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Drata is unveiling the first step in thier agentic AI vision: giving security and GRC leaders a preview of what’s next for Trust Management.
For too long, governance, risk, compliance, and assurance (GRC-A) has been fragmented and reactive. Manual processes, disconnected tools, and static audits have created costly bottlenecks for security teams—treating compliance as a check-the-box exercise rather than a tool for building lasting trust.
Today, that approach no longer works. New regulations, AI-driven innovation, increasing costs from third-party breaches and the speed of modern business demand continuous, real-time proof of trust. Organizations must validate security, compliance, and risk postures on demand—not once a year. Waiting months for assessments creates operational drag and leaves businesses exposed.
Drata’s agentic AI vision changes that. They are building a future where GRC-A evolves into dynamic, autonomous, and continuous trust management—one that operates in real time, adapts to new risks, and provides live assurance across the business.
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While many organizations use AI to automate for speed alone, Drata is focused on scale. Trust requires more than faster processes; it demands AI that interprets context, evaluates risk accurately, generates audit-ready outputs with confidence, and frees up valuable time to focus on strategic business objectives. That’s the foundation of AI-native Trust Management.
Today, Drata is sharing the first look at how that vision will take shape with agentic AI.
Why Start with Vendor Risk?
Vendor risk management (VRM) is one of the most resource-draining, error-prone areas of GRC today—and one of the most urgent. As supply chain threats grow, companies evaluating thousands of vendors are looking for consistency and visibility at every moment, not just once a year.
Third-party breaches are now one of the most common causes of security incidents. In fact, according to IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach report, nearly 52% of breaches involve a third party or supply chain partner. That means vendor risk isn’t just a compliance requirement—it’s a front-line defense against costly, brand-damaging breaches.
In reality, for most companies, vendor risk assessments take months. The process is manual, inconsistent, and leaves organizations vulnerable to gaps in oversight. Would a CISO even know if one of their vendors were breached in the last week?
The stakes couldn’t be higher, so that’s why we’re starting here.
Meet the Drata AI Agent for Vendor Risk Management
The Drata AI Agent for Vendor Risk Management will reshape how organizations evaluate, score, and monitor vendor risk at scale.
Traditional vendor risk programs are slow, manual, and overly dependent on vendor self-attestations. Security teams spend months chasing down questionnaires, comparing answers against shifting criteria, and manually parsing documents—only to end up with inconsistent, low-confidence assessments. As new regulations and threats emerge, these bottlenecks create real risk exposure and delay critical business decisions.
The Drata VRM Agent changes the game. It uses AI to automate and accelerate vendor reviews, but more importantly—it raises the bar for quality. Instead of relying on vendor promises, the VRM Agent evaluates real security documentation against your customizable criteria, ensuring consistent, defensible results every time.
With the VRM Agent, you can:
Establish Unified, Configurable Criteria
Define a single, flexible vendor evaluation model tied to your risk tiers. Apply it consistently across thousands of vendors to eliminate redundant questionnaires and reduce manual upkeep.
Automate Vendor Document Review
Automate ingesting vendor artifacts (PDF, DOCX, XLSX) and use AI to assess them directly—assigning risk scores, mapping criteria, and flagging gaps with source-backed evidence.
Integrate Seamlessly with SafeBase Trust Centers
Auto-pull vendor documentation from SafeBase Trust Centers to streamline security reviews and remove back-and-forth.
Orchestrate Follow-Up Workflows
When gaps are found, the VRM Agent drafts follow-up questionnaires automatically—keeping the process moving without losing momentum.
Maintain Human-in-the-Loop Oversight
Every AI-generated output is reviewable and editable. You stay in control, maintaining a strong security posture and audit readiness at scale.
With the VRM Agent, vendor risk evaluations will no longer be a bottleneck or a trust gap—they’ll become a scalable, autonomous process that aligns with your business’s security posture and policies. The result is faster, higher-confidence decisions grounded in real documentation, not assumptions or self-reported claims.
Teams can:
- Cut months of work into minutes—accelerating vendor onboarding and risk assessments.
- Standardize evaluations across the business, removing the need to recreate new questionnaires for every vendor type.
- Improve decision-making driven by data and risk assessments.
- Scale vendor risk management without growing the team—reducing operational drag while raising review quality.
This is more than automation—it’s about embedding trust into every third-party decision with consistent, verifiable outcomes.
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For a closer look at the feature, watch the preview video.
What’s Next: The Agentic AI Platform
The VRM Agent is just the first step in Drata's broader agentic AI roadmap. Drata is building toward a platform where specialized AI agents will autonomously manage trust, risk, and compliance across the enterprise. Here’s what’s coming next:
Trust AI Agent
The Trust Agent will autonomously manage your Trust Center and security posture disclosures. It will coordinate updates, answer real-time security questionnaires, and help organizations proactively communicate their trust posture—without manual lift.
Compliance AI Agent
The Compliance Agent will continuously validate controls, score control health, and recommend or initiate remediations. Instead of reactive audits, compliance will become an always-on function, driven by live system data and autonomous workflows.
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How VRM Connects to Your SafeBase Trust Center
Your Trust Center is the front door to your security posture—where customers, partners, and vendors go to access vetted documentation. By integrating vendor risk management with your Trust Center, you close the loop between third-party reviews and verified source content. Instead of chasing PDFs or relying on self-attestations, VRM programs can pull directly from Trust Centers, ensuring faster, higher-confidence evaluations based on real, approved evidence. It streamlines due diligence, reduces back-and-forth, and makes trust verifiable at scale.
The Future of Trust Management
This is the beginning of a new chapter for Drata—and for Trust Management as a whole. Drata's AI-native approach isn’t about replacing humans; it’s about removing the manual, repetitive work so security and compliance leaders can focus on strategy, innovation, and growth.
By introducing autonomous agents, Drata is shifting from static compliance to dynamic trust management—and building a future where trust is verified continuously, not once a year.
