The best Compliance automation & security posture
Every option ranked — open-source, self-hostable, and commercial — by our transparent Sovereignty Score, with honest trade-offs so you choose what fits you, not us.
Platforms that continuously monitor technical controls and assemble the evidence an auditor needs for SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA — and the open-source scanners that cover the monitoring half without the audit workflow.
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Prowler
Top pickOpen sourceOpen-source cloud security posture scanning with framework check packs.
Free / self-host; optional paid hosted Prowler Cloud · in our Vanta comparison →
What is Prowler? →92sovereignty - 2
Wazuh
Open sourceOpen-source SIEM and XDR with compliance reporting built in.
Free / self-host; paid Wazuh Cloud available · in our Vanta comparison →
What is Wazuh? →88sovereignty - 3
Steampipe + Powerpipe
Open sourceQuery your cloud configuration as SQL, with compliance mods on top.
Free / self-host; paid Turbot Pipes hosted option · in our Vanta comparison →
What is Steampipe + Powerpipe? →86sovereignty - 4
OpenSCAP
Open sourceSCAP-standard configuration scanning and hardening for Linux estates.
Free / self-host · in our Vanta comparison →
What is OpenSCAP? →84sovereignty - 5
CloudQuery
Open sourceSync cloud infrastructure into your own database, then ask compliance questions of it.
Free / self-host core; paid cloud and premium plugins · in our Vanta comparison →
What is CloudQuery? →80sovereignty
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