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Sovereignty: not determined

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

by Secureframe Inc. · secureframe.com

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The Lead Auditor

Weighted verdict

Certifies ISMSs for a living and has seen every folder of screenshots. Optimizes for revision-safe history, an SoA generated from live control status, and a defensible answer to "show me the state on date X". Rejects audit trails assembled the week before the audit.

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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 Lead Auditor

"Risk Management" is a feature name and "Advanced Risk Management" an upsell label, with genuine asset-side automation — agentless read-only scanning and monitoring of 150+ cloud services. But the evidence is silent on risk methodology, treatment tracking, protection-need inheritance, and incident workflows with statutory clocks, and I do not credit a label. That lands between the flat-list anchor at 3 and the configurable-matrix anchor at 5, with the automated estate visibility tipping it up. 3 2

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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 Lead Auditor

Custom frameworks, controls and tests plus common-control overlap figures across SOC 2/ISO 27001/NIST CSF show controls are mapped rather than re-answered per framework — respectable. But there is no SoA generation, no control-to-risk linkage, no measure ownership, and no internal-audit or findings workflow anywhere in the evidence, and "Compliance Framework: 1" per plan suggests frameworks are metered. The applicability statement I need produced from live control status is entirely unevidenced. 3 2

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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 Lead Auditor

A broad shelf — SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, NIST CSF, CMMC, FedRAMP, TX-RAMP, custom frameworks — with cross-mapping actually evidenced by the overlap percentages, not just claimed. But the coverage skews hard US: NIS2, DORA, TISAX and Grundschutz appear nowhere in the confirmed facts, so for a European operator the statutory layer simply is not there. 3 4 2

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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 Lead Auditor

"Evidence Collection" is a named feature and 150+/300+ integrations driving "automatic, continuous security control assessment" mean evidence is gathered rather than re-typed — that much is real. But the evidence says nothing about revision-safe change history, audit-scoped evidence packs, auditor access roles, or any "state on date X" reconstruction, and that silence is information: nothing here proves a trail that wasn't assembled the week before the audit. Below the versioned-records anchor at 5, above ad-hoc attachment at 3. 3 2

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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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300+ native integrations, agentless read-only scanning across AWS/GCP/Azure, custom automated tests, SSO/SCIM and a documented API reference — a genuine connector set feeding continuous control assessment from the live estate. Held below the top only because API parity, webhooks and event streams are unevidenced, and SSO/SCIM sits behind the top tier. 3 2

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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 Lead Auditor

A San Francisco entity hosting on AWS US (London secondary), with eight of nine published subprocessors — including OpenAI on the AI features — under US jurisdiction; the vendor's own captured pages never confirm EU-default residency, ownership, or a DPA. For the system holding a European company's risk register this is near the bottom; only the public subprocessor list keeps it off the floor. 4 5

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Pricing transparency

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 Lead Auditor

One real number exists — Fundamentals starting at $7,000/year with billing period stated — alongside a detailed tier comparison. But Complete, Defense, the second and third framework, and the workspace add-on are all unpriced, so the true invoice for any multi-framework buyer is a sales conversation; rubric level 3 verbatim. 2 2

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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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Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

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Sources (16)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor pricing page secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 +2 earlier captures: 15 Sep 2026, 24 Aug 2026 Details →
  3. 3 GDPR framework page secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Security/trust page trust.secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Privacy policy secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Terms of service secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Asset & risk management depth — found from sitemap secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Controls, SoA & measures — found from sitemap secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Controls, SoA & measures — found from sitemap secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Framework & standard coverage — found from sitemap secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Framework & standard coverage — found from sitemap secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap support.secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  16. 16 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap secureframe.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →