Vanta vs. Drata: The 10 Questions Our CISO Asks GRC Vendors
If Vanta and Drata are both on your shortlist, almost every comparison you’ll find was written by one of the two vendors. This one wasn’t. Alex Tushinsky evaluated both, chose Vanta for TCM Security, then carried it through an acquisition into Educate360 — and here he walks through the due-diligence questions he puts to every GRC vendor before he signs anything.
The questions cover how often automated tests actually run, whether you can build custom tests on any integration or only on the big three cloud providers, what a vendor’s AI genuinely automates versus a chatbot bolted on top, how many compliance frameworks you can run at once without re-uploading the same control fifteen times, and whether vendor monitoring is continuous or a point-in-time questionnaire you repeat once a year.
Alex also gets into the parts of a GRC platform nobody demos: shadow IT discovery, keeping audit evidence and issues in one place instead of a spreadsheet and an inbox, policy and system-description templates, Trust Center and vendor risk, and what changes at audit time when your auditor can pull evidence directly instead of emailing you for it. His first two SOC 2 audits were run entirely in Excel and email and took eight to ten weeks.
Full disclosure: Vanta sponsored this video. We were already Vanta customers before this, and they agreed to let us ask anything on camera. Alex’s comparison reflects his own evaluation of both platforms at the time TCM selected Vanta.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Why this Vanta vs Drata comparison is different
0:42 Manual SOC 2 audits in spreadsheets
2:14 Scaling GRC through an acquisition
3:15 Automated tests: Vanta hourly vs Drata daily
3:59 Custom tests and native integrations
6:27 What the AI actually automates
9:42 Running multiple frameworks at once
11:32 Continuous vs point-in-time vendor monitoring
14:02 Shadow IT and AI tool discovery
14:53 Centralized evidence and issue tracking
16:52 Policy and system description templates
19:29 Support metrics and CSAT scores
20:38 Trust Center and vendor risk
22:16 Getting evidence to your auditor
25:00 Customer renewals and ROI
26:35 Year two and year three pricing
28:21 What to expect from any GRC vendor
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