Validate your cybersecurity decision before you commit £100K+.
Independent, vendor-neutral assurance across capability, cost, and real-world performance.
VendorVerdict provides an independent decision brief — combining capability validation, cost modelling, and real-world trade-offs — so you can choose the right vendor and defend it.
Built by security practitioners and procurement advisors with experience across EDR, SIEM, IAM, and SASE vendor selection.
£3.5K / year — less than the cost of a single wrong decision.
● Now onboarding a small number of organisations with active vendor decisions·Built on MITRE ATT&CK, published analyst positioning, and real-world pricing data·No commercial relationships with any assessed vendor
2–5×
Typical cost overrun on security purchases once retention, modules, and integration are factored in — usually discovered post-signature.
18mo
Average time locked into a wrong security contract before exit is practical. Most procurement errors are not quick to recover from.
£1M+
Indicative 3-year total cost on an enterprise EDR or SIEM decision at 1,000–5,000 endpoints. A commitment worth validating before you sign.
What You Get
A decision brief. Not a dashboard.
Structured for a board conversation. Every claim carries a source reference and a confidence label — so you can defend the recommendation.
This is what you take to your board
Decision Brief — Sample Output
EDR/XDR · Redacted
[Redacted] · UK financial services · ~1,200 employees
Calibrated to your environment. Weighting factors and assumptions shown in full — not a black box.
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MITRE ATT&CK and NIST CSF gap analysis
Where vendor claims diverge from published independent evaluation results.
03
Hidden cost exposure
Retention tiers, module accumulation, and ingestion charges surfaced before commitment — with source references.
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3-year total cost model
All-in cost at your scale across shortlisted vendors. Assumptions stated. Built for a commercial conversation.
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Negotiation flags and RFP guidance
Where costs escalate post-signature. What to require in writing before you commit.
What happens after you submit
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Receive a sample decision brief by emailWithin hours of submitting
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A short call may follow to refine your environmentIf needed — not always required
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Your decision brief is deliveredPromptly — aligned to your decision timeline
Who Is This For
When can you use it
Built for the moment you are about to commit to a security vendor and need confidence in the decision you are about to make.
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You are evaluating vendors across EDR, IAM, SIEM, Email, Network, or Cloud security and need a clear, defensible path forward.
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You are about to commit £100K+ and aren’t fully confident the recommendation will hold up to scrutiny.
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You don’t fully trust vendor claims and want them assessed against independent benchmarks, not marketing materials.
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You need something structured and source-referenced that you can take to leadership — with an audit trail, not just an opinion.
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You are in a mid-market organisation without access to Gartner-level analysis — or you need a faster, decision-specific view.
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You want a second opinion before you sign — one that surfaces risks and costs you may not have considered.
The Cost of Getting It Wrong
A wrong decision isn’t just expensive — it lingers.
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£100K+ committed to the wrong contract — vendor claims evaluated without independent validation.
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12–24 months locked in — switching costs make exit expensive and disruptive well before contract end.
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Hidden costs post-deployment — retention tiers, module accumulation, and ingestion charges discovered after signature.
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No defensible answer for leadership — the decision was made without an auditable evidence trail.
VendorVerdict
A recommendation you can justify — with evidence, not opinion.
Most decisions rely on vendor briefings, analyst summaries, and incomplete cost visibility. VendorVerdict surfaces trade-offs and risks clearly, before you commit.
Source-referenced · Auditable · Vendor-neutral
No commercial relationships with any security vendor in our dataset. Every score references publicly verifiable data — MITRE evaluations, published pricing, and independently sourced market analysis.
How It Works
Three steps. One decision you can defend.
Define your environment → Validate the vendors → Get your decision brief. Delivered within 48 hours.
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Define Your Environment
Stack, scale, retention, and risk profile. Every brief is calibrated to your organisation — not a generic benchmark.
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Validate the Vendors
Claims assessed against MITRE ATT&CK, published analyst positioning, and real-world cost data. Hidden costs surfaced before you commit.
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Get Your Decision Brief
Ranked recommendation, 3-year cost model, and procurement risks. Every claim labelled FACT or ESTIMATE with source. Board-ready.
Inviting a limited number of organisations with active vendor decisions. If you are currently evaluating vendors, we prioritise your request.
Where VendorVerdict Fits
Analyst research helps you understand the market. VendorVerdict helps you make the decision in front of you.
We complement analyst insight — we don’t replace it. Used alongside analyst research — not instead of it.
VendorVerdict
Analyst research (e.g. Gartner / Forrester)
Time to output
48 hours
Days to weeks
Decision-specific output
Yes — calibrated to your environment
No — broad market research
Commercial cost modelling
Yes — TCO and hidden costs included
Limited
Output format
Decision brief — structured for leadership
Research reports
Analyst firm costs and access models vary. This comparison is indicative only, based on typical mid-market access pricing as of 2025.
Why Trust VendorVerdict
Source-referenced. Auditable. Vendor-neutral.
No vendor payments, referrals, or commercial arrangements with any assessed vendor. Every output references verifiable sources — so you can interrogate the recommendation, not just accept it.
01 · Data Sources
Where the data comes from
MITRE ATT&CK independent evaluations (published results, Rounds 5 and 6). Published analyst positioning. Publicly available and community-sourced pricing data. Every claim carries a confidence label.
MITRE ATT&CK R5+R6
Published analyst positioning
Market pricing data
02 · Scoring Model
Explainable. Auditable.
A weighted model across integration alignment, MITRE detection coverage, capability depth, and cost predictability. Weighting factors, source references, and assumptions are shown in every brief — not hidden in a black box. Full audit trail included.
Weights shown
Sources cited
Assumptions stated
03 · Independence
No commercial conflicts
No reseller, referral, or partnership arrangements with any vendor in our dataset. Our revenue comes from the organisations using the platform — not from vendors being assessed.
No vendor revenue
Subscription model
Assessment-only output
Decision Coverage
Six categories. Each with hidden cost modelling.
Used across EDR, IAM, SIEM, Email, Network, and Cloud security decisions — every category includes cost modelling, not just capability comparison.
EDR / XDR
IAM
SIEM
Email Security
Network / ZTNA
Cloud Security
MITRE ATT&CK
NIST CSF 2.0
ISO 27001
SOC 2 Type II
CIS Controls v8
DORA
Simple, Transparent Pricing
One price. No surprises.
£3,500
per year · billed annually
Designed for mid-market security teams making £100K+ decisions. A fraction of the cost of a single mistake — or a typical analyst subscription.
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Less than 2% of the contract value on a typical £250K security decision
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A fraction of the cost of a Gartner or Forrester subscription — with output specific to your decision, not the market
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Used across multiple vendor decisions throughout the year — not just one
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Significantly less than a single day of specialist procurement consultancy
No setup fees · No per-decision charges · No commercial relationships with assessed vendors
Limited Onboarding — Active Decisions Prioritised
Validate your decision before you commit.
Receive a sample decision brief within hours. A short call may follow to refine your environment — your full brief is then delivered promptly.
Used across multiple vendor decisions throughout the year — not just one.