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A Drata alternative that owns the program.

Drata is a strong continuous-compliance platform: automated control monitoring, deep integrations, evidence collection, and an auditor network that helps capable teams reach SOC 2 on their own. What software cannot do is own the program. traztech is the operator who runs the controls, remediates the failures, writes the policies, and answers the auditor, and we can run it on top of Drata. Here is the honest comparison.

When Drata is the better choice

We would rather tell you the truth than win a bad-fit client. Here is when the alternative is genuinely the better choice.

  • You already have a security or compliance lead in house who wants a best-in-class automation and monitoring layer.
  • Your team knows the SOC 2 controls and is comfortable remediating whatever the platform flags.
  • You value fast, developer-friendly onboarding and have time to own policies, evidence, and the audit yourself.
  • You want to keep the program in house and only need software to automate the continuous monitoring.

If that describes you, Drata is a great pick and we will help you get value from it. Plenty of teams stand up Drata, then realize the platform does not do the human work, and that is when they ask us to run it.

traztech vs Drata

traztech Drata
What you get A person who runs the whole program plus the tooling Software: continuous control monitoring, integrations, evidence
Typical cost Roughly from $3K per month, tooling coordinated Annual software subscription, plus your team's time to run it
Automation depth We deploy and operate it for you Excellent, automated and developer-friendly
Who remediates findings We do, hands-on with your engineers You do, the platform flags what is failing
Who writes and owns policies We write and tailor them to your stack Templates you adapt and own yourself
Who answers the auditor We sit in the audit and answer the controls You, the platform gathers evidence but does not speak
Offensive / pentest Run with our offensive-security partner, managed end to end Not included, you source it separately
Canadian startup fit Toronto-based, CAD pricing, PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 aware US-oriented platform

What that looks like in practice

Every number below comes from an engagement record and links to the full case study.

The subscription was budgeted and went unspent

A client had priced a five-figure annual compliance platform. They ran the whole programme in our workspace, kept the evidence, and paid no licence fee.

What they did instead

Monitoring is not the same as passing

Continuous control monitoring is genuinely strong on Drata. What produced a zero-exception Type II across 76 controls was somebody writing the controls, closing the failures, and answering the auditor.

Read the Type II case study

Two frameworks off one evidence set

SOC 2 and ISO 27001:2022 run in parallel across three physical sites, with the overlapping controls evidenced once rather than twice. That mapping is a scoping decision, not a platform feature.

Read the parallel engagement

More at all case studies.

Why teams pick traztech

The platform flags. We fix.

Drata tells you which controls are failing. It does not configure your infrastructure, write your policies, or run your access reviews. We do that work, on top of Drata if you already run it.

One throat to choke at the audit

When the auditor asks how a control operates, software cannot answer. We can, because we built the program and we are in the room.

Researcher-grade depth

The program is led by a published security researcher with six disclosed vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1), the kill-switch for the Mirai botnet. Findings get triaged by someone who finds vulnerabilities for real.

Made to fit Canadian startups

Toronto-based, priced in CAD, and fluent in PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 alongside SOC 2, so compliance maps to where you actually do business.

Frequently asked

Is traztech a replacement for Drata?

Not strictly. Drata is the automation and monitoring layer, and it is very good at it. traztech is the operator who configures Drata, runs the program on top of it, remediates what it flags, and takes you through the audit. For most teams the right answer is Drata plus an operator, not one or the other.

Can traztech take over the Drata setup we already have?

Yes. If Drata is already in place, we adopt it, tidy the configuration, close the open controls, and run it from there. No switching tools, no starting over.

Why can Drata not pass SOC 2 for us automatically?

Because a SOC 2 audit examines how your company genuinely operates, not a checklist a dashboard finishes. Someone still writes the policies, fixes misconfigurations, runs access reviews, collects the evidence automation cannot, and answers the auditor. Drata supports that work rather than replacing it.

How does traztech compare to Drata on security expertise?

Drata is a compliance-automation company. traztech is led by a published security researcher with six disclosed vulnerabilities, including the CVSS 9.1 kill-switch for the Mirai botnet. Your controls reflect real attacker behaviour, not only what the tool tracks.

Is traztech more expensive than a Drata subscription?

The subscription looks cheaper by itself, but it leaves the program work to your team, which is rarely free. traztech bundles the operator and coordinates the tooling for roughly from $3K per month, and the outcome is a passed audit rather than a dashboard you staff yourself.

Does being a Canadian startup change the recommendation?

It can. traztech is Toronto-based, bills in CAD, and works across PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 as well as SOC 2. Drata is a capable US-oriented platform, but the local privacy nuance is on you to handle.

Before you pay for any of them

traztech Workspace covers the same self-assessment ground for nothing: every control in plain English, an evidence register, policy templates, a risk register, and vendor questionnaires. It does not do continuous monitoring or auto-collection, and we say so plainly. If all you need right now is to understand the scope, you do not need a subscription for that.

No credit card, no trial clock, no locked features. We make money when someone wants help closing the gaps, not from the Workspace.

traztech Workspace Other GRC platforms
Licence cost $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract
Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring Included Included
What it costs inside an engagement with us $0. You need a workspace either way Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee
What it does to your audit quote $11,000 off a five-figure quote on one engagement, for a documented readiness position Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling

Pricing in the right column is what compliance automation platforms are publicly reported to charge; none of them publish a number, so treat it as a range rather than a quote. The $11,000 came off the audit firm's own number once the readiness position was documented (the engagement). Where a paid platform is the better buy, and the fuller comparison, is on the Workspace page.

Get Drata run for you, not just switched on.

Keep the automation. Add an operator who configures it, closes the failing controls, and carries you through the audit, instead of a platform you have to run alone.

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Track record

Who is actually doing the work

We are deliberately not a large firm, and we would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
76
Controls taken from nothing to a passed SOC 2 Type II
Zero
Exceptions on that Type II report
75 days
Readiness window we have hit every time we have run it
20+
Penetration testing engagements delivered

Published vulnerability research

Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.

The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.

A SOC 2 Type II built from nothing

At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation across 76 controls with zero exceptions, on a team of 15.

The platform held 99.9% uptime throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.

Recent engagements

For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.

For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.