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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 Skeptic

Weighted verdict

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.

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

Scored by The Skeptic

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 Skeptic

The asset side is real: a structured register with bulk import, owners, tags and dependency visualization, risks linked to assets and driven through mitigation tasks with a distribution matrix and real-time dashboards. We found no public information on a documented risk methodology, on inherited protection needs across those asset relations, or on incident workflows carrying statutory reporting clocks; incident handling surfaces as a configurable workflow and an entry in the privacy module list. 8 9 16 10

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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 Skeptic

Measures carry owners, implementation status, effectiveness checks, reuse across frameworks and automatic evidence assignment — more than a checklist. But the statement-of-applicability content on the site is educational guide text about versioning duties, we found no public information on generating a SoA from live control status or on internal audit workflows with findings management, and part of the expert measure library is marked available only after release. 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 Skeptic

Five regimes for its German market — DSGVO, ISO 27001, TISAX, NIS2 and the EU AI Act — with genuine reuse of one measure across frameworks and a published NIS2-to-ISO 27001 mapping table. We found no public information on DORA, BSI IT-Grundschutz or SOC 2, no documented update cadence when a standard moves, and the measures page itself says further frameworks are coming soon. 13 10 9

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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 Skeptic

Automated reports, real-time gap dashboards, an audit-ready inventory and automatically assigned evidence are the standard toolkit, and one customer case cites 140-plus evidence artifacts for a six-month TISAX build. The repeat claim that every customer passed external ISO 27001 and TISAX audits on the first attempt is stated without a denominator, and, separately, the reporting pages note their figures rest on internal estimates. Beyond this, we found no public information on revision-safe change history, on-demand audit-scoped evidence packs, or auditor access roles. 12 14 10 9

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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 Skeptic

Named connectors are real: automated Azure asset updates, CRM consent data, Asana and Jira in under fifteen minutes, preconfigured integrations and continuous sync — past the CSV stage. The API, though, appears only as a navigation label with no documented endpoints or data model shown, automation is sold as up to 40% of all tasks, and we found no public information on directory import, CMDB, ticketing beyond project tools, SSO/SCIM or webhooks. 16 8 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 Skeptic

The vendor is a German GmbH with a Munich register entry, a named data protection officer, and a privacy policy that leans on standard contractual clauses for third-country recipients — a clause you only need if such recipients exist. We found no public information on where the platform holding the risk register is hosted, on ownership, or on any subprocessor list, so that exposure remains unquantified. 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 Skeptic

Every plan — Base, Pro and Enterprise — offers nothing but 'Angebot anfordern', so no public price exists anywhere to compute an invoice from. The Pro tier blends an external information security officer, data migration and expert support into the software quote rather than separating services from the platform, and a 'keine versteckten Kosten' line on the demo section does the work a number would. 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 →