# Anecdotes Reviews **Vendor:** Anecdotes A.I Ltd **Category:** [Security Compliance Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/security-compliance) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 60 ## About Anecdotes Anecdotes empowers GRC Leaders to manage risk proactively with real-time insights and AI-driven automation—built on a foundation of secure, system-based data. Unlike templated or prescriptive tools, our platform integrates directly with your tech stack, automatically collecting and standardizing data for continuous GRC monitoring. With features like the Policy Guardian AI agent, which detects compliance gaps between policies and actual system configurations, and Data Delegation, which ensures your organization retains full control over sensitive data throughout the process, Anecdotes delivers the visibility, automation, and data privacy today’s GRC teams demand. No silos. No guesswork. Just stronger, smarter, and safer GRC. ## Anecdotes Reviews ### 1. Efficient Compliance Automation with Strong Integrations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2026 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** What I like most is the automated evidence collection. It saves our team a lot of manual effort and eliminates a lot of “screenshot chasing” during audits. The platform’s ability to integrate with a range of SaaS tools, while also giving us a centralized view of our compliance status, is a major value add. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** The initial setup and mapping for certain integrations can be time-consuming and a bit complex. While the platform itself is powerful, the learning curve for new users feels fairly steep. I’d also like more flexibility when building custom reports, so I don’t have to rely as much on support from their team. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Anecdotes addresses the challenge of manual, fragmented compliance management. Rather than having to collect audit evidence by hand, the platform automates data gathering across our tech stack. For us, this has significantly reduced the operational burden on the team, helped ensure we stay “audit-ready” throughout the year instead of only during peak periods, and improved visibility into our overall security posture. ### 2. Governance Risk and Compliance Tool - Extremely Easy to Implement, Navigate and Utilize **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cassondra F. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** My team and I reviewed various cybersecurity risk tools and hoped to find one that was suitable for our environment at the right pricepoint. After assessing over ten tools, we found Anecdotes to be user-friendly, aesthetically appeasing, and a robust tool. The team was knowledgeable, helpful, responsive, and implemented a majority our requests, expeditiously. Overall, Anecdotes provided a great onboarding experience. We are also excited to leverage Anecdotes for external audits such as SOC2. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Currently Anecdotes is unable to hide cyber risks that do not belong to the risk owner. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Anecdotes helps our organization reduce cybersecurity risk within our organization ensuring we increase our cyber maturity each year. The tool is also increasing awareness of cybersecurity risks that exist within risk owners' and managers' environments -- potentially unbeknownst to them. The ability to create a dashboard that accurately reflects our risk posture and risks within each line of business. It also will help us significantly for our internal and external audits. The ability to customize the tool (e.g. frameworks) is also an added bonus! ### 3. A compliance automation tool that gives real control insights and monitoring **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Easy to use, valuable plug-ins that look at controls more than just on the surface, has beta of unreleased frameworks such as NIST CSF 2.0 before launch, gives detailed control insights that competitors do not have. They arent in a race to send your way to get a SOC 2 audit. They care about the controls behind the evidence where others do not. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** nothing, this is a great tool for the continuous monitoring compliance space. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Insights into our controls for apps we do not admin ourselves, evidence collection for SOC2 audit ### 4. Killer flexibility, solid integrations, and a great team behind it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jack R. | Head of GRC, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Anecdotes allows me to ingest our tools to show continuous compliance monitoring. It integrates with 90% of our systems like AWS, HR systems, and even most of our security tooling. These integrations serve as the building blocks for control requirements that can then be easily mapped to applicable frameworks (for us SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, ISO27001, CSA CoC GDPR). They support 26 frameworks in total ATM which is more coverage then many other compliance tools I've looked at. Favorite feature is called Evidence Pool: Evidence from integrated tools comes in via API calls and Anecdotes automatically maps the relevant data fields from that system into very accesible table-based views. You can then filter this data for things like exceptions (some that anecdotes has pre-defined for each integration or custom rules if you want to get fancy). Another great use case is using this table to spot check what's actually happening in your systems. All of the connections are read-only. The tool actually gives me visibility to systems I don't neccessarily need direct access to, giving me only the relevent info for compliance. This tool also does the basic stuff well. Policy management works perfect, you can create custom controls or requirements, you can always resort to uploading screenshots or other document-based evidence to support a control and that's all very intuitive in the system. Going back to the frameworks --> they are going to map your evidence on the requirement level, NOT, the control level. So for example, you'll have a requirement like "User Access Reviews" and evidence of your choosing will sit in that requirement. From there Anecdotes will do it's best job to map that requirement to controls in ALL the frameworks you have. But what if you have a different scope from framework to framework? You still have the flexibiltity to change the evidence for that control on a framework to framework basis because it doesn't try and tie the actual controls to each other. The anecdotes team is amazing. The onboarding process is delightful and CSM presence is unmatched from any vendor I've ever used. I recommend this tool highly if you are running compliance for a SaaS company. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** I use the JIRA/Confluence integration in this tool a lot because a ton of audit evidence lives in those systems. Sometimes making a connection to those it can time out when trying to link to a requirement. I notice that it works everytime if I try again immediately. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Audits and continuous monitoring ### 5. Anecdotes review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** The flexibility of the tool, ease of use and ability to integrate with multiple solutions. The customer support team is very responsive and supportive. The implementation was also seamless. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Nothing readily comes to mind. The team has been very supportive. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Risk Management and Control Mapping ### 6. The Best Compliance and Accreditation Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erez E. | Director of IT and Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Anecdotes provide an end-to-end solution to a large variety of accreditations and certifications that can serve every organisation in every industry. Easy to implement, easy and straightforward to use, comprehensive approach. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Connecting plugins is a one-time effort, but Anecdotes support is always available; they offer white-glove service during on-boarding phase. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralisation of tasks and missions, lack of one-stop-shop. Follow up and tasks management . Creating policies from scratch. Collection of evidence for the audit. Risk managemnt. ### 7. Anecdotes - save time on SOC 2 **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rom C. | COO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Reduces time in year-over-year audit processes for SOC 2 and other frameworks. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** The UI is missing some key functionality. I would like it to incorporate best parctices. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping in SOC2 Audit and Monitoring compliace. ### 8. Using Anecdotes for setting up our SOC2 and security profile **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marcel H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** The team is extremely helpful and always ready to help. Feature requests are dealt with very quickly. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Missing a few integrations that would be helpful. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** To help us with audits and minimize manual security checks. ### 9. Pretty solid product overall, just missing a few things. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** The best thing about Anecdotes is: - The number of frameworks and features you can get out-of-the-box with their pricing structure. - A very clean and navigable UI. - Integrations with tons of popular SaaS apps that a majority of organizations use. - Great Policy templates for users to build on if they're not familiar with writing Information Security Policies. - The support to upload your own common control framework for a more savvy compliance program. - Pre-built dashboards and metrics to show the effectiveness of your compliance program to Executive leadership. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Anecdotes does not have security awareness training built into its platform, but rather, it provides customers with access to a partner security awareness training platform. The partner security awareness training platform that customers get access to is very limited – no SSO integration for user enrollment/deactivation and only three training scenes/topics for a given new hire or annual security awareness training. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Anecdotes is helping my organization manage a complex security compliance program, while also providing me with guidance on how to meet my organization's various compliance obligations as a one-man-team. ### 10. Anecdotes feedback **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** We looked at a few GRC tools, and we chose anecdotes because of their high number of relevant plugins. Since we connected them, we have automated most of our evidence collection and saved a lot of time. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** They were missing a few features that I wanted, but they added my requests to their roadmap. For example, specific fields were not available yet from one of the plugins. But the support and integrations teams acted fast and managed to pull the data and add it to the evidence. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used the platform for our SOC2 so far, and it’s helped save a lot of time. The auditor had access to the platform, and I didn’t need to export anything since I could give them access to do so themselves. ### 11. Great SOC2 audit automation- for clients and auditors **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elran S. | IT Advisory Services Senior Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** I like that evidence for SOC2 audit can be gathered automatically via integration for many commonly used applications. Getting real-time status on the project for the auditors and clients. Clients can customize their controls according to the description that the auditors and client decided. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Sometimes files extracted by the automation cannot be opened, which delays our audit process, and we need to ask the client for manual upload. In addition, there is latency in logging in, which also delays our audit process. Other than that, as an auditor, I can't think of any more dislikes :) **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** As an auditor, it helps me get the needed evidence with less effort. Everything is ready to download. The team is more productive due to that automation. ### 12. Great automation and a single place for our compliance **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** We were able to import all of our custom controls to the platform and we have the flexibility to modify them as needed, which is key. I also like that they had integrations with all of the major tools we use, and they even created new ones based on our requests. The Customer Success team has also been very helpful. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** There were a couple of bugs and latency, but the support team was very responsive and has taken care of them. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since onboarding, we have used the platform to manage our compliance. We also use the platform to manage our policy review process, which has allowed us to do so automatically and efficiently. We have been able to save a lot of time with automation. ### 13. One platform to manage all of our compliance **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Anecdotes is a great centralized place to manage all of our compliance processes. The UX is straightforward and easy to use, and the fact that we were able to import our custom controls and we can customize them has helped us a lot. They have many plugins that automatically collect evidence, saving a lot of time. I also like the gap analysis and the excellent support of the CS team. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** There was one plugin that we wanted that was not yet available. It is in their pipeline. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are managing our entire compliance process in one place. We are also using the user access review app automation, allowing us to go through the process faster and more easily. ### 14. Great compliance tool with excellent support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Seeing multiple compliance frameworks in one place makes both internal and external auditing so much easier - it also helps spot control gaps and remediates them quickly. The Customer Success team is one of the best I have worked with. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Sometimes the software can be slow, but since I have got a new, faster laptop, these problems seem to have been resolved. Each time I have had an issue where something hasn't worked as excepted, it has been resolved very quickly. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** As an InfoSec Compliance team of 1, time is precious. Automating the compliance controls has freed up some much-needed time to focus on building out and improving other security programs across the business. ### 15. A great value from the beginning **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gonen K. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Once we connected the plugins (was straightforward), the platform automatically collected the evidence and flagged gaps that we had. This allowed me to get working on our foundation very quickly and made us more secure overall **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** So far I haven't identified something I don't like. Whenever I had any question I spoke with the customer success team that was responsive and helpful **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** We got anecdotes to help us with our SOC 2 and to grow our compliance plan ### 16. Easier path to compliance **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Anecdotes provide a structured approach to designing your control framework, quickly evaluating gaps and connecting to your infrastructure and security tools to collect evidence. Communication with the auditor during an audit is accessible and great using the system and helps quickly track and resolve issues. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Although Anecdotes connect to multiple source systems, bringing in evidence, it lacks some connectors and does not always collect the proper evidence. Evidence collection is constantly changing, and their support team always adds more evidence following our requests. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Anecdotes helped us set up our SOC2 control framework, write policies, conduct risk assessments, and collect evidence. It was a huge help in communicating with the auditor during the audit. ### 17. Absolutely brilliant! could not recommend enough **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eran P. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Anecdotes were absolutely a lifesaver for us when we had undergone an ISO 27001. The integration to literally any platform we use, from AWS to the most minute ones, was incredible and made our evidence collection and eventually the ISO certification SO MUCH easier **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** The ISO advisor anecdotes have offered in the past was brilliant, and really took us through the ISO process and is an absolute must for young startups. Unfortunately, from my understanding, they don't offer that anymore **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evidence collection to our ISO certification, managing our certification progress (both in documents and evidence) and most importantly - observability for our ISO certifier ### 18. Extremely supportive and knowledgeable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jai G. | IT Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** We are working with Anecdotes on obtaining a new accreditation for our company, to which lots of the content is new to us. Their knowledge and guidance of what is required and how we can achieve our goals has been really helpful. We have also had some internal delays and Anecdotes have been very accomodating to us, which we greatly appreciate. Definitely recommend this company if you are looking to work towards new accreditations. Our customer success manager is also always presented well, with a very positive attitude. Calls with the team are always a pleasure. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** I have no major complaints at this point. Our customer success manager has been great at keeping us on track and accountable for our progress. There was an occasion when we faced minor issues with the platform, however, these were resolved in a timely manner so did not have a significant impact. **Recommendations to others considering Anecdotes:** Very helpful and supportive company with strong knowledge of the market **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are working towards obtaining a new security accreditation with Anecdotes and aside from the fantastic support and guidance we have received, they have helped us identify areas in which we should improve to hit our goals. This has been a benefit to us as it is allowing us to progress our business whilst working towards the accreditation. ### 19. I will highly recommend my friends to use the system. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yehonatan C. | SOC2 auditor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Retrieve the data from the systems defined for the project in real-time effortlessly. The system provides a real-time indication to the visitor, offering convenience to both the visitor and the customer. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** For specific requests, the system would retrieve Excel, such as a request to configure alerts in a particular system and send a request to retrieve recent users without settings. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduce repeated communication with the customer, the system provides all the data and if something is missing, there is an option to send a comment. The system is convenient and organized. ### 20. Epic platform and amazing service. Consider ourselves lucky to consider ourselves customers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben J. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Anecdotes enabled us to take a process we had no idea how to address and turn it into a fully automated part of the business. In addition, their service is exceptional. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** To be honest I can't think of a single thing. They aren't the cheapest option in the market but with that level of quality (both product and service), why would they be. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fully automating our compliance. Everything from preperation for the ISO 27001, maintenance of top quality compliance processes and taking screenshots of our different systems ### 21. Anecdotes is definitely a trailblazer for Security Audit & Compliance Management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** It has a top-notch customer support team and offers the best integration solutions to automate the evidence-collection process. Competitors do not offer as many integrations and customisation as we sought. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Users probably need other tools to run the Technology Governance, Risk and Compliance program. It will be ideal if Anecdotes become the one-stop shop for Technology GRC. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Anecdotes significantly reduce the time the Compliance team spends collecting evidence from different groups. It improves my team's productivity and allows businesses to meet compliance requirements much faster. ### 22. Helpful compliance solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shalom Y. | Head of Devops, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Connecting all of the plugins and setting up the platform was very easy and intuitive and there were also very helpful guides. The evidence is automatically and periodically collected and it is presented in a way that is very easy to use, both internally and for the auditor. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** There were a few integrations that were missing. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** We started with SOC 2 and the platform dashboard indicated that there was a big overlap of evidence with ISO and that adopting it would not be too much additional effort. As it was on our roadmap anyway, we are now doing it as well and the platform really has saved us a lot of time by leveraging the work we did for SOC 2. ### 23. Nissan Reichenberg - Security Compliance Consultant **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nissan R. | Security Compliance Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Using the connectors according to the customer's usage helps a lot to automatically collect SOC2 evidence. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Some features like the risk manager can't be designed manually and I can't use risk score methodology other than the basic. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I tag evidence, Anecdotes automatically refer to all the related controls. ### 24. ISO an SOC 2 audits easily completed! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Having a centralized platform for managing our ISO and SOC2 and policy and risk management makes teamwork much easier. We can get a nearly real-time view of the progress in each domain and identify gaps ahead of time. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** We were missing a few features and plugins, but we requested them, and anecdotes are working on adding them. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working with auditors is much easier with anecdotes. As part of our ISO audit, the auditor was already familiar with the anecdotes platform. By providing him with user access, he could review everything within minutes, saving us hours of work syncing and reviewing evidence. ### 25. A refreshing take on compliance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zohar Z. | Cloud Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Anecdotes has a fun UI that makes the compliance process visually clear. It's easy to navigate and look at the process from different views, such as all evidence collected or the list of required controls and their status. Also, their support is just great. They've added a plugin I requested in two days, and they always respond promptly. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** I'd be happy if Anecdotes would work in any browser, it currently works only in Chrome. Also, it would be great if it would be easier to view "my tasks", but as the Anecdotes team releases features several times a week I'm pretty sure this would be great soon. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem Anecdotes solves is evidence collection. Everything is kept up to date, no need to maintain screenshots or remember to update evidence before an audit. ### 26. Modern approach for compliance work **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** + Data delegation allows us to store our data in an environment controlled by us while otherwise benefitting from SaaS + Sleek and modern UI + Most plugins are very easy to integrate + Number of plugins keeps on increasing at a steady pace + Anecdotes team is very responsive and genuinely interested to understand how customers run their compliance efforts. New features and improvements are developed based on the feedback + Modern tech stack and simple system compared to legacy GRC vendors **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** -/+ The product is still young and some features are not yet available - When compared with traditional GRC vendors, Anecdotes has fewer features. On the upside, this provides better focus and features that exist do work - Some areas would benefit from more customizable and granular settings (for example user access roles, some plugin scope related items and such). What I have understood these are on the roadmap **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our main business reason for using Anecdotes platform are: 1) reduce the manual work, 2) centralize compliance dashboards and management, 3) provide easy access to current data ### 27. I had worked with Anecdotes to implement the product at a medium-size startup. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Maritime | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** The intuitive and ease of use was something the team has put a lot of thought and effort into, it was immediately apparent. The interface is clean, and easy to use with minimal nonsense distractions. The plug-in system to connect our cloud-based tech-stack was as straightforward as one can ask for, with detailed and to-the-point instructions where little room for error was left. And if problems occurred, customer support was prompt to help. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Where the product shines, is sometimes the same spot where it shines not as brightly. Some of the contextual interface options are hidden too well, with the document management system being the main offender. Having a separate document management screen is great, but in other evidence and compliance screen is was not obvious you could manage the evidence from the existing pool of documents you have already uploaded. However, this slight shortcoming was quickly addressed by a customer success representative who quickly pointed out and explained. Another minor shortcoming was the lack of cohesive error messages when a plug-in fails, the terminal-like debug window outputted the raw error message from the service API, with little context or meaningful information, the support team was quick to recognise the issue and solve it however. **Recommendations to others considering Anecdotes:** It is crucial to make sure that you still have the necessary resources to use Anecdotes. It is NOT a "plug-and-you-are-compliant" instrument. Large amounts of internal involvement is still very much required, without dedicated attention Anecdotes can and will become just another yearly subscription in your organisation's expense budget. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** A single product to manage our compliance headache. I had to deal with an incredible amount of documentation, spreadsheets, and evidence inventory lists before I met with Anecdotes. The ability to automatically gather evidence using read-only accounts from our cloud infrastructure was a pivotal time-saver to us. not to mention that the automatic cataloguing of the evidence to keep historic records and cross-examine to meet the requirements of other compliancy frameworks was just as monumental for our future compliance efforts. As a small start-up, the time and money saved on third-party consultation was an incredible return of investment almost immediately. ### 28. Great tool that allows you to manage the Compliance process very easy! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** CSM Team is incredible, fast, kind professional. New features or ideas from the customer side have been accepted, and most of them have been implemented into the system. Easy and user friendly platform. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** No black theme yet, but sure, coming soon. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** All Compliance processes like ISO and SOC, all types. Review the existing users, access, admin permissions that you can review, check, and monitor anytime. Great to do it periodically from time to time. Both things bring the benefit of the view on the existing access and usage. ### 29. Anecdotes simplifies compliance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Anecdotes provides visibility into an information security program while simultaneously allowing complex organizations to customize their experience and controls. As an auditor, it makes evidence collection seamless. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Anecdotes does a great job and continuously adds new features, improving the experience of the product and responding to customer and auditor feedback over time. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** As an auditor, it is better to focus on the activities that help truly help clients build trust with their customers vs pushing paper around. Anecdotes helps remove that aspect of an engagement to focus on the right activities. **Official Response from Michal Norman:** > Thank you for your review! Providing you with visibility into your Compliance program is a top priority for us and we hope this enables you to further grow and mature your compliance program as your needs and challenges evolve. We're constantly working on expanding our capabilities so that you can further benefit from The anecdotes Compliance OS. Stay tuned for more new and exciting features! ### 30. Very helpful compliance tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** The automation saved us a lot of time during our SOC 2 audit, and since I did most of the work for that audit, it was effortless to prepare for ISO. Also, as a cyber company, it was essential for us to build a strong posture and to have continuous compliance and the platform allowed us to do so. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** I wanted some features that were unavailable, but the team is working on them. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used the platform to manage my SOC 2 audit, manage our risk program and build continuous compliance in my organization. ### 31. Compliance made simple **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adeel B. | InfoSec Compliance Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** There is a long list but here are a few, for the platform itself; - User-friendliness - Intuitive flow of information - Baselines/Templates in place for Frameworks, Policies, and Risk Management - Level of customisation throughout (custom Framework is my favourite) - Transparency of what is collected via Plugins - The speed at which the Plugins Market is growing - Simplicity of Risk Manager - Access segregation for the User roles For the Anecdotes team; - Very professional and approachable - Always willing to help - Welcomes feedback and suggestions With the speed Anecdotes is implementing improvements, I have no doubt it will become one of the most comprehensive Compliance tools. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** I don't dislike anything about the platform, but as with anything else, there is room for improvement. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Baselining our security and compliance landscape using the 'Custom Framework' option. - Utilizing the evidence from the existing requirements of several integrated Frameworks. - Risk Monitoring - Time-saving due to automation ### 32. Great solution for reducing the pain of compliance **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gahl S. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** I love the plugins allowing automatic data fetch from various sources, and the ability to hook them up directly to the controls. This ends up saving a bunch of time in tracking and monitoring the specific points. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Some missing plugins, (i.e. Notion), but there are workarounds for those. In the begining, I was looking for a more opinionated solution, but they've come a long way and now include great defaults or templates (i.e. the policy manager) **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Anecdotes to: - Track the required controls for our SOC2 compliance - Monitor our infrastructure/organizational tooling and continuously gather evidence - Communicate with auditors about our progress It is excellent for all three. ### 33. Great Product For SOC2 Certification Process **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elad B. | Backend Team Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** The templates are great and solved us a huge amount of hassle. In addition, the plugins are easy to use and are capturing a lot of automated evidence for us. The team was also helpful and very reachable when we had some question. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Sometimes the site is a little slow when a lot of components are in the same page. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated evidence & policy documents for SOC2 certification. ### 34. The best compliance tool in the market. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** As an auditor, it is the most straightforward tool to manage the audit. Our audit clients share evidence through this tool, which is very easy. The strong point of Anecdotes is the fastest of adding new features and new plug-ins **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Anecdotes have to be more mature and develop their SOX IT module. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Anecdotes managed all security and privacy compliance aspects and regulations. They present everything on their platform and save a lot of time for me and for my clinets. ### 35. More than 5 years experience as a Compliance specialist. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Boris G. | Compliance Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** The convenient and effective user interface, a large number of supported compliance programs, continuous improvement and innovation **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** I don't see any downsides while using the solution **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ongoing and operational issues maintenance. The vendor is currently processing neither major nor significant operational issues. ### 36. Very good chance I will recommend **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** הדס . | IT risk management and information security, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** That there is an explanation of many systems and make an order **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** The warning about the deficiencies I realized is causing some problems **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving the difficulty of both the client and the auditors regarding the collection of evidence ### 37. Anecdotes is an great and easy tool for managing your compliance **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** The platform and specifically the automation and policy templates (like ISMS) have allowed us to get compliant without taking up too much time and resources. There are also integrations with some of the tools we use and they are constantly adding new ones, including some that we requested. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Still missing some needed integrations for us. we missed a way to communicate inside the platform in a way that the auditor cannot see our conversations. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are very intentional about remaining secure and compliant. We onboarded Anecdotes to help us with building the foundation of our compliance infrastructure. We started with SOC 2 and are now using the platform for ISO, which has been made much easier thanks to the cross mapping of evidence. ### 38. Centralized GRC frameworks management, helps us to handle certification for a global organization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ilia Y. | GRC Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** I love the people behind the app, they help us not just in the day to day usage but also in the long run holistic view of GRC **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** some UI features can be better and more frameworks can be added **Recommendations to others considering Anecdotes:** if your company needs to comply with ISO/SOC2/PCI/others and you want to make the process better (no more excels...) and user-friendly this is the next step in GRC **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** the first problem we are solving is the centrelized view and management of the technical controls we benefit from collaboration across the team as everyone sees the full status of the tasks and we save time so anyone can pick up a task from any point also, the final review and approval of the CISO/CIO/CTO are independent and can be done in parallel ### 39. A great automated tool with everything managed in one place **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** The platform has given me and my team a single place to collaborate on all of our compliance work. The interface is very easy to use and the automation will save us a lot of time and resources. The ability to customize frameworks has also been very important for us. Performing gap analysis with new frameworks using the controls in the platform will be much faster. Relatively fast integration with 3rd party systems and tools to collect more evidence. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Any issues that I had were taken care of by them very quickly. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been managing multiple frameworks on the platform (ISO 27001 and SOC 2) and using risk management as well. The time needed to prepare for a GRC audit is significantly reduced. ### 40. Really useful and easy to use tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** This is a tool that is very easy to use, the user experience is great. I also like the different applications, it is great that we can do many different tasks in one place. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** I haven’t seen anything that I don’t like. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using anecdotes to build out the foundation of our compliance program. The automation is saving us a lot of manual work. ### 41. Anecdotes-a platform that centralizes all requirements and processes to achieve security compliance. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** 1. All requirements are concentrated in one place according to the required certification. 2. Automation: There is a plugin that connects to the services we work with and passes the settings/data needed for certification automatically. 3. Support Team: Available and helpful with any question or problem. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** There's nothing I did not like. The few things that I had an issue with were taken care of very quickly. **Recommendations to others considering Anecdotes:** Try it, and you will not regret it. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** We started working with anecdotes in order to get SOC 2 certified. Their benefits are: 1. The requirements for certification become clear. 2. Presenting the data to the reviewers becomes simple. 3. Save time and fewer things that need to be repeated for the next year's certification 4. Plugin and automation! ### 42. Easy to use compliance solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Using the platform and setting it up is very easy and intuitive. I also like the automatic gap analysis, it is extremely helpful and has really helped us optimize our work and improve internally. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Any issues that we had, the support team dealt with quickly. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are managing all of our compliance frameworks on the platform (SOC 2, ISO, CSAStar and others). We also perform our risk assessment using the tool. ### 43. RA analyst **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ayelet G. | Analyst RA, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** the ability to export the data automatically **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Sometimes the software gets a little stuck **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Shortening times and a particularly convenient way of working **Official Response from Michal Norman:** > Hi Ayelet, Thank you for your review. Data is at the very core of everything we do at anecdotes. We hope you are able to leverage this data to many more uses. ### 44. Makes the work more comfortable and also improves the quality of the project **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** I liked the organization that the system does, the fact that it makes it very easy for the customer and does not require a lot of work from him. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Generic frameworks that do not always fit the framework of the examining firm **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** The system solves the problem of collecting and uploading the evidence and thus saves a lot of work time. ### 45. Good overall experience **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Pricing is fair (compared to other vendors) Quite intuitive self onboarding Simple UX (compared to other vendors) which helps with day2day activities. Plugin connectors are easy to use and the manuals are self consumed **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Lack of help during technical onboarding when launching a new product from 0 Compliance is a challenging area to work in especially when you are a small company. I didn't have a chance to onboard with other vendors **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compliance is a big pain, they help us automate lots of controls within the SOC2 ### 46. Fantastic compliance solution and super responsive team! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Anecdotes is a great solution for organisations beginning their compliance journey. It is a very easy to use platform which automatically has pre-built connectors to our internal tools the team utilises. The team is incredibly responsive and helpful for onboarding and guiding us through check-ins on ensuring we remain on track and focused to achieve compliance across multiple frameworks. - We can add team members to be responsible for various parts of the compliance from CISO/CTO and engineers to validate and verify the plugins are correct and operations to ensure our documentation process is running smoothly. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Nothing so far, everything is working great and the team is super helpful. I don't have anything to add here. **Recommendations to others considering Anecdotes:** It's the only solution I would consider when assessing compliance, their team are super talented, knowledgable and helpful for any questions on compliance. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Compliance of ISO27001 and SOC2 - Maintaining automation of tools to ensure we are compliant with the framework through automatic ssynchronizationmonitoring of tools and security practices. - Achieving clear concise documentation of the policies and procedures the organization requires. - Significant speed to achieve compliance via a process-driven approach. ### 47. Centralize GRC framework management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adi K. | Cyber Security Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Aside from the user-friendliness, Anecdotes' support and service are exceptional. Also, I have not seen another tool that allows for as convenient and clear documentation as Anecdotes, which makes using the platform very simple. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** nothing, just waiting for more plugins, but we can definitely see ongoing progress on this. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation of the compliance process, Anecdotes saves so much time and gives the opportunity to follow up on controls at any time and not just during the audit period. ### 48. Initial adoption/implementation of the platform - looks promising! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Very intuitive, makes SOC2 II audit preparations efficient, reduces complexities, easily traceable, provides "project-management" like experience, I would even dare to say - with much fun. Great & supportive Service team (Kudos to Shani)!!! **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Seems like the platform has not reached full maturity, several missing parts (segregation of information between users for instance), working sometimes too slow... **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** Both the platform and the professional service team are really supporting the company on its (Via Dolorosa) way to be ready for SOC2 II certification audit. ### 49. A really fun GRC automation tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** Every interface and dashboard is very user-friendly and feels slick and modern. The presentation is clear and helpful. There is a solid coverage across most of the compliance frameworks and standards and I can see exactly what controls are still not covered with a click of a button. My favorite part about Anecdotes is Risk Management. I never thought I could enjoy managing risks this much with how simple it is and how pleasant on the eyes and easy to track and react to risks changing. Anecdotes also does a very good job integrating with different tools and Cloud systems with their stack of ready plugins already quite comprehensive and how quickly they are able to add new integrations is very impressive. Besides the product itself, I have to say I very much enjoyed meeting and working with every single Anecdotes employee so far. They have all been very friendly, helpful, and expedient in identifying and solving my needs as well as prioritizing things that matter to me and my company on their roadmap. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Anecdotes is not a complete GRC solution yet, so there are some components currently missing, such as third-party management. You would need to use a different GRC product for that. Also, while Anecdotes supports a high number of accounts that can be connected from major cloud providers, connecting each one of their individual components does take some time, so it would be easier if there was a way to connect everything at the org level with a CFT script or similar. **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Managing internal and external audits and evidence collection, - monitoring for current security posture and identifying any existing or new gaps that may appear, - risk management. ### 50. A great compliance solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Anecdotes?** This is an encompassing solution. I have worked with many companies in the past and know the challenges they face - this is the first solution I have found that addresses them properly. Besides the huge advantage of automating work that I previously would have had to do manually (collecting screenshots and files from different systems, for example), the platform also offers policy templates and other files that save me a lot of time and make my job easier. It is also worth mentioning the incredible team that is extremely helpful. **What do you dislike about Anecdotes?** Nothing to dislike, The company is providing great services and customer support! **What problems is Anecdotes solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used the platform to establish a compliance program from scratch and to assist in the audit process. 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