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Secrato vs CISO Assistant
An honest, sourced comparison of Secrato and CISO Assistant for European organisations working on NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001 and the Cyber Resilience Act: hosting, frameworks, capabilities, languages and pricing.
In short: Secrato is a Belgian GRC platform hosted on self-managed infrastructure in Antwerp, covering NIS2, DORA and ISO 27001 alongside national schemes such as CyFun® and BSI. CISO Assistant’s main strengths, according to its own website: large open framework library (vendor claims 200+), including NIS2, DORA, CRA, EU AI Act, CyberFundamentals, BSI IT-Grundschutz and TISAX; and aGPL-3.0 Community Edition that can be self-hosted free of charge. Both offer EU hosting; CISO Assistant: SaaS primary region France (Scaleway and OVH), secondary region Netherlands for resilience/DR.
At a glance
Secrato
EU-first GRC platform, headquartered in Belgium and hosted in Antwerp, for organisations that run NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, the CRA and national schemes such as CyFun® from one connected set of controls, evidence, risks, policies and audits.
CISO Assistant
Open-source GRC platform for cybersecurity teams covering risk management, compliance with a large framework library, third-party risk and policy management, available self-hosted or as SaaS.
Secrato vs CISO Assistant: side by side
"Not mentioned on CISO Assistant’s website" means we could not find it on CISO Assistant’s public pages in October 2026; it does not mean the feature is missing. Numbers in the table link to the sources below.
| Criterion | Secrato | CISO Assistant |
|---|---|---|
| Company and hosting | ||
| Headquarters | Belgium1 | France |
| Where data is hosted | EU-only: self-managed infrastructure in Datacenter United's Tier IV data centre in Antwerp, Belgium, in every plan2 | EU hosting available: SaaS primary region France (Scaleway and OVH), secondary region Netherlands for resilience/DR; dedicated instance per tenant; optional SecNumCloud-certified hosting add-on; location can be agreed for special deployments.3 |
| Deployment | SaaS, hosted in the EU2 | open source (self-hosted, Docker Compose / Helm) + SaaS + commercial on-premises |
| Pricing | Free NIS2 Starter (early access, limited places); Core, Pro and Enterprise on quote4 | Community free; Pro SaaS EUR 39 per contributor/month billed annually; Pro on-premises EUR 2,400 per instance/year (1-5 seats); Custom on quote; prices exclude taxes5 |
| Interface languages | Dutch, French and English6 | 27+ languages (vendor claim; full list not checked) |
| Frameworks and regulations | ||
| Framework library (vendor claim) | 20+ frameworks7 | 200+ frameworks |
| NIS2 | Yes8 | Yes9 |
| DORA | Yes10 | Yes9 |
| Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) | Yes11 | Yes9 |
| GDPR | Yes12 | Yes9 |
| EU AI Act | Yes13 | Yes9 |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | Yes14 | Yes9 |
| ISO/IEC 42001 | Yes15 | Yes9 |
| CyberFundamentals (CyFun®) | Yes16 | Yes9 |
| BSI IT-Grundschutz | Yes17 | Yes9 |
| TISAX | Yes18 | Yes9 |
| SOC 2 | Not in library7 | Yes9 |
| Custom frameworks | Yes19 | Yes9 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Risk management | Yes20 | Yes |
| Policy management | Yes6 | Yes |
| Third-party / vendor risk | Yes6 | Yes |
| Trust centre for customers | Yes21 | Not mentioned on CISO Assistant’s website |
| Audit management / auditor access | Yes22 | Not mentioned on CISO Assistant’s website |
| Integrations for evidence collection | Yes23 | Not mentioned on CISO Assistant’s website |
| Multiple entities / MSP use | Yes24 | Not mentioned on CISO Assistant’s website |
| Partner programme | Yes25 | Yes |
| Integrations (vendor claim) | 300+ integrations23 | Not mentioned on CISO Assistant’s website |
Where Secrato is different
- Belgian hosting on self-managed infrastructure. Both offer EU hosting. Secrato hosts every plan on self-managed infrastructure in a Tier IV data centre in Antwerp, Belgium; CISO Assistant: SaaS primary region France (Scaleway and OVH), secondary region Netherlands for resilience/DR.
- National schemes next to EU law. Both cover the main European frameworks. Secrato also includes national schemes such as CyFun® (Belgium), BSI (Germany) and ANSSI (France).
- Dutch, French and English. The Secrato interface and support are available in Dutch, French and English.
- A free way to start. NIS2 Starter (early access) is free and includes CyFun® BASIC (34 controls) and NIS2 incident notifications to the CCB (24 hours, 72 hours, one month).
When CISO Assistant may be the better fit
Organisations that want an open-source, self-hostable GRC platform with a very broad framework library and are prepared to operate or configure it themselves.
- Large open framework library (vendor claims 200+), including NIS2, DORA, CRA, EU AI Act, CyberFundamentals, BSI IT-Grundschutz and TISAX
- AGPL-3.0 Community Edition that can be self-hosted free of charge
- SaaS hosted in France and the Netherlands, with an optional SecNumCloud-certified hosting add-on
- Interface available in 27+ languages (vendor claim)
Questions to ask any GRC vendor
- In which country, data centre and cloud provider is our data stored, including backups and support access?
- Which of our frameworks (NIS2, DORA, CRA, ISO 27001, national schemes) are maintained by the vendor, and how fast are updates?
- Can one control and one piece of evidence count for several frameworks?
- Which languages do the interface, policies and support use?
- How is pricing calculated (users, frameworks, entities), and what does onboarding cost?
Frequently asked questions
Is Secrato an alternative to CISO Assistant?
Yes, for organisations that want to run their compliance programme on an EU-hosted GRC platform. Both cover risk, policies and audits; the main differences are where data is hosted, which European and national frameworks are included, interface languages and pricing. The table above lists each point with its source.
Where does CISO Assistant host customer data?
CISO Assistant documents an EU hosting option: SaaS primary region France (Scaleway and OVH), secondary region Netherlands for resilience/DR. Secrato hosts all customer data on self-managed infrastructure in a Tier IV data centre in Antwerp, Belgium.
Does CISO Assistant support NIS2, DORA and the Cyber Resilience Act?
According to CISO Assistant's website, it supports NIS2, DORA and the Cyber Resilience Act. Secrato includes NIS2, DORA and the CRA in its framework library.
How was this comparison made?
Secrato wrote this comparison using publicly available information from each vendor's own website, documentation and trust centre, checked in October 2026. Where a vendor does not publish something, we write "Not mentioned on CISO Assistant’s website" rather than guess. Vendors and readers can send corrections through secrato.io/contact-us/.
Sources
CISO Assistant information checked in October 2026 on the pages below; Secrato information from secrato.io.
- secrato.io/legal-notice/
- secrato.io/sovereign-enterprise-security/
- intuitem.com/security
- secrato.io/plans/
- intuitem.com/pricing/
- secrato.io/plans/compare/
- secrato.io/all-frameworks/
- secrato.io/nis2/
- github.com/intuitem/ciso-assistant-community
- secrato.io/dora/
- secrato.io/eu-cra-cyber-resilience-act/
- secrato.io/gdpr/
- secrato.io/eu-ai-act/
- secrato.io/iso-27001/
- secrato.io/iso-iec-42001/
- secrato.io/cyfun/
- secrato.io/bsi/
- secrato.io/tisax/
- secrato.io/custom-frameworks/
- secrato.io/risk-management/
- secrato.io/trust-center/
- secrato.io/audit-hub/
- secrato.io/integrations/
- secrato.io/multi-tenant-workspace-management/
- secrato.io/partner-program/
Further pages consulted:
About this comparison. Written by Secrato, the publisher of one of the products compared. It is based on publicly available information checked in October 2026 and may change as vendors update their products. Product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners and are used only to identify the products compared. Spotted something out of date? Let us know and we will review and correct it.
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