Best 9 ISO 27001 Compliance Solutions (2026)

We reviewed leading ISO 27001 compliance solutions, investigating their ability to enforce and monitor controls, collect evidence, and streamline audits.

Last updated on Sep 17, 2026
Caitlin Harris Written by Caitlin Harris
Craig MacAlpine Technical Review by Craig MacAlpine
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ISO 27001 compliance solutions make it easier for teams to achieve, maintain, and prove compliance with ISO/IEC 27001, the leading standard for information security management systems (ISMS).

ISO/IEC 27001, commonly referred to as ISO 27001, aims to ensure the security and integrity of your data and improve your resilience to cyberthreats. To achieve ISO 27001 certification, an accredited certification body conducts a two-stage external audit. ISO 27001 compliance solutions help you bring your ISMS in line with ISO 27001 and collect evidence to prepare for certification.

We reviewed nine leaders in the compliance automation and management market, focusing on their ability to help you meet ISO/IEC 27001 compliance. We evaluated each solution’s control coverage (with particular focus on Annex A 2022 mapping), risk assessment, auditor workflows, ability to collect evidence and produce a ‘Statement of Applicability’, and user experience and interface of the solution themselves.

This guide will highlight what we found during our research and testing, in order to help you find the right ISO 27001 compliance solution for your team.

What is an ISO 27001 Compliance Solution?

ISO 27001 compliance solutions help organizations build and manage an information security management system (ISMS), including risk assessments, security controls, policies and evidence needed to demonstrate conformity with the standard.

They collect evidence of control implementation and operation and help you create and maintain a Statement of Applicability (SoA), including the implementation status and justification for applicable controls.

ISO 27001 compliance solutions work by connecting to your cloud infrastructure, identity providers, HR information system, and device management tools, via read-only APIs, browser extensions or OAuth. Some solutions also place a lightweight agent on endpoints so they can read local settings the APIs can't see.

The solution then pulls data from those sources to assess compliance with relevant security controls. For example, it'll record whether every account has MFA enforced and whether storage services have encryption at rest enabled. It stores this information, along with a timestamp and its source, then maps it to relevant Annex A controls, which provide a reference set for checking that the organization has considered the necessary security controls. This mapping can then help the organization create and maintain its Statement of Applicability.

Finally, many platforms provide an auditor-facing portal or evidence repository where supporting documentation and control evidence can be reviewed. This gives auditors a central place to review relevant evidence and documentation during the certification audit.

Where most solutions differ is in how they handle the management system clauses and many of the People and Physical controls, as well as Organizational controls relating to supplier relationships, which are difficult to assess solely through automated checks. For example, an API can automatically provide evidence that MFA is turned on, but it can't prove whether employees have completed required security awareness training or acknowledged relevant policies.

To cover these requirements, ISO 27001 compliance solutions typically provide tools for managing policies, tasks, risks and supplier assessments. These can include policies with version histories and acknowledgement records, tasks with an owner and a due date, risks with likelihood and impact scoring, and completed supplier questionnaires.

ISO 27001 Compliance Solutions Compared

Here's a quick comparison of the ISO 27001 compliance solutions we've reviewed in this article.

Product Best For Generates SoA External Auditor Access Public API
Iru
ISO 27001 on the same platform as device and identity management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Drata
Maintaining certification through surveillance and recertification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Hyperproof
Running ISO 27001 alongside several other frameworks
Yes
Yes
Yes
IO (formerly ISMS.online)
Pre-written ISMS content and a dedicated success manager
Yes
Yes
Yes
Scrut Automation
Adding ISO 27001 to an existing SOC 2 program without per-framework fees
Yes
Yes
No
Secureframe
First-time certification with a published entry price
Yes
Yes
Yes
Sprinto
A first certification on a short timeline
Yes
Yes
Yes
Thoropass
The platform and the audit from one supplier
Yes
Yes
No
Vanta
Certifying to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 together
Yes
Yes
Yes

How We Tested

We evaluated nine ISO 27001 compliance solutions through a combination of hands-on testing, feedback analysis, and market research. We assessed each solution’s Annex A 2022 control coverage, whether it produces and maintains a Statement of Applicability, the access it gives external auditors, and how it handles surveillance and recertification across the three-year cycle.

This guide was written by Caitlin Harris and technically reviewed by Craig MacAlpine. You can read more about our methodology at how we test and review products. Read our full methodology

1.

Iru

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Iru

Best for companies that want ISO 27001 compliance on the same platform as their device and identity management

Iru generates ISO 27001 controls and monitors them continuously through what it calls the Adaptive Evidence Map. Coverage also extends to ISO 27701 for privacy and ISO 42001 for AI management on the same evidence map, and CIS Level 1 and Level 2 Mac templates provide a hardened endpoint baseline that maps to a large part of Annex A.

These policies are all managed on the same platform as devices and identities, with a shared context layer between them. Iru also holds its own ISO 27001 certification.

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  • Iru AI generates ISO 27001 controls tailored to your company’s industry, size, and technology stack
  • Evidence is collected and validated continuously from connected integrations, with anything stale flagged before an audit
  • Continuous monitoring checks for policy or configuration changes and suggests updates automatically, keeping your ISMS current between recertification audits
  • The Trust Center publishes your ISO 27001 certificate and supporting documentation to prospects, with NDA-gated access to sensitive material
  • An AI agent drafts responses to incoming security questionnaires
  • Policy management covers document generation, editing, and publication, with timestamped employee acknowledgment logs
  • Tasks are assigned to individual owners through the compliance inbox, with due dates and comments
  • CIS Level 1 and Level 2 Mac templates provide a hardened endpoint baseline that maps to a large part of Annex A
  • Device management is included, with Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad and Android controlled from one console
  • Controls can be generated by AI from your organization’s profile, migrated from another compliance vendor, imported from a CSV or written from scratch, with unlisted frameworks built within several weeks
  • Uploaded and connected evidence is categorized automatically, expiry-checked and mapped to the ISO 27001 actions it satisfies
  • Evidence can be manually uploaded in bulk. Iru AI evaluates each artifact and maps it to the controls it satisfies while marking any connected tasks as complete

We recommend Iru for companies of any size or sector building or maintaining an ISO 27001 ISMS, particularly alongside ISO 27701 or ISO 42001, that want compliance on the same platform as their device management, EDR and identity.

The console is easy to navigate, and scoping policies to groups is straightforward. Iru is most popular with lean IT teams that operate Mac, iOS, Android and Windows devices.

Running all three frameworks on the same evidence map is another strong point, since controls shared between them are evidenced once.

Compliance is priced at under $15,000 a year with all frameworks included and startup discounts available, and is available standalone as well as with the rest of the platform.

Strengths
Adaptive Evidence Map continuously validates and maps evidence to ISO 27001 controls
Iru holds its own ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certifications alongside SOC 2 Type II
Also covers ISO 27701 for privacy and ISO 42001 for AI management on the same platform
Trust Center publishes certificates and audit documentation to prospects, with NDA-gated access
Continuous monitoring flags drift and suggests control updates automatically
Cautions
Cloud-only, with no on-premises option
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Drata

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Drata

Best for teams maintaining ISO 27001 through surveillance and recertification

Drata is a compliance automation platform that supports organizations throughout the three-year ISO 27001 certification cycle. Drata monitors your control environment continuously and alerts you when monitoring identifies a control gap. It connects to cloud services and security tools and collects evidence automatically for surveillance and recertification audits.

Drata has pre-mapped versions of ISO 27701, 27017, 27018 and 42001, letting organizations reuse controls and evidence across frameworks where applicable. The Audit Hub feature gives auditors a dedicated portal to sample evidence and raise document requests.

  • Connects to your cloud services and security tools to collect evidence for ISO 27001 controls automatically
  • A dedicated Internal Auditor role lets assigned auditors manage audit requests and review evidence without requiring Admin permissions
  • The Audit Hub centralizes communication with external auditors, including evidence sampling and document requests
  • Compliance-as-Code tests validate infrastructure and application code against ISO 27001 controls
  • Monitors your control environment continuously and alerts you when there is a gap
  • Risk assessments and risk management are linked to controls, letting teams track the risks associated with control gaps

We recommend Drata to teams who expect to hold their certificate long-term and want each surveillance audit to reduce the repeated evidence work of the first certification. The Internal Auditor role and automatic evidence collection are standout features. You will need to spend some time during onboarding tailoring the control set to your ISMS scope and risk profile.

Strengths
Evidence is collected automatically and stays current for surveillance and recertification audits
Supports the ISO 27001 Clause 9.2 internal audit process with a dedicated Internal Auditor role with scoped permissions
Pre-mapped coverage extends to ISO 27701, 27017, 27018 and 42001
Validates infrastructure and application code against controls
Cautions
Drata's pricing is personalized rather than published as a standard price list
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Hyperproof

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Hyperproof

Best for teams maintaining ISO 27001 alongside several other frameworks

Hyperproof is a GRC platform supporting 160+ pre-built frameworks, including ISO 27001:2022. Its Jumpstart feature maps your existing ISO 27001 controls across other frameworks, including NIST 800-53, PCI DSS and SOC 2.

Hyperproof supports 200+ integrations and its Hypersyncs and Livesyncs feature collects documents continuously from business applications and cloud storage. A public SDK lets you build custom connectors for anything Hyperproof doesn’t cover out of the box.

  • 160+ pre-built frameworks covering security, privacy, regulatory and industry requirements
  • Hypersyncs and Livesyncs automate evidence collection from business applications and cloud storage
  • Jumpstart maps ISO 27001 controls across NIST 800-53, PCI DSS and SOC 2, so existing control work counts toward more than one framework
  • Hierarchical Scopes supports compliance programs spanning subsidiaries, business units, product lines and multiple offices
  • A public SDK lets you build custom integrations Hyperproof doesn’t offer natively
  • AI features can be disabled at the tenant level

We would recommend Hyperproof to a mid-market or enterprise team maintaining ISO 27001 alongside SOC 2, PCI DSS, or a NIST framework. Reusing controls and evidence across multiple programs through Jumpstart is a standout feature, and Hierarchical Scopes handles the added complexity of multiple subsidiaries and business units well.

Strengths
160+ pre-built frameworks covers most compliance use cases
Evidence collection runs largely on its own, through 200+ integrations and Livesyncs
Existing ISO 27001 control work carries over into NIST 800-53, PCI DSS and SOC 2 via Jumpstart
Hierarchical Scopes keeps subsidiaries, business units and geographies under one compliance program
AI features can be disabled at the tenant level
Cautions
Hyperproof does not publish pricing
4.

IO (formerly ISMS.online)

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IO

Best for teams that want pre-written ISMS content and a dedicated success manager

IO is a compliance automation platform focused on ISO 27001. Its Assured Results Method (ARM) breaks the certification process into an 11-step sequence around a target certification date, with a dedicated Customer Success Manager guiding you through the process. The Headstart content library provides pre-written policies, controls and other ISMS content.

IO provides integrations with common business and security tools, alongside a public API and Zapier support for custom workflows. Its platform supports additional standards and regulations alongside ISO 27001.

Control Performance Monitors dashboards provide live compliance signals inside the platform, such as MFA and access-control status from Microsoft Entra, mapped to relevant ISO 27001 controls. Audits, Actions and Reviews provide workflows for internal audits, management reviews, and nonconformity and corrective-action tracking.

  • Breaks down ISO 27001 implementation into 11 steps around a target certification date
  • Provides a dedicated Customer Success Manager guiding the process
  • Virtual Coach provides in-platform guidance throughout the ARM process
  • Headstart supplies pre-written policies, controls and other ISO 27001 content to reduce the amount of documentation teams need to create from scratch
  • Control Performance Monitors surface live compliance signals, including MFA and access-control status from Microsoft Entra
  • Audits, Actions and Reviews supports internal audits, management reviews, and nonconformity and corrective-action tracking
  • Integrations connect IO with common business and security tools, while its public API and Zapier support allow custom connections
  • Supports additional frameworks and regulations including SOC 2, ISO 9001, ISO 42001, ISO 22301, NIS 2 and DORA

We recommend IO to teams looking to standardize ISO 27001 for the first time. ARM gives the implementation a defined sequence and target date, while Headstart means you begin with pre-written ISMS content rather than creating policies and controls from scratch.

The combination makes IO particularly attractive to smaller teams without extensive ISO 27001 experience or a dedicated compliance function. The trade-off is that the pre-written content still needs to be adapted to your organization, its ISMS scope and its risk profile.

Strengths
Target certification date keeps implementation structured
Reduces the amount of policy and control documentation teams need to create from scratch
Provides live compliance signals from connected systems
Dedicated Customer Success Manager provides hands-on guidance through certification
Additional frameworks can be managed alongside ISO 27001
Cautions
Policy Packs and the Supply Chain Module are optional extras
5.

Scrut Automation

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Scrut Automation

Best for teams adding ISO 27001 to an existing SOC 2 program without paying per framework

Scrut Automation is a GRC automation platform that supports ISO 27001:2022, with a prebuilt control set mapped to Annex A ready to use from day one. More than 60 frameworks are included. Scrut provides all-inclusive pricing and no separate charges for individual frameworks.

External auditors can be given read-only access to controls, evidence, policy previews, and attachments through the Audit Center. From here, they can also comment, manage findings, and track progress without touching the wider platform.

Scrut Teammates, the platform’s agentic AI layer, drafts policies, flags compliance gaps, and suggests fixes, including infrastructure-as-code snippets in Terraform, Python, or Node.js with variables pre-filled for your environment. Scrut has certified its own AI management system to ISO/IEC 42001.

Daily automated tests check cloud configurations and other controls and surface gaps for remediation, with evidence pulled directly from connected systems through integrations and Scrut Monitor.

  • Scrut supports ISO 27001:2022, with a prebuilt control set mapped to Annex A ready to use from day one
  • More than 60 frameworks are included, with Scrut advertising all-inclusive pricing and no separate charges for individual frameworks
  • The Audit Center gives external auditors scoped, read-only access to controls, evidence, policy previews, and attachments, with the ability to comment, manage findings, and track progress without touching the wider platform
  • Scrut Teammates suggests fixes for compliance gaps, including infrastructure-as-code snippets in Terraform, Python, or Node.js with variables pre-filled for your environment
  • Daily automated tests check cloud configurations and other controls and surface gaps for remediation
  • Integrations and Scrut Monitor pull evidence directly from connected cloud and identity systems, with time-stamped audit logs kept for every change
  • In-house compliance experts are available through live consultations and a dedicated Slack channel, with penetration testing delivered by a CREST-accredited team

We recommend Scrut if you expect your control work to span several standards over time, for example if you already hold SOC 2 and want to add ISO 27001 without paying separately for the framework.

Scrut’s full library of 60-plus frameworks comes with no separate framework charges, so ISO 27001 doesn’t add its own line item once you’re already a customer. We also like Scrut Teammates for the infrastructure-as-code snippets it suggests on compliance gaps, which give your engineers a starting fix alongside the finding, not just the finding on its own.

Strengths
All-inclusive pricing for adding additional frameworks
Infrastructure-as-code snippets on compliance gaps give your team a starting fix
Scoped, read-only Audit Center access keeps auditors contained to only what they need to see
In-house, CREST-accredited penetration testing is available without sourcing a separate vendor
Scrut's own ISO 42001 certification backs its AI layer's governance
Cautions
Pricing is quote-based, with no published price list
6.

Secureframe

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Secureframe

Best for first-time certification with a published entry price

Secureframe is a compliance automation platform. It maps ISO 27001 certification stage by stage: a Stage 1 readiness review, a Stage 2 certification audit, surveillance audits in years one and two, and a recertification audit at year three.

The Statement of Applicability exports directly from the platform, listing the Annex A requirements with their applicability and justification, with editable fields for date, version, reviewer, and applicability so you can mark controls not applicable where appropriate. The Audit Module tracks tests through statuses including In Review, Met, and Not Met, with a progress bar showing progress toward 100% Met. Common controls and cross-framework mapping reduce duplicate work across Secureframe’s library of 45+ frameworks.

Secureframe’s entry tier starts at $7,000 a year and includes one compliance framework, with risk management, policy management, evidence collection, and 300+ native integrations included as standard.

  • Documentation maps ISO 27001 certification stage by stage: a Stage 1 readiness review, a Stage 2 certification audit, surveillance audits in years one and two, and recertification at year three
  • The Statement of Applicability exports directly from the platform, listing the Annex A requirements with their applicability and justification, with editable fields for date, version, reviewer, and applicability
  • The Audit Module tracks tests through statuses including In Review, Met, and Not Met, with a progress bar showing progress toward 100% Met
  • Common controls and cross-framework mapping reduce duplicate work across Secureframe’s library of 45+ frameworks
  • Entry tier includes risk management, policy management, and evidence collection as standard
  • Policy templates are written by in-house security staff and former auditors, with acceptance tracked per employee and per policy
  • The Azure DevOps integration automates evidence collection for five checks: branch protection, pull request approval, static application security testing, integration testing, and dependency checks before merge

We recommend Secureframe if you’re going through first-time ISO 27001 certification. We like the Statement of Applicability export, which produces the Annex A requirements with their applicability and justification as an editable document you start from. We also like that policy templates come from in-house security staff and former auditors, with per-employee acceptance tracking built in. Fundamentals starts at $7,000 a year for one framework; pricing for additional frameworks and for the Complete tier is quote-based.

Strengths
Certification stages are structured within the platform, though the auditor determines the actual evidence requested at each stage
Statement of Applicability produced as a real, editable export
Policy templates come from in-house security staff and former auditors, with acceptance tracked per employee
Risk management, policy management, and evidence collection are included at the entry tier
Common controls and cross-framework mapping reduce duplicate work across 45+ supported frameworks
Cautions
Pricing for additional frameworks and for the Complete tier is quote-based and not published
7.

Sprinto

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Sprinto

Best for a first ISO 27001 certification on a short timeline

Sprinto is a compliance automation platform built around getting an ISO 27001 certificate on a short timeline. It assembles the ISO 27001 program on day one, generating Annex A controls, policies, tasks, Statement of Applicability items, and audit requirements against your technology stack.

Sprinto AI, the platform’s agentic layer, identifies risks, detects evidence gaps, and flags policy drift in natural language, with full human oversight. Sprinto’s Autonomous Trust Platform extends this agentic layer across compliance, vendor risk, and AI governance.

Sprinto automates 25+ frameworks out of the box and supports more than 200 in total, with shared controls and reusable evidence. Pricing is not published; quotes are based on your framework count and company size.

  • Generates Annex A controls, policies, tasks, Statement of Applicability items, and audit requirements against the technology stack you connect
  • Statement of Applicability items are automatically tailored to the technology stack you connect, ready for you to review and finalize
  • Integrations cover AWS, GCP, Azure, Okta, Google Workspace, GitHub, and 300+ more systems, with evidence pulled automatically as your environment changes
  • Sprinto AI identifies risks, detects evidence gaps, and flags policy drift in natural language, with human oversight remaining in the loop
  • The Autonomous Trust Platform extends agentic capabilities across compliance, vendor risk, and AI governance
  • Automates 25+ frameworks out of the box and has digitized more than 200 in total
  • A certified onboarding manager reviews your setup and flags what needs fixing ahead of the certification audit

We recommend Sprinto if you’re pursuing ISO 27001 for the first time and have a deadline attached, particularly if you also want SOC 2. We like that the ISO 27001 program is assembled on day one, with controls, policies, tasks, and Statement of Applicability items generated against your connected technology stack.

We also like Sprinto AI for the evidence-gap detection and risk identification it runs continuously, with human oversight kept in the loop throughout. Sprinto’s confirmed Microsoft integrations run through Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, SharePoint, Teams, and Defender for Office 365. Sprinto’s tiers are named Foundation and Growth, and pricing itself is not published.

Strengths
ISO 27001 program is assembled on day one, with controls, policies, tasks, and SoA items tailored to the connected environment
Evidence-gap detection and risk identification run continuously through Sprinto AI, with human oversight kept in the loop
A certified onboarding manager reviews your setup and tells you what to fix before the audit
Shared controls and evidence carry over when you expand beyond ISO 27001, with up to 90% evidence reuse reported across 200+ digitized frameworks
Confirmed Microsoft-ecosystem coverage spans Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, SharePoint, Teams, and Defender for Office 365, alongside AWS, GCP, Azure, Okta, Google Workspace, and GitHub
Cautions
Pricing is not published; confirm whether the internal-audit management features you need are included on your tier
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Thoropass

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Thoropass

Best for teams that want the platform and the audit from a single supplier

Thoropass provides compliance software and audit services. Its related entity, Thoropass Certification LLC, is now an accredited ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification body, accredited through the International Accreditation Service (IAS). The company offers both a platform used to prepare for certification and the certification audit itself, under the same corporate umbrella.

Thoropass maps the ISO 27001 certification lifecycle from certification planning through the Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits, the certification decision, surveillance audits, and the three-year recertification cycle. Evidence requests, uploads, and conversations with the audit team all happen inside the platform.

Smart Sort AI converts exported files from any GRC tool into audit-ready evidence with no integration required. It identifies the relevant control for each file and places it into the correct audit request automatically. The framework library covers over 10 frameworks and standards, including SOC 1, SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, GDPR, CMMC Level 1, NIST CSF 2.0, and PCI DSS.

  • Thoropass Certification LLC is accredited by the International Accreditation Service (IAS) for ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification
  • Thoropass maps the ISO 27001 certification lifecycle from certification planning through the Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits, the certification decision, surveillance audits, and the three-year recertification cycle
  • Evidence requests, uploads, and messages with the audit team all happen inside the platform
  • The Risk Register supports configurable 4×4 or 5×5 matrices with custom likelihood and impact definitions, and links risks to the controls used to address them
  • Smart Sort AI converts exported files from any GRC tool into audit-ready evidence with no integration required
  • The framework library covers 10 or more frameworks and standards, including SOC 1, SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, GDPR, CMMC Level 1, NIST CSF 2.0, and PCI DSS
  • Thoropass also offers penetration testing and vulnerability scanning services alongside its compliance platform and audit services

We recommend Thoropass if you’d like a compliance automation platform that can also provide the certification. Thoropass Certification LLC now holds its own IAS accreditation for ISO/IEC 27001:2022. We also like Smart Sort AI for turning whatever your team already has in another GRC tool into audit-ready evidence without needing a live integration first, and we like that evidence requests, uploads, and messages with the audit team all stay inside one platform, with no separate email thread to track.

Strengths
Its own IAS-accredited certification body removes the accreditation uncertainty that used to sit behind Thoropass's audit offering
One point of contact and one system cover both the ISO 27001 audit and the platform used to prepare for it, cutting the coordination overhead of running two vendors
Smart Sort AI turns evidence exports from whatever GRC tool you already use into audit-ready files, without waiting on a native integration to be built
A risk owner can trace directly from a rated risk to the control addressing it, without hunting across separate risk and control registers
Penetration testing and vulnerability scanning are available from the same vendor if you need them alongside the ISO 27001 audit
A framework library of 10 or more frameworks and standards keeps the platform focused on the ones Thoropass models in depth
Cautions
Pricing is not publicly available at the time of writing
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Vanta

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Vanta

Best for teams looking for the widest integration coverage

Vanta is a trust management platform that runs ISO 27001 as one of 35+ frameworks. It supports 400+ integrations feeding 1,400+ continuous tests. It covers ISO 27001:2022, with the 93 Annex A controls split across the four 2022 themes. It automatically generates the Statement of Applicability and maps ISO 27001 controls to the evidence and testing used to demonstrate them.

A risk register aligned to ISO 27005 handles risk identification and treatment, with configurable risk scoring and prioritization. The Agent for Risk connects risks to affected assets, controls, and vendors, using Vanta’s Trust Graph to keep the risk picture current as underlying data changes. The Vanta AI Agent drafts policies, answers control questions, and checks evidence for gaps before it reaches the auditor.

Vanta is a market leader, raising $150 million in Series D funding in 2025. More than 16,000 companies use the platform.

  • 400+ integrations run 1,400+ continuous tests, with hourly checks that flag failures and generate remediation steps
  • Vanta automatically generates the Statement of Applicability and maps ISO 27001 controls to the evidence and testing used to demonstrate them
  • A risk register aligned to ISO 27005 handles risk identification and treatment, with configurable risk scoring and prioritization
  • The Agent for Risk connects risks to affected assets, controls, and vendors, using Vanta’s Trust Graph to keep the risk picture current as underlying data changes
  • The Vanta AI Agent drafts policies, answers control questions, and checks evidence for gaps before it reaches the auditor
  • An auditor portal gives external auditors direct access to evidence and control status, reducing the back-and-forth of email requests
  • Vanta runs as one of 35+ frameworks on the same platform, with roughly 80 percent of ISO 27001 controls reusable for SOC 2

We recommend Vanta if you are looking to get ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified together and are looking for a wide list of pre-built integrations. There is a large overlap between the two programs, so controls and evidence built for one carry over to the other. We also like the Statement of Applicability automation, which maps controls to the evidence and testing behind them, so you’re not assembling that mapping by hand, and we like the auditor portal for how much of the back-and-forth it removes once the audit starts.

Strengths
Reusing control and evidence work across ISO 27001 and SOC 2 cuts the effort of certifying to both standards together
The auditor portal and AI evidence checks mean fewer follow-up requests once the audit is underway
The Agent for Risk keeps vendor and internal risk data connected to the assets and controls they affect, using the Trust Graph to stay current as things change
Vanta AI drafts policies and answers control questions directly, cutting the manual writing load for a first ISO 27001 program
35+ frameworks run on the same evidence base, so certifying to further standards later reuses the work already done for ISO 27001
Cautions
Risk management is listed only on Vanta's Professional tier

ISO 27001 Compliance Solutions Pricing

ISO 27001 compliance solutions vary their pricing depending on the number of frameworks in scope, headcount, integration depth, and whether you want the audit itself bundled in. Most vendors in this category are quote-based with annual contracts, and only a minority publish a starting figure up-front.

Product Starting Price Billing Link
Iru
Contact for quote
Functionality, user count, device count
Drata
Contact for quote
Tier (Foundation, Advanced, or Enterprise)
Hyperproof
Contact for quote
Not published
IO (formerly ISMS.online)
Contact for quote
Frameworks selected, functionality, support level
Scrut Automation
Contact for quote
Not published
Secureframe
From $7,000/year
Fundamentals tier (Complete and Defense are quote-only)
Sprinto
Contact for quote
Tier (Foundation or Growth), add-on modules
Thoropass
Contact for quote
Frameworks selected, audit scope, company size, services
Vanta
Contact for quote
Tier (Essentials, Plus, Professional, or Enterprise)

ISO 27001 Compliance Solutions Checklist

Here are our top tips on how to get the most out of your deployment.

You need to determine your control set, your evidence volume, and your audit cost, to make sure you're choosing the right tool for the scale of your requirements.

Only a body accredited under ISO/IEC 17021-1 can issue the ISO/IEC 27001 certificate, and most platforms leave it up to you to source that body. Lead times can run to months, so make sure you've sourced a body early if you're on a time crunch.

The SoA is a mandatory part of ISO 27001 certification (Clause 6.1.3 d). Some vendors supply guidance and templates instead of generating the document from your control records, so it's worth double checking that if you want a solution that will create the document for you.

ISO 27001 is a three-year commitment; surveillance audits run annually, and your full recertification is due at year three. Look for a solution that will cover you for that entire cycle, otherwise you might be stuck with a lot of manual work after the initial certification.

Those two systems supply the evidence for the largest share of the Annex A technological controls, so they deliver the biggest reduction in manual work per integration.

Annex A is a reference set to check your choices against, not a checklist to implement; not all of them will be applicable to your business, so it's important that you work out which ones are actually relevant to you before you start collecting evidence. Running the risk assessment first can help you do this.

Both of these are mandatory (clauses 9.2 and 9.3), and the external auditor will ask for the records at Stage 1 regardless of whether your technical evidence is complete.

Certificates issued against the 2013 edition expired on October 31, 2025, and only some solutions can move a live program onto the 2022 control set.

The Bottom Line

The right ISO 27001 compliance platform depends less on the number of frameworks it supports than on how much work it removes from your specific certification program.

If this is your first ISO 27001 certification

Prioritize a platform that gives you a clear path from defining your ISMS scope through risk assessment, control selection, Statement of Applicability, evidence collection, internal audit and certification.

Look for pre-built ISO 27001 workflows, policy and task management, automated evidence collection and guidance on preparing for Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits. A platform that can identify gaps before the certification audit is likely to save more time than one with a longer list of integrations.

Check exactly what the software automates, however. ISO 27001 is risk-based, so no platform can simply switch on a universal set of controls and make an organization compliant. You will still need to determine which controls are applicable to your ISMS and document those decisions in the Statement of Applicability.

If you already have an ISO 27001 program

The priority changes from building the program to maintaining it.

Look for continuous evidence collection, control monitoring, automated reminders, audit management, and the ability to reuse evidence between surveillance audits. If you are moving from another GRC platform or spreadsheet-based program, check whether the vendor can import existing controls, evidence, risks, and policies rather than forcing you to rebuild everything.

Also check how the platform handles the Statement of Applicability. It should support maintaining the document as your risks, controls and ISMS scope change, rather than treating it as a one-time certification deliverable.

If you need ISO 27001 alongside other frameworks

Cross-framework mapping becomes much more important.

A platform should let you map common controls and reuse evidence across programs such as SOC 2, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, or other standards you need to maintain. This can prevent the same access review, vulnerability scan or policy approval from becoming separate evidence requests for every framework.

Don’t choose on framework count alone. A platform supporting 200 frameworks is not necessarily more useful than one supporting 20 if the latter has better mappings and evidence reuse for the frameworks you actually need.

Ask every vendor to demonstrate these workflows using your environment rather than relying on a generic product tour:

  • Scope: Can we model our actual ISMS scope?
  • Risk: Can we record our risk assessment and link risks to controls?
  • SoA: Can the platform create and maintain our Statement of Applicability?
  • Evidence: Which of our systems can it collect evidence from automatically?
  • Controls: Can evidence and tests be mapped to the controls that actually apply to us?
  • Audit: How does it manage internal and external audit requests?
  • Reuse: Can evidence be reused across surveillance audits and other frameworks?
  • Migration: Can we import our existing controls, evidence and policies?
  • Integrations: Are the systems we actually use supported, and what evidence does each integration collect?
  • Pricing: Which features, frameworks, integrations and audit services cost extra?
  • Support: How much implementation and audit-readiness support is included?
  • Auditor: Does the vendor provide audit services, or will we need to source an independent certification body separately?

The best ISO 27001 compliance platform is therefore not necessarily the one with the most integrations, frameworks or AI features. It is the one that fits your existing environment, reduces repetitive evidence and administrative work, and gives your team enough control over the ISMS to prepare confidently for certification and keep it audit-ready afterwards.

Everything You Need To Know About ISO 27001 Compliance Solutions (FAQs)

ISO 27001 compliance solutions are a type of software designed to help businesses achieve ISO/IEC 27001 certification. They automatically map your information security management system (ISMS) to the controls outlined in the ISO/IEC 27001 standard, collect evidence that these controls are working, and produce a Statement of Applicability, then bundle all of that information up in a portal ready to be accessed by an external auditor.

Once you’ve chosen an ISO 27001 compliance solution, you connect it to your cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), identity providers, HR information system (HRIS), and device management tools. This connection is usually established via read-only APIs or OAuth, but some also use endpoint agents to be able to read local settings.

Once it has established those connections, the solution pulls telemetry from them to work out what controls you have in place, and whether they’re working effectively, for example whether you have MFA enforced for every account. It then maps this information to ISO 27001’s Annex A controls, and produces a Statement of Applicability that outlines which controls your business needs to implement, and whether or not it is doing so effectively.

In addition to automatically testing and mapping controls, ISO 27001 solutions offer a tracking system for paperwork that you need to provide regarding People, Physical and Supplier Relationships controls.

The solution then presents all of this information in a portal for an external auditor to access.

  • Automated evidence collection: The solution should connect to your cloud infrastructure, identity provider, HR information system, and device management system to test and verify controls.
  • Control mapping: The solution should map your controls to the ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A 2022 control set.
  • Statement of Applicability (SoA) generation: The solution should automatically create an SoA that states which controls are applicable to your organization, and the implementation status of each relevant control.
  • Risk management: The solution should identify risks in your environment, assign them a score based on likelihood and severity, and offer mitigation guidance.
  • Auditor workspace: The solution should provide a secure portal within which external auditors can review all the documentation you’re providing that’s relevant to your certification.

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