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Category median

Sovereignty: 3 of 4 dimensions proven

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

by Alliantist Ltd · www.isms.online

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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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency EU optional ⚠ unverified 1/3 pts 4 Report an error
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 →