Looking for a Vanta alternative in Ireland? First decide whether you need software or proof

Vanta is compliance software. It connects to your cloud and identity systems, collects evidence and tracks controls, and your own team does the work. That suits a software company with engineers going for SOC 2 or ISO 27001. A firm with one customer questionnaire to answer may need the work done and the proof handed over instead.

By Oscar CobbeCurrent as at 6 November 20264 minute read5 sources

What Vanta sells, from its own pages

Vanta's pricing page lists four plans, Essentials, Plus, Professional and Enterprise, and no prices: it asks you to request a demo to get personalised pricing. Its framework menu lists SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001, among others, and it says it pulls data automatically from more than 400 tools.

Questionnaire automation is part of the plans: 25 questionnaires a year on Plus and 144 on Professional. Vanta also runs a programme for service providers, the firms that do the compliance work for clients who use Vanta.

The others in the same category

Secureframe publishes one price: its Fundamentals package starts at $7,500 a year. Drata's site would not load when we read these pages.

Two Irish firms publish prices for a different kind of service. PrivacyEngine, a privacy management platform, starts at €4,999 a year, with a training system for up to 50 employees and 2 hours of consulting support. BH Haven, a subscription from BH Consulting, is €17,000 a year for a business of 1 to 10 employees, with 2 consulting days.

When a platform like Vanta is the right choice

Our guide to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 explains which one your customers are likely to ask for, and who issues each.

1You sell software, often to US customers, and they ask for a SOC 2 report.
2You have engineers who can connect the platform and fix what it finds.
3You expect many questionnaires a year, so automating the answers pays for itself.

When it is not

A platform shows you those gaps. Somebody still has to close them and record the proof. If your customer is regulated under NIS2, the questions a NIS2 customer asks its suppliers shows where each of theirs comes from.

1You have one questionnaire, or one tender, and a deadline.
2Nobody inside the business has time to run a compliance platform.
3The gaps are basic: two-step sign-in not enforced on every account, no tested restore, no incident plan, email that can be forged in your name, no written record of processing.

What we do instead

The free supplier questionnaire check needs no sign-up. It asks the questions customers and tenders put to suppliers, each traced to NIS2, DORA or the GDPR, and shows which answers you can prove, what proof each needs, and who closes each gap.

Protect does the basics most questionnaires ask about and proves them with a second scan, a CyFun Basic score and an evidence pack. It is a fixed €3,450 for up to 10 staff, €4,950 for 11 to 25 and €7,500 for 26 to 50. Patching, device protection and penetration tests stay with your IT provider and a testing firm.

A SOC 2 report comes from a licensed CPA's examination, so if your customer requires one, a platform with that auditor is the route.

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The basics, done and proven

Protect puts in place what most questionnaires ask about, two-step sign-in, a tested restore, an incident plan and email protection, and proves each with a second scan and an evidence pack. From €3,450 up to 10 staff, fixed before we start.

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Who wrote this

Oscar Cobbe · Founder, FourWinds

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