{"id":151,"date":"2026-10-27T20:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2026-10-27T20:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:15:39","slug":"it-risk-management-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/blog\/it-risk-management-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Best IT Risk Management Software for Small IT Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"ok-byline\"><div class=\"ok-who\"><span class=\"ok-avatar\" aria-hidden=\"true\">MB<\/span><div><strong>Reviewed by Max Benz<\/strong><span>Updated <time datetime=\"2026-10-27\">October 27, 2026<\/time> \u00b7 27 min read<\/span><\/div><\/div><ul class=ok-chips><li class=\"ok-chip ok-chip--ok\">Prices and docs read on vendor pages, October 27, 2026<\/li><li class=\"ok-chip ok-chip--ok\">No review ratings: every review site refused our reads<\/li><li class=\"ok-chip ok-chip--ok\">No sponsored placements in this comparison<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IT risk management software gives a small IT team one place to record technology risks, score them, name an owner for each, track what is being done about them and show an auditor the history. This page compares eight tools for teams of roughly 3 to 50 people and MSPs. It covers risk registers and risk assessment platforms. Vulnerability scanners, EDR and full enterprise risk suites for banks and insurers are a different job, so they aren't ranked here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The choice usually comes down to whether you already buy a compliance platform for SOC 2 or ISO 27001, and who will run the tool. If you do buy one, the risk module in that platform is the easy answer. If you don't, a free self-hosted register is the cheapest start, and a dedicated assessment platform suits teams that send questionnaires to departments and vendors. Only two of the eight tools publish a price, so the tables below spell out what each plan includes instead of pretending the rest have one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<nav class=\"ok-toc\" aria-label=\"On this page\"><p class=\"ok-toc__h\">On this page<\/p><ol><li><a href=\"#short-answer-picks-by-situation-and-compare-table\">Short answer, picks by situation and compare table<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#what-it-risk-management-software-does-and-what-it-doesn-t\">What IT risk management software does and what it doesn't<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#how-we-chose-these-tools\">How we chose these tools<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#free-and-self-hosted-risk-registers\">Free and self-hosted risk registers<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#compliance-platforms-with-a-risk-module\">Compliance platforms with a risk module<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#it-risk-assessment-platforms\">IT risk assessment platforms<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#which-tool-fits-which-team\">Which tool fits which team<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#what-it-risk-management-software-costs\">What IT risk management software costs<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#running-a-quarterly-it-risk-review\">Running a quarterly IT risk review<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#where-service-account-ownership-fits-in-the-risk-register\">Where service account ownership fits in the risk register<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#faq\">FAQ<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/nav>\n\n\n\n<dl class=\"ok-stats ok-wide\"><div class=\"ok-stat\"><dt>IT risk management tools compared<\/dt><dd>8<\/dd><\/div><div class=\"ok-stat\"><dt>have a free edition (SimpleRisk Core, Eramba Community)<\/dt><dd>2<\/dd><\/div><div class=\"ok-stat\"><dt>publish a price (SimpleRisk, Eramba)<\/dt><dd>2<\/dd><\/div><div class=\"ok-stat\"><dt>are risk modules inside compliance automation platforms<\/dt><dd>4<\/dd><\/div><\/dl>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"short-answer-picks-by-situation-and-compare-table\">Short answer, picks by situation and compare table<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"ok-picks ok-wide\"><li class=\"ok-pick\"><a href=\"#simplerisk\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/simplerisk.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__tag\">Best free register you host yourself<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__name\">SimpleRisk<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__text\">Core is free for unlimited users, with six scoring methods and a mitigation plan per risk. Jira, the API and risk assessments are paid Extras at $5,000 per year each.<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__meta\"><span class=\"ok-chip\">Free; paid from $5,000\/yr<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"ok-pick\"><a href=\"#eramba\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/eramba.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__tag\">Best flat fee<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__name\">Eramba<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__text\">Enterprise costs 2,500 EUR per year on-premises or 5,000 EUR as SaaS with unlimited users, and risks link to the controls, policies and exceptions that treat them.<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__meta\"><span class=\"ok-chip\">Free; from 2,500 EUR\/yr<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"ok-pick\"><a href=\"#vanta\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/vanta.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__tag\">Best if SOC 2 or ISO 27001 is already on the list<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__name\">Vanta<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__text\">The risk register shares controls with your compliance evidence, and a library of 100+ scenarios saves you a blank start. No published price.<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__meta\"><span class=\"ok-chip\">Quote only<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"ok-pick\"><a href=\"#drata\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/drata.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__tag\">Largest built-in risk library of the group<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__name\">Drata<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__text\">200+ pre-mapped risks and treatment plans linked to controls. Scoring is a fixed 1 to 5 scale that can't be customized.<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__meta\"><span class=\"ok-chip\">Not published<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"ok-pick\"><a href=\"#isora-grc\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/isora-grc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__tag\">Best for assessment campaigns<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__name\">Isora GRC<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__text\">Questionnaires go to departments, systems and vendors, and the findings land in the register on a 5 by 5 matrix. Users are unlimited on every tier.<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__meta\"><span class=\"ok-chip\">Quote only<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"ok-pick\"><a href=\"#logicmanager\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/logicmanager.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__tag\">Best if IT risk must roll up to the board<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__name\">LogicManager<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__text\">An IT security risk program inside enterprise risk management, sold as a fixed-price package with onboarding.<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__meta\"><span class=\"ok-chip\">Quote only<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"ok-pick ok-pick--ours\"><a href=\"#the-it-lead\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md ok-fav--ours\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/itl.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__tag\">For one recurring risk: unowned service accounts<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__name\">The IT Lead<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__text\">Doesn't replace a register. Collects owner confirmations for service accounts so the register entry has evidence.<\/span><span class=\"ok-pick__meta\"><span class=\"ok-chip\">Access code<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ok-compare ok-wide\" data-filter=\"1\"><div class=\"ok-scroll\"><table><thead><tr><th scope=\"col\">Tool<\/th><th scope=\"col\">Type<\/th><th scope=\"col\">How risks are scored<\/th><th scope=\"col\">Price (USD unless noted)<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr data-cat=\"Open-source risk register\"><th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"ok-tcell\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--sm\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/simplerisk.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span>SimpleRisk<\/span><\/th><td><span class=\"ok-job\">Open-source risk register<\/span><\/td><td class=\"ok-muted\">Six methods: Classic 5 by 5, CVSS, DREAD, OWASP, Custom, Contributing Risk<\/td><td>Core edition free with unlimited users; Starter Package $5,000 per year; each Extra $5,000 or $10,000 per year<\/td><\/tr><tr data-cat=\"Open-core GRC with a risk module\"><th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"ok-tcell\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--sm\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/eramba.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span>Eramba<\/span><\/th><td><span class=\"ok-job\">Open-core GRC with a risk module<\/span><\/td><td class=\"ok-muted\">Configurable matrix, likelihood by impact, addition or multiplication<\/td><td>Community free (self-hosted); Enterprise 2,500 EUR per year on-premises or 5,000 EUR per year SaaS, flat, unlimited users<\/td><\/tr><tr data-cat=\"Compliance automation with a risk module\"><th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"ok-tcell\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--sm\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/vanta.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span>Vanta<\/span><\/th><td><span class=\"ok-job\">Compliance automation with a risk module<\/span><\/td><td class=\"ok-muted\">Inherent and residual scores; scoring dimensions customizable by plan<\/td><td>No price published; demo required<\/td><\/tr><tr data-cat=\"Compliance automation with a risk module\"><th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"ok-tcell\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--sm\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/drata.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span>Drata<\/span><\/th><td><span class=\"ok-job\">Compliance automation with a risk module<\/span><\/td><td class=\"ok-muted\">Fixed 1 to 5 likelihood and impact, residual after treatment<\/td><td>No price published; demo or Contact Sales<\/td><\/tr><tr data-cat=\"Compliance and GRC platform\"><th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"ok-tcell\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--sm\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/hyperproof.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span>Hyperproof<\/span><\/th><td><span class=\"ok-job\">Compliance and GRC platform<\/span><\/td><td class=\"ok-muted\">Likelihood, impact, inherent risk and tolerance on customizable scales<\/td><td>No price published; demo and proposal only<\/td><\/tr><tr data-cat=\"Compliance automation with a risk module\"><th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"ok-tcell\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--sm\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/secureframe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span>Secureframe<\/span><\/th><td><span class=\"ok-job\">Compliance automation with a risk module<\/span><\/td><td class=\"ok-muted\">Probability times magnitude with adjustable weights<\/td><td>No price published on the pricing page<\/td><\/tr><tr data-cat=\"IT risk assessment platform\"><th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"ok-tcell\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--sm\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/isora-grc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span>Isora GRC<\/span><\/th><td><span class=\"ok-job\">IT risk assessment platform<\/span><\/td><td class=\"ok-muted\">5 by 5 likelihood by impact matrix, from assessment findings<\/td><td>No price published; four tiers by admin seats, quote only<\/td><\/tr><tr data-cat=\"Enterprise risk management suite\"><th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"ok-tcell\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--sm\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/logicmanager.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span>LogicManager<\/span><\/th><td><span class=\"ok-job\">Enterprise risk management suite<\/span><\/td><td class=\"ok-muted\">Likelihood and impact from a root-cause risk library<\/td><td>No price published; fixed price per solution package, quote only<\/td><\/tr><tr data-cat=\"Service account ownership reviews\" class=ok-ours><th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"ok-tcell\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--sm ok-fav--ours\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/itl.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span>The IT Lead <span class=\"ok-chip ok-chip--ours\">Our product<\/span><\/span><\/th><td><span class=\"ok-job ok-job--ours\">Service account ownership reviews<\/span><\/td><td class=\"ok-muted\"><\/td><td>Access code<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><p class=\"ok-note\">Prices read from vendor pages on October 27, 2026. The IT Lead is listed because it handles one narrow job, not because it is a risk register.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here's how to read the table. SimpleRisk and Eramba are the only tools with prices on the page, and Eramba's are in euros. The other six want a demo or a quote, and the compliance platforms usually price by framework and company size. The scoring column clearly matters: if you can't change the scale, your register simply inherits the vendor's idea of \"high\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-it-risk-management-software-does-and-what-it-doesn-t\">What IT risk management software does and what it doesn't<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The core of this category is the register. A register is a list of technology risks, and each entry has a description, an affected system or asset, an owner, a likelihood and impact score, a treatment decision and a review date. The better tools also generate risks from assessment questionnaires, link each risk to the controls that reduce it and produce reports that an auditor or manager can read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The category overlaps with three others, and vendors blur the lines on purpose. Here's where they differ:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Compliance automation<\/strong> (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe) proves that controls work and collects evidence for an audit, but risk is just one module among many.<\/li><li><strong>Enterprise risk management<\/strong> covers financial, operational and strategic risk across the whole company. IT is one program inside it.<\/li><li><strong>Vulnerability scanners and EDR<\/strong> find weaknesses and attacks. They feed a register, although they aren't one themselves.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A register needs an inventory to work from. If you haven't got a reliable list of systems yet, start with our guides to <a href=\"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/blog\/it-asset-management-software\/\">IT asset management software<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/blog\/saas-management-software\/\">SaaS management software<\/a>. Admin accounts are a risk class of their own, covered in the <a href=\"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/blog\/privileged-access-management-software\/\">privileged access management<\/a> comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"ok-callout ok-callout--tip\"><p><strong>A spreadsheet is a legitimate register<\/strong> One person, a few dozen risks and one reviewer is a spreadsheet job. Buy software when reviews slip, when several people edit the register at once, or when an auditor asks who changed a score and when. That's the point where a spreadsheet really stops being enough.<\/p><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-we-chose-these-tools\">How we chose these tools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We picked tools a small IT team can run without a risk analyst, and we looked at four things for each: how a risk is scored and who owns it, how treatment is tracked until it's closed, what the price counts and which plan gates the risk features, and what the vendor's own documentation says the tool can't do. Prices and documents were read from vendor pages on October 27, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two limits apply. G2, Capterra, TrustRadius and Gartner Peer Insights refused our automated reads for all eight tools, so there are no ratings or review themes on this page, and we won't repeat figures from search snippets. Vendors also describe their own products, so where a claim comes from a marketing page, we say so. No tool vendor paid for a place here, and we don't link to vendor sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We left out enterprise suites such as ServiceNow, Archer and MetricStream. They're built for large programs with dedicated administrators, whereas a small team can rarely evaluate them without a sales process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"free-and-self-hosted-risk-registers\">Free and self-hosted risk registers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SimpleRisk and Eramba give you a working register without a sales call. The price you pay is time, because someone on your team has to host it, update it and answer its questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"ok-card ok-wide\" aria-labelledby=\"simplerisk\"><header class=\"ok-card__head\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/simplerisk.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><div class=\"ok-card__title\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"simplerisk\">SimpleRisk<\/h3><p class=\"ok-card__sub\">SimpleRisk is a risk register you can run yourself for free. Each risk gets an owner, one of six scoring methods, a mitigation plan and a review, and the paid Extras add Jira, an API and recurring risk assessments.<\/p><\/div><span class=\"ok-job\">Open-source risk register<\/span><span class=\"ok-rate ok-muted\">No G2 rating<\/span><\/header><div class=\"ok-card__body\"><div class=\"ok-card__main\"><p class=\"ok-lede\">A free risk register for unlimited users, with six scoring methods. The useful extras are paid add-ons.<\/p><p><strong>How a risk is scored and owned.<\/strong> You submit a risk under Risk Management, then Submit Risk. Only the subject is required, and owner, category and affected assets are recommended. The default method is Classic, likelihood times impact on a 5 by 5 matrix based on NIST SP 800-30. The other five are CVSS, DREAD, OWASP, Custom (a 0 to 10 value) and Contributing Risk. Every method produces an inherent score and, after mitigation, a residual score, and dashboards use residual by default.<\/p><p><strong>How treatment is tracked.<\/strong> Plan Mitigation records a planned date, a mitigation owner, a strategy (Mitigate, Accept, Transfer or Avoid), effort and cost, controls and a mitigation percent. The percent lowers the impact side of the score and recalculates residual risk. A user with the Able to Accept Mitigations permission approves or rejects the plan, and a planned date that passes without an update shows as overdue.<\/p><p><strong>What costs money.<\/strong> Core is free with email support only. The Starter Package is $5,000 per year and includes any three Standard Extras. A single Standard Extra is $5,000 per year and a Premium Extra $10,000. Jira integration, the API, risk assessments, email notification, custom authentication, workflows and vulnerability management are all Extras, so a team that wants Jira tickets and email reminders reaches the Starter Package price quickly.<\/p><div class=\"ok-cs\"><div class=\"ok-cs__yes\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Choose it when<\/strong><ul><li>you want a free risk register with unlimited users that your own team hosts<\/li><li>you want to choose among scoring methods such as Classic, CVSS, DREAD and OWASP<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"ok-cs__no\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Skip it when<\/strong><ul><li>you need Jira sync, an API or recurring assessments on a small budget: each is a separate $5,000 per year Extra<\/li><li>nobody on the team wants to host and patch a web application and you do not want to pay for the hosted edition<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><figure class=\"ok-shot\"><div class=\"ok-shot__bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><\/div><img src=\"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/itr-simplerisk-screenshot.png\" alt=\"The SimpleRisk Risk Details page for a ransomware risk shows an inherent risk score of 8 (High), a residual score of 4 (Medium) and a Mitigation tab with planned date, strategy, effort, owner, percent and controls.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1250\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption>SimpleRisk mitigation plan on a risk (Source: SimpleRisk documentation)<\/figcaption><\/figure><details class=\"ok-more\"><summary>How it works in practice<\/summary><p><strong>What that team misses.<\/strong> The frameworks SimpleRisk names are ISO 27001 and 27002, ISO 31000, NIST SP 800-53, COSO and CMMC, and SOC 2 isn't named on the pages we read. Core is free, but the hosted edition and the vendor-supported on-premises installs come with the paid packages, so the free path means you host it yourself. We found no review page we could read.<\/p><\/details><\/div><dl class=\"ok-card__side\"><div><dt>Starting price<\/dt><dd>Core edition free with unlimited users; Starter Package $5,000 per year; each Extra $5,000 or $10,000 per year<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Edition<\/dt><dd>Core is free; Extras are priced per year<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Scoring methods<\/dt><dd>Classic, CVSS, DREAD, OWASP, Custom, Contributing Risk<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Deployment<\/dt><dd>Self-hosted, on-premises or vendor SaaS on paid packages<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Free edition<\/dt><dd>Core, unlimited users, email support<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>First paid step<\/dt><dd>Starter Package, $5,000 per year with 3 Extras<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"ok-card ok-wide\" aria-labelledby=\"eramba\"><header class=\"ok-card__head\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/eramba.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><div class=\"ok-card__title\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"eramba\">Eramba<\/h3><p class=\"ok-card__sub\">Eramba ties each risk to the controls, policies, exceptions and projects that treat it, so a failed control test flags every risk that relies on it. The Community edition is free and self-hosted, and Enterprise is a flat annual fee with unlimited users.<\/p><\/div><span class=\"ok-job\">Open-core GRC with a risk module<\/span><span class=\"ok-rate ok-muted\">No G2 rating<\/span><\/header><div class=\"ok-card__body\"><div class=\"ok-card__main\"><p class=\"ok-lede\">A free self-hosted Community edition and a flat-fee Enterprise tier, with risks tied to the controls, policies and exceptions that treat them.<\/p><p><strong>How a risk is scored and owned.<\/strong> You create a risk in one of three modules: Asset, Third Party or Business. Each needs a scenario-style title, a GRC contact, a risk originator and a mandatory review date. The Analysis tab links the asset, threats and vulnerabilities and classifies the inherent risk. Scoring is configurable instead of fixed: a single likelihood by impact matrix (the recommended setup) or one likelihood against several impact types, with your own classification values and addition or multiplication as the calculation.<\/p><p><strong>How treatment is tracked.<\/strong> The Treatment tab records what is in place today, links internal controls, policies, exceptions and projects, and classifies again for residual risk. The treatment options are Accept, Avoid, Transfer and Mitigate, with mandatory solutions you set per option, and exceptions are time-bound acceptances. Reviews run on a schedule, ad hoc or on a change: eramba creates the next review record, the GRC contact completes it, and a missed review shows a warning. A control that fails its audit flags every risk that relies on it, which a plain register can't do.<\/p><p><strong>What costs money.<\/strong> Community is free with no user or time limit and covers four of seven use cases: Risk, Compliance, Data Privacy and Incidents. Enterprise is a flat fee with unlimited users and data: 2,500 EUR per year on-premises or 5,000 EUR per year as SaaS hosted in the EU or the US. Prices on the pages we read are in euros only.<\/p><div class=\"ok-cs\"><div class=\"ok-cs__yes\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Choose it when<\/strong><ul><li>you want a flat annual fee with unlimited users and data<\/li><li>you want a failed control to flag the risks that depend on it<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"ok-cs__no\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Skip it when<\/strong><ul><li>you want a hosted risk register at no cost: Community is self-hosted only and SaaS is the 5,000 EUR Enterprise tier<\/li><li>you want Jira or Slack integration out of the box: the pages we read do not list Jira and Slack and Teams are marked as planned<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><figure class=\"ok-shot\"><div class=\"ok-shot__bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><\/div><img src=\"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/itr-eramba-screenshot.png\" alt=\"The Eramba Asset Risks register lists risks with Dynamic Status badges such as Control Last Audit Failed, review counts and related assets, with a highlight box around the status and reviews columns.\" width=\"2316\" height=\"1154\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption>Eramba asset risk register with dynamic status (Source: Eramba learning course; the highlight box is part of the original image)<\/figcaption><\/figure><details class=\"ok-more\"><summary>How it works in practice<\/summary><p><strong>What that team misses.<\/strong> Community runs on your own server only, since SaaS for it is marked as coming soon. The pages we read don't list Jira, and Slack and Teams are marked as planned, so ticket sync means the REST API in Enterprise. The homepage headline says a flat fee of 5000 per year while the get-started page lists 2,500 EUR for on-premises, so confirm which edition a quote covers. The linked model of controls, policies and exceptions takes longer to learn than a plain register. No readable review page.<\/p><\/details><\/div><dl class=\"ok-card__side\"><div><dt>Starting price<\/dt><dd>Community free (self-hosted); Enterprise 2,500 EUR per year on-premises or 5,000 EUR per year SaaS, flat, unlimited users<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Community<\/dt><dd>Free, self-hosted, 4 of 7 use cases<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Enterprise<\/dt><dd>2,500 EUR per year on-premises, 5,000 EUR per year SaaS<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Currency<\/dt><dd>Published in euros only<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Free edition<\/dt><dd>Community, self-hosted, 4 of 7 use cases<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Flat fee<\/dt><dd>2,500 EUR on-premises, 5,000 EUR SaaS, per year<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"compliance-platforms-with-a-risk-module\">Compliance platforms with a risk module<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vanta, Drata, Secureframe and Hyperproof are sold to teams facing a SOC 2, ISO 27001 or similar audit. The risk register comes with the platform, shares its controls and evidence, and changes the economics: you aren't buying a register, you're buying a compliance program that includes one. None of the four publishes a price, so expect a demo before you see a number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"ok-card ok-wide\" aria-labelledby=\"vanta\"><header class=\"ok-card__head\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/vanta.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><div class=\"ok-card__title\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"vanta\">Vanta<\/h3><p class=\"ok-card__sub\">Vanta is a compliance automation platform with a risk register built in. Risks carry an owner, inherent and residual scores and a treatment plan, and a library of 100+ scenarios suggests control mappings.<\/p><\/div><span class=\"ok-job\">Compliance automation with a risk module<\/span><span class=\"ok-rate ok-muted\">No G2 rating<\/span><\/header><div class=\"ok-card__body\"><div class=\"ok-card__main\"><p class=\"ok-lede\">A compliance automation platform whose risk register shares controls with the evidence you collect for SOC 2 or ISO 27001.<\/p><p><strong>How a risk is scored and owned.<\/strong> You add a scenario to a register on the Risks page by hand, pick one from a library of 100+ common scenarios, import a spreadsheet (Risk Scenario is the only required column) or use the API. Each scenario gets an owner, and owners complete the assessments. Vanta lists inherent and residual scoring and customizable scoring dimensions, though the help article we read doesn't explain how the score is calculated.<\/p><p><strong>How treatment is tracked.<\/strong> Assessments document risk scores, risk mappings and treatment plans, and treatment plans go through approval. Recommended controls from the library are added automatically or on request, depending on a setting. Tasks can go to Jira, GitHub or Asana, and reporting includes heatmaps and risk snapshots. Findings from vendor security reviews can be linked to risk scenarios.<\/p><p><strong>Plan gates.<\/strong> Vanta publishes no price and says pricing is by demo. Risk management with customization appears in the Professional plan on the pricing page. The help center says a single register comes with Core Risk Management, while multiple registers, enterprise risks and custom fields, categories and scoring need Advanced Risk Management.<\/p><div class=\"ok-cs\"><div class=\"ok-cs__yes\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Choose it when<\/strong><ul><li>you already need SOC 2 or ISO 27001 and want the risk register tied to the same controls<\/li><li>you want a library of 100+ risk scenarios to start from instead of a blank register<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"ok-cs__no\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Skip it when<\/strong><ul><li>you only want a risk register: risk management starts in the Professional plan or an Advanced add-on, so you pay for a compliance suite<\/li><li>you need multiple registers or custom scoring on a small budget: those need Advanced Risk Management<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><figure class=\"ok-shot\"><div class=\"ok-shot__bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><\/div><img src=\"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/itr-vanta-screenshot.png\" alt=\"The Vanta Risk report shows risk scores over time for current, inherent and residual risk, a stacked chart of inherent risks by severity and a 5 by 5 likelihood and impact heatmap.\" width=\"1880\" height=\"1276\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption>Vanta risk report with heatmap (Source: Vanta)<\/figcaption><\/figure><details class=\"ok-more\"><summary>How it works in practice<\/summary><p><strong>What that team misses.<\/strong> Risk management exists, but it sits behind the Professional plan or an add-on, so a team that wants only a register still pays for a compliance suite. We read the first 100,000 of about 153,000 characters of the pricing page, so some plan details may be missing from what we describe. No readable review page.<\/p><\/details><\/div><dl class=\"ok-card__side\"><div><dt>Starting price<\/dt><dd>No price published; demo required<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Risk library<\/dt><dd>100+ scenarios with suggested controls<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Task trackers<\/dt><dd>Jira, GitHub, Asana<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Pricing<\/dt><dd>Demo only, no published price<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"ok-card ok-wide\" aria-labelledby=\"drata\"><header class=\"ok-card__head\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/drata.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><div class=\"ok-card__title\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"drata\">Drata<\/h3><p class=\"ok-card__sub\">Drata is a compliance automation platform whose risk module offers a register, a library of 200+ pre-mapped risks and treatment plans that link to controls. Remediation tasks can open as Jira tickets.<\/p><\/div><span class=\"ok-job\">Compliance automation with a risk module<\/span><span class=\"ok-rate ok-muted\">No G2 rating<\/span><\/header><div class=\"ok-card__body\"><div class=\"ok-card__main\"><p class=\"ok-lede\">A compliance automation platform with a library of 200+ pre-mapped risks and treatment plans linked to controls.<\/p><p><strong>How a risk is scored and owned.<\/strong> Impact and likelihood each use a fixed 1 to 5 scale, and Drata's help article says those values are preset and can't be customized. Scores of 1 to 4 are low, 5 to 9 medium, 10 to 19 high and 20 to 25 critical. A risk counts as assessed once it has an inherent or residual score. Owners and categories can be assigned in bulk from the Actions button, and a one-time survey can populate the register on first use.<\/p><p><strong>How treatment is tracked.<\/strong> You pick a treatment plan per risk and link it to mitigating controls, and the posture view shows how exposure changes over time by inherent or residual score. Remediation tasks can open as Jira tickets. The same help article notes that most organizations follow a yearly review cadence, which is a reminder to set your own for high risks.<\/p><p><strong>Plan gates.<\/strong> Drata shows no prices, only demo and Contact Sales buttons. Risk Management is listed in the Foundation package, which is for up to 50 full-time employees. Risk Management Pro is an add-on on Advanced and included in Enterprise. Third-party risk management is a separate product.<\/p><div class=\"ok-cs\"><div class=\"ok-cs__yes\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Choose it when<\/strong><ul><li>you want a 200+ risk library with treatment plans linked to controls and Jira remediation tickets<\/li><li>you expect to add third-party risk management later as a separate product<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"ok-cs__no\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Skip it when<\/strong><ul><li>you need custom scoring scales: the help article says the 1 to 5 scoring values are preset, and Risk Management Pro is an Advanced add-on or Enterprise<\/li><li>you have no compliance program and want only a risk register<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><figure class=\"ok-shot\"><div class=\"ok-shot__bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><\/div><img src=\"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/itr-drata-screenshot.png\" alt=\"The Drata risk register table shows risk IDs, names, mitigating controls with ready and not ready counts, a treatment dropdown (Accept, Transfer, Mitigate, Untreated) and a bulk action bar for three selected risks.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1084\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption>Drata risk register with treatment and mitigating controls (Source: Drata help center)<\/figcaption><\/figure><details class=\"ok-more\"><summary>How it works in practice<\/summary><p><strong>What that team misses.<\/strong> A team that needs its own scoring scale has to look at Risk Management Pro or Enterprise, since the standard scale is fixed. That said, a fixed 1 to 5 scale is easy to explain to auditors. The help article we read doesn't explain how a control is mapped to a risk. Treatment options are listed in a search summary we couldn't confirm, so ask for them in the demo. No readable review page.<\/p><\/details><\/div><dl class=\"ok-card__side\"><div><dt>Starting price<\/dt><dd>No price published; demo or Contact Sales<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Risk library<\/dt><dd>200+ pre-mapped risks<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Scoring scale<\/dt><dd>Fixed 1 to 5 for impact and likelihood<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Task tracker<\/dt><dd>Jira<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Foundation limit<\/dt><dd>Up to 50 FTEs<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"ok-card ok-wide\" aria-labelledby=\"secureframe\"><header class=\"ok-card__head\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/secureframe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><div class=\"ok-card__title\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"secureframe\">Secureframe<\/h3><p class=\"ok-card__sub\">Secureframe is a compliance automation platform with a risk module. You pick risks from a library, score impact and likelihood, choose a treatment and record residual risk, and every change lands in an exportable history for auditors.<\/p><\/div><span class=\"ok-job\">Compliance automation with a risk module<\/span><span class=\"ok-rate ok-muted\">No G2 rating<\/span><\/header><div class=\"ok-card__body\"><div class=\"ok-card__main\"><p class=\"ok-lede\">A compliance automation platform with an AI-drafted risk assessment and a history log an auditor can export.<\/p><p><strong>How a risk is scored and owned.<\/strong> You pick predefined risks from the Risk Library, filtered by Information Security, Privacy or Fraud, or create custom ones. Owner, departments, category and tags are required before you can complete an assessment. The risk score is probability times magnitude, and the weights are adjustable in Risk Scoring settings. Comply AI for Risk drafts an inherent score, a treatment, a residual score and justifications that you then review.<\/p><p><strong>How treatment is tracked.<\/strong> You choose Acceptance, Transfer, Avoid or Mitigation, justify it and record the residual risk. An assessment is Draft until you complete it, and then it's locked until someone reverts it to Draft. Risk History is an exportable change log of every update, and point-in-time snapshots are available for auditors. The vendor describes the workflow as ISO 27005 based, and the same workflow handles ISO 42001 AI impact assessments.<\/p><p><strong>Plan gates.<\/strong> The pricing page names three packages without prices. Fundamentals includes Risk Management, and Complete adds Advanced Risk Management and Advanced Third-Party Risk Management. Defense adds CMMC items.<\/p><div class=\"ok-cs\"><div class=\"ok-cs__yes\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Choose it when<\/strong><ul><li>you want AI-drafted risk assessments with inherent score, treatment and residual score<\/li><li>you also need SOC 2 or ISO 27001 automation and a risk library to start from<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"ok-cs__no\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Skip it when<\/strong><ul><li>you need a published price: the pricing page lists three packages without amounts<\/li><li>you want a standalone risk quantification tool: the module is built around compliance frameworks<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><figure class=\"ok-shot\"><div class=\"ok-shot__bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><\/div><img src=\"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/itr-secureframe-screenshot.png\" alt=\"The Secureframe Risk assessment form has steps for Details, Assessment, Treatment, Tasks, Documents and Review, impact and likelihood dropdowns with justification fields and a quantitative section with asset value and annualized rate of occurrence.\" width=\"1434\" height=\"1292\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption>Secureframe risk assessment form (Source: Secureframe help center)<\/figcaption><\/figure><details class=\"ok-more\"><summary>How it works in practice<\/summary><p><strong>What that team misses.<\/strong> The feature page mentions linking controls to risks, but the help article we read doesn't describe how. The module is built around compliance frameworks, so it suits a team documenting risk for an audit. The assessment form also has an optional quantitative section based on annualized loss expectancy, though we couldn't test how far it goes. A search snippet showed a starting price we couldn't verify on the vendor's page, so treat the price as unknown. No readable review page.<\/p><\/details><\/div><dl class=\"ok-card__side\"><div><dt>Starting price<\/dt><dd>No price published on the pricing page<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Packages<\/dt><dd>Fundamentals, Complete, Defense<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Treatment options<\/dt><dd>Acceptance, Transfer, Avoid, Mitigation<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Audit trail<\/dt><dd>Exportable risk history<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"ok-card ok-wide\" aria-labelledby=\"hyperproof\"><header class=\"ok-card__head\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/hyperproof.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><div class=\"ok-card__title\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hyperproof\">Hyperproof<\/h3><p class=\"ok-card__sub\">Hyperproof is a compliance and GRC platform with a risk register fed by intake surveys. Risks link to controls, and a linked control can carry a mitigation percentage, with multiple registers and a vendor module on top.<\/p><\/div><span class=\"ok-job\">Compliance and GRC platform<\/span><span class=\"ok-rate ok-muted\">No G2 rating<\/span><\/header><div class=\"ok-card__body\"><div class=\"ok-card__main\"><p class=\"ok-lede\">A compliance and GRC platform where the register starts from intake surveys and controls carry a mitigation percentage.<\/p><p><strong>How a risk is scored and owned.<\/strong> Standardized intake surveys collect risk signals from employees, partners and vendors. A proposed risk needs a name and a description and can carry an owner plus free-text rationale for likelihood and impact. The intake article we read describes no numeric score and no approval step on that path. The register itself has fields for tolerance, actual risk, inherent risk, likelihood and impact on customizable scales, and custom fields work as dashboard and report filters.<\/p><p><strong>How treatment is tracked.<\/strong> Treatment is control based. You link a control to a risk from the risk's Details tab, and a linked control can carry a mitigation percentage that signals a target reduction in the likelihood of the risk. The docs don't explain how that percentage changes residual risk. Control health data feeds multiple risk registers, and the vendor module shows residual risk per vendor.<\/p><p><strong>Plan gates.<\/strong> The pricing page has no prices, plans or free tier, only Get a Demo and Request Proposal.<\/p><div class=\"ok-cs\"><div class=\"ok-cs__yes\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Choose it when<\/strong><ul><li>you want risks tied to controls with a mitigation percentage and more than one register<\/li><li>you also need vendor risk and many frameworks in one place<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"ok-cs__no\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Skip it when<\/strong><ul><li>you need a published price or a self-serve trial: pricing is demo and proposal only<\/li><li>you want a lightweight risk register only: it is sold as a broader compliance and GRC platform<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><figure class=\"ok-shot\"><div class=\"ok-shot__bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><\/div><img src=\"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/itr-hyperproof-screenshot.png\" alt=\"The Hyperproof Risk Register dashboard shows a risk summary, donut charts for residual risk and response (transfer, accept, avoid), a risk health chart and a controls donut.\" width=\"1414\" height=\"492\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption>Hyperproof risk register dashboard (Source: Hyperproof)<\/figcaption><\/figure><details class=\"ok-more\"><summary>How it works in practice<\/summary><p><strong>Integrations and frameworks.<\/strong> The vendor claims 200+ data connectors, live syncs with Google Drive, Confluence, SharePoint, Dropbox and Amazon S3, and task tools such as Asana, Jira and ServiceNow. It also claims 160+ frameworks including ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-53, NIST CSF and DORA. These are marketing claims we couldn't test. We couldn't confirm Okta, Entra or Google Cloud connectors on the page we read. No readable review page.<\/p><\/details><\/div><dl class=\"ok-card__side\"><div><dt>Starting price<\/dt><dd>No price published; demo and proposal only<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Intake<\/dt><dd>Survey for employees, partners and vendors<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Control link<\/dt><dd>Linked controls can carry a mitigation percentage<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Pricing<\/dt><dd>Demo and proposal only<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"it-risk-assessment-platforms\">IT risk assessment platforms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isora GRC and LogicManager start from assessments instead of audits. They answer \"what's our exposure across systems, departments and vendors?\" rather than \"can we pass the audit?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"ok-card ok-wide\" aria-labelledby=\"isora-grc\"><header class=\"ok-card__head\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/isora-grc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><div class=\"ok-card__title\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"isora-grc\">Isora GRC<\/h3><p class=\"ok-card__sub\">Isora GRC by SaltyCloud runs IT and security risk assessments with prebuilt questionnaires and turns findings into register entries on a 5 by 5 matrix. Users are unlimited, and the four tiers differ by admin seats and record caps.<\/p><\/div><span class=\"ok-job\">IT risk assessment platform<\/span><span class=\"ok-rate ok-muted\">No G2 rating<\/span><\/header><div class=\"ok-card__body\"><div class=\"ok-card__main\"><p class=\"ok-lede\">Assessment first: questionnaires go to departments, systems and vendors, and the findings become register entries.<\/p><p><strong>How a risk is scored and owned.<\/strong> Assessments go out with prebuilt questionnaires mapped to NIST, CIS, HIPAA, GLBA, HECVAT, FFIEC, PCI-DSS and others, and they collect evidence inline. Campaigns can recur, for example annually, twice a year or when something changes. Risks are generated from the findings with lineage back to the questionnaire item, the mapped control, the framework requirement and the assessment objective, and a 5 by 5 likelihood by impact matrix computes the level. You can also add risks by hand.<\/p><p><strong>How treatment is tracked.<\/strong> Remediation plans carry milestones, assigned owners and a status that runs from open to closure. An append-only audit log keeps the history, an exception register records compensating controls, and POA&amp;M exports are supported. Reporting includes scorecards, a findings matrix and PDF and CSV export.<\/p><p><strong>Plan gates.<\/strong> There are four tiers and no dollar prices. Solo has 1 admin seat, 100 assessments and 1,000 risk register records. Team has 3 admin seats, 500 assessments and 2,500 risk register records. Enterprise has 5 admin seats, 1,000 assessments and 5,000 records, and Unlimited removes the caps. Users are unlimited and every plan gets the full feature set.<\/p><div class=\"ok-cs\"><div class=\"ok-cs__yes\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Choose it when<\/strong><ul><li>a small security or IT team wants assessments against NIST CSF, CIS or HIPAA to feed a risk register automatically<\/li><li>you want unlimited respondents without a per-user fee<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"ok-cs__no\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Skip it when<\/strong><ul><li>you need continuous control monitoring and evidence collection for SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits: the vendor positions audit automation as a different category<\/li><li>you need a published price or free trial before talking to sales<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><details class=\"ok-more\"><summary>How it works in practice<\/summary><p><strong>Who uses it.<\/strong> The vendor's customer stories are universities, public-sector agencies, banks and healthcare teams, so the questionnaires lean toward those frameworks. A SaaS startup will still find NIST CSF and CIS, but fewer questionnaires written for it. The vendor says most teams launch a first assessment within days of onboarding, which we couldn't verify. The only integrations we saw named are SSO, an API and CSV import and export. The vendor itself describes audit automation as a different category. No readable review page.<\/p><\/details><\/div><dl class=\"ok-card__side\"><div><dt>Starting price<\/dt><dd>No price published; four tiers by admin seats, quote only<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Tiers<\/dt><dd>Solo, Team, Enterprise, Unlimited<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Matrix<\/dt><dd>5 by 5 likelihood by impact<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Users<\/dt><dd>Unlimited on every tier<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Respondents<\/dt><dd>Unlimited on every tier<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"ok-card ok-wide\" aria-labelledby=\"logicmanager\"><header class=\"ok-card__head\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/logicmanager.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><div class=\"ok-card__title\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"logicmanager\">LogicManager<\/h3><p class=\"ok-card__sub\">LogicManager is enterprise risk management software with a security risk program for IT. Risks are assessed on likelihood and impact from a root-cause library, and the price is a fixed package with unlimited users and guided onboarding.<\/p><\/div><span class=\"ok-job\">Enterprise risk management suite<\/span><span class=\"ok-rate ok-muted\">No G2 rating<\/span><\/header><div class=\"ok-card__body\"><div class=\"ok-card__main\"><p class=\"ok-lede\">Enterprise risk management software with an IT security program, sold as a fixed-price package with onboarding.<\/p><p><strong>How a risk is scored and owned.<\/strong> Risk identification starts from a root-cause risk library so that business units describe risks the same way. Risks are rated on likelihood and impact, given a level, then mitigated, monitored and reported. The security program covers cybersecurity policy and an asset and application inventory, threat and vulnerability assessments, security controls, testing and incident response. A feature the vendor calls Risk Ripple links vulnerabilities to assets, controls to policies and incidents to their consequences.<\/p><p><strong>What the price includes.<\/strong> Pricing is value based: one fixed price per solution package with unlimited users, eight one-hour onboarding sessions with a specialist, a dedicated advisory analyst and a 90-day money-back guarantee. The page gives no amounts. The vendor says a connector program links over 7,000 applications, including SCIM and Microsoft Entra ID.<\/p><div class=\"ok-cs\"><div class=\"ok-cs__yes\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Choose it when<\/strong><ul><li>the IT risk register has to roll up into company-wide risk reporting for a board or auditors<\/li><li>you want advisory help and onboarding included in a fixed price<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"ok-cs__no\"><strong class=\"ok-cs__h\">Skip it when<\/strong><ul><li>you run a small IT team and want a lightweight register with a transparent price: pricing is quote only and bundled with onboarding<\/li><li>you want an IT-only tool: LogicManager is built as enterprise-wide risk management<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><details class=\"ok-more\"><summary>How it works in practice<\/summary><p><strong>What that team misses.<\/strong> LogicManager describes itself as enterprise-wide risk management, so a three-person IT team gets a platform sized for a risk department. That works if the board wants one risk view, though it's a lot of tool for a lean team. We found no product help center and no explicit list of supported frameworks on the pages we read. No readable review page.<\/p><\/details><\/div><dl class=\"ok-card__side\"><div><dt>Starting price<\/dt><dd>No price published; fixed price per solution package, quote only<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Pricing<\/dt><dd>Fixed price per package, quote only<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Users<\/dt><dd>Unlimited<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Onboarding<\/dt><dd>Eight one-hour sessions<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"which-tool-fits-which-team\">Which tool fits which team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"ok-rows\"><li><span>You want a free register and can host it<\/span><strong class=\"ok-go\">SimpleRisk Core or Eramba Community<\/strong><\/li><li><span>You want one flat fee, unlimited users and euro billing is fine<\/span><strong class=\"ok-go\">Eramba Enterprise<\/strong><\/li><li><span>You need SOC 2 or ISO 27001 this year<\/span><strong class=\"ok-go\">Vanta, Drata or Secureframe, compared in a demo<\/strong><\/li><li><span>You need risk, vendor risk and many frameworks in one place<\/span><strong class=\"ok-go\">Hyperproof<\/strong><\/li><li><span>You send recurring assessments to departments and vendors<\/span><strong class=\"ok-go\">Isora GRC<\/strong><\/li><li><span>IT risk has to roll up into company-wide risk reporting<\/span><strong class=\"ok-go\">LogicManager<\/strong><\/li><li><span>One recurring finding is service accounts nobody owns<\/span><strong class=\"ok-go\">The IT Lead alongside your register<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-it-risk-management-software-costs\">What IT risk management software costs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prices for IT risk management software are published by only SimpleRisk and Eramba, so a calculator would be mostly blanks. This table shows what each price counts and where the bill grows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Tool<\/th><th>Price basis (USD unless noted)<\/th><th>What grows the bill<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>SimpleRisk<\/td><td>Free Core; paid packages from $5,000 per year<\/td><td>Each Extra adds an annual fee, and Premium Extras cost more<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Eramba<\/td><td>Free Community; Enterprise 2,500 or 5,000 EUR per year<\/td><td>SaaS hosting instead of on-premises, plus optional paid workshops<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Vanta<\/td><td>Demo-based quote<\/td><td>Frameworks and plan tier; multiple registers and custom scoring need Advanced Risk Management<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Drata<\/td><td>Demo-based quote<\/td><td>Package size (Foundation covers up to 50 employees) and the Risk Management Pro add-on<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hyperproof<\/td><td>Demo and proposal<\/td><td>Not stated on the page<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Secureframe<\/td><td>Quote by package<\/td><td>The Complete package adds Advanced Risk Management<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Isora GRC<\/td><td>Quote by tier<\/td><td>Admin seats and record caps, plus extra environments<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>LogicManager<\/td><td>Fixed price per solution package<\/td><td>Combining solution packages<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"ok-callout ok-callout--watch\"><p><strong>What makes the bill grow<\/strong> In compliance platforms the register is rarely the expensive part. Frameworks, employee count and add-ons decide the quote, yet vendors seldom say so up front, so ask what the risk module costs on its own, whether multiple registers and custom scoring are included and what a second framework adds.<\/p><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"running-a-quarterly-it-risk-review\">Running a quarterly IT risk review<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The software only helps if someone runs the same review every time. This routine fits a team of three to ten, and it works in any of the tools above or in a spreadsheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"ok-timeline ok-wide\"><li><span class=\"ok-owner ok-owner--0\">IT lead<\/span><span class=\"ok-tl__task\">Refresh the list of systems, vendors and accounts the register is built on <\/span><span class=\"ok-tl__when\">Week 1<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"ok-owner ok-owner--1\">System owners<\/span><span class=\"ok-tl__task\">Add or update risks for what they run: end-of-life software, new vendors, accounts with no owner <\/span><span class=\"ok-tl__when\">Weeks 1 and 2<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"ok-owner ok-owner--0\">IT lead<\/span><span class=\"ok-tl__task\">Score new and changed risks with the same scale and keep inherent and residual scores apart <\/span><span class=\"ok-tl__when\">Week 2<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"ok-owner ok-owner--2\">Risk owners<\/span><span class=\"ok-tl__task\">Choose accept, avoid, transfer or mitigate and set a date for each <\/span><span class=\"ok-tl__when\">Week 3<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"ok-owner ok-owner--3\">IT lead and management<\/span><span class=\"ok-tl__task\">Approve every acceptance with an expiry date, then record it as an exception <\/span><span class=\"ok-tl__when\">Week 3<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"ok-owner ok-owner--0\">IT lead<\/span><span class=\"ok-tl__task\">Report open high risks, overdue treatments and acceptances that expire next quarter <\/span><span class=\"ok-tl__when\">Week 4<\/span><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A risk without an owner is itself a finding, and it's plainly the first one to fix. The tools above handle this differently: SimpleRisk requires only a subject, so you can save a risk with no owner, Secureframe blocks completing an assessment until owner, departments and category are filled in, and Eramba requires a GRC contact and a review date on every risk. Whichever tool you pick, make the owner field mandatory by policy, even where the software doesn't force it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A register entry doesn't need to be long, but every entry needs the same few fields, filled in the same way, as the table below shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Field<\/th><th>What to write<\/th><th>Example<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Risk statement<\/td><td>Cause, event and consequence in one sentence<\/td><td>An unpatched VPN appliance could be exploited and expose internal systems<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>System or asset<\/td><td>The thing at risk<\/td><td>VPN gateway<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Owner<\/td><td>One named person<\/td><td>Network lead<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Inherent score<\/td><td>Likelihood times impact before controls<\/td><td>4 times 5<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Treatment<\/td><td>Accept, avoid, transfer or mitigate, with a date<\/td><td>Mitigate by patching, December 15<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Residual score<\/td><td>The score expected after treatment<\/td><td>2 times 5<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Next review<\/td><td>A date, not \"ongoing\"<\/td><td>January 12<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"where-service-account-ownership-fits-in-the-risk-register\">Where service account ownership fits in the risk register<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unowned service accounts deserve a line in the register: they hold access, nobody's sure why they exist and nobody feels responsible for them. A register records that risk and its treatment. It doesn't produce the evidence that each account has a named owner, who confirmed it and when. That comes from an ownership review, which none of the tools above run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is the narrow job of The IT Lead: it imports service accounts from a CSV file, lets you name an owner for each one, emails the owners to confirm or reject ownership and keeps the answers in a review trail. It doesn't scan for vulnerabilities, rotate passwords or change anything in your directory, and it isn't a risk register. If you'd rather learn the method first, our <a href=\"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/blog\/service-account-ownership-matrix\/\">service account ownership matrix<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/blog\/service-account-audit-checklist\/\">service account audit checklist<\/a> work in a spreadsheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"ok-product ok-wide\" id=\"the-it-lead\"><span class=\"ok-fav ok-fav--md ok-fav--ours\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/opskit\/fav\/itl.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><div><p class=\"ok-product__eyebrow\">What these tools don&#x27;t answer<\/p><p class=\"ok-product__head\">Know who owns every service account, and when it was last reviewed.<\/p><p>The IT Lead imports service accounts from CSV, nominates owners, collects their attestations and keeps a review trail an auditor can follow. Built for small IT teams and MSPs.<\/p><\/div><a class=\"ok-product__cta\" href=\"https:\/\/theitlead.com\/\">See how it works<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"faq\">FAQ<\/h2>\n\n\n<div id=\"rank-math-faq\" class=\"rank-math-block\">\n<div class=\"rank-math-list \">\n<div id=\"faq-question-1\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">Is there free IT risk management software?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n\n<p>Free IT risk management software exists in two forms. SimpleRisk Core is free for unlimited users, and Eramba Community is free with no user or time limit. Both are self-hosted, so someone on your team installs and updates them. SimpleRisk keeps Jira, the API and risk assessments in paid Extras, and Eramba Community covers four of seven use cases.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-2\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">What is the difference between IT risk management software and compliance automation?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n\n<p>Compliance automation proves that your controls work and collects evidence for an audit such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001. IT risk management software records what could go wrong, scores it, names an owner and tracks the treatment. Platforms such as Vanta, Drata, Secureframe and Hyperproof bundle both, while SimpleRisk, Eramba and Isora GRC center on the risk side.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-3\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">How do you score an IT risk?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n\n<p>Most tools multiply likelihood by impact on a 5 by 5 scale, as in NIST SP 800-30, and keep an inherent score before controls and a residual score after treatment. SimpleRisk offers six scoring methods, Drata uses a fixed 1 to 5 scale and Eramba lets you define your own classifications. Pick one scale and keep it for every risk.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-4\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">Do small IT teams need a GRC platform?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n\n<p>Small IT teams don't always need a GRC platform. A spreadsheet with an owner, a score, a treatment and a review date works while one person maintains it. Move to a tool when reviews slip, when several people edit the register or when an auditor wants a history of changes.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-5\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">How often should an IT risk register be reviewed?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n\n<p>Most organizations review IT risk yearly, according to Drata's help article. For a small team, a quarterly pass over high risks and a yearly full review is a practical split, and every accepted risk needs an expiry date so it comes back for a decision.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-6\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">Which of these tools publish a price?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n\n<p>SimpleRisk and Eramba are the only tools here that publish a price. SimpleRisk starts free and its paid packages begin at $5,000 per year. Eramba Enterprise is 2,500 EUR per year on-premises or 5,000 EUR as SaaS. 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