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Akarion GRC Cloud

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Sovereignty: not determined

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by AKARION GmbH · akarion.com

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The External DPO

Weighted verdict

Carries thirty client mandates and bills by the hour they save. Optimizes for multi-client capability, reusable templates, a RoPA that drives the rest, and client-ready reports. Rejects single-tenant tools that treat the consultancy as thirty separate customers.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The External DPO

Records & DPIA depth

How this is scored

The DSMS core: records of processing (RoPA/VVT), data protection impact assessments, processor/DPA management and TOMs — how deeply the legal artifacts are modeled and connected.

0 — Document templates in a folder tree; the "register" is a Word file with version numbers in the filename.

3 — A structured RoPA with basic fields and a DPIA questionnaire, but processors, TOMs and legal bases live outside the system.

5 — RoPA and DPIA as linked modules with templates; processor management and TOM assignment exist but are shallow, and group reuse is copy-paste.

8 — A connected data model — processing activities linked to systems, processors, TOMs and legal bases — with DPIA triggers derived from the record, reusable group templates, and outputs a supervisory authority accepts.

10 — Privacy records as a system of record: the RoPA drives DPIAs, processor management and TOM coverage from one data model, multi-client/mandate capability included, and the documentation is audit-ready without manual assembly.

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The External DPO

The dynamic VVT that auto-updates from process and asset changes, DSFA with in-system data-flow visualization, central AVV/processor management and a TOM register with authority-facing reports form a genuinely connected model — and Mandantenfähigkeit with inheritance including template tenants, rollable from a master to any number of sub-tenants, is exactly the reusable-template engine a thirty-mandate practice needs. What holds it below the top anchor: no evidence of legal-basis modeling or DPIA triggers derived from the record — the DSFA looks like a strong module, not yet driven by the RoPA. 3 1 2

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Data subject rights & incidents

How this is scored

The operational half of the DSMS: data subject request handling with statutory clocks, breach register and authority notification, deletion concepts that actually delete.

0 — Requests arrive by email and live there; breaches are a phone call and a memo.

3 — A request log and a breach list exist, but deadlines are manual, intake is unstructured, and deletion rules are documentation rather than workflow.

5 — DSR workflows with the Art. 12 clock tracked, structured breach register with the 72-hour clock, deletion concepts assignable to records; automation is reminders.

8 — Intake channels for requests (portal/form), identity-check support, deadline automation with escalation, breach severity assessment and authority-report output, deletion rules tied to the RoPA with execution tracking.

10 — Rights and incidents as operations: end-to-end request handling an authority audit walks through, breach workflows that produce the Art. 33 notification, and deletion automation with evidence that the deletion happened.

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The External DPO

The breach half is real: a guided assessment workflow that monitors the 72-hour deadline and revisionssicher step-by-step incident documentation. But the evidence is entirely silent on data subject request handling — no intake, no Art. 12 clock, no identity check, no deletion concepts — and absence across half the criterion caps it below the midpoint despite solid breach tooling. 3 4

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Privacy regime coverage

How this is scored

Which privacy regimes the product actually operationalizes — GDPR, BDSG, Swiss nDSG, UK GDPR, ePrivacy, EU AI Act privacy duties — and whether one record maps across them or each regime is a fresh island.

0 — One regime, hard-coded; anything else is "on the roadmap".

3 — GDPR plus one national law as separate checklists; the same processing activity is documented once per regime.

5 — The major regimes for its market with partial cross-mapping; newer duties (AI Act, ePrivacy changes) present as content packs of varying depth.

8 — Broad current coverage with one-record-many-regimes mapping and visible maintenance as regimes evolve.

10 — Regime coverage as a living product: multiple privacy regimes on one data basis, per-country variants, and documented update cadence when the law moves.

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The External DPO

GDPR is operationalized via the SDM content with TIA/third-country transfer support, which covers its DACH home market, and the single dynamic register feeding many frameworks suggests cross-mapping rather than per-regime islands. But no Swiss nDSG, no UK GDPR, no ePrivacy and no AI Act privacy duties appear anywhere in the evidence — 'one record, many regimes' is inferred from the architecture, not shown. 1 3 2

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Audit readiness & evidence

How this is scored

Whether the system produces defensible proof: revision-safe history, evidence collection, reports for auditors, authorities and management.

0 — Exports are screenshots; history is overwritten in place.

3 — PDF reports exist but evidence is attached ad hoc and changes leave no reliable trail.

5 — Versioned records, standard report generators for the core registers, evidence attachments per activity; assembling a full audit file still takes days.

8 — Revision-safe change history, audit-scoped evidence packs on demand, management and authority reports current at a click, auditor access roles.

10 — Audit readiness as a standing state: continuous documentation status per regime and scope, exportable proof packs an auditor accepts as-is, and a defensible answer to "show me the state on date X".

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The External DPO

Revisionssicher incident documentation, an audit trail, one-click reports for management and auditors and customizable TOM reports for authorities cover most of what the 8-anchor demands, and client-ready output is what I bill hours on. Missing: audit-scoped evidence packs on demand, named auditor access roles beyond generic granular rights, and any defensible 'show me the state on date X' capability — none of that is in the evidence. 4 3 2 1

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Integrations & automation

How this is scored

Whether the platform feeds from the real IT estate — directory import, ticketing, API — and automates the recurring privacy work instead of re-typing it.

0 — A closed island: manual entry in, PDF out, no API.

3 — CSV/Excel import and export; no live connections, no API worth the name.

5 — Directory import (AD/Entra), a documented REST API for core objects, a handful of native connectors (ticketing or SSO); automation is reminders and recurrence.

8 — Real connector set (ticketing, HR or asset sources), webhooks, SSO/SCIM, workflow automation with delegation and escalation, useful AI assistance with human review.

10 — The platform behaves like infrastructure: API parity for the data model, event streams, bidirectional sync with the estate, and automation that measurably removes the recurring toil (reviews, attestations, evidence pulls) rather than renaming it.

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The External DPO

Thirteen named connectors including ServiceNow, Jira, omnitracker and Matrix42, custom connectors on request, SSO, MFA and autoprovisioning mean the real ticketing and asset estate feeds the platform, and the AI generates risks/measures with explicit human review of linked datasets — plus genuine toil-removal in the master-tenant top-down update and the auto-updating register. What keeps it from 8: no documented API and no webhooks anywhere in the evidence, which limits the automation plumbing I can build for thirty clients. 2 1 4 3

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the compliance record of the whole company actually lives and under whose law — entity, hosting, subprocessors, DPA. A platform that maps your processing is itself your most concentrated processing.

0 — Non-EU entity, non-EU-default hosting, no public DPA or subprocessor list — for the system holding your RoPA.

3 — A DPA exists and an EU region is available on request or on top tiers; subprocessor exposure to US CLOUD Act reach is broad or undocumented.

5 — EU hosting is the default, DPA and subprocessor list published; the vendor or a critical subprocessor is still within non-European jurisdictional reach.

8 — EU entity, EU hosting with named data centers, published subprocessor list free of content-touching non-EU processors, DPA and TOMs public.

10 — Jurisdictionally clean end to end: European ownership, EU-only hosting and subprocessors, on-premises or sovereign-cloud options, and the whole chain documented publicly.

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The External DPO

The chain that matters is clean on the facts: GmbH in Linz under a 100% AG parent in Munich, hosting exclusively on STACKIT in DE/AT with infrastructure explicitly under German and partly Austrian jurisdiction, development 100% in AT/DE. But the captured evidence contains no published DPA and no subprocessor list — the documentation half that rubric level 5 and 8 both require — so despite an EU-clean entity and hosting story, I cannot take it past the middle. 2 6 5 1

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real invoice — per module, per entity, per year, with consulting unbundled — from public pages alone. Unpublished pricing is the B2B norm in this market, so this criterion describes rather than condemns; the benches weight it accordingly.

0 — No public prices at all; every configuration is a sales conversation.

3 — An entry price exists, but module add-ons, entity counts or bundled consulting make the real total incomputable.

5 — Most editions carry real numbers with billing period stated and software separated from services; at least one commonly needed module or scale step is unpriced.

8 — Every edition and module priced publicly with entity/user boundaries and setup fees stated; only genuine corporate-group contracts are custom.

10 — Complete price computability: modules, scale steps, service packages and renewal rules public, so the invoice for a 100-employee company and a 10-client consultancy is a two-minute exercise.

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The External DPO

Not a single price anywhere in the evidence — five modules and a 98% renewal rate are the only commercial facts, so every configuration is a sales conversation. For a consultancy pricing thirty client deployments, this is the worst case the anchor describes: the invoice is incomputable from public pages. 1 4

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
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Sources (8)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage akarion.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Platform overview page akarion.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Data protection (DSMS) module page akarion.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 ISMS module page akarion.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 About page akarion.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Imprint akarion.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap akarion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap akarion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →