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Secrato vs OneTrust
An honest, sourced comparison of Secrato and OneTrust 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 as well as the CRA, CyFun® and BSI IT-Grundschutz, which OneTrust’s website does not mention. OneTrust’s main strengths, according to its own website: choice of hosting locality, including Azure environments in Germany and France; and breadth beyond GRC: privacy automation, consent management, AI governance and third-party management on one platform. Both offer EU hosting; OneTrust: Customers select hosting locality.
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.
OneTrust
A broad governance platform covering privacy, consent, AI governance, third-party management and Tech Risk & Compliance, aimed at large organisations managing data, AI and technology risk.
Built for: Enterprise (vendor states it is trusted by over half of the Fortune 500)
Secrato vs OneTrust: side by side
"Not mentioned on OneTrust’s website" means we could not find it on OneTrust’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 | OneTrust |
|---|---|---|
| Company and hosting | ||
| Headquarters | Belgium1 | United States |
| 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: Customers select hosting locality; EU environments on Microsoft Azure in Germany (Frankfurt, DR Berlin) and France (Paris, DR Marseille); also Switzerland (Zurich) and the UK (Cardiff).3 |
| Deployment | SaaS, hosted in the EU2 | SaaS (Cloud and Dedicated Cloud, hosted on Microsoft Azure) |
| Pricing | Free NIS2 Starter (early access, limited places); Core, Pro and Enterprise on quote4 | Quote only; Tech Risk & Compliance priced on admin users and asset inventory using value-based usage meters.5 |
| Interface languages | Dutch, French and English6 | Not mentioned on OneTrust’s website |
| Frameworks and regulations | ||
| Framework library (vendor claim) | 20+ frameworks7 | 55+ ready-to-action frameworks |
| NIS2 | Yes8 | Yes9 |
| DORA | Yes10 | Yes11 |
| Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) | Yes12 | Not mentioned on OneTrust’s website |
| GDPR | Yes13 | Yes14 |
| EU AI Act | Yes15 | Yes16 |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | Yes17 | Yes18 |
| ISO/IEC 42001 | Yes19 | Yes20 |
| CyberFundamentals (CyFun®) | Yes21 | Not mentioned on OneTrust’s website |
| BSI IT-Grundschutz | Yes22 | Not mentioned on OneTrust’s website |
| TISAX | Yes23 | Not mentioned on OneTrust’s website |
| SOC 2 | Not in library7 | Yes18 |
| Custom frameworks | Yes24 | Not mentioned on OneTrust’s website |
| Capabilities | ||
| Risk management | Yes25 | Yes |
| Policy management | Yes6 | Yes |
| Third-party / vendor risk | Yes6 | Yes |
| Trust centre for customers | Yes26 | Not mentioned on OneTrust’s website |
| Audit management / auditor access | Yes27 | Not mentioned on OneTrust’s website |
| Integrations for evidence collection | Yes28 | Yes |
| Multiple entities / MSP use | Yes29 | Not mentioned on OneTrust’s website |
| Partner programme | Yes30 | Not mentioned on OneTrust’s website |
| Integrations (vendor claim) | 300+ integrations28 | 200+ pre-built integrations' and '500+ pre-built system connectors |
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; OneTrust: Customers select hosting locality.
- European frameworks in one library. Secrato's library includes Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), CyberFundamentals (CyFun®), BSI IT-Grundschutz and TISAX. We found no public mention of these for OneTrust.
- 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 OneTrust may be the better fit
Large enterprises that want privacy, consent, AI governance, third-party risk and technology compliance consolidated on a single enterprise platform.
- Choice of hosting locality, including Azure environments in Germany and France
- Breadth beyond GRC: privacy automation, consent management, AI governance and third-party management on one platform
- Regulatory intelligence via DataGuidance, described as covering 300 jurisdictions
- Large connector library (200+ integrations, 500+ system connectors claimed)
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 OneTrust?
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 OneTrust host customer data?
OneTrust documents an EU hosting option: Customers select hosting locality. Secrato hosts all customer data on self-managed infrastructure in a Tier IV data centre in Antwerp, Belgium.
Does OneTrust support NIS2, DORA and the Cyber Resilience Act?
According to OneTrust's website, it supports NIS2 and DORA. We found no public information on 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 OneTrust’s website" rather than guess. Vendors and readers can send corrections through secrato.io/contact-us/.
Sources
OneTrust information checked in October 2026 on the pages below; Secrato information from secrato.io.
- secrato.io/legal-notice/
- secrato.io/sovereign-enterprise-security/
- my.onetrust.com/articles/en_US/Knowledge/UUID-21f6bff2-1b12-8c67-e8b0-d852e36f37af
- secrato.io/plans/
- www.onetrust.com/content/onetrust/us/en/pricing
- secrato.io/plans/compare/
- secrato.io/all-frameworks/
- secrato.io/nis2/
- www.onetrust.com/fr/solutions/nis2-compliance/
- secrato.io/dora/
- www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/05/23/onetrust-platform-enhancements-dora/
- secrato.io/eu-cra-cyber-resilience-act/
- secrato.io/gdpr/
- www.onetrust.com/solutions/tech-risk-and-compliance/
- secrato.io/eu-ai-act/
- www.onetrust.com/content/onetrust/us/en/solutions/eu-ai-act-compliance
- secrato.io/iso-27001/
- www.onetrust.com/products/compliance-automation/
- secrato.io/iso-iec-42001/
- www.onetrust.com/blog/scale-ai-responsibly-through-iso-42001-readiness-with-onetrust-and-aws/
- 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:
- www.onetrust.com/
- www.onetrust.com/content/onetrust/us/en/trust
- www.onetrust.com/content/onetrust/us/en/about-us
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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