Every time someone adds a new vendor in Ramp, security or GRC needs to get involved, a review has to start, and the decision needs to find its way back to procurement before the purchase moves forward.
That manual handoff is one of the most persistent points of friction between finance and security. It slows down purchasing, adds back-and-forth over email and tickets, and makes it harder to prove that every vendor was actually reviewed.
The Drata and Ramp integration closes that gap.
The Challenge: Procurement and Compliance Live in Different Systems
Most companies manage vendor spend and vendor security in separate tools.
Ramp owns spend requests, approvals, and budget controls. Drata owns vendor security reviews, evidence collection, and control monitoring.
The connection between them is usually email, tickets, and spreadsheets. It starts when someone on the finance team adds a vendor in Ramp and emails security. Then, the security team creates the vendor in their own system and kicks off a review. Eventually, someone sends an approval back so the request can move forward.
The whole process can take days or weeks and depends on both teams staying perfectly in sync across systems that don’t actually talk to each other.
For companies working toward SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, or any framework that requires vendor due diligence, this isn’t just an efficiency problem. It creates real risk when vendors are approved for spend before a security review is complete.
The Solution: The Ramp × Drata Integration
Drata now integrates directly with Ramp to connect spend management with vendor security compliance.
When a team member submits a spend request in Ramp that includes a new vendor, Drata detects it automatically and:
Creates the vendor record in Drata—no redundant data entry.
Maps any configured custom fields from the Ramp form directly to the Drata vendor record, so context carries through.
Kicks off a vendor security review based on your Drata program configuration.
When the review is complete and approved in Drata, the status syncs back to Ramp automatically—every hour by default, or immediately via manual sync. Finance sees when a vendor is cleared, and procurement keeps moving without tracking down status over email or Slack.
No email chains. No copy-paste. No vendors slipping through the gap between procurement and security.
How the Integration Works
Here’s what happens behind the scenes once Ramp and Drata are connected:
A team member submits a spend request in Ramp and selects a new vendor.
Ramp detects that the vendor is new and triggers the Drata integration.
Drata automatically creates the vendor record and starts a security review based on your program configuration (review type, deadline, and required fields).
The security team completes and approves the review in Drata.
Drata syncs the approval back to Ramp automatically every hour, or immediately via manual sync.
The Ramp request is cleared for approval with a documented security review on record.
From the requester’s perspective, they stay in their existing Ramp workflow.
From the security team’s perspective, every new vendor appears in Drata with the right details and a linked review, without manual intake work.
How Finance and Security Teams Benefit
The Ramp × Drata integration is designed for companies where finance and security need to stay aligned—without turning every new vendor into a multi-week project.
Finance and procurement teams can eliminate manual notifications to security every time you add a vendor. Instead, Drata picks up new vendors from Ramp automatically and starts the review. They can also see review status without leaving Ramp, so they know exactly when a vendor is ready for approval. It helps keep spend moving without waiting on email threads or chasing approvers.
For security and compliance teams, they see every new vendor requested in Ramp in the Drata vendor security review queue automatically. They can stop chasing procurement for vendor details or re-entering the same information in multiple systems. Plus they can configure review types, deadlines, and required fields once in Drata—the integration applies those settings every time.
Get Set Up in Under 10 Minutes
Connecting Ramp and Drata does not require engineering work in most environments. You can get up and running in a few steps:
In Ramp, go Company > Integrations and select for Drata
Select Connect and follow instructions to create an OAuth application in Drata.
In Drata, go to Settings → Integrations and select Ramp.
Create an application in Drata with the required API scopes: Events, VendorCreate, VendorCreateUpdate, VendorCreateAndRead, and VendorSecurityReviews.
Copy the application credentials into Ramp. The integration pulls the required data from Drata automatically.
Configure a Drata Program with your review type, deadline, and any field mappings from your Ramp forms.
Once live, the integration runs in the background. You manage your vendor security reviews in Drata; Ramp reflects the latest status automatically.
Who This Is For
The Ramp × Drata integration is built for teams that want procurement and compliance to move in lockstep from the start. For instance, organizations building or maturing a compliance program toward SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, or similar frameworks with vendor due diligence requirements will also see value.
If you’re scaling procurement and expecting vendor reviews to happen automatically, not through ad hoc email, or if you want to cut the back-and-forth between procurement and security on every new vendor, this integration is designed with your needs in mind. It removes friction without forcing teams to abandon their existing workflows.
Common Questions, Answered
Does this work with existing vendors in Ramp?
The integration triggers for new vendors that Ramp hasn’t seen before. Requests for existing vendors continue to follow your current workflow.
What if I need the sync to happen immediately?
Drata syncs vendor review status back to Ramp automatically every hour. If you need an immediate update, you can trigger a manual sync from the integration flow.
Can I control which fields carry over from Ramp to Drata?
Yes. When you configure a Drata Program, you define which Ramp form fields—including custom fields—map to which Drata vendor fields. The information entered in Ramp carries through to Drata according to those mappings.
What compliance frameworks does this support?
Vendor security reviews completed in Drata through the Ramp integration support Drata’s framework library, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and others, and can be used as evidence across applicable frameworks.
Getting Started
The Ramp × Drata integration is available today.
If you already use both Ramp and Drata, open Settings → Integrations in your Drata account and select Ramp to connect the integration.
Not using Drata or Ramp yet? See how Drata connects to your existing stack and book a demo to explore how Ramp and Drata can help you automate vendor security reviews end to end.
