Efterlev vs Vanta / Drata¶
Stub for SPEC-38.12. Short version:
Vanta and Drata are SaaS compliance-automation platforms optimized for SOC 2 / ISO 27001. Their FedRAMP modules are thinner and the locus is wrong for a single-engineer DevSecOps lead — these tools live in the GRC team's dashboard, not the engineer's repo.
Pick Vanta or Drata if you're a compliance team handling SOC 2 + ISO 27001 + HIPAA across multiple frameworks. Pick Efterlev if you're an engineer pursuing FedRAMP specifically and want the work to live in your codebase.
These markets coexist. A SaaS company doing SOC 2 with Vanta and FedRAMP with Efterlev is a perfectly reasonable shape.