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Category median

Sovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven

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

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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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Scored by The GRC Consultant

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

The risk backbone is real where it counts for the German market — the risk analysis follows BSI-Standard 200-3 and 100-3 with measure proposals off the Grundschutz cross-reference tables, and Grundschutz and BCM risk results consolidate in one tool through to IT implementation. What I miss is the incident side: we found no public information on incident workflows or statutory reporting clocks, nor on inherited protection needs across asset relations or risk acceptance with named ownership. 2 7 8

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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 draw from several catalogs — Grundschutz, compliance guidelines, the Standard-Datenschutz-Modell — assigned once and routed automatically to the correct recipients, which is exactly the answer-once discipline I build catalogs around. Kompendium updates arrive as versioned content with carried-over ratings and a re-assessment filter for changed requirements. We found no public information on statement-of-applicability generation on demand or measure delegation with escalation. 3 2 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

For its home market the core regimes are genuinely operational — full support for BSI-Standard 200-1/200-2/200-3, certification support for ISO 27001 and 22301, and the data protection module reusing Grundschutz measures for GDPR work, so one measure serves several regimes. Catalog maintenance is visible and serious: parallel Kompendium editions, carried ratings, and active Grundschutz++/OSCAL preparation. We found no public information on NIS2, DORA, TISAX or SOC 2 as content, which caps multi-regime breadth. 3 4 2 9 10

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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 GRC Consultant

Everything relevant is captured centrally and documented revision-safe, audits run per ISO 19011 with annual plans grouped by audit programme, and mobile applications collect evidence on site with photos and notes — that is the standing-audit-file shape I want to hand a certifier. Reports state the underlying Kompendium edition and prior editions remain reproducible, with ad-hoc reporting for management. We found no public information on dedicated auditor access roles or exportable audit-scoped evidence packs. 10 11 12

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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 GRC Consultant

Data comes in from the real estate — GSTOOL, CMDB and Excel import plus a dynamic XML interface for live binding, with a DataExchange extension for database connections — and decentralized questionnaires flow through a validation process straight into the database. The low-code model lets a customer extend the data model without programming. We found no public information on a REST API, directory or SSO integration, ticketing connectors, or automated evidence testing with human review. 3 2 11

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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 in Berlin, SaaS data stored in data centers within Germany with an on-premise variant at equal feature set, development and support 100 percent in Germany, named subprocessors with Article 28 contracts, and a federal SaaS offering via ITZBund — that is about as German as deployment gets. The product data centers are not individually named, and webinar registrations run through an Irish GoTo entity whose processing the privacy policy concedes occurs in a third country under the Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses. 4 5 6 2

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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

We found no public prices at all on the captured pages — no edition, module or user figures anywhere — and even the audit-management product sheet is offered only on request, so every configuration begins with a sales conversation. 11 3

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European sovereignty — proven facts

2 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 EU only ⚠ unverified 3/3 pts 6 Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

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Sources (12)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.hiscout.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 23 Aug 2026 Details →
  2. 2 IT-Grundschutz module page www.hiscout.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 23 Aug 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Data protection module page www.hiscout.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 About page www.hiscout.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Imprint www.hiscout.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Privacy policy www.hiscout.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 24 Aug 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap www.hiscout.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap www.hiscout.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Framework & standard coverage — found from sitemap www.hiscout.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Framework & standard coverage — found from sitemap www.hiscout.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.hiscout.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.hiscout.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →