OneTrust is a broad enterprise trust platform. Enactia is an all-in-one governance, risk and compliance solution focused on data protection and cybersecurity — modular where you need it, complete when you want it, and built to be operated by real teams rather than an army of specialists.
Enactia is a strong OneTrust alternative for DPOs, CISOs, CROs, CCOs and CIOs who want data protection and cybersecurity governance in one connected platform — compliance assessments, policy management, ROPA, enterprise risk, DPIAs, vendor management, incident handling and more — across frameworks and regulations like GDPR, CCPA, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, PCI-DSS, NIST and PDPL. You can take the complete platform or just the modules you need, and Enactia's team handles onboarding and migration so you can move off your existing tool without starting from scratch.
The right alternative depends on what your programme actually needs.
OneTrust built its reputation as a wide-ranging enterprise trust suite spanning privacy, governance, risk and more. That breadth is a genuine strength for large organisations with dedicated privacy departments and the resources to configure and maintain a platform of that scale. But breadth has a cost. For many mid-market privacy and security teams, an enterprise suite means more modules than the programme uses, longer implementation timelines, and ongoing administration that a lean team struggles to absorb.
When those teams evaluate alternatives, they're rarely looking to give up capability. They still need compliance assessments, records of processing, risk registers, DPIAs, vendor due diligence and incident workflows. What they want is those capabilities delivered in a way a small team can actually run day to day — and a vendor that will help them migrate their existing data and processes across rather than leaving them to rebuild everything manually. That is precisely the gap Enactia is designed to fill: a complete GRC platform for data protection and cybersecurity, offered as one connected system or as individual modules, with professional services that manage the transition.
Complete platform or modular solutions — your choice.
Enactia is built as a set of interconnected modules that share data and work together, rather than a collection of disconnected tools. That connection matters: a vendor assessment can feed your risk register, a DPIA can raise a mitigation task, and an incident can be tracked through to closure — all inside the same system, without exporting spreadsheets between teams. The platform is designed to help different departments collaborate to collect the information needed to complete privacy and security tasks, so the people who own the data can contribute directly.
Crucially, you don't have to adopt everything at once. Teams can start with the modules that address their most pressing need — say, compliance assessments and ROPA — and expand into risk, vendor management or incident handling as the programme matures. That modular approach keeps the initial rollout manageable, which is often exactly what teams moving off a heavier platform are looking for.
Thirteen modules covering the full GRC lifecycle.
Run questionnaire-based assessments against multiple frameworks and regulations — ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI-DSS, PDPL, CCPA, PIPEDA and more — with multi-user participation and a dashboard that shows the status of every assessment so you can pinpoint compliance gaps.
Create, maintain and track the policies that underpin your compliance programme in one place, keeping versions and ownership clear.
A consolidated view of your obligations and how your programme maps against them.
Maintain your processing records in a structured, auditable format that feeds the rest of your privacy programme.
Consolidate risks from cybersecurity, vendor assessments, DSRs, ROPAs and DPIAs into a central risk register, with risk analytics and visualisation, source tracking, filtering and export, and mitigation tracking tied to tasks and tickets.
Carry out DPIAs and route the resulting risks and actions straight into your central risk register and task workflows.
Assess and monitor third parties, with findings feeding directly into your organisation-wide risk view.
Capture, manage and track incidents and breaches through to resolution, with an auditable record of how each was handled.
Manage DSRs and consumer requests in a structured workflow so responses stay timely and defensible.
Keep an inventory of the assets that fall within scope of your compliance and risk programme.
Assign, track and close the tasks that keep your programme moving, linked to the risks and activities that generated them.
Store the evidence and documentation you'll need to demonstrate compliance during audits and reviews.
Provide a managed channel for reports and track them through to conclusion.
Built for organisations operating across multiple jurisdictions.
Enactia's focus on data protection and cybersecurity governance is backed by coverage of the frameworks and laws teams are actually held to. On the framework side that includes ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, the NIST Cybersecurity and Privacy frameworks, SOC 2, PCI-DSS and the Cloud Controls Matrix, among others. On the regulatory side it spans GDPR and CCPA through to DORA, HIPAA and a wide set of regional laws — covering the UAE (DIFC and ADGM), Saudi Arabia (PDPL and SAMA), Bahrain, Singapore, Canada and South Africa. For organisations that operate across borders, having these mapped inside one platform removes a great deal of manual cross-referencing.
You don't have to make the move alone.
One of the biggest reasons teams delay changing platforms is the fear of a messy migration. Enactia's professional services are built around that concern. The onboarding and migration service is designed to move you off a legacy system — or off manual, spreadsheet-based compliance and risk processes — and into a setup tailored to how your organisation actually works. Alongside migration, Enactia offers consulting and advisory on GRC matters, tailored training so your team is productive quickly, customised templates for the frameworks and standards you report against, and on-premise installation for organisations with that requirement.
The practical result is that switching becomes a guided project rather than a rebuild: your existing records, assessments and workflows are brought across with support, so there's no gap in coverage while you transition.
Enactia is designed for the people accountable for compliance.
Rather than presenting one generic interface, Enactia is designed for the specific roles that own data protection and cybersecurity governance — the Data Protection Officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Information Officer. Each sees the platform through the lens of the work they're responsible for, from privacy operations and risk oversight to security control assessments and executive reporting.
A neutral overview of where each option tends to fit.
| Platform | Best for | Approach |
|---|---|---|
| Enactia | Data protection & cybersecurity teams wanting connected GRC that's simple to run | All-in-one or modular GRC across many frameworks & regulations, with onboarding & migration |
| OneTrust | Large enterprises running broad, multi-department trust programmes | Extensive enterprise trust suite |
| Osano | Smaller teams focused mainly on consent & privacy compliance | Consent-led privacy tooling |
| TrustArc | Privacy-specialist programmes | Established privacy management platform |
Enactia is designed for this profile. It delivers the core GRC capabilities a mid-sized data protection or security team needs — assessments, policy management, ROPA, enterprise risk, DPIAs, vendor and incident management — in one connected platform you can adopt fully or module by module, with onboarding and migration support to move across.
Yes. Enactia's professional services include end-to-end onboarding and migration, designed to move you from a legacy system or manual processes into a setup tailored to your organisation, with guidance throughout so there's no gap in coverage.
No. Enactia is offered as a complete platform or as individual modules, so you can start with what you need most and expand over time.
Frameworks include ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, NIST, SOC 2 and PCI-DSS; regulations include GDPR, CCPA, DORA and HIPAA plus regional laws across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Singapore, Canada and South Africa.
It's designed for the roles accountable for data protection and cybersecurity governance — DPO, CISO, CRO, CCO and CIO — and for teams that want those functions working together in one system.
Enactia offers a significantly more cost-effective alternative to OneTrust, with a flexible, modular pricing model that allows clients to pay only for what they need — while still benefiting from unlimited records, external vendor accounts, and users scaled to the size of their business. Beyond licensing, Enactia is also considerably more competitive on onboarding and training services, making the total cost of ownership substantially lower compared to OneTrust's pricing structure.
