Shortlist
Six governance, risk and compliance platforms buyers shortlist, each described from its own public pages — who it suits, no scores, the source one click away.
Choose GRC software by the shape of your obligations, not by the longest framework list. Compliance automation platforms — Vanta, Drata and Secureframe — get a growing company through SOC 2 and ISO 27001 quickly by collecting evidence from its cloud, identity and HR systems. Enterprise GRC suites — Archer and OneTrust — give large, regulated organisations a configurable risk system of record across many teams. Noru is built for EU teams that carry privacy and EU regulation alongside a security framework: one control library across SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS2, DORA and the EU AI Act.
Disclosure: Noru publishes this page and is one of the platforms on it. The entries are unranked, each one describes the vendor from its own public pages, and those pages were last checked on .
Automation platforms connect to your cloud, identity and HR systems and test controls continuously. Enterprise suites model the risk, policy and audit workflows you configure. The first is faster to stand up; the second bends further to a complex organisation.
If you need two or more standards or regulations in the next 18 months, ask whether controls are mapped once across all of them or bought framework by framework.
A risk register is only as good as what feeds it. Check whether risks come from security findings, vendor posture and failing controls, or are typed in once a year.
GDPR, NIS2, DORA and the EU AI Act are not checklists on top of SOC 2. Check whether the tool keeps records of processing, incident clocks and an ICT third-party register, or only maps controls.
In no particular order after Noru. Each summary paraphrases the vendor's own positioning; follow the link to check it.
Suits: EU-based teams carrying privacy and EU regulation alongside a security framework.
Our product. A compliance platform built in Stockholm that runs SOC 2 and ISO 27001 alongside GDPR, NIS2, DORA and the EU AI Act from one control library across 30+ frameworks, with EU data residency for every customer.
Its difference is privacy operations: Article 30 records and a data map derived from source code and CI rather than maintained by hand. Noru publishes no prices; it licenses the platform plus capability packages, priced per deployment.
Suits: Buyers who want the largest stated catalogue among the established platforms.
Describes itself as one automated platform for compliance, risk and customer trust, covering SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and 35+ frameworks, including NIS 2, DORA, the EU AI Act and FedRAMP.
No published prices; four tiers, with one framework on Essentials. Professional services are outside the subscription, with an optional auditor bundle. EU hosting in Frankfurt on request.
Suits: Teams that want to choose a European hosting region at sign-up.
Describes itself as an agentic trust management platform with 30+ pre-built frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS 2, DORA, ISO 42001 and FedRAMP.
No published prices; three tiers, with Foundation capped at 50 employees and one framework and additional frameworks sold as an add-on. Customers choose a North American, European or Asia-Pacific region.
Suits: Large enterprises that want consent, data subject requests and GRC from one vendor.
Describes an AI-ready governance platform across privacy, data, AI and technology risk. Its privacy products cover data mapping, records of processing, privacy risk assessments, data subject requests and a consent management platform.
Tech Risk & Compliance claims 50+ frameworks, alongside third-party management and AI governance with EU AI Act and ISO 42001 templates. No published prices; packages are quoted.
Suits: Teams that want a published starting price to budget against, or a CMMC tier.
Describes compliance, risk and trust automation backed by in-house experts, with named frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS2, DORA, the EU AI Act, ISO 42001 and FedRAMP.
Publishes a starting price for its Fundamentals tier and quotes the rest, including a CMMC-focused Defense tier. One framework per tier, more can be added. Hosts on AWS US East or AWS London.
Suits: Large regulated enterprises, banks in particular, that want a configurable risk system of record or need an on-premises option.
A long-established risk management vendor now selling Archer Evolv, which it describes as an AI layer on top of its GRC system of record, with AI operators whose proposed changes a person reviews before they apply.
Its use cases include third-party governance with risk tiering and a vendor response portal, and it says Evolv runs on-premises or as SaaS. No published prices; the pricing page asks for a personalised quote.
GRC software keeps governance, risk management and compliance in one place: the policies and controls an organisation commits to, the risks it tracks and treats, and the evidence that its controls operate. Modern platforms also collect that evidence automatically from the systems a company already runs.
Compliance automation platforms focus on getting and keeping certifications such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001 by collecting evidence automatically. Enterprise GRC suites cover broader risk, policy and audit management across a large organisation and are usually configured rather than preset. Several vendors now sell both.
One that runs GDPR, NIS2 and, in financial services, DORA as real programmes alongside SOC 2 or ISO 27001, and stores your data in the EU. Drata lets customers choose a European region, Vanta offers Frankfurt when an EU tenant is requested, and Noru stores every customer's data in the EU by default.
Of the platforms on this page, Archer states that it runs on-premises or as SaaS. If you need self-hosting, ask every other vendor on your shortlist directly.
No. Noru never uses customer data to train, fine-tune or evaluate a model, and every AI feature runs under zero data retention terms — both written into its Terms and DPA. Ask every vendor on your shortlist for the same commitments in writing.
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