# BIC GRC — Information Security

BIC GRC by GBTEC Software AG holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 3/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: GBTEC Software AG (https://www.gbtec.com)
- Category: [Information Security](https://whats-best.ai/software/information-security.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/information-security/bic-grc
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/information-security/bic-grc/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/information-security/bic-grc/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-21 · evaluated 2026-10-15 · oldest source captured 2026-10-13

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: GBTEC Software AG
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

BIC GRC from GBTEC Software AG took a flat 5 on controls and statement of applicability for an on-demand risk-control matrix, centralized and decentralized control selection, and adequacy and effectiveness assessment. Audit readiness followed at 4-6, and here the bench split: the Drafted IT Officer's 6 rewards day-to-day execution — multi-year programs, first/second/third-party tracking, one-click reports — while three judges held at 4 over the proof trail, finding no public information on revision-safe change history or evidence packs. The weak ground is framework coverage at 2-3: COSO II ERM is the only regime the pages name, the catalog is described as "all common control standards," and coverage rests on uploading your own guidelines and laws. Sovereignty scored 2-3 — the vendor presents as GBTEC Software AG with German and Austrian contact numbers, but we found no public information on hosting location, a DPA or subprocessors. Information security management at 4-5 shows a real risk engine — matrices up to Monte Carlo simulation, four treatment options — and no public information on incident handling. No public prices appear; a free trial and demo call do.

**Speaks for it:**
- Controls tied to risks through an on-demand risk-control matrix, with centralized and decentralized selection and adequacy and effectiveness assessment
- Multi-year audit programs with first-, second- and third-party tracking, automatically suggested results, one-click reports and automated notification of critical results to management
- Risk methodology scaling from a basic matrix to Monte Carlo simulation, with interdependency analysis and four treatment options
- Documented REST API with bidirectional exchange to ERP, CRM, EAM and RPA systems, naming SAP, LeanIX, UiPath and Microsoft
- Technology Risk Management linking IT components to business processes with business-criticality ratings

**Held against it:**
- The captured pages name only COSO II ERM and describe the shipped catalog as "all common control standards" without naming a single information-security regime
- We found no public information on incident workflows with statutory reporting clocks, protection-needs inheritance or a named risk methodology
- We found no public information on revision-safe change history, evidence packs or auditor access roles behind the generated audit reports
- We found no public information on hosting location, a data processing agreement or a subprocessor list
- The named connectors serve the process estate — we found no public information on directory import, SSO/SCIM, ticketing or automated evidence collection

**Best for:**
- You need controls wired to identified risks, with adequacy and effectiveness assessment and one measure reusable across multiple risks
- Your team plans multi-year internal audit programs across first-, second- and third-party audits and hands one-click reports to external auditors
- Your GRC work sits on top of an ERP, CRM, EAM or RPA landscape — SAP, LeanIX, UiPath, Microsoft — and you want bidirectional exchange with it

**Avoid if:**
- You are buying shipped framework content, since which catalogs arrive is not publicly established and the only named framework is COSO II ERM
- Your procurement requires hosting-location, data processing agreement and subprocessor terms in writing before buying, and the captured pages show only the vendor's German and Austrian identity signals
- You expect directory, ticketing, SSO/SCIM or automated evidence-collection connections, since the named connectors serve the process platform rather than the security estate

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The CISO | The GRC Consultant | The Drafted IT Officer | The Lead Auditor | The Evidence Integrator | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Asset & risk management depth | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 |
| Controls, SoA & measures | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Framework & standard coverage | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 |
| Audit readiness & evidence | 2/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Integrations & automation | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** |

### The judges

- **The CISO** (v1.0): Owns the ISO 27001 certificate and the NIS2 exposure of a 400-employee company. Optimizes for a real risk backbone: methodology, inheritance, incident clocks, a statement of applicability that is never stale. Rejects checklist theater and risk registers that cannot answer who accepted what.
- **The GRC Consultant** (v1.0): 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.
- **The Drafted IT Officer** (v1.1): 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.
- **The Lead Auditor** (v1.0): Certifies ISMSs for a living and has seen every folder of screenshots. Optimizes for revision-safe history, an SoA generated from live control status, and a defensible answer to "show me the state on date X". Rejects audit trails assembled the week before the audit.
- **The Evidence Integrator** (v1.0): Believes evidence that is typed is evidence that is stale. Optimizes for connectors to the live estate — directory, CMDB, ticketing, cloud — continuous control checks, and an API with parity to the UI. Rejects data islands with a CSV drawbridge.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.1): Hunts "100% audit success" claims, framework logos that link nowhere, "coming soon" integrations sold as shipped, consulting bundled as software, and customer counts that disagree between pages. Exists to keep the rest of the bench honest.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

No sovereignty finding yet.

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- ISO 19011 reference: content reference, not a certification claim · ISO 19011 · ISO 9001 · ISO 14001 [S7]

**Integrations**
- API workflow: API Integration via GBTEC Work Orchestrator [S9]
- Bidirectional exchange: ERP · CRM · EAM · RPA · yes [S9]
- Grc integration: Integrates audit results with other GRC areas (risk management, compliance) [S6]
- Leanix bidirectional: GBTEC for LeanIX · bi-directional [S9]
- Named systems: SAP · LeanIX · UiPath · Microsoft [S9]
- Process intelligence sap: GBTEC Process Intelligence for SAP [S9]
- Rest API: REST · plug-and-play [S9]
- Rpa work orchestrator: RPA Integration with GBTEC Work Orchestrator [S9]
- Sap bpm erp: GBTEC for SAP · BPM · ERP [S9]
- Sap realtime analysis: real-time analysis of SAP process execution [S9]

**Legal**
- Austria aktg gmbhg: Austria: Section 22 Para 1 GmbHG and Section 82 AktG oblige managing directors/board members to maintain an accounting and internal control system [S5]
- Austria ugb: Austria: Section 269 Paragraph 1 UGB requires audit of ICS accounting records [S5]
- Company name: GBTEC Software AG [S3]
- Entity: GBTEC Software AG · Gesundheitscampus-Süd 23, 44801 Bochum, Germany [S1]
- Entity: GBTEC Software AG [S4]
- Entity: GBTEC Software AG · Gesundheitscampus-Süd 23, 44801 Bochum, Germany [S5]
- Entity: GBTEC Software AG [S6]
- Entity: GBTEC Software AG · Gesundheitscampus-Süd 23, 44801 Bochum, Germany [S7]
- Entity: GBTEC Software AG · Gesundheitscampus-Süd 23, 44801 Bochum, Germany [S9]
- Entity address: Bochum · GBTEC Software AG · Gesundheitscampus-Süd 23 · Germany · 44801 [S2]
- Gartner recognition: Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Twin of an Organization Platforms [S6]
- Germany hgb: German Commercial Code (HGB) Sections 317, 321 and 322 relevant to ICS audits [S5]
- Germany idw ps261: IDW PS 261 is the German standard for auditing the internal control system [S5]
- Provenexpert rating: 5 · 4.46 · ProvenExpert · 233 [S7]
- Switzerland or: Switzerland: Article 728a OR requires companies to use an ICS for compliant financial statements [S5]

**Pricing**
- Trial available: Free trial offered [S6]

**Product**
- Action tracking: yes · yes [S3]
- Audit areas: Pre-defined audit areas and audit scheduling [S6]
- Audit customization: Audits customizable by methodology and classification [S6]
- Audit program planning: Multi-year audit program planning (one or more years) [S6]
- Audit report generation: One-click audit report generation [S6]
- Audit types: Supports system, process, product, and compliance audit types [S6]
- Auto generated results: Automatically generated audit result suggestions from findings [S6]
- Automated notifications: Automated notifications of critical audit results to management [S6]
- Benefits: automated workflow guidance and notifications [S3]
- Custom grc: customizable GRC solution · GBTEC Custom GRC [S7]
- Customer count claim: 2000 [S4]
- Customer counts: 2000 [S3]
- Customer quote controls: T-Systems International · 1400 · 900 [S4]
- Dashboards: Dashboards tracking pending and completed audits [S6]
- Deployment no install: yes · yes · yes [S3]
- Docs available: yes [S3]
- Document upload: Upload of guidelines, standards, laws, internal and external policies [S6]
- Enbw testimonial: EnBW · 85.25 [S3]
- External auditor support: Supports external auditors with reliable internal audit results [S6]
- Financial planning link: yes [S3]
- Findings documentation: Per-activity result documentation and compliance assessment [S6]
- Free trial cta: Demo call and free trial CTAs [S4]
- Gartner claim: GBTEC named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Twin of an Organization Platforms [S3]
- Gartner leader: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Twin of an Organization Platforms · Leader [S1]
- Gbtec custom grc: GBTEC Custom GRC offers flexible custom solutions tailored to unique processes [S5]
- Gbtec ics audit approach: GBTEC Internal Control uses a risk-oriented audit approach covering inherent risk, control risk, and detection risk [S5]
- Gbtec ics standard solution: GBTEC Internal Control is an out-of-the-box solution including all common control standards [S5]
- Grc risk simulation: Monte Carlo simulation in GRC Management [S1]
- Ics framework: COSO II ERM framework recommended as reference for building an ICS [S5]
- Ics integration risk management: yes · GBTEC Enterprise Risk · yes [S5]
- Ics risk recording: ICS enables recording, evaluating and managing risks related to documented processes [S5]
- Ics software advantages: automation of monitoring and control processes · real-time monitoring and comprehensive reporting · scalability · integration into business and risk management · control standardization for compliance · higher control quality and responsib… [S5]
- Interactive execution: Interactive guided audit execution for teams [S6]
- Internal audit capabilities: tailored audit reports · visualization of audit data insights · platform customization · integration with GRC processes [S7]
- Internal audit positioning: standardized, meets common standards, easy to implement [S7]
- Internal audit software: audit management software · GBTEC Internal Audit [S7]
- Internal control assessment: Assessment of control adequacy and effectiveness; actions to address findings [S4]
- Internal control benefits: automation and fast risk assessments · risk identification, assessment and control · ICS dashboards and risk control matrices · automated approval processes and workflows [S4]
- Internal control controls: Define and distribute control requirements; select centralized and decentralized controls for risks [S4]
- Internal control documentation: Documents process landscape, automatic import from GBTEC Process Design, links risks to documented processes [S4]
- Internal control risk control matrix: On-demand current risk-control matrix [S4]
- Internal control workflow integration: Integrated optimization of ICS and workflow organization [S4]
- Legal entity scope: Audits across all legal entities, business units, and processes [S6]
- Measure assignment: yes [S3]
- No installation: No software installation required [S6]
- Party audit tracking: Tracks first, second, and third-party audits in combined overview [S6]
- Platform modules: Process Design · Enterprise Architecture · Work Orchestrator · Process Intelligence · GRC Management [S1]
- Process design capabilities: AI-powered process mapping · intelligent error detection · process simulation · process portal [S1]
- Realtime monitoring: real-time monitoring of risks and controls with automated alerts and notifications [S7]
- Recommendations: audit findings linked to actionable recommendations [S7]
- Report 2025: Global Process Excellence and AI-Readiness Report 2025 based on 600 leaders [S1]
- Reporting visualization: audit results converted into reports and visualizations [S7]
- Risk analysis: 360-degree risk analysis with interdependency analysis and classification against Compliance, Security, ESG, ICS [S3]
- Risk assessment: yes · yes [S3]
- Risk reporting: wide range of reporting options, reports and graphics, integration into existing reporting tools [S3]
- Risk treatment: avoidance · reduction · acceptance · transfer [S3]
- Simulation apps: portfolio simulation · scenario analysis · stress tests · multi-year projections [S3]
- Simulation reliability: simulation-based risk and opportunity assessment with risk portfolio overview [S3]
- Standards workflows: Workflows supported by common norms and standards [S6]
- Time savings claim: 40 [S3]
- Trial: Free test offered [S4]
- Trial attributes: fast process automation · no software installation · full functional range · highest security standards · efficient collaboration · reliable goal achievement [S4]
- Trial available: yes · yes [S3]
- Trm business criticality assessment: Assesses functional relevance and business-criticality of each IT component to reduce redundant applications [S2]
- Trm collaboration: Enables IT and business team collaboration with accessible risk insights [S2]
- Trm definition: TRM is a capability within GBTEC Enterprise Architecture for identifying risks, prioritizing actions, and safeguarding against security gaps, compliance issues and disruptions [S2]
- Trm risk visualization in strategy: Risks can be visualized and integrated into strategic planning [S2]
- Trm trials: yes · yes [S2]
- Trm vendor recognition: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Twin of an Organization Platforms · Leader [S2]
- Trm visualization: Visualizes technology components, applications and links to business processes for proactive risk assessments [S2]
- Trust rating: 4.46 · 233 [S3]

**Support**
- Docs: yes [S4]
- Provenexpert rating: 233 · 4.46 · ProvenExpert [S2]
- User documentation: User documentation available [S6]

## Questions

### Is BIC GRC European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where BIC GRC is based.

### Where does BIC GRC store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### Does BIC GRC have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to BIC GRC?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates [6clicks (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/information-security/6clicks), [preeco | informationssicherheit (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/information-security/preeco-informationssicherheit) and [Secfix (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/information-security/secfix) highest among the other 26 Information Security products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [preeco | informationssicherheit](https://whats-best.ai/software/information-security/preeco-informationssicherheit) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [BIC GRC alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/information-security/bic-grc/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 16 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor page: https://www.gbtec.com (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap: https://www.gbtec.com/solutions/technology-risk-management/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap: https://www.gbtec.com/software/gbtec-grc-management/gbtec-enterprise-risk/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Controls, SoA & measures — found from sitemap: https://www.gbtec.com/software/gbtec-grc-management/gbtec-internal-control/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Controls, SoA & measures — found from sitemap: https://www.gbtec.com/wiki/grc/internal-control-system/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap: https://www.gbtec.com/software/gbtec-grc-management/gbtec-internal-audit/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap: https://www.gbtec.com/wiki/grc/audit-management/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Integrations & automation — found from sitemap: https://www.gbtec.com/software/integrations/api-integration/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S9] Integrations & automation — found from sitemap: https://www.gbtec.com/software/integrations/ (checked 2026-10-13)

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