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Category median

Sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven

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

by DataCo GmbH · www.dataguard.de

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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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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

There is a real core here: structured asset register with owners, tags, dependency visualization and asset-risk linking, a risk distribution matrix, and treatment tracking through tasks with progress and remediation guidance. But I found no public information on a documented risk methodology, inherited protection needs across asset relations, or incident workflows with statutory NIS2 reporting clocks — incident handling surfaces only as a configurable workflow and a module name, which lands this at the workable-core level, not a certifier-grade risk backbone. 3 8 9 16

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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

Measures live in one central place, the same measure links to multiple frameworks, implementation status carries clear responsibilities, effectiveness is assessed, and evidence is mapped to requirements automatically — that is the answer-a-control-once model that makes client twelve cheaper than client one. What holds it below the top band: the SoA material I found explains what a SoA must contain rather than showing the product generating it from live status, and I found no public information on internal audit workflows, findings management, or delegation and escalation. 8 10 11

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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

ISO 27001, TISAX, NIS2, DSGVO and the EU AI Act cover the major German-market regimes, and the cross-mapping is genuine: asset management maps to measures from ISO 27001, NIS2 and TISAX, one measure serves several frameworks, a preconfigured NIS2 framework exists, and the vendor publishes an NIS2-to-ISO 27001:2022 mapping guide. I found no public information on SOC 2, DORA or BSI IT-Grundschutz, and the ready-made measures library leads with ISO 27001 with further frameworks announced as coming — five regimes with real but partial mapping, not a living multi-compliance product. 3 9 10 13

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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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Automated, shareable reports in minutes, real-time dashboards for compliance gaps, evidence auto-assigned to requirements, and a customer case citing 140+ evidence artifacts for a TISAX assessment — that is the report-generator-plus-attachments level I can work with, and the customer outcomes suggest it functions. I found no public information on revision-safe change history, auditor access roles, or audit-scoped evidence packs on demand, and nothing that answers the auditor's question of state on a given date. 10 12 14 16

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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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An API with its own documentation surface, preconfigured connectors for Jira, Asana, Azure asset updates and CRM consent data, real-time synchronization across integrated tools, and AI-assisted automation — a handful of native connectors around a core API. I found no public information on directory import, SSO/SCIM, webhooks, CMDB or scanner feeds, and the automation claims are headline percentages (up to 40 per cent of tasks) rather than automated evidence tests against the live estate. 1 8 16

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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

A German GmbH with a proper imprint, register entry and a privacy policy that relies on SCCs for recipients outside the EU — the entity is clean, but a UK office and acquisition history sit alongside that. I found no public information on hosting location, named data centers, a subprocessor list, or a downloadable DPA and TOMs, so the subprocessor exposure behind a system holding my clients' risk registers is undocumented. 5 6 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 GRC Consultant

Three named tiers — Base, Pro, Enterprise — each behind a request-a-quote button, with no public numbers anywhere on the pricing page; a 'no hidden costs' slogan is not a price. The only figures anywhere are percentage claims such as up to 50 per cent cheaper than external consultants, so the real invoice is a sales conversation in every configuration. 2 4 9

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European sovereignty — proven facts

1 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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  1. 1 Vendor homepage (DE) www.dataguard.de Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 ISO 27001 framework page www.dataguard.de Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 NIS2 framework page www.dataguard.de Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Vendor pricing page www.dataguard.de Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 About page www.dataguard.de Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Imprint www.dataguard.de Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Privacy policy www.dataguard.de Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap www.dataguard.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap www.dataguard.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Controls, SoA & measures — found from sitemap www.dataguard.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Controls, SoA & measures — found from sitemap www.dataguard.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Framework & standard coverage — found from sitemap www.dataguard.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Framework & standard coverage — found from sitemap www.dataguard.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.dataguard.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.dataguard.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  16. 16 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap www.dataguard.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  17. 17 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap www.dataguard.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →