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Polestead vs Panorays

Panorays blends an external rating with adaptive questionnaires — a lighter-touch outside-in. Polestead doesn't blend: your internal classification is the architecture, and external signals are evidence inside it.

Panorays
Polestead
The model
Combined external rating + questionnaire per vendor; business context weights the result.
Your exposure defines the tier first; assessment depth, monitoring, and review cadence all follow from it.
Coverage
The vendors you onboard into the platform.
The entire ERP vendor master, ingested and classified by default — the long tail included.
Incident response
Breach alerts on monitored vendors.
CIIC — a regulatory control plane producing clock schedules and regulator-ready reports per framework (DORA, NIS2, GDPR).
Deployment
Multi-tenant SaaS.
On-premises, air-gapped, single-tenant EU cloud, or managed single-tenant SaaS.
Choose Panorays if…

You want fast, low-friction vendor security reviews on a SaaS platform and your program centers on questionnaire turnaround for a curated vendor set.

Choose Polestead if…

You need the whole register under classification, regulatory incident clocks handled, and the option to run it all inside your own walls.

See your register classified.

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FAQ

Common questions.

How is Polestead different from Panorays?+

Panorays blends an external rating with questionnaires; Polestead makes your internal classification the architecture and treats external signals as evidence.

Does Polestead handle incident response?+

Yes — CIIC produces clock schedules and regulator-ready reports for DORA, NIS2, and GDPR.

Can it be self-hosted?+

Yes — on-premises, air-gapped, single-tenant EU cloud, or managed SaaS.