GRC vendors
We list 78 companies active in GRC and compliance automation, and 19 of them have it as their main focus. 2 are public, 8 are owned by another company and 68 are private. Most are based in the United States (49). The oldest, IBM, was founded in 1911. By revenue from annual reports, the largest company here is Qualys ($669.1m in FY2025).
By countryUnited States 49
Companies focused on GRC and compliance automation
19 companies| Company | Based in | Founded | Size | Ownership | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alvor Alvor provides a security architecture management and compliance platform. | Melbourne, Australia | 2026 | Private | ||
Archer Integrated risk management software covering enterprise and operational risk, IT and security risk, compliance, audit, third-party governance and operational resilience. | Overland Park, United States | Owned by Cinven | |||
Article 14 Ready Article 14 Ready provides a browser-based working packet for manufacturers that fall under the EU Cyber Resilience Act. | Mannheim, Germany | 2020 | Private | ||
C ConformOps ConformOps sells software for preparing the technical file required by the EU Cyber Resilience Act. | Italy | Private | |||
CVD Portal CVD Portal provides a platform for vulnerability reporting and Cyber Resilience Act compliance. | Netherlands | 2024 | Private | ||
CyberSentien CyberSentien provides a compliance assurance engine that assesses organisations against multiple security and AI governance frameworks. | Australia | 2025 | Private | ||
CyberSheath CyberSheath provides cybersecurity compliance services for DOD contractors, focusing on CMMC, DFARS, and NIST standards. | Reston, United States | 2012 | Private | ||
Drata Drata provides a platform that automates security compliance, risk management and trust assurance for companies. | San Francisco, United States | 2020 | Private | ||
MDP Data Protection MDP Data Protection sells a compliance platform called Simply and a method called the Continuous Compliance Operating System (CCOS). | Labège, France | 2023 | Private | ||
MetricStream GRC software covering IT and cyber risk, IT and cyber compliance, vendor and third-party risk, enterprise risk, regulatory compliance, internal audit and resilience. | San Jose, United States | Private | |||
Notice Labs Notice Labs sells trust center software to software companies that face customer security reviews. | London, United Kingdom | Private | |||
Optro Audit, risk and compliance software, formerly AuditBoard, with controls management, cyber risk management, third-party risk, regulatory compliance and AI governance products. | United States | Private | |||
Quantara AI Quantara AI provides an AI-native platform for cyber risk quantification and prioritization. | Eagle, United States | Private | |||
Second Front Systems Second Front Systems provides a DevSecOps suite that helps software providers and government agencies build, secure, and deploy software to government and regulated networks. | Wilmington, United States | 2014 | Private | ||
Vanta Vanta provides a platform for automating security compliance and risk management. | San Francisco, United States | 2018 | Private | ||
ZeroRisk ZeroRisk provides an agentic platform that automates compliance and vendor risk assessments. | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Private | |||
Ansvar Systems AB Ansvar Systems AB provides evidence and validation infrastructure for AI agents in regulated work. | Fränsta, Sweden | 2025 | Private | ||
IntelliGRC IntelliGRC provides software that helps managed service providers automate cybersecurity compliance and audit readiness. | Fairfax, United States | Private | |||
ServiceNow Integrated risk management software for policy, compliance, audit and third-party risk, sold as part of a wider IT and business workflow platform. | Santa Clara, United States | Private |
Also active in GRC and compliance automation
59 companies| Company | Based in | Founded | Size | Ownership | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Qualys Qualys provides an enterprise cyber risk and security platform. | Foster City, United States | 1999 | Public, QLYS | $669.1m (FY2025) | |
IBM IBM is a technology company that sells software, infrastructure, and consulting services. | Armonk, United States | 1911 | 352,600 staff | Public, IBM | |
A-LIGN A-LIGN provides cybersecurity compliance audits and certifications across frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. | Tampa, United States | 2009 | 500+ staff | Owned by Hg | |
Coalfire Compliance-focused cybersecurity advisory firm and FedRAMP 3PAO specializing in penetration testing that meets stringent regulatory requirements. | Westminster, United States | 2001 | 500+ staff | Owned by Apax Partners | |
Kroll Global risk advisory firm with a 400+ person cyber practice. IR-led penetration testing that feeds active breach intelligence straight into test scoping. | New York, United States | 1932 | 500+ staff | Owned by Stone Point Capital and Further Global | |
GRC Solutions (formerly IT Governance) UK compliance and cybersecurity consultancy, formerly IT Governance, offering CREST and NCSC CHECK penetration testing alongside governance, risk and compliance services. | Ely, United Kingdom | 2002 | 201-500 staff | Private | |
Jones IT Jones IT provides managed IT services, cybersecurity, and compliance support to businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area. | San Francisco, United States | 2002 | 100 staff | Private | |
SBS CyberSecurity US cybersecurity consulting, audit and testing firm founded in 2004, focused on community banks and credit unions, with external, internal, web application, wireless and PCI DSS penetration testing plus CMMC Level 1 and 2 readiness work. | Madison, United States | 2004 | 51-200 staff | Private | |
Tevora CREST-accredited California consultancy blending compliance expertise with penetration testing. First to earn ISO 17020 for MITRE ATT&CK and PTES frameworks. | Irvine, United States | 2003 | 51-200 staff | Private | |
PreVeil PreVeil provides end-to-end encrypted email and file sharing for defence and regulated industries. | Boston, United States | 2015 | 25 staff | Private | |
DeepSeas (formerly RedTeam Security) RedTeam Security is now part of DeepSeas, which offers penetration testing, red teaming and physical testing as its offensive security practice. | Atlanta, United States | 2012 | 11-50 staff | Private | |
AIUC Sets standards, audits and insures frontier AI systems and agents for security, safety and reliability. | San Francisco, United States | Private | |||
A Armor Provides cloud security, compliance and managed detection and response services to regulated industries. | Plano, United States | 2009 | Private | ||
BARR Advisory BARR Advisory helps organisations establish, manage, and audit cybersecurity and compliance programmes. | Kansas City, United States | Private | |||
BSI Group ISO/IEC 27001 certification audits and information security training from the UK national standards body, which also certifies quality, safety and medical devices. | London, United Kingdom | Private | |||
CRACI CRACI provides build-time software supply chain security and SBOM generation for developers. | Helsinki, Finland | 2025 | Private | ||
D Data & More Data & More is a Danish software company founded in 2016. | Copenhagen, Denmark | 2016 | Private | ||
Drivesec Turin firm selling Weseth, a remote platform for automated security and penetration testing of vehicles and devices. | Turin, Italy | 2017 | Private | ||
Feedzai Feedzai provides AI-powered fraud and financial crime prevention software for banks and fintechs. | Coimbra, Portugal | Private | |||
Fendr Fendr provides AI usage controls for businesses. | London, United Kingdom | 2025 | Private | ||
Heelr Heelr is a marketplace connecting organisations with verified cybersecurity professionals and providers. | Luxembourg, Luxembourg | Private | |||
Integris IT Integris provides managed IT, cybersecurity, AI and cloud services to small and midsize businesses. | Cranbury, United States | Private | |||
ITSECOPS ITSecOps provides managed IT, cybersecurity and compliance services to organisations worldwide. | Greater Noida, India | Private | |||
Johanson Group Johanson Group is a CPA firm providing security and compliance audits. | Colorado Springs, United States | 2012 | Private | ||
KirkpatrickPrice KirkpatrickPrice is a licensed CPA firm that performs cybersecurity audits and compliance assessments. | Nashville, United States | Private | |||
KPMG Cyber security consulting covering strategy and governance, security transformation and cyber threat management, plus cyber managed services and cloud security from member firms. | London, United Kingdom | Private | |||
LexisNexis Risk Solutions Risk data and analytics provider whose ThreatMetrix, Emailage and InstantID products detect fraud and verify digital identities for banks, insurers and governments. | Alpharetta, United States | Private | |||
Living Security Living Security provides a platform that measures and reduces human risk in organisations. | Austin, United States | 2017 | Private | ||
NICE Actimize Fraud management, money laundering detection, KYC and trading compliance software for banks and financial institutions, with case management and investigation tools. | Hoboken, United States | Private | |||
Pillar Security Pillar Security provides a platform to discover, test, secure and govern AI agents across organisations. | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2023 | Private | ||
Prescient Assurance Prescient Assurance provides SOC 2 audits and security compliance certifications for SaaS companies. | United States | Private | |||
ProcessUnity ProcessUnity provides a software platform for managing third-party and cybersecurity risk. | Concord, United States | Private | |||
Pulumi Pulumi provides an infrastructure as code platform that lets teams build and manage cloud infrastructure using general purpose programming languages such as TypeScript, Python, Go, .NET, Java, YAML and HCL. | Seattle, United States | 2024 | Private | ||
Quzara Quzara provides FedRAMP compliance advisory and managed detection and response services. | Vienna, United States | Private | |||
SafeHabits SafeHabits provides managed security awareness training and human risk management for organisations. | Prague, Czech Republic | 2026 | Private | ||
Securiti Securiti provides a platform for data security, privacy, governance and compliance across hybrid multicloud environments. | San Jose, United States | 2018 | Part of Veeam | ||
Senteon Senteon automates endpoint hardening and CIS benchmark compliance for audits. | Matawan, United States | Private | |||
SkyCloud SkyCloud provides software for managing and automating firewall security policies across multiple vendors. | Shenzhen, China | Private | |||
STACK Cybersecurity Provides managed IT services, cybersecurity, compliance support and AI adoption guidance to businesses. | Livonia, United States | Owned by IT Solutions | |||
SyntaAI SyntaAI sells Syntasec, an on-premise security and compliance platform for SAP systems. | Bengaluru, India | 2025 | Private | ||
TRM Labs TRM Labs provides blockchain intelligence and AI tools to help investigate and disrupt criminal networks. | San Francisco, United States | 2018 | Private | ||
vCISO Lite vCISO Lite sells a subscription platform that helps growing companies handle security compliance and risk. | Atlanta, United States | 2026 | Private | ||
Venminder Third-party risk management software with outsourced vendor control assessments, continuous vendor risk monitoring and managed services, now part of Ncontracts. | United States | Owned by Ncontracts | |||
Virtue AI Virtue AI provides an enterprise AI safety platform for securing AI agents and applications. | San Francisco, United States | Part of Fortinet | |||
Whistic Whistic provides a platform for assessing, monitoring, and sharing vendor security and compliance information. | West Jordan, United States | Private | |||
C2A Security Product security platform for vehicle makers covering TARA, SBOM-based vulnerability management and R155 and ISO 21434 compliance. | Jerusalem, Israel | 2016 | Private | ||
Cortile Cortile automates vendor security reviews for healthcare third-party risk teams. | Ann Arbor, United States | 2025 | Private | ||
Cyberneza LLC Cyberneza provides cybersecurity and compliance consulting for defense contractors and regulated organizations. | Orlando, United States | 2025 | Private | ||
itemis Tool for building and updating threat analyses and risk assessments to ISO/SAE 21434, IEC 62443 and the CRA. | Dortmund, Germany | Private | |||
Lattix Technologies Corp Lattix Technologies Corp provides data security with encryption, policy, and audit trails. | Culpeper, United States | 2024 | Private | ||
NTT DATA Cybersecurity consulting, transformation and managed security services covering risk and compliance, secure business enablement and cyber resilience, from a global IT services company. | Tokyo, Japan | Private | |||
ONEKEY ONEKEY provides a platform for product cybersecurity and compliance, automating SBOM analysis, vulnerability detection, and regulatory compliance. | Düsseldorf, Germany | 2020 | Private | ||
OneTrust Third-party management and tech risk and compliance software, alongside privacy automation, consent management and AI governance tools. | Atlanta, United States | Private | |||
Panorays Third-party cyber risk management platform with vendor security questionnaires, external attack surface ratings, continuous monitoring and remediation workflows for suppliers. | New York, United States | Private | |||
P Primary Target Browser-based tool that automates threat analysis and risk assessment, mainly for vehicle makers and their suppliers. | Ismaning, Germany | Private | |||
Safetica Technologies Safetica provides AI-powered data protection, insider risk, cloud security, and compliance software. | San Jose, United States | 2007 | Private | ||
securagen.ai Builds cryptographic validation, information intelligence, regulatory assurance and sovereign AI products for defence and government. | Athens, Greece | 2025 | Private | ||
SecurityScorecard SecurityScorecard provides a platform for managing third-party and supply chain cyber risk. | New York, United States | 2013 | Private | ||
VxLabs VxLabs provides an AI-powered platform for automotive cybersecurity compliance and risk management. | Dover, United States | 2022 | Private |
Recent deals in GRC and compliance automation
All GRC and compliance automation dealsAcquisitions come from SecurityWeek's monthly M&A round-ups from 2021 onwards, from Cybersecurity Ventures' quarterly M&A reports for 2020, and a few from Wikipedia lists. These are dated to the month. A few deals added from the news are dated to the day. Smaller deals may be missing. Amounts are in US dollars.