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by Scrut Automation Pvt. Ltd. · scrut.io

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Scrut Automation at a glance

Vendor
Scrut Automation Pvt. Ltd.
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Scrut Automation 3/5, the mean of 6 judges. Scrut Automation is a security-compliance platform whose strongest showing is framework coverage at 8-9: 70-plus out-of-the-box frameworks, including NIS 2, DORA and TISAX V5.1, mapped through a Unified Control Framework onto a single control set. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 13 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 15 Oct 2026. all sources

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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.

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Panel median The Skeptic This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Skeptic
Asset & risk management depth 2 of 5 2 of 5
Controls, SoA & measures 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Framework & standard coverage 4 of 5 4 of 5
Audit readiness & evidence 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Integrations & automation 3 of 5 3 of 5
European sovereignty 0.5 of 5 0 of 5

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

Automated asset discovery from cloud platforms, MDM tools and code repositories, with owners, regions and criticality metadata, asset-to-risk linking, and a risk register that syncs asset-linked risks is genuinely more than a spreadsheet import. But I found no public information on a documented risk methodology, treatment tracking, risk acceptance with ownership, protection-needs inheritance, or incident workflows with statutory reporting clocks — the core ISMS machinery is evidenced only at its edges. 3 4

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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

The SoA generator is the real thing: per ISO framework, with applicability, justification categories, implementation details that survive scope changes, document references auto-populated from linked policies at export, and a version-control tab with revision history. Findings, requests and corrective actions exist as first-class audit objects and controls link to risks; what I found no public information on is measure ownership, delegation and escalation. 3 5 6 9

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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

70-plus frameworks out of the box with current-version listings — TISAX V5.1, PCI DSS V4.0, NIS2, DORA — mapped through a Unified Controls Framework onto one control set, plus custom framework building on higher plans. I found no public information on a documented update cadence or per-industry profiles, and the 1500+ overlapping-controls count appears only as a platform-page figure whose depth I cannot check from the captured pages. 4 6 7 8

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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

The Audit Package is a defensible evidence pack: a zip organized per requirement with linked policies, evidence, tests, findings, requests and corrective actions, downloadable at any point in the audit lifecycle, and the readiness report ships structured data so auditors can verify independently. Change history is only evidenced as developer-console audit logs of API actions, and I found no public information on auditor access roles or reconstructing the state on a past date. 9 10 11

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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

A documented API with client credentials exchanged for short-lived tokens, scoped read/write covering evidence upload and vulnerability findings with credential audit logging, plus live asset sync from cloud, MDM and code repositories and continuous automated compliance tests across the tech stack. I found no public information on webhooks, SSO/SCIM, or ticketing and CMDB connectors of the Jira/ServiceNow class. 4 7 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 Skeptic

The captured terms name Indian and Delaware contracting entities with arbitration seated in New Delhi or San Francisco, and commit only to "commercially reasonable industry standard" measures. I found no public information on EU hosting, a public DPA, or a subprocessor list for the system that would hold your risk register. 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 Skeptic

Plan names — Foundation, Growth, Scale — recur across the help pages and gate features such as custom frameworks, but I found no public information on what any plan costs. Every real invoice therefore starts as a sales conversation, with auto-renewal on Order Form terms unless cancelled 30 days out. 2 5 8 11

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 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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Questions about Scrut Automation

Is Scrut Automation European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Scrut Automation is based.

Where does Scrut Automation store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

Does Scrut Automation have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Scrut Automation?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates 6clicks (3.5/5), preeco | informationssicherheit (3.5/5) and Secfix (3.5/5) highest among the other 26 Information Security products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is preeco | informationssicherheit (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Scrut Automation alternatives.

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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 page scrut.io Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Terms of service — found from the homepage www.scrut.io Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap help.scrut.io Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap www.scrut.io Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Controls, SoA & measures — found from sitemap help.scrut.io Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Controls, SoA & measures — found from sitemap help.scrut.io Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Framework & standard coverage — found from sitemap www.scrut.io Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Framework & standard coverage — found from sitemap help.scrut.io Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap help.scrut.io Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap help.scrut.io Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap developer.scrut.io Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap www.scrut.io Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →