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Category median

Sovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven

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

by Dastra SAS · www.dastra.eu

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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 record of processing is a first-class module built from templates, questionnaires or AI generation, and the data model visibly connects actors, security measures, assets, tasks and incidents — plus the pages explicitly pitch the external DPO steering all their clients as if they had only one, which is my exact practice. I found no public information showing DPIA triggers derived from the record or legal bases driving downstream artifacts, so the linkage stops short of a fully connected legal data model. 2 6 10 12

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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

Request intake is genuinely multi-channel with an automated email parser, no-code forms, a secure portal with requester chat and Jira tracking, and dashboards counting open, overdue and complex requests with average response times; the breach side has an exportable register, configurable deadlines per task, data-subject notification and an exportable activity feed. I found no public information on deletion execution tracking tied to the record of processing, on escalation automation, or on a ready authority-report output, which keeps it short of the end-to-end operational state. 8 9 12 13

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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

The Enterprise tier carries compliance management with GDPR, Europrivacy, UK GDPR and ISO 27001 as frameworks of choice, and the questionnaire engine spans LIA, DPIA, TIA, retention analyses, SAPIN 2 and multi-compliance packs. I found no public information showing one processing record mapping across regimes, per-country variants, or a documented update cadence, so each regime presents as a content pack rather than a shared data basis. 2 10

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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

There is an audit template library of sixteen templates filterable by tag, questionnaire reports that can be validated, published, exported and archived with spider charts and risk matrices, an Enterprise tier advertising evidence automation and custom reporting, and audit logs streaming to a SIEM in real time. Evidence automation is a label without published depth, and I found no public information on revision-safe change history or a defensible state-on-a-given-date answer, so a complete client-ready audit file still needs assembly work. 2 8 10 11 12

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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

This is estate-feeding infrastructure: a well-documented REST API built to OpenAPI 3.x, webhooks, SSO with SCIM and IP filtering, and seventeen integrations including Jira for request tracking, ServiceNow assets, SAP LeanIX applications, DocuSign signatures, INSEE lookups and a Zapier bridge to over three thousand apps. Against a top score, I found no public information on escalation paths or AI assistance with a human-review step. 1 12 13

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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

A French SAS registered in Créteil, ISO 27001 and 27701 certified, data stated as hosted in Europe with storage particularly in France, and a published subprocessor list with transfer safeguards is a credible base. The critical hosting chain runs through a US-headquartered provider within CLOUD Act reach, and I found no public information on ownership structure or named data centers. 4 5

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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

The pricing page names three tiers with user and legal-entity limits and a free trial, but the captured page carries no figures at all — the calls to action are "Ask for a demo" and "Request a quote from our teams". For a consultancy sizing thirty client mandates, the real invoice is entirely a sales conversation. 2 8

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European sovereignty — proven facts

2 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
Data residency Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors US CLOUD Act reach ⚠ unverified 0/2 pts 5 Report an error

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Sources (13)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage (EN) www.dastra.eu Checked 17 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor pricing page www.dastra.eu Checked 17 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Features overview www.dastra.eu Checked 17 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Legal notice/imprint www.dastra.eu Checked 17 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Privacy policy www.dastra.eu Checked 17 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Security / trust page www.dastra.eu Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap learn.dastra.eu Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Data subject rights & incidents — found from sitemap www.dastra.eu Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Data subject rights & incidents — found from sitemap www.dastra.eu Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.dastra.eu Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.dastra.eu Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap www.dastra.eu Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap www.dastra.eu Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →