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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 Lead Auditor

Weighted verdict

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.

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Scored by The Lead Auditor

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 Lead Auditor

The asset register with owners, tagging, bulk import and asset-to-risk linking, plus a risk distribution matrix, pre-built risk and measure libraries and mitigation tracking with assigned tasks, is a working asset-and-risk core. Incident handling appears only as configurable workflows and a security-incidents module, and we found no public information on statutory reporting clocks (NIS2 24h/72h), a documented risk methodology, or inheritance of protection needs across the visualized asset dependencies. 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 Lead Auditor

Measures live in a central place with owner and status tracking, effectiveness assessment, task linking, automatic evidence assignment and reuse of the same measure across frameworks — more than a status-field checklist. The SoA material we saw is guidance about what the standard demands rather than a product feature, and we found no public information on SoA generation from live control status, delegation and escalation, or internal-audit workflows with findings management. 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 Lead Auditor

The major regimes for its market are present — DSGVO, ISO 27001:2022, TISAX, NIS2 and EU AI Act — with one-measure-many-frameworks linking, asset management mapped to ISO 27001, NIS2 and TISAX measures, a preconfigured NIS2 framework and a published NIS2-to-ISO 27001 mapping. We found no public information on DORA, BSI IT-Grundschutz or SOC 2, and the measures page states further frameworks are coming soon, so coverage beyond ISO 27001 reads as content packs rather than broad current coverage. 3 7 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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The Lead Auditor

Automated custom reports, real-time dashboards for gaps and planned activities, automatic capture and storage of compliance documentation, per-requirement evidence assignment and a case study citing 140+ evidence artifacts for a TISAX audit give standard report generators and evidence per control. We found no public information on revision-safe change history in the platform, audit-scoped evidence packs on demand, auditor access roles, or reconstructing the state on a past date; the versioning text we saw describes the standard's demands on documents rather than a platform feature. 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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The Lead Auditor

Native connectors are evidenced for Jira and Asana (setup in under 15 minutes), automated Azure asset updates and CRM consent data with continuous real-time synchronisation, alongside an APIs entry, AI-assisted automation and real-time vulnerability detection on assets. We found no public information on directory import (AD/Entra), CMDB, ServiceNow-class ticketing, webhooks, SSO/SCIM, or automated evidence tests with human review. 8 9 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 Lead Auditor

The vendor is a German GmbH with a Munich imprint, commercial register entry and a named DPO contact, but we found no public information on where the platform hosting the risk register resides, on subprocessors, or on a published DPA and TOMs. The privacy policy discloses standard contractual clauses for recipients outside the EU/EEA, and the company runs a London office after acquiring a UK consent business, so non-European jurisdictional reach is plausible while remaining undocumented in the captured pages. 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 Lead Auditor

All three plans — Base, Pro and Enterprise — end in 'Angebot anfordern' (request a quote), and we found no public price figures, billing periods or module prices anywhere. The only public numbers are relative claims such as up to 50 percent cheaper than external consultants, plus a 'no hidden costs' slogan on a demo form, none of which let a buyer compute a real invoice. 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.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency Not determined — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined — uncited Report an error

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Sources (17)

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

  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 →