Where fresh insights meet sharp perspectives on real challenges. Go inside the Drata Alliance Network to unpack the strategies, solutions, and stories shaping modern GRC + security—with 1Password.
Drata’s Partner POV series spotlights the leaders and teams in our partner ecosystem who are helping customers modernize security, compliance, and trust. In each installment, we share a partner’s on-the-ground perspective on what they’re seeing in the market—what’s changing, what’s proving difficult, and what’s working—plus practical takeaways for building stronger, more resilient programs.
In this edition, we’re joined by John Sampson, Director Channel Marketing at 1Password to talk about the access challenges organizations face as SaaS, AI tools, and unmanaged devices proliferate—and how 1Password and Drata are partnering to help teams close the Access-Trust Gap with stronger device assurances and faster, more continuous compliance.
Introducing 1Password
Trusted by over 180,000 businesses, millions of consumers, and 1 million developers, 1Password is redefining identity security for the way people—and AI agents—work today. Built on 1Password’s Enterprise Password Manager (which secures more than 1.3 billion credentials), 1Password’s Extended Access Management (XAM) product suite delivers Zero Trust security by protecting, managing, and governing access across all SaaS applications, including those not managed by IT. With its Agentic AI capabilities, 1Password extends identity security to AI agents and other non-human identities.
Leading companies such as Asana, Associated Press, Canva, Hugging Face, MongoDB, Salesforce, Slack, Stripe, and Under Armour trust 1Password to help ensure the right person or AI agent gets the right access to the right app from a trusted device.
Top of Mind Challenges for 1Password Customers
Organizations today rely on a wide range of SaaS apps, AI tools, and devices to support flexibility and innovation. But every new login and account introduces risk and complexity, often beyond what traditional security models can handle.
1Password Extended Access Management (XAM) unifies Access Management, SaaS Management, and Identity Governance into a single suite designed for how work happens now. XAM helps IT and security leaders gain visibility, control, and automation across every app, AI tool, device, and login—including access beyond SSO. That means teams can enforce a Zero Trust model while reducing blind spots that create vulnerabilities.
With XAM, security teams can identify shadow access, enforce policies consistently, remediate risks faster, and automate routine identity workflows, while still enabling business teams to adopt the tools they need to move quickly.
Security, Compliance, Risk, and Trust Trends
Work no longer happens behind a single login. SaaS, AI apps, and personal devices now push access requirements beyond the boundaries of traditional SSO.
As tool adoption accelerates, IT and security teams face a familiar pattern: freedom increases, while visibility and control fade. Risk hides in the spaces between systems, applications, and identities.
1Password’s mission is to make it easier for people and companies to stay safe online. The Extended Access Management suite advances that mission by unifying identity, access, and governance—bringing control and trust to every sign-in, especially those beyond SSO.
The Underestimated Shift: Hidden Access + Fragmented Governance
At 1Password, we see three compounding issues that are often underestimated:
- Hidden access and lack of visibility
- Shadow IT, unmanaged SaaS, personal devices, and emerging AI apps are adopted faster than IT can track—making it difficult to understand who has access to what.
- Manual and fragmented governance
- Provisioning, deprovisioning, and license management often live across disconnected tools (or spreadsheets and tickets) that can’t keep pace with SaaS growth.
- Rising risk and fading confidence
- Without clear visibility and unified control, risks go unrecognized and compliance evidence falls behind—leaving IT and security leaders less confident in their ability to govern risk, spend, and compliance proactively.
1Password + Drata = Better Together
Together, 1Password and Drata help modern businesses secure access, protect company data, and achieve continuous compliance—without slowing down growth.
1Password Extended Access Management simplifies security compliance alongside Drata by mitigating security and compliance risks and helping teams strengthen device assurance. In particular, the Drata + 1Password Device Trust integration helps streamline device compliance verification and automate evidence connection—enabling customers to accelerate compliance across frameworks more efficiently. The integration supports automated evidence collection across device- and password-manager-related requirements through 1Password Device Trust Checks.
The Use Cases That Benefit Most: Device Trust for Continuous Compliance
Device management is a cornerstone of compliance programs and ties directly to controls across many frameworks. With 1Password Device Trust integrated with Drata, organizations can continuously monitor key device checks (including password manager installed, antivirus installed, and more) to support device and data protection requirements.
Key benefits include:
- Streamlined GRC + security workflows through automated evidence collection and stronger insights into device compliance
- Reduced risk while aligning to industry best practices across regulatory frameworks
- Real-time visibility into compliance posture—helping customers build trust with their stakeholders
- Stronger device assurance so employees are validated against compliance requirements before access is granted
How 1Password Customers Benefit
1Password Device Trust for Drata helps ensure devices meet Drata’s preset compliance requirements for device and data protection—supporting continuous monitoring and making audit readiness easier.
1Password and Drata’s integrations support organizations in meeting compliance requirements at scale—while staying secure. By pairing device trust signals with Drata’s continuous compliance approach, teams can reduce manual effort, improve audit readiness, and gain confidence in their access and device posture.
Drata + 1Password in the Real World
Drata and 1Password Device Trust work together to help high-growth, fast-scaling organizations enforce device requirements before employees access sensitive systems, reducing the risk of unmanaged or non-compliant devices connecting to critical apps and data as well as audit gaps from manual, point-in-time device evidence collection, without adding operational burden to IT or slowing productivity as tool adoption and headcount increase.
With 1Password Device Trust validating device posture and Drata continuously mapping that posture to relevant controls, organizations get stronger visibility and more automated evidence collection for device-related requirements. When a device falls out of compliance, 1Password’s automated, guided self-remediation instructions enable end users to troubleshoot and restore access on their own, reducing IT team involvement and support tickets while keeping access secure and minimizing downtime from access disruptions.
Together, Drata and 1Password support stronger continuous compliance at scale, even as tool adoption and headcount grow—helping organizations avoid control drift as requirements evolve and environments change.
Why 1Password Partnered With Drata + How It’s Evolved
1Password partnered with Drata because both teams share a belief that compliance shouldn’t be a barrier to scale—it should be a natural outcome of doing things securely. Drata’s automated approach to compliance aligns with 1Password’s mission to protect organizations by mitigating security and compliance risks while safeguarding company data.
What began as a natural alignment has grown through deeper collaboration and integrations that help customers address critical controls. As identity sprawl, SaaS growth, and compliance pressure increase, 1Password and Drata have become even more essential for helping teams scale securely.
Looking Ahead To the Future: What We’re Excited About
As compliance requirements evolve and SaaS adoption accelerates, 1Password is excited to deepen its partnership with Drata to help customers stay ahead of complexity. One key opportunity lies in expanding contextual access signals directly into Drata’s continuous compliance monitoring, enabling customers to enforce access policies with even greater precision.
Many organizations are scaling quickly. With the combined power of Drata and 1Password, teams can gain the confidence to meet new requirements without slowing growth, thereby building a modern foundation for compliance that keeps pace with how work actually happens today. Get started on your journey with Drata and 1Password now.
