Drata

Everything you need to understand employee compliance, devices, and the Drata Agent

Personnel Management

Are Contractors in Scope for my Audit?

Personnel: who should be accounted for in terms of your audit?

How Drata uses data from your HRIS to supplement personnel information

Populating and Managing Personnel Data in Drata

Understand when personnel, user, and device changes will show in Drata

Identity sync updates in Drata

Guidance on tracking and maintaining employee compliance requirements.

Personnel Compliance

Employees will be invited into the system to complete their onboarding

Employee onboarding

Future Hire Personnel

If your company does not use a background check software embedded within Drata, you can manually link to proof of their background check

Manually uploading proof of a background check for your employee

How to use Drata's Background Check Management table to link users to their personal background checks performed before hiring

Background Check Management

Additional information to help choose the right background check package for your employees

Certn Background Check Packages

Acknowledge policies as an employee or contractor

Review and Acknowledge Company Policies

Here's how to show you have completed Security Awareness Training within Drata

Showing completion of Security Awareness Training

Steps and resources to onboard new employees into Drata.

Employee Onboarding

This article explains how to provide evidence for offboarded personnel.

Personnel Offboarding

This article provides a checklist for an effective offboarding process.

Offboarding Checklist Guidance

Processes to ensure compliance when employees leave your organization.

Employee Offboarding

How to Handle Device Compliance for Chromebooks

How do Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Devices Affect my Audit?

Employees have the option to load manual evidence if not using the Drata Agent

Manual evidence uploads for personnel compliance checks

Password managers like 1Password, LastPass, and others should be used.

Installing and Using a Password Manager

Configuring Automatic Updates on your Computer

How to ensure your hard disk is encrypted

Encrypting your Computer's Hard Drive

Protect your system from malware (Test: Malware Detection Software Installed – Test 64)

Configure your computer for installing  Anti-Virus Software

Configuring your workstation to auto-lock (and require a password) when the screensaver activates

Auto-Lock your Workstation with Screensaver

This article explains how Drata handles multiple Devices per user.

Multi-Device Support

This article explains how Drata handles multiple MDMs

Multiple MDM Support

Instructions for monitoring and managing employee device compliance. 

Device Compliance

Once installed, how does the Drata agent work on your computer?

How does the Drata agent work?

Installing the Drata Agent via Mac OS

Ubuntu user details for installing the Drata Agent

Installing the Drata Agent via Ubuntu Linux

If you or your employee has made changes to their system (to meet requirements) and aren't seeing them report back to Drata

Drata Agent not reporting system updates

Computer Configuration via Windows OS

Installing the Drata Agent via Windows OS

Computer Configuration via Ubuntu Linux

Manually update the Drata Agent- v2.0.0 and above

This article covers how to access Drata Agent directly when the Agent option is disabled.

Drata Agent Installation Link

Drata Agent v3.8.0 includes new security, UI, and data updates. You can also learn more about the previous version 3.6.1 here.

Drata Agent v3.8.0 Enhancements

Information and support for installing and using the Drata Agent. 

Drata Agent

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