Name: Scrut
Rating: 3.8 (6 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Scrut?

Scrut is a software designed to assist organizations in managing their risk and compliance processes. The software enables automation of workflows related to security compliance, vendor risk assessments, and regulatory requirements. Scrut integrates with existing technology stacks to collect evidence, monitor controls, and streamline compliance reporting. It provides tools for tracking progress on various compliance frameworks and standards, allowing businesses to address gaps and demonstrate adherence to regulatory guidelines. By centralizing documentation and control management, the software supports organizations in reducing manual effort, improving visibility into risk areas, and facilitating audit readiness. The solution is utilized by businesses seeking to maintain comprehensive risk management practices and ensure consistent compliance with industry standards.

Overall experience with Scrut

GLOBAL CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICE

250M - 500M USD, IT Services

FAVORABLE

“Strong Compliance Frameworks and Audit Tools Stand Out with Scrut Platform”

5.0

Jul 11, 2025

Switching from a well-known (and slightly disappointing) vendor, moving to Scrut has proved an excellent investment in expansive orchestration, not just of compliance, but of governance and risk management as well. Compliance aspects doubtlessly proved very strong, covering a wide array of frameworks, and adapting easily to the needs and requirements of managing compliance requirements and controls for both everyday purposes and audits.

CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER

<50M USD, Software

CRITICAL

“Compliance Automation Simplified, Though Cybersecurity Features Remain Basic With Scrut”

3.0

Aug 29, 2025

Scrut is a good at compliance automation but offer basic features when it comes to cybersecurity and it needs to be complemented by other solutions

About Company

Company Description

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) is dedicated to offering innovative solutions for modern businesses. The primary focus is to simplify the complexities that surround governance, risk, and compliance issues businesses may face. By creating unique and efficient systems, GRC aids companies in establishing robust protocols and management structures that facilitate streamlined business processes, thereby mitigating potential business risks and keeping businesses in line with industry regulations. The aim is to make corporate governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance more accessible and manageable.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2022

Head office location

Milpitas, United States

Number of employees

11 - 50

Website

https://scrut.io/

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Scrut Likes & Dislikes

Simplicity of use benefiting both the efficiency for seasoned professionals, and the newcomers to compliance management supporting compliance processes with evidence gathering and preparation. Well structured and useful modules supporting compliance activities and auditing process, like vendor management, risk management, trust center (or Trust Vault as known in the solution), policy center. Efficiency in managing audit process from internal audits to the final assessments, with ease of access for auditors and accessible environment for evidence reviews. Scrut Teammaters, relatively recent AI agent addition enabling user to command a larger part of the interface and pull required information from prompts, speeding up the regular and audit processes. Tech and customer supports are simply amazing - every issue that occured was handled promptly, professionally, every input or suggestion or even feature request provided was met with courtesy and swiftness, and Scrut proved genuinely accommodating in, essentially, letting their customers (in this case us) contribute to the overall product improvement and expansion.

Compliance automation, streamlined audits, automated evidence collection, responsibility distribution

1. The platform itself is straightforward to use. What made the difference for us was the support offered by the scrut team and ensuring we could get compliant in the least time limit available. 2. It was an exceptionally smooth experience with the team. They have been very patient with all the request that we had and always read to hop on a call to help us with any ad hoc requirements 3. Scrut has been a single source of truth for all compliance and artifact.

There are genuinely few aspects that can be disliked, some omissions are present, like the somewhat slower pace of adopting new integrations or having some integrations occasionally glitching, one or two options could be slightly more intuitive or made more obvious in the UI, and some automated aspects could occasionally benefit from the ability of manual intervention. Additional branding and customization options wouldn't be bad either, especially with Trust Vault that could use some sprucing up with more prominent brand colors and logos.

All other features outside compliance are low quality and offer the bear minimum to pass an audit, but do not improve security

1. Scrut is a younger layer in the field than most and there are certain instabilities in the software. 2. Some implementation is required according to the latest applications category. 3. I think the platform could benefit from more attention to detail.

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<50M USD

Software

Review Source

Compliance Automation Simplified, Though Cybersecurity Features Remain Basic With Scrut

50M-1B USD

IT Services

Strong Compliance Frameworks and Audit Tools Stand Out with Scrut Platform

Manager, Legal and Compliance

Satisfactory Platform but Customer Support and UX Need Improvement

May 22, 2025

The platform is decent overall, with an easy understanding of its UX. However, there are many automation capabilities that are possible, which some competitors provide. Additionally, there are some hassles in customer support.

PRD ENG QA ANALYST TECH

Banking

One of the Best GRC tools in space with excellent Support.

May 20, 2023

Scrut CAASM helps you gain visibility of all your cyber assets, empowering IT and security teams to overcome cybersecurity vulnerability challenges and build a strong foundation for all security activities.

SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST

10B+ USD

Miscellaneous

review of Scrut CAASM

May 8, 2023

very good experience using the product. Love the scalability and integration capableities