EU-Sovereign GRC Cloud for Information Security, Data Protection and Continuity
AKARION is a European software vendor for integrated governance, risk and compliance management (GRC). Founded in Linz in 2017 and operating from Linz (Austria) and Munich (Germany), the company pursues one clear goal: making regulatory requirements straightforward to implement for organisations of any size and industry — as the foundation for genuine IT resilience rather than documentation in a binder.
The core product is the AKARION GRC Cloud, an AI-powered SaaS platform that unites information security (ISMS), business continuity (BCMS), audit, data protection (DSMS) and whistleblowing in one system. Data is captured once and reused across all modules — no redundancies, no data silos. Supported frameworks include ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 22301, BSI IT-Grundschutz, BSI 200-4, NIS-2, DORA and GDPR/SDM, along with sector-specific catalogues such as B3S Healthcare and Energy.
More than 900 organisations across the NIS-2-relevant sectors — healthcare, energy, public administration, manufacturing and digital infrastructure — work with the platform, as do leading consulting firms as partners.
At AKARION, digital sovereignty is an architectural principle rather than a marketing term: development takes place entirely in Austria and Germany, and hosting runs exclusively on STACKIT infrastructure in Germany. The company is certified to ISO/IEC 27001, and its team of around 20 employees brings together more than 100 years of combined GRC experience from consulting, auditing and software engineering.
AKARION positions the GRC Cloud as the GRC platform that thinks ahead for its users. Five modules — information security, business continuity, audit, data protection and whistleblowing — run on one shared database: capture once, reference everywhere. The built-in AI generates risks, controls, processing activities and audit questions in the context of the customer's organisation, which the vendor says cuts effort by more than 80%. The platform is multi-tenant, multilingual, ISO 27001 certified and hosted entirely in Germany.