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Akarion GRC Cloud (ISMS)

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Sovereignty: 3 of 4 dimensions proven

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 GRC Consultant

Weighted verdict

Builds and runs ISMSs for a dozen clients at once. Optimizes for reusable control catalogs, multi-framework mapping that answers a control once, and templates that make client twelve cheaper than client one. Rejects single-tenant tools and frameworks bolted on as checklists.

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Scored by The GRC Consultant

Asset & risk management depth

How this is scored

The ISMS core: asset inventory, risk methodology (identification, assessment, treatment), protection-needs inheritance, incident handling with statutory clocks.

0 — No ISMS substance; "information security" is a chapter in the marketing site.

3 — A flat risk list and an asset spreadsheet import; no treatment tracking, no inheritance, incidents live in the ticket system.

5 — Asset and risk management with configurable matrices and treatment tracking; basic incident handling; inheritance and aggregation need manual work.

8 — A real risk backbone: documented methodology (ISO 27005 or equivalent), inherited protection needs across asset relations, incident workflows with statutory reporting clocks (NIS2 24h/72h), risk acceptance with ownership.

10 — Risk management a certifier works inside: complete asset-risk-treatment chain with inheritance, continuity planning, incident reporting with authority export, and risk reporting the executive level actually reads.

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The GRC Consultant

Central asset management with visual protection-need determination, customizable matrices, and structured incident handling with task assignment and revision-safe documentation clears the 5-anchor with the task/approval workflows standing in for treatment tracking. But nothing evidences protection-need inheritance across asset relations, NIS2 24h/72h statutory clocks, or risk acceptance with named owners, so the 8-anchor risk backbone is not shown. 1 2

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Controls, SoA & measures

How this is scored

Control catalogs, statement of applicability, measure tracking and internal audit — whether the control side of the ISMS is operable or a checklist.

0 — A static control checklist; applicability, implementation status and evidence are the consultant's spreadsheet.

3 — Control catalogs with status fields, but no SoA generation, no measure ownership, no link between controls and risks.

5 — Controls linked to risks and measures with owners and due dates; SoA producible with manual assembly; internal audit supported by checklists.

8 — SoA on demand from live control status, measure tracking with delegation and escalation, internal audit workflows with findings management, controls carrying their own evidence.

10 — The control fabric as a living system: catalog updates versioned, SoA always current, audit programs with recurring schedules, and every control answerable with linked evidence at any moment.

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The GRC Consultant

A licensed BSI IT-Grundschutz tool provider must run an operable control fabric, and 'logisch verknüpfte Datensätze' with AI-generated risks, measures and audits plus multi-stage approvals point to linked controls-measures with owners. But SoA generation on demand, findings management in the audit module, and controls carrying their own evidence are nowhere evidenced — I won't certify a checklist as a living system. 1 2 3

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Framework & standard coverage

How this is scored

Which regimes the product actually operationalizes — ISO 27001, NIS2, TISAX/VDA ISA, DORA, BSI IT-Grundschutz, SOC 2 — and whether one control maps across them or each framework is a fresh island.

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

3 — Two or three frameworks as separate checklists; the same control is answered once per framework.

5 — The major regimes for its market with partial cross-mapping; newer regimes (NIS2, DORA) present as content packs of varying depth.

8 — Broad current coverage including NIS2/TISAX/DORA where relevant, one-control-many-frameworks mapping, and visible maintenance as regimes evolve.

10 — Framework coverage as a living product: dozens of regimes, genuine multi-compliance mapping on one data basis, per-industry profiles, and documented update cadence when the standard moves.

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The GRC Consultant

Seventeen regimes including NIS2, DORA, VDA ISA, the full BSI 200-x stack, B3S sector profiles and PCI DSS with 217 updates in 2024 is the German-market depth rubric level 8 describes, plus sector profiles. The one thing my dozen-client practice needs — explicit one-control-many-frameworks mapping so a control is answered once — is never stated, only implied by 'logically linked' records, so I dock it. 1 2 3

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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, evidence attachments per control; assembling a full audit file still takes days.

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

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

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The GRC Consultant

One-click reports for management and auditors, a real-time risk view, revision-safe incident documentation, an audit trail and granular roles go beyond report generators, and a dedicated Audit module exists. No evidence of per-control evidence packs, auditor access roles, or a 'show me the state on date X' reconstruction — assembling a full audit file still smells like days of work. 1 2 3

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Integrations & automation

How this is scored

Whether the platform feeds from the real IT estate — directory import, CMDB, ticketing, scanners, API — and automates evidence collection 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, CMDB or SSO); automation is reminders and recurrence.

8 — Real connector set (Jira/ServiceNow-class ticketing, CMDB, cloud and endpoint sources), webhooks, SSO/SCIM, automated evidence tests with human review.

10 — The platform behaves like infrastructure: API parity for the data model, event streams, continuous control monitoring against the live estate, and automation that measurably removes the recurring toil rather than renaming it.

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The GRC Consultant

A thirteen-connector list with Jira, ServiceNow, Matrix42 and omnitracker, custom connectors on request, SSO and autoprovisioning is a genuine estate-facing connector set, not CSV theater. But no documented REST API, webhooks, directory import or scanner feeds appear anywhere, so automated evidence collection against the live estate — the thing that removes recurring toil — is unevidenced. 1 3

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the security posture of the whole company actually lives and under whose law — entity, hosting, subprocessors, DPA. The risk register is itself a target.

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

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 GRC Consultant

EU end to end in substance: Akarion GmbH (Linz) as 100% subsidiary of Akarion AG (Munich) with registers and jurisdictions, EU-only hosting at STACKIT in DE/AT, development 100% in AT/DE, and a German/Austrian jurisdiction statement. The captured pages show no published DPA, subprocessor list or TOMs — for the system holding my clients' risk registers that documentation is what rubric level 8 demands and doesn't get. 1 3 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, scale steps 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 certification project is a two-minute exercise.

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The GRC Consultant

A free-demo CTA and a public five-module list are the only buying aids; not one price, edition, scale step, user boundary or setup fee is published, so the invoice is a sales conversation. That is anchor-0 territory, softened one point because the enumerable module structure at least tells a buyer what to ask about. 1

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European sovereignty — proven facts

3 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.

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Data residency EU only ⚠ unverified 3/3 pts 7 Report an error
Subprocessors EU only ⚠ unverified 2/2 pts 1 Report an error

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Sources (11)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage akarion.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 ISMS module page akarion.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Platform overview page akarion.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 About page akarion.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Imprint akarion.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Privacy policy akarion.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap akarion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Framework & standard coverage — found from sitemap akarion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Framework & standard coverage — found from sitemap akarion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap akarion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap akarion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →