Compliance
How much does a SOC 2 audit cost?
A full breakdown of SOC 2 audit costs in 2026 — CPA fees, Drata's platform pricing, hidden internal time, and how to avoid the surprise costs that inflate a first audit.
Mar 16, 20267 min read
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Supply Chain Security, in plain English.
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Provenance Attestation Consumer Workflow
Generating provenance is half the story. Consuming it correctly, at the right points in the pipeline, is where the security value actually materialises.
Mar 16, 20267 min read
Industry Analysis
FIN7: Financial-Sector Supply Chain Tradecraft
FIN7 has spent a decade evolving from POS malware to supply chain operations. A look at the current tradecraft and the implications for financial-sector defenders.
Mar 16, 20266 min read
Security Concepts
CWE Full Form: How the Common Weakness Enumeration Works
CWE stands for Common Weakness Enumeration — a community catalog of software and hardware weakness types. Here is what CWE means, how it differs from CVE, and how to use it.
Mar 16, 20266 min read
Compliance
How long does a SOC 2 audit take?
Most teams budget 3 months for SOC 2. The real number is closer to 6-12, and no automation platform, including Drata, can compress the observation period.
Mar 16, 20267 min read
Vulnerabilities
CVE-2011-4969: The jQuery XSS Bug, a Decade Later
CVE-2011-4969 is a cross-site scripting flaw in jQuery versions before 1.6.3, triggered by unsanitized attribute-selector input — it's a small, old bug, but the reasons it lingered in codebases for years are still relevant.
Mar 16, 20265 min read
Security Concepts
CVE Vulnerability Lookup and Scoring, Explained
A CVE vulnerability record is an identifier, not a severity rating on its own — here's how CVE IDs, CVSS scores, and the actual lookup process fit together.
Mar 16, 20265 min read
Compliance
SOC 2 audit exceptions: what they are and how to avoid them
SOC 2 audit exceptions often trace back to dependency and build evidence gaps that GRC tools like Drata don't reach. Here's why they happen and how to close them.
Mar 16, 20267 min read
Best Practices
Security Team Topology for a Supply Chain Program
How to structure a supply chain security program across AppSec, platform, TPRM, and incident response with clear ownership, cadences, and escalation paths.
Mar 15, 20266 min read
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