Drata Slashes Integration Time by 85% With Leen
By streamlining data access and normalization, Leen helped Drata turn a 3-month process into a 2-week sprint
Customer story
Get to know Drata
Drata is a security compliance automation company, with a mission to build trust across the cloud. Thousands of companies across the globe streamline over 20 compliance frameworks – such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and more – through Drata's continuous, automated control monitoring and evidence collection, resulting in a strong security posture, lower costs, and less time spent preparing for audits.
At the heart of this mission is a product and engineering team working at DrataSpeed™, a culture that prioritizes rapid execution without compromising quality. The Drata team, consisting of consisting of product and engineering members and the CTO,was tasked with expanding the company’s integrations footprint in categories like Vulnerability Management, EDR, CSPM and more.
Drata
50–100
New York
SOC2, ISO27001,
Trust Center Advanced,
Questionnaire Automation Advanced,
Access Reviews
Cyber Security
2024
Drata, a leader in security and compliance automation, partnered with Leen to expand its integration roadmap – without overloading engineering or delaying go-to-market.
Leen helped Drata reduce integration build time from 2–3 months to just 2 weeks, accelerating the rollout of critical Vulnerability Management and AppSec connectors.
Seamless implementation and responsive support empowered both engineering and customer success teams to move faster – independently.
The cost of going fast without breaking things
While Drata had already built a handful of integrations in-house, it quickly became clear that their process wasn’t scalable. Each new integration was a multi-team effort involving product, engineering, legal, and business development.
“Each integration build time averaged 2-3 months. We were setting up partnerships, wrangling legal paperwork, chasing API docs, onboarding engineers – and still facing delays due to poor documentation and limited partner support.”
For a company whose competitive edge relies on speed, this manual, fragmented process was becoming a bottleneck. And it was not only impacting internal resources – it was also slowing go-to-market for features customers were actively asking for.
Finding a scalable path
Drata wasn’t actively looking for another vendor – but the need for a more efficient solution to scale integrations sparked an exploration of unified API platforms. That’s when the team discovered Leen, a platform purpose-built to help security products integrate faster and more reliably with the tools their customers already use.
Drata evaluated Leen on critical criteria: cost-effectiveness, breadth of supported integrations, support SLAs, and ease of implementation. Across leadership, product, and engineering, the team found alignment.
“Leen’s pre-built connectors, clear schema design, and responsive support made it an attractive solution for scaling integrations without sacrificing quality.”
Integration at DrataSpeed™
After defining their vulnerability schema and designing the associated UI, Drata’s engineers were able to plug into Leen’s unified API with minimal lift.
“Once we completed the first couple of integrations, it became a simple, repeatable process. Just one or two engineers could build an integration end-to-end – and do it in record time. That changed everything for us!”
Leen's documentation, schema clarity, and Slack-based support made it easy to retrieve and ingest vulnerability data. When edge cases arose – like providers with add-ons (like custom fields or permission clarifications) or ambiguous scopes – Leen’s team of founders & engineers worked closely with Drata to resolve questions and update documentation in real-time, helping maintain quality while accelerating delivery.
And importantly, Leen’s accessibility extended beyond engineering.
“Our customer success team can now go straight to Leen for answers – without looping in product or engineering. That’s a huge unlock.”
More integrations. Less burden.
Drata’s partnership with Leen produced measurable wins in just a matter of weeks
13X
Integrations Expansion
From 1 to 13 integrations in Vulnerability Management in <6 months
80%
Faster Build Time
Reduced integration build time from 2–3 months to just 2 weeks
Faster Sales Motion
Faster deal velocity, with Sales able to commit confidently to customer asks
Team-Driven Execution
Increased team autonomy, with CS and engineering engaging Leen directly
Leen empowered Drata to redirect engineering cycles to higher-leverage product work, while still delivering integrations at the pace customers expected. And that impact extended beyond just engineering velocity. It improved customer satisfaction and revenue outcomes – deals that once hinged on missing integrations became easier to close.
Impact Spotlight
The new standard for integration velocity
The partnership with Leen has shifted Drata’s internal calculus around build vs buy.
“Leen has encouraged us to rethink where we spend engineering time. If we can buy something scalable, flexible, and supported – why build it ourselves?”
And perhaps most tellingly: when sales brings up a new customer integration ask mid-deal, the team doesn’t flinch. Drata team is now equipped to say yes more confidently.
The partnership with Leen has shifted Drata’s internal calculus around build vs. buy.
Drata’s integration momentum isn’t slowing down. Beyond Vulnerability Management, the team is actively exploring new use cases for Leen across EDR, CSPM, and other emerging categories – continuing to raise the bar for how fast, and how smart, integration work can be.
“Leen is now part of how we think about scaling integration capabilities efficiently. It’s allowed us to focus on building great experiences, not plumbing.”
As the security and compliance landscape evolves, Drata is better positioned to meet it head-on – with Leen as a strategic partner.
Hear from our customers
With over 500 Drata customers using Leen to monitor their vulnerabilities, their tool plays a pivotal role for our trust management platform.
Leen significantly streamlines the overall integrations process and empowers our team to deliver on our customer's urgent needs quickly and efficiently.
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