Frost Radar™: Compliance Automation, 2025
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31-Jul-2025
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The world’s complex regulatory landscape makes compliance management a constant challenge. Organizations are simply trying to keep pace with the proliferation of widely recognized standards, such as the California Privacy Rights Act and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and upcoming AI Act.
Compliance automation platforms streamline and scale the compliance management process, marking a broader transition from periodic audits to a more proactive, continuous approach that prioritizes audit readiness. Compliance is also becoming part of the software development lifecycle to reduce risks before code reaches production. This shift-left approach enables earlier identification and mitigation of compliance issues, improving both product security and development efficiency.
More than 20 vendors offer solutions across a range of approaches, including compliance-first platforms, risk-driven automation tools, and traditional governance, risk, and compliance platforms that have extended their capabilities to support compliance automation. Frost & Sullivan evaluated nine companies that met specific criteria for inclusion in this Frost Radar™ analysis.
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Author: Vivien Pua
Frost Radar: Compliance Automation
- The compliance automation market remains in its early stages. More than 20 vendors offer solutions today; of those, Frost & Sullivan evaluated nine vendors in this Frost Radar™ analysis. Each met the following criteria:
- Offers a solution that streamlines and maintains adherence to regulations and frameworks through automation, real-time monitoring, and centralized control management.
- Achieved annual revenue of at least $1 million and a market share of 1% in calendar year 2024.
- Vendors that met the inclusion criteria but could not share detailed insight into their solution were excluded to ensure fair scoring and comparison.
- Vendors can broadly be categorized into three main groups:
- Compliance-first vendors primarily focus on automating compliance workflows, such as evidence collection, control mapping, audit readiness, and framework alignment. Some are adding risk management modules to provide a more holistic view of an organization’s security posture. Those featured in this analysis include Drata, Thoropass, Scytale, Strike Graph, Sprinto, and Vanta.
- Risk-driven vendors integrate compliance automation into a broader risk management framework. They offer advanced capabilities for risk identification, assessment, and mitigation and map these directly to compliance requirements to help organizations prioritize efforts based on real-time risk exposure. Two, Centraleyes and CyberSaint, are included in this analysis.
- GRC platform vendors expanding into compliance automation support complex, multi-entity organizations by adding purpose-built compliance automation to their platforms. Their modules are embedded in broader governance and risk frameworks, enabling seamless integration across policy management, audit trails, and risk controls. LogicGate falls into this category.
Best Practices & Growth Opportunities
| 1 | When evaluating compliance automation tools, CISOs should prioritize a platform that integrates seamlessly with an organization's technology stack to improve efficiency, enhance visibility, reduce manual effort, and maintain compliance at scale. |
| 2 | Effective compliance automation tools should go beyond operational efficiency by aligning compliance efforts with broader business risk. These platforms need to equip CISOs with the ability to quantify compliance activities, assess their impact on risk posture, and translate those insights into business-relevant terms. |
| 3 | To ensure long-term value, CISOs should prioritize compliance automation tools with robust, enterprise-grade capabilities. These features future-proof investments by allowing the platform to scale with organizational growth, including mergers, acquisitions, and expansion into new markets. |
Centraleyes
CyberSaint
Drata
LogicGate
Scytale
Sprinto
Strike Graph
Thoropass
Vanta
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Compliance automation platforms streamline and scale the compliance management process, marking a broader transition from periodic audits to a more proactive, continuous approach that prioritizes audit readiness. Compliance is also becoming part of the software development lifecycle to reduce risks before code reaches production. This shift-left approach enables earlier identification and mitigation of compliance issues, improving both product security and development efficiency.
More than 20 vendors offer solutions across a range of approaches, including compliance-first platforms, risk-driven automation tools, and traditional governance, risk, and compliance platforms that have extended their capabilities to support compliance automation. Frost & Sullivan evaluated nine companies that met specific criteria for inclusion in this Frost Radar™ analysis.
Frost & Sullivan analyzes numerous companies in an industry. Those selected for further analysis based on their leadership or other distinctions are benchmarked across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria to generate their position on the Frost Radar™. The publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™, considering their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths.
Author: Vivien Pua
| Deliverable Type | Frost Radar |
|---|---|
| Industries | Aerospace, Defence and Security |
| No Index | No |
| Is Prebook | No |
| Keyword 1 | regtech compliance solutions |
| Keyword 2 | AI-driven compliance platforms |
| Keyword 3 | risk and regulatory automation |
| Podcast | No |
| Predecessor | None |
| WIP Number | PFUY-01-00-00-00 |