ISMS.online vs verinice

ISMS.online

A 'Dynamic Risk Register & Treatment' and a one-line 'automated risk assessments' claim are all the risk backbone evidence there is: no asset inventory, no documented methodology, no protection-needs inheritance, and no incident handling — the only 24-hour target anywhere is ISMS.online's own privacy promise about their breach, not a product feature for mine. Above a flat list, nowhere near a certifier-grade ISMS core.

verinice

This is a real risk backbone: an ISMS built on BSI IT-Grundschutz methodology with automatic protection-needs inheritance across asset relations, object types running from target objects through requirements and measures to threats and risks, and NIS2 incident handling wired to the statutory clocks — report after 24 hours, situation report after 72 hours, final report after one month. Risk management per NIS2 Article 21 is integrated into both the Grundschutz and ISO 27001 domains, and ISO 27005 sits in the covered standards. What I could not find is risk acceptance with a named owner — who accepted which residual risk stays unevidenced.

ISMS.online

Pre-configured ISO 27001 controls at an 81% headstart, plus policy version history, approval workflow, owner assignment, review reminders and automatic mapping to standards give real measure ownership — but the evidence is entirely silent on SoA generation, internal audit workflows and findings management. That is a templated control toolkit I would have to assemble and audit around, not a living control fabric.

verinice

The Grundschutz object model ties requirements, measures, threats and risks into one fabric, a realization and audit plan is part of the workflow, TOMs are captured per business process, and the vendor states a BSI Testat as well as an ISO 27001 certificate based on IT-Grundschutz are achievable with the tool — an operable control side, not a checklist. I found no public information on statement-of-applicability generation from live control status, on measure ownership with delegation and escalation, or on internal-audit findings management.

ISMS.online

100+ frameworks with NIS 2 named in the resilience loop alongside ISO 27001/27701/42001, SOC 2 and GDPR is genuine breadth, but TISAX, DORA and BSI IT-Grundschutz never appear, and 'automatic mapping to standards' is the only cross-mapping evidence with no documented update cadence as regimes move. Breadth is claimed more than it is evidenced as multi-compliance on one data basis.

verinice

Every regime that matters to a European operator is present — BSI IT-Grundschutz with BSI Standards 200-1 through 200-4, the ISO 27000 series including 27005 and 22301, TISAX, NIS2 and GDPR — and the domains share one object model rather than living as separate checklists: NIS2 risk management per Article 21 is integrated into the Grundschutz and ISO 27001 domains, and the deviations of the German NIS2 implementation law are already integrated and marked, maintenance I can actually see. We found no public information on DORA or SOC 2 coverage.

ISMS.online

'Audit readiness' appears as a marketing adjective; the hard evidence is policy version history and evidence existing as connected platform objects in the unified-platform claim. Nothing on revision-safe change trails, evidence packs on demand, auditor access roles, or a defensible 'show me the state on date X' — a 100% first-time-pass certification method is a sales metric, not proof infrastructure.

verinice

A BSI Testat and an ISO 27001 certification on the basis of IT-Grundschutz are stated as achievable with verinice, and a realization and audit plan is part of the method, so the documents an auditor accepts are producible. But we found no public information on revision-safe change history, evidence attached per control, auditor access roles, or an answer to "show me the state on date X" — without those, assembling a full audit file still costs days.

ISMS.online

Native ServiceNow, SharePoint and Teams connectors plus a Public API clear the connector bar, but the Google Drive integration is explicitly a file picker and link creator only, and there is no directory import, SSO/SCIM, webhooks or automated evidence testing anywhere on the evidence — 'automates compliance tasks' is a slogan, not automation of the recurring toil.

verinice

The captured pages give me nothing on the question that decides this criterion: no documented API, no directory, CMDB or ticketing connectors, no scanner feeds, no automated evidence collection. The fully open-source code base makes self-built integration plausible, but plausible is not evidenced.

ISMS.online

Alliantist is an England-and-Wales company under the ICO, a Germany-primary/Sweden-backup EU region is offered alongside UK, US and APAC data centres rather than defaulted, no DPA or TOMs are captured, and the only published subprocessor list is controller-role and riddled with US processors — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, ZoomInfo. CLOUD Act reach over the chain that would hold my risk register, mitigated only by the EU region option.

verinice

A German GmbH under GDPR with the whole code base open source and a self-operated on-prem variant means I can keep my risk register inside my own walls under German law — jurisdictional control I can act on, not a promise. The open questions: we found no public information on where verinice.cloud hosts customer data, on the vendor's ownership structure, or on any subprocessor list for the cloud product beyond PayPal and Stripe for payments and Matomo for web analytics.

ISMS.online

The vendor's own pricing page says it outright: 'IO's pricing is bespoke to you, this means you're not paying for things you don't need or seats you won't use' — no seats, tiers, module prices or scale steps published. A 400-employee buyer cannot compute any invoice from public pages; rubric level 0 is the exact match.

verinice

Three bundles carry real annual figures with contents itemized — ISO 27001 Bundle from 5.750 € / year, IT-Grundschutz Bundle from 5.750 € / year, ISO + IT-Grundschutz from 8.530 € / year — and evaluations up to 60 days are free, purchasable self-service via the cloud portal and the on-prem shop. The figures are floor prices with no public scale steps, and the NIS2 standalone subscription and the additional modules show no prices on the captured pages.