DigitalXForce vs Diligent: A Diligent Alternative for GRC Built on Security Evidence
Lalit Ahluwalia, Founder and CEO of DigitalXForce, wrote this comparison for board and GRC buyers and reviewed it on September 29, 2026.
DigitalXForce is a Diligent alternative for GRC in mid-size and large organizations whose board report has to rest on security evidence. Diligent’s site describes the Diligent One Platform as one place for board management and GRC activities. Diligent says the platform curates a consolidated view of risk for the board.
DigitalXForce builds its view from the security stack. It reads evidence through 250+ technology integrations and runs Continuous Control Assurance on each control. A finding closes only after the control passes a retest. The board receives the Digital Trust Score, cyber risk in dollars and reports that XForce GPT writes from AI JedAI’s analysis.
Two IDC MarketScape reports name DigitalXForce a Leader. One covers governance, risk and compliance software in 2025, and the other covers third-party risk management software in 2026. Two Chief Information Security Officers are among the reviewers whose public Gartner® Peer Insights™ reviews appear on the DigitalXForce testimonials page.
When a mid-size or large organization looks past Diligent
A mid-size or large organization looks past Diligent when it wants the board report built on the same platform that tests its security controls. Directors start asking whether the controls behind the risk register still work and what a failure would cost. Those answers have to trace back to evidence read from the security tools.
| Use DigitalXForce when | What DigitalXForce does |
|---|---|
| Your directors ask whether the controls behind the register still work. | Controls are tested on their own schedules, and the compliance dashboards show the age of the evidence behind every result. |
| Boards, regulators and large customers each need a view they can read. | The Digital Trust Portal shows boards, regulators and customers the Digital Trust Score and its seven sub-postures. |
| The board wants cyber risk stated in dollars. | DigitalXForce quantifies cyber risk in dollars with its own model, and X-ROC uses that quantification to rank alerts. |
| The CISO needs detail and the board needs a summary of the same posture. | ESRPM depicts posture as a drill-down for the CISO and as a summary for the board. |
| Key risk indicators need thresholds and an approval step. | KPI and KRI Management sets thresholds in a configurable indicator matrix, tracks Level 1 and Level 2 posture and adds an approval step for each indicator. |
| You want connector evidence from your critical suppliers’ own systems. | Tier 1 Critical suppliers are monitored continuously with that evidence, and External Risk View watches every supplier from the outside. |
| Your organization must keep its data in its own environment. | A client on the full platform runs it in its own hosting and keeps full control of its data. |
| Your organization prefers cloud hosting. | The cloud-hosted DigitalXForce Lite carries the same functionality as the full platform. |
IDC MarketScape and Gartner Peer Insights on DigitalXForce
DigitalXForce is a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software Vendor Assessment, 2025, IDC document US53615325, published in June 2025. The second Leader placement is in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Third-Party Risk Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment, document US53007725 from September 2026. Both documents are listed with their numbers and dates on the DigitalXForce IDC research page.
DigitalXForce is rated 4.7 out of 5 from 17 ratings on Gartner® Peer Insights™, read on September 24, 2026. All nine public reviews are on the testimonials page, each with the reviewer’s role, industry and company size as Gartner lists them.
Two of them sit in Gartner’s governance, risk and compliance tools market. A VP of IT at an IT services company wrote one, and a Chief Information Security Officer in banking wrote the other. A managing partner in IT services reviewed DigitalXForce under integrated risk management. Gartner’s own notice describes Peer Insights content as the opinions of individual end users.
DigitalXForce and Diligent on the work behind a board report, compared on September 29, 2026
This comparison is DigitalXForce’s own, and it keeps to the areas both companies describe. The Diligent column paraphrases Diligent pages read on September 29, 2026. Each entry there is Diligent’s claim. The source column names each page, which is linked in the Sources section.
| Area | DigitalXForce | What Diligent’s site says | Diligent source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | 15 modules share one data layer on a Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture, and evidence arrives through 250+ technology integrations. | The Diligent One Platform centralizes board management and GRC activities and delivers a consolidated view of risk to the board. | Diligent One Platform page |
| Control monitoring | Each control is tested at a frequency matched to its evidence, and each result is stored with that evidence and a timestamp. | Agentic AI monitors controls around the clock and flags gaps and exceptions, with every action held for review. | Internal Audit page |
| Frameworks | The X-Connect and E-Connect adapters map a control once to 50+ compliance frameworks. | AI maps controls to multiple regulatory frameworks and streamlines testing, so a team can test once and comply many times. | For CISOs page |
| Evidence sources | ESRPM evaluates AWS, Azure and GCP configurations directly, and Attack Surface Manager discovers assets across nine asset classes, IT and OT. | The platform connects to 100+ third-party data providers and to HRIS, ERP and CRM data, and the CISO offering adds external security ratings and vulnerability insight from outside providers. | Diligent One Platform page and For CISOs page |
| Cyber risk | Cyber risk is quantified in dollars with DigitalXForce’s own model, and X-ROC triage ranks alerts by the quantified business impact. | AI cyber risk assessments scope threats, vulnerabilities and assets and generate risk scenarios and scores aligned with business impact. | For CISOs page |
| Enterprise risk | One register holds inherent and residual risk, likelihood, impact and treatment, and the platform scores each risk with AI and assigns treatment automatically. | Agentic AI scans the ERM program for emerging risks and control gaps, and risk posture can be benchmarked against peers. | Enterprise Risk Management page |
| Indicators | KPI and KRI Management tracks indicators against thresholds, with approval-based governance and an executive dashboard. | A risk agent monitors risk thresholds and escalates breaches as they occur. | Enterprise Risk Management page |
| Policies | The policy module reviews and generates policies, standards and plans, starting from 20+ policies, 15+ standards and 5 plan templates. | Policy Manager reviews, creates, deploys and administers corporate policies. | Diligent home page |
| Board reporting | XForce GPT drafts board-ready reports from AI JedAI’s analysis, and the Digital Trust Portal carries the Digital Trust Score to the board. | Agentic AI drafts board reports, executive summaries and breach narratives, and Diligent Boards lists board-ready reports among its features. | Enterprise Risk Management page and Boards page |
| Human review of AI | AI JedAI’s conclusions and XForce GPT’s drafts wait for an analyst’s review before anyone relies on them. | An AI orchestrator escalates anything consequential to a person for sign-off and keeps one audit trail. | Enterprise Risk Management page |
| Third parties | Tiers set the depth and frequency of supplier evidence, and External Risk View maps fourth-party and nth-party dependencies without an agent or a questionnaire. | 3rdRisk adds SOC 2 analysis and external risk ratings, and vendors are monitored continuously, including fourth and fifth parties. | 3rdRisk page and For CISOs page |
| Issue follow-up | X-ROC tracks remediation to closure, and a finding closes once the control passes a retest. | Third Party Manager assigns ownership and tracks remediation in integrated case management with an audit trail. | Third Party Manager page |
| Hosting and data control | A full platform client runs DigitalXForce in its own hosting and keeps full control of its data, and DigitalXForce Lite runs the same platform in the cloud. | The Diligent One Platform is SaaS on AWS, with a data storage region the customer can choose, AWS GovCloud for US public sector customers and data the customer owns. | Trust and Compliance page |
What DigitalXForce hands a board
Digital Trust translates connected assurance and risk evidence into an enterprise-level view for decision-makers. For a board, DigitalXForce expresses that view as the Digital Trust Score. The Digital Trust Score is DigitalXForce’s composite score from 300 to 850, computed continuously from live control evidence across seven sub-postures: security, compliance, audit, resilience, third-party, AI and risk.
Boards, regulators and customers read the score and its seven sub-postures on shareable posture dashboards in the Digital Trust Portal. XForce GPT writes the plain-language risk narratives and board-ready reports from the analysis of AI JedAI. An analyst reviews each report before anyone relies on it, and every conclusion in the report links back to its evidence.
Cyber risk quantification (CRQ) quantifies a cyber risk in dollars, giving the financial loss the organization would face if the risk materializes. The model behind the figure belongs to DigitalXForce and rests on industry best practices and on the data the platform collects. When the board’s question turns to insurance coverage, the Cyber Risk and Liability Insurance module structures risk quantification for underwriting and renewal.
Enterprise Security Risk and Posture Management (ESRPM) is the DigitalXForce module that runs configuration checks, operational insights and deployment benchmarking across IAM, SIEM, cloud, OT and IoT, SecOps and enterprise systems through 250+ technology integrations. It shows one posture two ways, as a drill-down for the CISO and as a summary for the board.
KPI and KRI Management builds a configurable indicator matrix by domain, category and type. Each indicator carries thresholds and Level 1 and Level 2 posture tracking. The indicators run under approval-based governance and appear on an executive dashboard.
Where the evidence under the board report comes from
DigitalXForce is built on a Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture and reaches the security tools a client already runs through 250+ technology integrations. Each input on the platform can be followed back to its source tool, its control and the date it was read.
Continuous Control Assurance (CCA) uses evidence, monitoring and validation to determine whether controls continue to operate as expected. Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM) monitors conditions, evidence and signals associated with controls. DigitalXForce places Continuous Control Monitoring inside Continuous Control Assurance as one of its capabilities.
DigitalXForce calls the platform that holds both Enterprise TRiSCM™. TRiSCM, or Trust, Risk, Security and Compliance Management, is a category of enterprise software defined by DigitalXForce that converges automated governance, risk and compliance with security posture management into a single real-time system, replacing periodic control validation with continuous control assurance.
Controls do not share one test calendar in DigitalXForce. Each control is tested as often as its evidence can change. The result is stored with the evidence the test read and a timestamp. The compliance dashboards display the evidence age, which tells a reader how current each result is.
Attack Surface Manager discovers and inventories assets in nine asset classes, IT and OT, through agentless, API-based discovery. Existing scanners and the CMDB feed that inventory as inputs alongside discovery. ESRPM connects to AWS, Azure and GCP accounts, checks their configurations directly and maps CSPM findings to controls.
From a failed control to the risk register and the fix
A failed control opens a finding, and that one result reaches the compliance view, the posture view and the risk register together. X-ROC, the XForce Risk Operations Center, is the operations layer of the DigitalXForce TRiSCM platform, where control failures, risk changes and vendor events are alerted, triaged, escalated and reported. X-ROC keeps the evidence attached to every alert it takes in.
X-ROC triage uses cyber risk quantification to rank alerts by their quantified business impact. X-ROC then escalates them and tracks remediation until the finding closes. That happens when a retest of the control passes after the fix.
Clients that manage work in ServiceNow or Jira can route remediation tickets there. X-ROC makes no change to a client’s systems on its own.
Enterprise risk management (ERM) is the organization-wide practice of identifying, assessing, treating and monitoring the risks that affect an organization’s objectives, in one view instead of in separate silos. In DigitalXForce, the AI-Powered Enterprise Risk Management module keeps that view in one register with inherent and residual risk, likelihood, impact and treatment. AI scores each risk, and treatment is assigned automatically.
The AI-Powered Policy and Compliance Management module reviews and generates policies, standards and plans. It ships with 20+ policies, 15+ standards and 5 plan templates, benchmarked against NIST and industry regulation.
Suppliers, from intake to offboarding
Third-party risk management (TPRM) is the discipline of identifying, assessing, monitoring and controlling the risks an organization takes on through its suppliers, vendors and other outside parties. Diligent’s 3rdRisk page describes SOC 2 analysis and external risk ratings. Diligent’s page for CISOs describes vendor monitoring that includes fourth and fifth parties.
In DigitalXForce, intake runs on forms and categories the client configures. The platform classifies each supplier’s inherent risk automatically, and a person confirms that classification. Tiering then works from the supplier’s risk signals, records the reasoning and waits for a person to approve the tier.
Tier 1 Critical suppliers get the deepest treatment. DigitalXForce reads connector evidence from their own systems, reviews their SOC 2 and ISO reports with AI and monitors them continuously. Tier 2 High suppliers are refreshed weekly and Tier 3 Commodity suppliers monthly, with triggered alerts between refreshes. The connectors read configuration and compliance signals and leave business records and customer data alone.
External Risk View watches suppliers in every tier from outside. It needs no agent, no questionnaire and no help from the supplier, and it maps fourth-party and nth-party dependencies. A breach reported by a supplier is mapped by AI JedAI to the services and data that rely on that supplier.
Recertification checks what has moved in a supplier’s evidence since its last review. Offboarding tracks the return of data and the removal of access until the closure record. The third-party risk management module page sets out the whole lifecycle.
Audits, hosting and DigitalXForce Lite
DigitalXForce prepares clients for their audits. The auditors themselves use the DigitalXForce platform. Evidence gathered for one control is reused in every framework that control maps to, across 50+ compliance frameworks. C-Assess, X-Assess and A-Assess are the three assessment modalities of the AI-Powered Risk Management and Automated GRC module, and the frameworks page lists the most requested frameworks.
The full DigitalXForce platform runs in the client’s own hosting, so the client keeps full control of its data, which is the model DigitalXForce prefers. DigitalXForce Lite is the full DigitalXForce platform hosted in the cloud, with the same functionality, for any organization that prefers cloud hosting. Mid-size and large organizations are the clients DigitalXForce serves, whichever hosting they choose.
Questions to put to both vendors in a demo
- Take one number from last quarter’s board report and ask each vendor to trace it to control results and the evidence under them.
- Find out how old the evidence behind each board metric is, and where that age is shown.
- Ask who reads an AI-drafted board narrative before it goes out, and how each statement in it links to evidence.
- Check who sets the threshold on a key risk indicator and who approves the indicator.
- Ask what a regulator or a large customer can see, and through which view.
- Have each vendor show how a breach at a supplier is traced to the services and data that depend on it.
- Ask what has to happen before a finding can close.
- Ask whether your data will sit in your own hosting or in the vendor’s cloud, and who controls it.
- Ask when the first assessments will run on your systems.
In a DigitalXForce proof of value, the first assessments run in week 3, and the review with you follows in week 4. DigitalXForce also lets prospective clients run a cloud deployment, so they can see the platform work before they buy. The Continuous Control Assurance page covers validation in depth. The Continuous Control Monitoring page covers the monitoring underneath, and the DigitalXForce glossary defines each term on this page.
Frequently asked questions
Is DigitalXForce a good alternative to Diligent?
DigitalXForce is a good alternative to Diligent for GRC in a mid-size or large organization whose board report has to rest on security evidence. DigitalXForce reads that evidence through 250+ technology integrations and tests each control on its own schedule. The board gets the Digital Trust Score, cyber risk in dollars and reports written by XForce GPT. IDC has named DigitalXForce a Leader for governance, risk and compliance software (US53615325, 2025) and for third-party risk management software (US53007725, 2026).
What does DigitalXForce give a board?
DigitalXForce gives a board the Digital Trust Score, cyber risk stated in dollars and board-ready reports that XForce GPT writes from AI JedAI’s analysis. The Digital Trust Score is DigitalXForce’s composite score from 300 to 850, computed continuously from live control evidence across seven sub-postures: security, compliance, audit, resilience, third-party, AI and risk. Boards, regulators and customers read the score and its seven sub-postures in the Digital Trust Portal. An analyst reviews each AI-drafted report before anyone relies on it.
How does DigitalXForce prepare a company for its auditors?
DigitalXForce gets clients ready for audits, and auditors use the DigitalXForce platform themselves. The platform keeps each test result with its evidence and a timestamp, and its compliance dashboards show how old that evidence is. Evidence gathered for a control counts in each of the 50+ compliance frameworks that control maps to.
Where does the evidence in a DigitalXForce board report come from?
XForce GPT writes the report from AI JedAI’s analysis of control evidence, and every conclusion links back to the evidence it used. That evidence arrives through 250+ technology integrations, and each control is tested at a frequency set by how fast its evidence can change. Each input can be followed back to its source tool, its control and the date it was read.
How does DigitalXForce watch suppliers?
DigitalXForce places each supplier in Tier 1 Critical, Tier 2 High or Tier 3 Commodity once a person approves the tier. The tier then governs how deep the evidence goes and how often it is refreshed. External Risk View watches suppliers from outside without an agent, a questionnaire or the supplier’s cooperation and maps fourth-party and nth-party dependencies. AI JedAI maps any breach a supplier reports to the services and data that depend on that supplier.
What do IDC and Gartner Peer Insights say about DigitalXForce?
DigitalXForce holds two IDC MarketScape Leader placements. They are the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software Vendor Assessment, 2025 (US53615325, June 2025) and the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Third-Party Risk Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment (US53007725, September 2026). Its public Gartner Peer Insights reviews, with each reviewer’s role, industry and company size, are reproduced on the DigitalXForce testimonials page.
Where does DigitalXForce run, and what is DigitalXForce Lite?
The full DigitalXForce platform runs in the client’s own hosting, so the client keeps full control of its data, which is the model DigitalXForce prefers. DigitalXForce Lite is the full DigitalXForce platform hosted in the cloud, with the same functionality, for any organization that prefers cloud hosting.
The comparison overview covers every platform DigitalXForce is compared with, but the two closest to this page are DigitalXForce vs LogicGate and DigitalXForce vs Vanta.
Sources
Each Diligent page below was read on September 29, 2026, and what the page says is reported as Diligent’s own claim.
- Diligent’s home page describes one AI platform for governance, risk and compliance, and its product menu describes Policy Manager.
- Centralized board management and GRC activities, the consolidated view of risk and the 100+ data provider integrations are on the Diligent One Platform page.
- Diligent Boards lists board-ready reports among its features.
- Agentic control monitoring with every action held for review is described on the Internal Audit page.
- Diligent’s Enterprise Risk Management page describes its AI agents, including a board reporter, threshold escalation, peer benchmarking and human sign-off.
- The page for CISOs describes cyber risk assessments, control mapping across frameworks, external insight and vendor monitoring that includes fourth and fifth parties.
- SOC 2 analysis and external risk ratings appear on the 3rdRisk page.
- Third Party Manager describes remediation tracking in integrated case management.
- The Trust and Compliance page describes the SaaS platform on AWS, the choice of storage region, AWS GovCloud and customer ownership of data.
These are the independent sources behind this page.
- IDC’s page for the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software Vendor Assessment, 2025 lists it as document US53615325 from June 2025.
- IDC lists the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Third-Party Risk Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment as document US53007725 from September 2026.
- The testimonials page reproduces the DigitalXForce reviews from Gartner Peer Insights, and DigitalXForce read it again on September 29, 2026.
DigitalXForce product material and the DigitalXForce glossary are the source of every DigitalXForce statement here.
Each source was checked on September 29, 2026, and DigitalXForce will review this comparison again by December 29, 2026.
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