BoC #31: Automating Security Compliance with Drata & Ross Hosman

Ross Hosman is the CISO at Drata, a Series A staged security and compliance automation company. Drata announced their Series A last month, with investment from GGV Capital, SVCI, Okta Ventures, and other prominent investors. They're focused on automating compliance requirements like ISO27001 & SOC2 so organizations can spend more time growing their businesses and less time doing manual compliance work. Ross has some incredible experiences at large organizations like JP Morgan Chase where he built and managed the cloud security team and more recently as the Head of Security at Sigma Computing. This wide range of experience has helped form Ross's view that security needs to be 'close to the engineers' but also focused on measuring & communicating the value of security to the business. More specifically, he shared why he loves interfacing with customers & prospects, and how that experience makes him a better CISO.