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A practical overview of how an invisible, no-interaction CAPTCHA supports compliance and security frameworks.

Compliance-ready bot protection without user friction

TrustCaptcha works as a security control: invisible, with no puzzle and no interaction. It reduces automated abuse and is easy to document for audits and governance.

Regulations such as NIS2 and DORA, and frameworks such as ISO 27001, expect organizations to show operational resilience, risk-based controls, and governance over security measures, especially for public-facing systems. TrustCaptcha covers one part of this: it prevents automated abuse (credential stuffing, scraping, spam, brute force, bot-driven disruption) without slowing down your users.

TrustCaptcha is a no-interaction CAPTCHA, so there is no challenge step to explain or to make accessible. Users keep moving, and your team gets a control that is easy to document, review and map to frameworks.

Designed for governance & audits

What compliance reviews and vendor assessments usually look for:

✓ No puzzles or user interaction
✓ Used for security only
✓ Documentation you can use as evidence
✓ Supports resilience and abuse prevention objectives

Frameworks and regulations TrustCaptcha supports

How TrustCaptcha relates to each framework. DORA and NIS2 have their own pages with a detailed mapping.

DORA (EU)

EU Regulation

For financial entities, TrustCaptcha reduces bot-driven disruption of online services, one part of the ICT resilience DORA asks for. Its verification results can feed your monitoring and logging.

NIS2 (EU)

EU Directive

TrustCaptcha reduces automated abuse and helps keep services available, two goals of NIS2 risk management. It works without tracking users, and its setup is easy to document.

ISO/IEC 27001 & 27002

ISMS

In an ISMS, TrustCaptcha is a control for abuse prevention and availability. Clear documentation and predictable processing make it easy to map to your controls and to show in audits.

SOC 2 (Trust Services Criteria)

Assurance

TrustCaptcha reduces automated attacks, which counts toward the Security and Availability criteria, and we provide documentation for your vendor reviews.

NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)

Framework

TrustCaptcha mainly supports the Protect and Detect functions: it limits automated threats and gives you verification results you can measure, without challenging users.

NIST SP 800-53 (Control Families)

Controls

TrustCaptcha relates to controls for access control, system monitoring, resilience and incident response, because it closes automated abuse paths and makes them visible to your security team.

CIS Critical Security Controls

Controls

In a CIS program, TrustCaptcha reduces the exposure of public web applications to automated threats and adds a control you can configure and monitor.

PCI DSS (E-commerce & Payments)

Payments

TrustCaptcha protects checkout and payment forms from card testing, credential stuffing and other bot attacks, which helps keep payment pages available and reduces fraud.

OWASP (ASVS / Top 10)

AppSec

TrustCaptcha slows down the automated attacks behind credential stuffing, scraping and brute force, which OWASP guidance on authentication and automated threats addresses, without adding a puzzle.

Control mapping

How TrustCaptcha fits common control objectives

An audit-friendly view of what the control does and where you find the evidence.

Control objective	How TrustCaptcha supports it	Where you find it
Availability & resilience	Stops bot floods that slow down or take down forms and logins, without adding a puzzle for users.	The 99.9% uptime SLA on Team and Enterprise, and our public status page.
Access & abuse prevention	Protects against automated login attempts, credential stuffing, scraping, form spam and brute force.	The integration guides in our documentation and the security rules in your dashboard.
Monitoring & detection	Gives you verification results that can feed detection and response, without tracking users across sites.	Verification results from the API, plus the audit logs in your dashboard.
Privacy-by-design security control	Verification for security only, with no puzzles and no persistent user profiles, which keeps privacy risk low in compliance reviews.	The description of data processing in our documentation, and the DPA.
Third-party / vendor governance	Documentation for procurement, audits and security questionnaires.	The DPA with its list of sub-processors, and our documentation.

Note: audit logs depend on your plan, with 30 days on Team and 90 days on Enterprise.

Resources

Documentation that simplifies audits and vendor reviews

Our documentation and the DPA answer most questions from security, legal, procurement and compliance teams, and we help with your questionnaire.

Help with vendor and security questionnaires

Send us your procurement or security questionnaire and we'll help you fill it in.

Data Processing Agreement (DPA)

Every customer gets a DPA, which answers the processor questions in a legal review.

Request DPA

Frequently Asked Questions

Framework questions teams ask most often

Short answers for teams preparing NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001 or SOC 2 reviews.

What is a “no-interaction” or invisible CAPTCHA?

It’s a CAPTCHA that protects forms and high-risk endpoints without asking users to solve puzzles or click boxes. TrustCaptcha is designed to run invisibly in the background so legitimate users can continue their journey while automated abuse is stopped.

How does TrustCaptcha help with NIS2 or DORA readiness?

NIS2 and DORA push for risk-based controls and operational resilience. TrustCaptcha helps reduce bot-driven disruption in public systems (logins, registrations, password resets, forms, checkout) and comes with documentation for governance and vendor reviews.

Does TrustCaptcha replace WAF, rate limiting, or bot management?

It complements them. Many teams use TrustCaptcha alongside WAF rules, rate limits, and threat detection to add a dedicated anti-automation control at the application layer, especially where user friction must be near zero.

What kind of evidence do auditors or procurement teams typically need?

Common asks include how the control works, where data flows, how incidents are handled and how the control maps to ISO, SOC, NIST or CIS. Our documentation explains how TrustCaptcha works and what data it processes, the DPA sets out the processing terms, and we help you answer the rest of a questionnaire.

Where should we deploy TrustCaptcha for best control coverage?

High-risk journeys are usually the priority: login, password reset, registration, form submissions, checkout, and API endpoints that attract scraping or brute force. Many teams start with the most abused endpoints and expand coverage based on observed risk.