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RegScale vs UnderDefense

RegScale sells a Continuous Controls Monitoring platform that connects live cloud telemetry, security tools and CI/CD pipelines to federal and commercial compliance frameworks. UnderDefense sells UnderDefense MAXI, a security and compliance automation platform, and an MDR service in which security experts monitor, detect and respond to incidents. CISO Tribune files both under Compliance automation. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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RegScale vs UnderDefense: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
RegScaleRegScale sells a Continuous Controls Monitoring platform that connects live cloud telemetry, security tools and CI/CD pipelines to federal and commercial compliance frameworks.regscale.comUnderDefenseUnderDefense sells UnderDefense MAXI, a security and compliance automation platform, and an MDR service in which security experts monitor, detect and respond to incidents.underdefense.com
What it sells
  • RegScale Trust Center[2]A live, customer-facing security portal.
  • OSCAL Hub[2][6][14]An open-source platform for package review and submission.
  • UnderDefense MAXI[1][2][3][5][6]A security and compliance automation platform. UnderDefense MAXI integrates with SIEMs, firewalls and endpoint protection solutions.
  • UnderDefense Agentic AI SOC[4]AI agents investigate each alert. Analysts on shift 24/7 decide what happens next.
  • MDR[1][2][6]Security experts monitor, detect and respond to incidents.
  • Cloud-based SIEM[2]A cloud-based SIEM that collects, analyzes and responds to security events.
  • CIS AWS Benchmark assessment[8]A self-service assessment of AWS security.
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Recent news
  • June 11, 2026RegScale announced it achieved ISO 27001 certification in under 30 days using its own continuous controls monitoring platform.[3]
  • May 14, 2026RegScale announced an oversubscribed Series B of more than $30 million, alongside growing Fortune 500 and federal adoption.[4]
  • December 16, 2025RegScale launched the OSCAL Hub, an open-source platform for OSCAL security compliance documents, and announced it is donating the source code to the OSCAL Foundation.[14]
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G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
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Who it fits
From its own pages, RegScale sells mainly to organizations that need to show compliance with federal and commercial frameworks. RegScale describes Level 2 readiness for defense contractors. RegScale customers include a private equity firm, a major diversified healthcare company of retail pharmacies, health insurance and virtual care services, and a large American government services company. RegScale describes engineers who build via CI/CD, GitOps, and CLI tools alongside GRC officers who work in spreadsheets, and one healthcare deployment ran on-premises.UnderDefense MAXI integrates with a customer's security infrastructure, including SIEMs, firewalls and endpoint protection solutions. UnderDefense offers compliance templates to organizations working toward standards such as SOC2 and ISO 27001. UnderDefense MAXI provides executive-level reports for C-level readers.
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October 7, 2026October 26, 2026

Where they overlap

  • RegScale and UnderDefense are both filed under Compliance automation.

Where they differ, field by field

  • RegScale's primary category is Compliance automation; UnderDefense's is MDR and managed SOC.
  • RegScale is also filed under GRC and integrated risk platforms and Third-party risk and security ratings. UnderDefense is also filed under Penetration testing and red team services and SOAR and security automation.
  • RegScale lists RegScale Trust Center and OSCAL Hub. UnderDefense lists UnderDefense MAXI, UnderDefense Agentic AI SOC, MDR, Cloud-based SIEM and CIS AWS Benchmark assessment.

What it sells: RegScale

What RegScale Trust Center does[2]
RegScale Trust Center offers automated NDA gating and self-service compliance artifacts. RegScale Trust Center is powered by live telemetry data.

What it sells: UnderDefense

What UnderDefense MAXI does[1][2][3][5][6]
UnderDefense MAXI natively monitors endpoints, networks, users and decoy beacons. UnderDefense MAXI provides ready-to-use playbooks, AI-powered alert enrichment and notifications through Slack, Jira or a preferred tool. UnderDefense MAXI provides pre-built compliance templates for standards such as SOC2 and ISO 27001.
What UnderDefense Agentic AI SOC does[4]
UnderDefense Agentic AI SOC uses AI agents that investigate each alert. Analysts on shift 24/7 decide what happens next.
What CIS AWS Benchmark assessment does[8]
UnderDefense offers a self-service CIS AWS Benchmark assessment. The assessment covers evaluating the maturity of cloud security controls, identifying misconfigurations, providing detailed mitigation instructions and giving a summary table with a final CVSS v3.0 score.

Questions about RegScale and UnderDefense

What do RegScale and UnderDefense sell?
RegScale sells RegScale Trust Center and OSCAL Hub. UnderDefense sells UnderDefense MAXI, UnderDefense Agentic AI SOC, MDR, Cloud-based SIEM and CIS AWS Benchmark assessment.
Are RegScale and UnderDefense in the same category?
They share Compliance automation. RegScale's primary category is Compliance automation and UnderDefense's is MDR and managed SOC.
Who are RegScale and UnderDefense sold to?
From its own pages, RegScale sells mainly to organizations that need to show compliance with federal and commercial frameworks. UnderDefense MAXI integrates with a customer's security infrastructure, including SIEMs, firewalls and endpoint protection solutions.
What have RegScale and UnderDefense announced recently?
June 11, 2026: RegScale announced it achieved ISO 27001 certification in under 30 days using its own continuous controls monitoring platform.

About RegScale

RegScale sells a Continuous Controls Monitoring platform that connects live cloud telemetry, security tools and CI/CD pipelines to federal and commercial compliance frameworks. RegScale says its platform gives organizations the speed to see, understand, and react in real time.

RegScale says companies spend months compiling static artifacts while configuration drift and unpatched CVEs expose production systems between audits. RegScale says it connects to live security telemetry 24/7/365 and validates controls continuously against technical reality. RegScale says automated API ingestion pulls evidence continuously, so engineering never pauses development before or during an audit. RegScale stores security packages natively in NIST OSCAL code. RegScale says that when infrastructure changes in GitOps, its System Security Plan updates itself in real time. RegScale delivers Compliance as Code directly into a CI/CD pipeline via native CLI and GitHub Actions. RegScale says regulatory violations fail pull requests before code reaches production.[1]

RegScale says one platform unites continuous monitoring, tool orchestration, and customer-facing trust. RegScale describes its core Continuous Controls Monitoring operating system as housing the multi-framework crosswalk, RegML regulatory AI, a dynamic risk ledger and a native NIST OSCAL dynamic SSP engine. RegScale says continuous monitoring runs across 250+ frameworks, supported out of the box. RegScale describes an automated integration backbone that connects 100+ enterprise cloud environments, cybersecurity scanners, identity providers, and CI/CD pipelines. RegScale runs automated scheduled pulls from CrowdStrike, Tenable, Wiz, Qualys, and more. RegScale Trust Center is a live, customer-facing security portal with automated NDA gating and self-service compliance artifacts. Every RegScale deployment contains six deterministic software engines. RegScale says its universal crosswalk automatically maps real-time telemetry across 250+ frameworks.

For federal programs, RegScale says its compliance management system automates the generation of Plans of Action and Milestones, System Security Plans, Security Assessment Plans, and Security Assessment Reports, all according to OSCAL standards, besides one-click artifact generation for FedRAMP. RegScale says its security team used its own CCM platform to achieve FedRAMP High authorization 3-4x faster than average. RegScale validates Key Security Indicators as compliance as code, running deterministic checks against live infrastructure and returning pass/fail results in real time. OSCAL Hub is an open-source platform that simplifies how Authorizing Officials review packages and how organizations submit them. RegScale says it achieved ISO 27001:2022 in under 30 days using its own platform, and that it earned CMMC Level 2 with its own platform.[1][6]

RegScale addresses third-party risk management through its Continuous Controls Monitoring platform, enabling organizations to assess, monitor, and mitigate risks associated with vendors and partners. RegScale says organizations can automate collection of vendor and partner onboarding questionnaires and use AI to score vendor submissions. RegScale consolidates risk data from all third-party vendors into a single platform. RegScale provides automated risk scoring for third parties. RegScale enables continuous monitoring of third-party risks by integrating with external data feeds and systems. RegScale offers a questionnaire system, procurement system integrations, and assessment capabilities to flow down requirements to vendors. RegScale integrates with DevSecOps workflows, security tools, and GRC systems for managing third-party risks.[1][7]

A government R&D organization implemented RegScale and streamlined issue management and workflows across tens of thousands of systems within weeks. A private equity firm chose RegScale to improve the cybersecurity posture of its portfolio companies through automation and real-time oversight of security and risk. RegScale describes its continuous controls monitoring platform as including governance, risk management, and compliance alongside threat categories, delivered with multi-tenancy. A major diversified healthcare company of retail pharmacies, health insurance, and virtual care services was struggling with fragmented compliance operations. RegScale provided a centralized platform that unified the compliance operations of that healthcare company into a single pane of glass. The healthcare company gained the ability to map common controls across SOC 1, SOC 2, SOX, and HITRUST with RegScale. The platform's compliance and risk modules were deployed in a scalable on-premises configuration for one healthcare deployment.[1][8][10]

Tovuti consolidated its SOC 2 and FedRAMP System Security Plans into a single source of truth with RegScale. A large American government services company needed to maintain and share up-to-date control sets across its three core teams. RegScale provided a centralized platform with a customizable control library, controlled security plan sharing, and a Unified Compliance Framework (UCF) integration for control mapping.[11][12]

RegScale says it was built by risk and compliance veterans who got fed up with GRC busywork that is entirely manual, after the fact, and reactive. RegScale says its AI-powered system plugs into ITIL and DevSecOps workflows. Travis Howerton is Co-Founder and CEO of RegScale.[6][11][13]

RegScale on the record

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RegScale full record

  1. [1]regscale.comRegScale · regscale.com · undated page, accessed October 7, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]RegScale | Continuous Controls Monitoring Platform for Cyber ResilienceRegScale · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]RegScale Achieves ISO 27001 Certification in Under 30 Days Using Its Own Continuous Controls Monitoring PlatformBusiness Wire · published June 11, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]RegScale Emerges as Category Leader in AI-Driven Continuous Controls Monitoring, Tripling Revenue as CISOs Abandon Manual GRCBusiness Wire · published May 14, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]RegScale Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier C
  6. [6]Accelerate FedRAMP Certification & Compliance with RegScaleRegScale · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Faster, Easier Third-Party Risk Management with AI and AutomationRegScale · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]R&D Org Scales Security and Compliance across 75,000 SystemsRegScale · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Private Equity Firm Automates Security and Risk ManagementRegScale · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Healthcare Company Centralizes Compliance & Eliminates Manual Tracking | RegScale Customer SuccessRegScale · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Tovuti LMS SOC 2 & FedRAMP Compliance Case Study | RegScaleRegScale · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Government Services Provider Centralizes Control Management | RegScale Customer SuccessRegScale · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]RegScale About Us | Taking the Complexity Out of ComplianceRegScale · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]RegScale Donates Open-Source OSCAL Hub to the OSCAL Foundation to Accelerate the Automation of Security Compliance Across Public and Private SectorsBusiness Wire · published December 16, 2025 · Tier A

UnderDefense full record

  1. [1]underdefense.comUnderDefense · underdefense.com · undated page, accessed October 26, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Compliance PricingUnderDefense · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
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  4. [4]Elastic Cloud Pricing 2026: Serverless, Hosted, and SIEMUnderDefense · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Cloudflare Pricing 2026: WAF, Zero Trust, and EnterpriseUnderDefense · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Palo Alto Networks Pricing 2026: Firewalls, SASE, and XDRUnderDefense · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]2025 MXDR Pricing Guide: Choosing the Right MXDR providerUnderDefense · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Episode 4: Cyber Resilience 201 — AWS Cloud Security - UnderDefenseUnderDefense · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]E-Mail Under Attack - UnderDefenseUnderDefense · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]UnderDefense MAXI Reviews & Product DetailsG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

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