Drata vs Lacework FortiCNAPP comparison

Drata and Fortinet are both solutions in the Compliance Management category. Drata is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.7, while Fortinet is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.7. Drata holds a 6.7% mindshare in CM, compared to Fortinet’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Drata users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Fortinet users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 22, 2025

Lacework FortiCNAPP and Drata are competing products in the cloud security domain. Drata appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive approach to continuous security monitoring and automation, which potentially leads to a more robust security posture overall.

Features: Lacework FortiCNAPP provides advanced threat detection, compliance features, and robust cloud workload protection. Drata is distinguished by its comprehensive automation for compliance management, continuous security monitoring, and seamless integrations with cloud services and security tools.

Room for Improvement: Lacework FortiCNAPP could improve by simplifying its deployment model, enhancing automation capabilities, and expanding third-party integration options. Drata could benefit from reducing its upfront costs, expanding its basic version features, and improving the learning curve for users unfamiliar with automated compliance management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Lacework FortiCNAPP requires careful integration for optimal performance, whereas Drata offers a streamlined setup process focusing on automation and integration capabilities. Drata's customer service emphasizes immediate support and dynamic onboarding, while Lacework provides detailed guidance and support mechanisms.

Pricing and ROI: Lacework FortiCNAPP offers a competitive pricing model with flexible options for effective cost management. Drata's upfront costs may be higher, but its automation capabilities can lead to a greater long-term ROI by enhancing efficiency in compliance and security operations.

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Categories and Ranking

Drata

Ranking in Compliance Management

4th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Lacework FortiCNAPP

Ranking in Compliance Management

8th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (26th), Container Security (25th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (14th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (20th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Compliance Management category, the mindshare of Drata is 6.7%, down from 15.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lacework FortiCNAPP is 3.9%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Compliance Management

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Johnny Chen

SecOps Engineer III at FINIX PAYMENTS, INC

Collects and stores compliance evidence and documentation for you using native integrations with your tech stack.

There is room for improvement in Drata. The core features are solid, but some new features are in a very MVP (Minimum Viable Product) stage. They work, but the user experience isn't always smooth. While the core features are well-developed compared to the market, the new features need more polish. They could benefit from more user feedback and iterations to make them more useful. Some of these new features look promising buthave flaws, so we can’t fully adopt them or justify paying extra for them now. The user interface is clean and intuitive. However, you'll need some specific knowledge if you're a security policy manager or need to set updifferent integrations.

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Carlos Vitrano

Cloud security director at Medallia

Provides quick visibility and significantly reduces alerts

Its integrations with third-party SIEMs can be better. That is one of the things that we discussed with them. We have integrations, for instance, with Splunk. The data that we are receiving in Splunk is huge, and it is valid because Lacework has a bunch of data that they can provide to you. However, to be able to import the data and create alerts, we needed to do some work, so integration is one of the things that they can improve. For container security, how they scan images and how they provide results is something that they need to continue improving in terms of visibility. We already have visibility to several artifacts, but they can take that to the next level and see what else they can do. There can be better integrations with CI/CD pipelines. There can be improvements in terms of how we can take action or how we can report from the number of inventories they are providing to us.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Drata helps eliminate evidence gathering and makes assigning different activities to different team members easier, simplifying compliance and audit processes. In Pennsylvania, we're putting in thousands of hours. Drata improves our security posture by reducing extra work, allowing us to focus on other security directives. I like the control editing and task management features the most. It's easy to use, but it's also easy for people to think they don't need security experts if they have it."

"My experience with customer support was good; they were responsive, but they didn't ever get us to a solution that worked."

"Drata keeps adding new features, allowing us to build our entire InfoSec program within it. Adding new components and evidence for different audits is easy. Drata also integrates with various software, like ticketing systems, source code control, and cloud platforms, continuously pulling evidence from these integrations. Without a GRC tool with these integrations, we used to gather evidence from different software during audits manually. Drata has a significant impact on our security posture management. Previously, Drata had features for security posture management, primarily through integration with AWS. For example, it would scan AWS for specific security requirements, like ensuring all S3 buckets are private. It will be reported on the Drata platform if it finds a public bucket. Recently, Drata introduced a new feature that uses an infrastructure-as-code approach. This feature detects issues and provides AI-generated suggestions for fixing them. If an organization uses infrastructure-as-code solutions like Terraform, Drata will suggest changes to the Terraform code to address the issues. You can then review and apply these changes to fix the problems. This is particularly useful when dealing with many topics, as it helps automate and speed up the process of implementing fixes. However, this AI-generated code feature is part of Drata’s upsell options. The basic version of Drata offers limited capabilities compared to the advanced features available with a paid upgrade. Even without this new feature, Drata's security posture management is valuable, as it scans cloud environments for deviations from defined security baselines. Many tools offer similar capabilities, but Drata’s new feature that translates issues into actionable fixes is a notable advancement. This benefits teams with the capability and resources to use this tool effectively."

"Drata helped us publish our ISO and SOC reports, which was essential for the acquisition. The challenge now is whether Drata can scale up to meet the needs of a larger company, which already has tools like Intune to enforce laptop encryption. Drata is excellent for startups and small—to medium-sized companies but may face challenges in larger organizations with multiple environments."

"The product is 100 percent friendly to use."

"The way the tool's controls are linked to the framework, specifically with SAST and HIPAA frameworks or any other frameworks, is really good."

"Drata offers APIs for every clause so that it can integrate into various platforms."

"The compliance reports are definitely most valuable because they save time and are accurate. So, instead of relying on a human going through and checking or providing me with a report, I could just log into Lacework and see for myself."

"I find the cloud configuration compliance scanning mature. It generates a lot of data and supports major frameworks like ISO 27001 or SOC 2, providing reports and datasets. Another feature I appreciate is setting custom alerts for specific events. Additionally, I value the agent-based monitoring and scanning for compute nodes. It gives us deeper insights into our workloads and helps identify vulnerabilities across our deployed assets."

"The best feature, in my opinion, is the ease of use."

"Polygraph compliance is a valuable feature. In our perspective, it delivers significant benefits. The clarity it offers, along with the ability to identify and address misconfigurations, is invaluable. When such issues arise, we promptly acknowledge and take action, effectively collaborating with our teams and the responsible parties for those assets. This enables us to promptly manage problems as soon as they arise."

"Lacework is helping a lot in reducing the noise of the alerts. Usually, whenever you have a tool in place, you have a lot of noise in terms of alerts, but the time for an engineer to look into those alerts is limited. Lacework is helping us to consolidate the information that we are getting from the agents and other sources. We are able to focus only on the things that matter, which is the most valuable thing for us. It saves time, and for investigations, we have the right context to take action."

"The most valuable feature is Lacework's ability to distill all the security and audit logs. I recommend it to my customers. Normally, when I consult for other customers that are getting into the cloud, we use native security tools. It's more of a rule-based engine."

"The most valuable feature, from a compliance perspective, is the ability to use Lacework as a platform for multiple compliance standards. We have to meet multiple standards like PCI, SOC 2, CIS, and whatever else is out there. The ability to have reports generated, per security standard, is one of the best features for me."

"There are many valuable features that I use in my daily work. The first are alerts and the event dossier that it generates, based on the severity. That is very insightful and helps me to have a security cap in our infrastructure. The second thing I like is the agent-based vulnerability management, which is the most accurate information."

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Cons

"One of the challenges with Drata is that if you're paying for a subscription to ISO 27001, you must undergo a risk assessment. You should have access to all necessary modules on the platform to achieve your compliance posture and certification."

"In terms of improvements, I'd suggest better marketing since the industry tends to market these tools as security experts, which isn't true."

"The product can improve in its API documentation area."

"The thing with Drata is you cannot open multiple tabs on the same interface or the same desktop,"

"There is room for improvement in Drata. The core features are solid, but some new features are in a very MVP (Minimum Viable Product) stage. They work, but the user experience isn't always smooth. While the core features are well-developed compared to the market, the new features need more polish. They could benefit from more user feedback and iterations to make them more useful. Some of these new features look promising buthave flaws, so we can’t fully adopt them or justify paying extra for them now. The user interface is clean and intuitive. However, you'll need some specific knowledge if you're a security policy manager or need to set updifferent integrations."

"The existing features of Drata are already extensive and costly to integrate."

"The solution is quite costly."

"Drata has impacted our organization negatively, as it made the whole compliance process more complicated and cost me significant time."

"A feature that I have requested from them is the ability to sort alerts and policies based on a security framework. Right now, when you go into alerts, you have hundreds and hundreds of them that you have to manually pick. It would be useful to have categories for CIS Benchmark or SOC 2 and be able to display all the alerts and policies for one security framework."

"Lacework lacks remediation features, but I believe they're working on that. They're focused on the reporting aspect, but other features need to improve. They're also adding some compliance features, so it's not worth saying they need to get better at it."

"There are a couple of the difficulties we encounter in the realm of cybersecurity, or security as a whole, that relate to potentially limited clarity. Having the capacity to perceive the configuration aspect and having the ability to contribute to it holds substantial advantages, in my view. It ranks high, primarily due to its role in guaranteeing compliance and the potential to uncover vulnerabilities, which could infiltrate the system and introduce potential risks. I had been exploring a specific feature that captured my interest. However, just yesterday, I participated in a product update session that announced the imminent arrival of this feature. The feature involves real-time alerting. This was something I had been anticipating, and it seems that this capability is now being integrated, possibly as part of threat intelligence. While anomaly events consistently and promptly appear in the console, certain alerts tend to experience delays before being displayed. Yet, with the recent product update, this issue is expected to be resolved. Currently, a comprehensive view of all policies is available within the console. However, I want a more tailored display of my compliance posture, focusing specifically on policies relevant to me. For instance, if I'm not subject to HIPAA regulations, I'd prefer not to see the HIPAA compliance details. It's worth noting that even with this request, there exists a filtering mechanism to control the type of compliance information visible. This flexibility provides a workaround to my preference, which is why it's challenging for me to definitively state my exact request."

"Lacework has not reduced the number of alerts we get. We've actually had to add resources as a result of using it because the application requires a lot of people to understand it to get the value out of it properly."

"Visibility is lacking, and both compliance-related metrics and IAM security control could be improved."

"I would like to see a remote access assistance feature. And the threat-hunting platform could be better."

"The biggest thing I would like to see improved is for them to pursue and obtain a FedRAMP moderate authorization... I don't believe they have any immediate plans to get FedRAMP moderate authorized, which is a bit of a challenge for us because we can only use Lacework in our commercial environment."

"Its integrations with third-party SIEMs can be better. That is one of the things that we discussed with them."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Drata's pricing is quite reasonable. Compared to other tools in the market, including its biggest competitor, Vanta, Drata is much cheaper. Even compared to other tools like AuditBoard, which aren’t as good, Drata’s price remains competitive."

"I remember that my company used to pay 25,000 USD to use the product...The product's cost is really high, but it is a powerful tool."

"It's one of the more expensive options, but I think it's worth the money if you can afford it."

"The licensing fee was approximately $80,000 USD, per year."

"It is slightly expensive. It depends on how big your environment is, but it is expensive. Right now, we are spending a lot of money. We have covered all of the cloud providers and most of our colocation facilities as well, so we cannot complain, but it is slightly expensive. It is not super expensive."

"The pricing has gotten better. That scenario was somewhat unstable. They have a rather interesting licensing structure. I believe you get 200 resources per "Lacework unit." It was difficult, in the beginning, to figure out exactly what a "resource" was... That was a problem until about a year or so ago. They have improved it and it has stabilized quite a bit."

"My smaller deployments cost around 200,000 a year, which is probably not as expensive as Wiz."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

University

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

University

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Drata?

Drata helped us manage our SOC 2 compliance by automating the monitoring of our infrastructure, but overall, the platform didn't work effectively at all. Being fairly new SOC 2 compliance, understa...

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What is your primary use case for Drata?

Our main use case for Drata is to provide a platform for us to manage our SOC 2 compliance.

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What advice do you have for others considering Drata?

My advice to others looking into using Drata is that I would advise them not to use it. I would rate Drata a 1 out of five because the platform requires that you be a compliance expert and doesn't ...

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What do you like most about Lacework?

Polygraph compliance is a valuable feature. In our perspective, it delivers significant benefits. The clarity it offers, along with the ability to identify and address misconfigurations, is invalua...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Lacework?

My smaller deployments cost around 200,000 a year, which is probably not as expensive as Wiz.

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What needs improvement with Lacework?

The solution lacks a cohesive data model, making extracting the necessary data from the platform challenging. It uses its own LQL query language, and each database across different layers and modul...

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Overview

Drata is a powerful tool for automating compliance processes, effectively reducing audit preparation time and continuously monitoring security controls. It is highly valued for its ability to integrate seamlessly with existing tech stacks and manage security for remote teams, ensuring adherence to standards like SOC 2 and HIPAA. Drata enhances organizational efficiency, improves workflows, and supports real-time compliance monitoring, making compliance management less stressful and more accurate.

Drata

Lacework FortiCNAPP provides robust cloud security, combining vulnerability management and multi-cloud insight with user-friendly controls, machine learning detection, and compliance support.

Lacework FortiCNAPP specializes in cloud security by merging machine learning anomaly detection with agent-based vulnerability management to offer detailed alerts and compliance reports. Its comprehensive approach allows continuous monitoring across AWS and Kubernetes, providing insights from an attacker's perspective. The platform offers automation and seamless Slack integration, facilitating collaborative and efficient cloud security management. Users value its ability to handle multi-cloud environments and scan IAC scripts, configurations, and compute nodes across AWS and GCP.

What are the key features?

Machine Learning Detection: Identifies anomalies effectively.
Compliance Reports: Provides precise compliance documentation.
Vulnerability Management: Supports agent-based vulnerability assessments.
Multi-Cloud Support: Manages and secures across multiple cloud providers.
Automation and Collaboration: Enables integration with Slack for streamlined communication.
Custom Alerts: Allows creation of personalized alerts for better focus.

What benefits do users expect?

Reduced Alert Noise: Minimizes distractions with filtered alerts.
Efficient Cloud Security: Automates processes for enhanced security management.
Collaboration Support: Integrates with tools like Slack.
Insightful Perspective: Provides insight from an attacker's viewpoint.

Organizations across sectors leverage Lacework FortiCNAPP for cloud security, focusing on compliance, security posture, and vulnerability management. It is widely used for monitoring AWS and Kubernetes environments, scanning IAC scripts, configurations, and securing compute nodes. It supports multi-cloud security posture management and log ingestion, enabling companies to maintain strong cloud infrastructures without dedicated security layers.

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