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

by GBTEC Software AG · www.gbtec.com

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BIC GRC at a glance

Vendor
GBTEC Software AG
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates BIC GRC 2/5, the mean of 6 judges. 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. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 13 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 15 Oct 2026. all sources

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

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

Panel median The Drafted IT Officer This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Drafted IT Officer
Asset & risk management depth 2.5 of 5 2.5 of 5
Controls, SoA & measures 2.5 of 5 2.5 of 5
Framework & standard coverage 1 of 5 1.5 of 5
Audit readiness & evidence 2.5 of 5 3 of 5
Integrations & automation 2.5 of 5 2.5 of 5
European sovereignty 1 of 5 1 of 5

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

Enterprise Risk shows a real risk engine — risk matrix scaling up to Monte Carlo simulation, treatment choices covering avoidance through acceptance, interdependency analysis, and automated action tracking with reminders — and Technology Risk Management ties applications to business processes with business-criticality ratings. What I found no public information on: incident workflows with statutory reporting clocks such as NIS2's 24/72-hour deadlines, protection-needs inheritance across asset relations, or a named risk methodology. The risk half looks genuinely operable for a one-person security office; the incident half is a question mark I'd have to raise in the demo. 2 3 5

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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

Controls are linked to risks with a risk-control matrix at the push of a button, centralized and decentralized control selection, adequacy and effectiveness assessments, and measures assignable to multiple risks with reminders to those in charge; Internal Control ships with what the vendor calls all common control standards. I found no public information on statement-of-applicability generation or catalog versioning, so an SoA looks like manual assembly. The control fabric is more than a checklist, but the SoA question — the one my auditor asks first — goes unanswered on these pages. 3 4 5

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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

The captured pages name COSO II ERM as a reference and describe workflows supported by common norms and standards, with risks classifiable across compliance, security, ESG and ICS. Beyond that I found no public information naming ISO 27001, NIS2, TISAX, DORA or BSI IT-Grundschutz, and no evidence that one control answer maps across several frameworks. "All common control standards" is a claim I cannot check against a list, and for someone buying content rather than software, that is the whole ballgame. 5 6

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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

Internal audit is the strongest showing: multi-year audit program planning, guided execution, per-activity result documentation, findings turned into suggested results automatically, one-click reports, dashboards, and automated notification of critical results to management, with explicit support for external auditors. I found no public information on revision-safe change history, audit-scoped evidence packs or auditor access roles — the pieces that answer "show me the state on date X". Running audits day to day looks genuinely workable; the defensible-proof side is what the pages do not show. 6 7

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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 REST API billed as plug-and-play plus bidirectional exchange with ERP, CRM, EAM and RPA systems, with SAP, LeanIX, UiPath and Microsoft named, is a real connector story. It is process-estate shaped rather than security-estate shaped: I found no public information on directory import from AD or Entra, SSO, Jira- or ServiceNow-class ticketing, CMDB feeds or automated evidence collection. Automation here means reminders, approval workflows and RPA — my re-typing goes away, my evidence gathering does not. 3 9

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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

The vendor presents as German (GBTEC Software AG, German and Austrian contact numbers), which is a reasonable start. But I found no public information on hosting locations or named data centers, a published DPA, or a subprocessor list — and the risk register itself is exactly the data I need jurisdictional answers for before it goes anywhere. Until those pages exist, I am asking in the sales call rather than reading it up front. 1 7

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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 pages show a demo call and a cost-free trial, and on prices I found no public information at all: no edition figures, no module prices, no user or entity boundaries. The real invoice is computable only through a sales conversation. 3 4

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Questions about BIC GRC

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), preeco | informationssicherheit (3.5/5) and Secfix (3.5/5) 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 (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: BIC GRC alternatives.

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What we left out

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Sources (9)

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

  1. 1 Vendor page www.gbtec.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap www.gbtec.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap www.gbtec.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Controls, SoA & measures — found from sitemap www.gbtec.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Controls, SoA & measures — found from sitemap www.gbtec.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.gbtec.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.gbtec.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap www.gbtec.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap www.gbtec.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →