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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 Drafted IT Officer

Weighted verdict

SME IT admin who became the information security officer by an email from management. Optimizes for guided setup, sane defaults, plain-language controls and a tool that runs alongside the day job. Rejects platforms that assume a security team and a consultant on retainer.

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

Scored by The Drafted IT Officer

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 Drafted IT Officer

Central assets with visual Schutzbedarf determination and matrices that fit my methodology, plus revision-safe incident workflows with task assignment — that's the Grundschutz-flavoured backbone I can actually follow, from a licensed BSI IT-Grundschutz tool vendor. But the evidence is silent on NIS2 24h/72h statutory clocks, risk acceptance with named ownership, and protection-need inheritance across asset relations (only tenant inheritance is evidenced), so it sits between rubric level 5 and 8. 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 Drafted IT Officer

Measures are generated with a review step, run through task/workflow management with multi-stage approval, and there's a dedicated Audit module; the BSI licence means the Grundschutz catalogs live in the tool rather than a consultant's spreadsheet. What's missing is any evidence of on-demand SoA generation, controls linked to risks, or findings management — that's the gap between checklist operation and rubric level 8, and the evidence doesn't show it. 1 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 Drafted IT Officer

Seventeen regimes including NIS-2, DORA, VDA ISA, the full BSI 200-x stack, C5 and PCI DSS, from a licensed BSI IT-Grundschutz tool vendor, with weekly releases (217 updates in 2024) showing the content is maintained rather than frozen. One-control-many-frameworks mapping is only hinted at via 'logically linked data records' and never stated, which is what keeps this below rubric level 8. 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, 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 Drafted IT Officer

One-click reports for management or auditors, a real-time risk dashboard, revision-safe incident documentation and an audit trail — as someone who dreads assembling binder evidence, that's genuinely reassuring. But there's no evidence of auditor access roles, audit-scoped evidence packs, or an answer to 'show me the state on date X', so rubric level 8 territory stays unevidenced. 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 Drafted IT Officer

A dozen named connectors including Jira, ServiceNow, omnitracker and Matrix42 — the ITSM/CMDB world my estate already lives in — plus custom connectors on request, SSO, MFA and autoprovisioning. No documented REST API or webhooks appear anywhere, and the AI generates content for human review rather than automatically collecting evidence from the estate, so it stops short of rubric level 8. 3 1

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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 Drafted IT Officer

Substantively clean: EU-only hosting on STACKIT in DE/AT with infrastructure under German jurisdiction, Austrian and German registered entities, 100% development in AT and DE, and a vendor with its own ISO 27001 certificate. The paper trail is what's missing — no public DPA and no subprocessor list anywhere in the evidence, which rubric level 8 requires before I'd sign anything. 3 5 4

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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 Drafted IT Officer

The only public offering is a free demo button and a free NIS-2 questionnaire; no edition, module or user price appears anywhere, so every real configuration is a sales conversation. That's rubric level 0 exactly — I know unpublished pricing is the norm in this market, but I still can't put a number in next year's budget from this. 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 →