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

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Asset & risk management depth

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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 CISO

A 'Dynamic Risk Register & Treatment' and a one-line 'automated risk assessments' claim are all the risk backbone evidence there is: no asset inventory, no documented methodology, no protection-needs inheritance, and no incident handling — the only 24-hour target anywhere is ISMS.online's own privacy promise about their breach, not a product feature for mine. Above a flat list, nowhere near a certifier-grade ISMS core. 2 5 4

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The GRC Consultant

There is a 'Dynamic Risk Register & Treatment' and a claim of automated risk assessments, so treatment tracking exists — above the flat-list floor. But the evidence shows no asset inventory, no risk methodology, no protection-needs inheritance, and no incident workflows with statutory clocks; NIS2 appears only as a domain label, and the quoted 24-hour breach target is ISMS.online's own privacy-policy promise about their handling, not a product feature. 2 4 5 1

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The Drafted IT Officer

A dynamic risk register with treatment plus 'automated risk assessments and real-time monitoring' is more than a flat list, and the risk-policy-evidence link updating together is welcome. But the evidence never mentions an asset inventory, a documented risk methodology, protection-needs inheritance, or any incident workflow with reporting clocks — a big silence for an ISO 27001 platform, so it sits below the 5 anchor. 2 5 1

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The Lead Auditor

A "Dynamic Risk Register & Treatment" and "automated risk assessments" clear the flat-list bar, but the evidence evidences no asset inventory, no risk methodology, no protection-needs inheritance and no incident workflows with statutory clocks — the only 24h figure is the vendor's own breach promise about itself. That is a register with treatment tracking and nothing behind it a certifier can trace. 2 5 1

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The Evidence Integrator

The evidence shows a 'Dynamic Risk Register & Treatment' and an 'automated risk assessments' marketing line, but nothing on asset inventory, a documented risk methodology, protection-needs inheritance, or incident workflows with statutory clocks — the only '24 hours' quote is the vendor's own breach-notification promise about itself, not a customer-facing feature. 2 4 5

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The Skeptic

A "Dynamic Risk Register & Treatment" clears the flat-list bar, but nothing in the evidence evidences an asset inventory, a documented risk methodology, inherited protection needs, or incident workflows with statutory clocks — the only 24-hour figure on record is the vendor's own privacy-policy promise, not a product feature. The supply-chain module gestures at third-party risk; the ISMS core stops at register-plus-treatment. 2 5 1

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Controls, SoA & measures

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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 CISO

Pre-configured ISO 27001 controls at an 81% headstart, plus policy version history, approval workflow, owner assignment, review reminders and automatic mapping to standards give real measure ownership — but the evidence is entirely silent on SoA generation, internal audit workflows and findings management. That is a templated control toolkit I would have to assemble and audit around, not a living control fabric. 2 1

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The GRC Consultant

Pre-configured control templates with owner assignment, review reminders, version history and approval workflow, plus the claim that updating a risk, policy or evidence ripples across the platform, gives me measures with owners and a live linkage story. Missing for a five or an eight: no SoA generation anywhere in the evidence, no internal audit or findings workflows, and no evidence that controls carry their own evidence. 2 5 1

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The Drafted IT Officer

Pre-configured control templates, version history, approval workflow, automatic mapping to standards and owner assignment with review reminders are defaults a one-person security function can live with. But 'SoA' appears nowhere in the evidence, nor measure tracking, internal audit workflows or findings management — the control side reads as templated documents rather than an operable system. 2 1

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The Lead Auditor

Pre-configured control templates with owner assignment, review reminders and version history lift this above a consultant spreadsheet, but the evidence is silent on SoA generation from live status, measure delegation, internal audit workflows and findings management. "Automatic mapping to standards" appears as a policy feature, not evidence of a control fabric answering for itself. 2 1

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The Evidence Integrator

Pre-configured control templates with version history, approval workflow, owner assignment and automatic mapping to standards clear the checklist bar, and 'update a risk, a policy or a piece of evidence, and the rest of the platform reflects it instantly' hints at real linkage. But the evidence is completely silent on SoA generation, internal audit workflows, findings management and delegation — content packs, not an operable control fabric. 2 1

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The Skeptic

Policy versioning, approval workflows, owner assignment and review reminders are genuine document management, and controls ship as pre-configured templates with claimed automatic mapping to standards. But the SoA — in the criterion's own name — appears nowhere: no SoA generation, no measure delegation or escalation, no internal audit workflow or findings management anywhere in the evidence. 2 1

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Framework & standard coverage

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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 CISO

100+ frameworks with NIS 2 named in the resilience loop alongside ISO 27001/27701/42001, SOC 2 and GDPR is genuine breadth, but TISAX, DORA and BSI IT-Grundschutz never appear, and 'automatic mapping to standards' is the only cross-mapping evidence with no documented update cadence as regimes move. Breadth is claimed more than it is evidenced as multi-compliance on one data basis. 2 1 3

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The GRC Consultant

100+ frameworks including ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, SOC 2, GDPR, NIS2 and the EU AI Act is real breadth, and ISO 27001:2022 is the current version on their framework page. But 'automatic mapping to standards' attaches to policies, not to a one-control-many-frameworks answer, and TISAX, DORA and BSI IT-Grundschutz are absent — I can't credit the cross-compliance mapping that makes client twelve cheaper than client one. 2 5 1

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The Drafted IT Officer

100+ frameworks including ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, SOC 2 and GDPR with NIS 2 named in the domain list, plus current ISO 27001:2022 content, is broad coverage in one platform. Cross-framework mapping rests on one 'automatic mapping to standards' claim for policies, and there is no TISAX/DORA/Grundschutz or documented update cadence, so it falls short of the 8-10 anchors. 2 5 1

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The Lead Auditor

Over 100 frameworks with NIS2, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27701 and ISO 42001 named is broad by any measure, and the unified-platform claim suggests one data basis. But TISAX, DORA and BSI IT-Grundschutz never appear, and no documented update cadence exists in the evidence — I cannot credit maintenance I cannot see. 2 3 1

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The Evidence Integrator

100+ frameworks claimed consistently across sources, with NIS 2, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 42001, EU AI Act and NIST named inside one platform pitch plus localized ISO 27001 content — genuine breadth. What I don't get is proof that one control answer maps across regimes on one data basis rather than 100 fresh islands, nor any evidence of update cadence or per-industry profiles. 2 3 1

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The Skeptic

"100+ frameworks" is asserted identically on three pages with no framework list behind it — and GDPR is being counted as a framework — while what is actually named is ISO 27001/27701/42001, SOC 2, NIS2, EU AI Act and NIST. That's the major regimes as content packs of unverified depth; TISAX, DORA and BSI IT-Grundschutz are absent, and one-control-many-frameworks mapping is implied ("manage everything in one place") but never demonstrated as a mechanism. 2 3 1

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Audit readiness & evidence

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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 CISO

'Audit readiness' appears as a marketing adjective; the hard evidence is policy version history and evidence existing as connected platform objects in the unified-platform claim. Nothing on revision-safe change trails, evidence packs on demand, auditor access roles, or a defensible 'show me the state on date X' — a 100% first-time-pass certification method is a sales metric, not proof infrastructure. 5 1

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The GRC Consultant

Version history with approval workflow and evidence as first-class objects that ripple on change are a start, and the 'audit readiness' and 100% first-time-pass claims are marketing, not proof. No report generators, no audit-scoped evidence packs, no auditor access roles, no 'state on date X' — assembling the audit file still looks like days of manual work. 5 1

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The Drafted IT Officer

Versioned policies with approval workflow and evidence as a first-class object that ripples through the platform give a real trail, and the 11-step Assured Results Method with a 100% first-time pass claim suggests audit files actually get assembled. But auditor access roles, on-demand evidence packs and point-in-time ('state on date X') reporting are all silent, so it's the anchor-5 floor with manual assembly still implied. 5 1

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The Lead Auditor

Audit readiness appears as an adjective; the only defensible history in the evidence is policy-level version history and approval workflow. No evidence packs, auditor access roles, management-report generators or state-on-date-X capability are evidenced, so the audit file is assembled by hand the week before — exactly what I reject. 5 1

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The Evidence Integrator

Policy version history and approval workflow and evidence as a platform object are a start, and 'audit readiness' is the marketing word of the day. Zero evidence of platform-wide revision-safe history, audit-scoped evidence packs, report generators or auditor access roles — the evidence never shows an external auditor being handed anything defensible. 5 1

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The Skeptic

The headline claim is exactly the kind I exist to flag: "Every customer following our Assured Results Method has passed first-time" — a survivorship slogan with no denominator. Underneath it sit policy version history and approval workflow and a claimed instant propagation of evidence updates, but no revision-safe change history across objects, no auditor access roles, no report generators or evidence packs, and no answer to "show me the state on date X". 5 1

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Integrations & automation

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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 CISO

Native ServiceNow, SharePoint and Teams connectors plus a Public API clear the connector bar, but the Google Drive integration is explicitly a file picker and link creator only, and there is no directory import, SSO/SCIM, webhooks or automated evidence testing anywhere on the evidence — 'automates compliance tasks' is a slogan, not automation of the recurring toil. 2 3 4 5

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The GRC Consultant

ServiceNow plus SharePoint, Teams and Google Drive with a Public API and custom integrations clears the connector floor — except the Google Drive connector is explicitly a file picker and link, never touching the file, which tells me these are link-level, not data-sync. No directory import, no SSO/SCIM, no CMDB, no automated evidence collection; 'automates compliance tasks' reads as workflow reminders dressed up. 2 3 4 5

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The Drafted IT Officer

A public API and out-of-the-box connectors for ServiceNow, SharePoint, Teams and Google Drive cover the document and ticketing touchpoints. But the Drive integration is explicitly a file picker and link, not a feed, and there's no evidence of AD/Entra directory import, SSO, CMDB or automated evidence collection — the automation is compliance-task reminders, not re-keying removal. 2 3 4

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The Lead Auditor

Native connectors (ServiceNow, Teams, SharePoint), a public API and policy import are real plumbing, but the Google Drive integration is explicitly a file-picker only, and no directory import, CMDB, scanner, SSO/SCIM or automated evidence test appears anywhere. "Automates compliance tasks" is a claim, not a connector. 2 3 4 5

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The Evidence Integrator

A Public API and a native ServiceNow connector exist, which is more than a CSV drawbridge — but the only documented integration depth is Google Drive as a file picker that 'never accesses, or performs actions on, the file itself'. No directory import, no CMDB, no cloud/endpoint sources, no webhooks, no SSO/SCIM, and 'automates compliance tasks' reads as reminders and recurrence, not continuous control checks against the live estate. 2 3 4 5

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The Skeptic

Four named connectors plus a Public API clear the CSV tier — until the fine print reveals the Google Drive "integration" is a file picker and link maker that "never accesses... the file itself". No directory import, SSO/SCIM, CMDB, webhooks or automated evidence tests appear anywhere, and "automates compliance tasks" is a slogan, not a mechanism. 2 3 4 5

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European sovereignty panel opinion

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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 CISO

Alliantist is an England-and-Wales company under the ICO, a Germany-primary/Sweden-backup EU region is offered alongside UK, US and APAC data centres rather than defaulted, no DPA or TOMs are captured, and the only published subprocessor list is controller-role and riddled with US processors — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, ZoomInfo. CLOUD Act reach over the chain that would hold my risk register, mitigated only by the EU region option. 4 3

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The GRC Consultant

UK entity (Alliantist Ltd, England & Wales) with an EU data-centre option of Germany plus Sweden backup and a published subprocessor list keeps this off the floor. But that list is heavy with US-reach processors (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS), there are no named data centres beyond country level, no DPA or TOMs in evidence, and the jurisdiction is post-Brexit UK with US transfer mechanisms — not the European-clean chain I want under a risk register. 2 3 4

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The Drafted IT Officer

Alliantist Ltd is a UK entity with a selectable EU data centre (Germany primary, Sweden backup) alongside UK/US/APAC options — EU hosting is available but not evidenced as default. The published subprocessor list is broad and US-heavy (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS) and no public DPA appears in evidence, so my risk register sits with a UK company and wide non-EU processor exposure; the published list and EU region are what keep it at the anchor-3 level rather than lower. 3 4

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The Lead Auditor

Alliantist Ltd, England and Wales, with selectable UK/EU/US/APAC data centres and a published subprocessor list — but that list includes Google, Microsoft, AWS, Anthropic and OpenAI, EU-default hosting is not stated, and no public DPA/TOMs boundary on content-touching processors is evidenced. A UK entity holding your risk register with US processor exposure does not read as clean jurisdictionally. 4

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The Evidence Integrator

The risk register would sit with a UK-registered entity (Alliantist, England and Wales) with an EU data centre as one of four co-equal customer choices rather than a default. The only published subprocessor list is the controller-role one, saturated with US CLOUD Act reach — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Atlassian — and the processor chain that actually touches customer ISMS content is undocumented in this sheet. 3 4

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The Skeptic

The risk register would live with Alliantist Ltd, an England-and-Wales company under UK private equity majority (ECI Partners), with an EU region offered as one of four choices — UK, EU, US, APAC — and no stated default. The published subprocessor list is a who's-who of US CLOUD Act reach (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Stripe), and no public DPA or TOMs are evidenced: an EU region on request with broad US exposure. 4 3

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

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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 CISO

The vendor's own pricing page says it outright: 'IO's pricing is bespoke to you, this means you're not paying for things you don't need or seats you won't use' — no seats, tiers, module prices or scale steps published. A 400-employee buyer cannot compute any invoice from public pages; rubric level 0 is the exact match. 2

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The GRC Consultant

Bespoke pricing with no published seat or tier prices, every quote tailored via sales contact, and the buying path is a 30-minute demo — the anchor's exact definition of zero. You cannot compute any part of the real invoice from public pages. 2 1

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The Drafted IT Officer

The pricing page's entire offer is that pricing is 'bespoke to you', tailored via a quote and sales contact — no seat, tier or module numbers anywhere, so a small company can't compute or even budget-compare the invoice. The only public step before numbers is a 30-minute demo call, which is the anchor-0 'every configuration is a sales conversation' pattern with a published model description as the one small credit. 2 1

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The Lead Auditor

The vendor's own page: "IO's pricing is bespoke to you, this means you're not paying for things you don't need" — a tailored quote via sales, no published seat, tier or module numbers. No real invoice is computable from public pages; this is the textbook 0. 2

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The Evidence Integrator

'IO's pricing is bespoke to you' with no published seat or tier prices — every configuration is a sales conversation, which is the 0 anchor by definition. This describes the market norm rather than condemning it, but the evidence leaves nothing to compute. 2

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The Skeptic

"IO's pricing is bespoke to you" — no number, tier, module price or billing period exists anywhere in the evidence, so every invoice is a sales conversation. Worse, the product is sold as platform+process+people with "ISO experts and lead auditors" as assigned CSMs from day one, making services structurally inseparable from the unpriced software. 2 1

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European sovereignty — proven facts

3 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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Subprocessors US CLOUD Act reach ⚠ unverified 0/2 pts 4 Report an error

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  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.isms.online Checked 16 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 11 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor pricing page www.isms.online Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Platform features page www.isms.online Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Privacy policy www.isms.online Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 ISO 27001 framework page www.isms.online Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Privacy policy www.isms.online Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap support.isms.online Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap www.isms.online Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Controls, SoA & measures — found from sitemap www.isms.online Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Controls, SoA & measures — found from sitemap www.isms.online Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Framework & standard coverage — found from sitemap www.isms.online Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Framework & standard coverage — found from sitemap www.isms.online Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.isms.online Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.isms.online Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap www.isms.online Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  16. 16 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap www.isms.online Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →