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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 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.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Skeptic

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

"Risk Management" and "Advanced Risk Management" appear as plan line items and asset scoping is automated, but the evidence shows no risk methodology, no treatment tracking, no protection-needs inheritance, and not one word about incident handling or statutory clocks. A bare feature label is not an ISMS backbone — this sits between the flat-risk-list anchor and the configurable-matrix anchor. 2 3

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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

Custom Frameworks, Controls and Tests plus custom automated tests are evidenced, and the common-controls overlap percentages hint at real cross-framework mapping. But no SoA generation, no measure ownership or due dates, no control-to-risk linkage, and no internal audit workflow appear anywhere — a checklist with tests, not a control fabric. 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 Skeptic

SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and NIST CSF overlap on the frameworks page, plus genuine CMMC tooling (SSP, POA&M, SPRS tracker) in the Defense plan — the major regimes for its US-facing market. But NIS2, DORA and BSI IT-Grundschutz are entirely absent, and the pricing table's "Compliance Framework 1" row for both tiers is an ambiguous restriction I don't like the smell of. 3 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 Skeptic

"Evidence Collection" and "Trust Center" are plan features and control assessment is continuous and automated across integrations. But the evidence is silent on revision-safe history, audit-scoped evidence packs, auditor access roles, and any answer to "show me the state on date X" — silence on the hard parts is the finding. 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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The Skeptic

The substance is real: agentless read-only scanning across AWS/GCP/Azure, 150+ monitored cloud services, SSO/SCIM, custom integrations and published API docs. Two strikes keep it off the top anchor: the vendor can't keep its own story straight ("150+ integrations" vs "300+ Native Integrations"), and no ticketing/CMDB connector, webhook, or event stream is named anywhere. 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 Skeptic

US vendor with US-default hosting; the subprocessor list is at least public, but nearly every processor sits in the United States — including OpenAI providing "AI platform and large language model capability" over what could be your risk register content. No EU-default region, no DPA in evidence; the only European hint is AWS "United States / London" hosting. Your security posture would live under US jurisdictional reach end to end. 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 Skeptic

Fundamentals at $7,000/year is a real number with a billing period, which is more than many offer. But Complete, Defense and the workspaces add-on carry no prices at all, so the actual invoice for anything beyond the entry tier is a sales conversation — squarely the incomputable-total anchor. 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.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
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 →