Guardial Audit Management vs Protecht

Guardial Audit Management is a web module for internal audit planning, fieldwork, workpapers, and reporting. Audit plans bring scope, schedules, resource estimates, and a risk register together, with estimates rolling up to capacity. Preloaded templates for BSA/AML, fair lending, third-party, and IT controls combine sampling, evidence capture, and reviewer notes in one workspace. Workpapers are version-controlled, timestamped, and signed. The Findings agent drafts remediation plans from fieldwork notes for audit leads to review, adjust, and route to issue owners. Reports generated from live data include issue letters, management responses, quarterly audit committee packages, and examiner-ready PDFs. Findings also flow into Issues Home, shared across Guardial modules. The module is aimed at regulated financial services, including fintechs, nonbanks, loan servicers, community banks, credit unions, and insurance carriers. Guardial says it is built to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 controls and provides SAML/SCIM single sign-on, role-based access, and an immutable audit log. Pricing is provided in a written proposal sized to the customer’s stage and program, scaling with modules used and program size.

Protecht is a cloud platform for managing risk, compliance, resilience, and audit. Protecht ERM covers risk assessments, key risk indicators, compliance incidents, vendor and IT risk, operational resilience, business continuity, and audit. Teams can configure forms, workflow rules, reports, and dashboards without coding. Dashboards and reports use structured, interconnected data to help identify trends and areas requiring action. Integration options include SSO, REST APIs, web services, SCIM identity management, scheduled file imports, and no-code iPaaS connections. Protecht says it hosts customer data in the customer’s region and states that it is ISO 27001 certified, SOC 2 assessed, and compliant with EU and UK GDPR. Its SaaS products are described as operating 24/7 with a standard SLA of 99.5% availability. Annual licence fees depend on the number and type of named active users, and pricing is available on request. Marketplace templates and the Operational Resilience module are billed separately. Protecht describes its customers as ranging from organizations with two users to those with more than 20,000.