strong posture. It uses infrastructure as code (IaC) to recommend accurate remediation aligned with the user’s environment. However, user feedback suggests that the AI features are still in development stages and not as helpful as desired.	While Drata’s AI capabilities are limited, it is built for users who have some level of expertise and may not need guidance at every step.	Sprinto offers intelligent workflows and magic mapping of controls to the right checks. It also uses AI to mark some checks as exceptions. These capabilities are the closest feature to AI.
Scaling	The platform is over indexed for simplicity. If you are a small company managing one or two frameworks, it is the perfect choice. Its responsiveness takes a hit as you keep on adding more frameworks.  However, it may not be the perfect fit if automation is your primary goal.	Drata can scale and stretch better than Secureframe, thanks to its sophisticated design modules built to offer advanced automation.  However, the tool may not offer the simplicity, especially if you don’t do things their way. It is somewhat ineffective when it comes to certain instances where it makes sense to offer more granularity – like accommodating edge cases, for example.	Sprinto’s responsive integrations help to aggregate controls better and ensure that controls are tested accurately. Moreover, its core compliance modules are adequately comprehensive to manage existing requirements and accommodate additional ones as you scale and grow. The highly scalable security programs ensure 100 percent audit success every time.
Pricing	Secureframe’s price ranges between from $5000 – $7000 per framework. Each additional frameworks cost $1000 .	Drata’s price ranges between $9,000 for one 1 framework (10 – 50 employees). Each additional framework would cost $1,000 extra	See how Sprinto compares – get your personalized price.

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Round 3: Supported frameworks

Drata	Secureframe
SOC 2 ISO 27001, 27701, 27017, 27018 HIPAA GDPR PCI DSS CCPA CMMC NIST Microsoft SSPA CCM by CSA Custom frameworks	SOC 2 Type 1 and 2 ISO 27001 / ISO 27701 HIPAA GDPR CCPA PCI DSS NIST CSF NIST 800-53 NIST 800-171 NIST Privacy Framework CMMC 2.0 Microsoft SSPA MVSP

We support all common and custom frameworks

Sprinto supports all the frameworks mentioned above along with a custom framework of your choice. It reuses controls from existing frameworks to reduce time and eliminate duplicate efforts.

Round 4: Key features

While both tools belong to the same software category, subtle differences in capabilities set them apart. While choosing a solution, select the one with a set of functionalities that aligns better with your business objectives. 

Drata	Secureframe
Compliance Monitoring Anomaly Detection Cloud Gap Analytics Monitoring And Alerts Sensitive Data Compliance Policy Enforcement Auditing Questionnaire Templates Access Control  Risk Scoring Monitoring And Alerts	Compliance Monitoring Anomaly Detection Cloud Gap Analytics Monitoring And Alerts Governance Sensitive Data Compliance Policy Enforcement Auditing Centralized Vendor Catalog Access Control Policies Risk assessment Automated security questionnaire processing

Round 5: Auditing and evidence collection

Secureframe 

Secureframe comes with built-in programs that help you jumpstart compliance with a framework. It tracks the requirements and due processes for security and consolidates policies and procedures required for audit success. 

The platform is a good fit for organizations trying to manage up to two audit engagements. When it comes to large architectures that platform is somewhat obtuse and too many ad hoc activities require manual fine-tuning. Users often have to upload evidence manually.

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Drata

Drata’s audit hub facilitates easy review of evidence, eliminates multiple back and forths with auditors by centralizing and organizing relevant audit materials. It comprehensively prepares users for audits by automating evidence collection. 

Lacks deep customization capabilities like marking asset exceptions, creating an undesirable number of false positives. 

Take charge of your audits

Sprinto’s audit preparation system fully automates your compliance activities using auditor-grade programs that facilitate planning and preparing for multiple audits at the same time.  

You can pick an auditor of your choice and collaborate with auditors using a secure, shared dashboard that empowers you to isolate access for ongoing audits, communicate with auditors, and track audit progress from a single window. 

Manage your audit life cycle with unmatched precision and high efficiency to ensure audit success and scale faster.  

Round 6: Control Monitoring

Secureframe 

Helps users to automate and customize tests to meet compliance criteria and evidence requirements. Real-time monitoring, alerting, and remediating capabilities ensure continuous compliance with selected frameworks. 

Secureframe maps common controls across frameworks and monitors at once, centrally.

Drata

Offers continuous monitoring of controls to identify issues and ensure quick resolution. Monitors controls in a way that centralizes and streamlines activities to support audits and check progress. 

While the tool offers the ability to add custom frameworks, users have to manually add controls and checks. 

Stay compliant, stay in control

Sprinto’s end-to-end compliance automation toolkit helps you build, implement, and manage a fully connected compliance program. It monitors controls in real-time, identifies anomalies, and triggers remediation to ensure continuous compliance. 

Gain a centralized view of risks, controls, and assets. Test controls against your framework’s requirements and use intelligent workflows to manage controls that cannot be automated. Get context-rich alerts to remediate issues on time. 

Round 7: Risk Assessment

Secureframe 

The risk assessment feature shows risk status and progress on each in real-time, automates workflows for risk assessment, identifies security and compliance risks in an insightful manner. 

The risk questionnaire however is not user-friendly. The risk classification and tagging module is not automated. 

Drata

Drata’s risk assessment module shows the real-time status of compliance to enable teams to identify and resolve issues. It offers a comprehensive view of risk assessment guidance, remediation, and risk reports.

However, Drata assesses risks without industry benchmarks, resulting in a scoring system based on guts, rather than reality. It also lacks a connected module – vendor risk and access review are disconnected. 

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Manage risks with precision and risk intelligence

Sprinto integrates with your cloud setup and learns what’s normal in your environment to identify misconfigurations and vulnerabilities – precisely and accurately. It collects and consolidates risks while helping IT teams treat and mitigate them using a 360-degree view of risks.

Don’t just identify risks at a surface level. Build true resilience by assessing the impact of each risk using industry benchmarks. Create a risk register by adding custom risks and assigning impact scores. 

Round 8: Integrations 

Secureframe 

Offers 130+ integrations covering a wide range of systems like cloud services, business suites, background checks, human resources, device management, developer tools, and task management. Integrates well with most systems to help businesses complete compliance audits

Integration with large systems like AWS is time-consuming. Sometimes, a few integrations don’t function smoothly, requiring manual work to upload evidence. Its limited, poorly responsive integrations and API creates an undesirable amount of false positives and negatives. 

Drata

Offers 90+ integrations, covering a wide range of systems like SSO, background check providers, cloud identity providers, security awareness training, vulnerability scanning, ticketing, HRIS, cloud service providers, device management, and more.

Drata integrates with AWS on an account level, rather than on an organization level, requiring users to periodically check accounts to ensure if all are added. The low number of native integrations affects the platform’s ability to run automated tests and verifications.

Moreover, their integrations are not sufficiently responsive, requiring manual effort and poor APIs. 

Integrate seamlessly, sprint through effortlessly 

Sprinto integrates with 160+ systems and applications seamlessly and quickly to build compliance workflows and monitor controls against your security standards. 

If our system does not have an existing application in our integration library, our team will build it for you and manage the manual activities associated with it. 

Round 9: Support 

Secureframe 

With a solid rating of 9.4/10, Secureframe proactively supports its customer base and resolves a wide range of issues. 

Drata 

Rated 9.9/10 for support, users appreciate their exceptional quality of customer support. 

Expert support, from day 1

Right from onboarding all the way to certification and beyond, we hold your hand at every stage of your compliance journey, so nothing feels confusing or overwhelming. Spinto’s support starts from Day 1, and we respond to customer queries in less than 10 minutes. 

Round 10: Grand Finale – And The Winner Is….

We hope this did not overwhelm you with too much information! 

Based on our analysis, both solutions offer robust capabilities to ensure compliance and help businesses scale. 

Determining a winner is not straightforward or objective – it all boils down to your business objectives and features that make your job easier. While some users may find Drata more intuitive, others would choose Secureframe. 

If you are still unsure, check out how Sprinto helps fast-growing businesses move fast and win big. Using out-of-the-box security management programs, continuous control monitoring, and automated evidence collection, we fill the gaps where other tools fail. 

Talk to our compliance ninjas today to understand how our smart and scalable platform makes compliance possible. 

FAQs

What does Drata do?

Drata helps organizations streamline and automate their compliance and security processes. Its platform is designed to simplify and enhance the way companies manage their security and compliance programs through continuous compliance monitoring, security audits, workflow automation, and risk assessment. 

What does Sprinto do better than Drata and Secureframe?

Sprinto stands has an intuitive interface, highly customizable solutions, and comprehensive support. It excels in automation, reducing manual tasks with real-time monitoring and updates, and integrates seamlessly with a wide range of tools and platforms. These features make Sprinto more user-friendly and effective, ensuring continuous and efficient compliance management tailored to specific business needs.

What does Secureframe do?

Secureframe is a cybersecurity and compliance automation platform that helps businesses streamline the process of achieving and maintaining various compliance certifications and standards. It simplifies compliance efforts through automated evidence collection, control monitoring, audit preparation, document management, and risk assessment. 

Who are Drata’s competitors?

Few of Drata’s core competitors are Secureframe, Sprinto, Vanta, Tugboat, AuditBoard, Wiz, and Hyperproof.