KnowBe4 KCM GRC Platform (discontinued) vs. Techstreet

KnowBe4 KCM GRC Platform is well suited for a company that knows what they're doing compliance wise and needs to save time doing it. It won't be something you can spend a few hours on and then put on autopilot. It was made to create a rhythm within your own team, and you'll need to have the buy-in. It's useful for IT and Legal teams that already have a vendor risk management process, but want to have a better handle on it. Giving an outside auditor read-only access to a scope is also a huge time saver.

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Techstreet would be suitable for building companies, certification companies, testing laboratories, and manufacturers. With Techstreet, you can purchase current and previous versions of standards and manuals from different accreditation companies. This is quite helpful for businesses that need to stay up-to-date on industry standards and regulations.

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• Mapping controls across different compliance frameworks. It saves you a ton of time and energy!
• Performing risk assessments at the granularity that you prefer, splitting assessments across departments and teams if you wish.

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• Has the latest versions of standards
• Keeps a record of standards I already purchased
• Sends notifications when a standard I purchased receives an update

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• Vendor management has a few kinks to work out. We want to be able to do internal questionnaires for vendors as a compliance checklist before we sign off on a contract. Nothing in the works yet, but there are a few workarounds.
• The navigation between different tasks in scope is clunky, and it's easy to lose your place, and it forces you back to the main page of the scope to retrace your steps.

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• Would be good to be able to share the standards with clients. But some of the standards are protected.

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Support from KnowBe4 KCM GRC Platform is always great. It's always in-house localized support, with excellent response times, and dedicated Customer Success Managers to answer the bulk of your questions or take your suggestions and make them a feature request. They will also reach out at least quarterly and do health checks to make sure you're using the platform to the best of your ability.

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Quantivate and Fusion were the other two options we checked out. The quantity was high, and a good bit more expensive, but it was the best performing with its platform. They also had more modules that each cost extra to add to your subscription. KnowBe4 KCM GRC Platform was all-in-one and a little less mature, but the better buy. Fusion was hard to follow in the demo, and I was not overly impressed. I may have made my decision early enough in the demo to not pay much more attention to it.

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• Just having the capacity to do things the right way, and formally, has driven some of our compliance efforts.
• Due to licensing limitations, we likely overspent on seats to the platform that we didn't need but also didn't want to miss out on.

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• Before Techstreet, I had to go to multiple places to purchase the standards I needed. This was time-consuming and frustrating. But with Techstreet, I can find all the standards I need in one place, and their prices are really competitive.
• I also appreciate that Techstreet is a full repository. This means that they have a huge selection of standards to choose from, including both current and previous versions. This is really helpful for me, because I often need to reference older versions of standards for reviewing test procedures or training purposes.

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