Audit Defense & Verification

Audit Evidence Mapping for SOC 2 & ISO 27001

Turn vague auditor requests into structured, pre-verified evidence packages that eliminate fieldwork pauses and pass CPA review on the first submission.

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The Root Cause of Audit Delays

Why Audit Evidence Fails CPA Scrutiny

Most compliance failures are not caused by bad security - they are caused by sloppy evidence. Auditors reject documentation for technical non-compliance reasons that could have been identified in minutes.

Missing or Ambiguous Timestamps

A screenshot of an AWS security group without a visible system clock or date stamp will be rejected by any credible CPA firm. Evidence must prove state throughout the entire audit observation window.

Incomplete Population Sampling

When an auditor asks for evidence of quarterly access reviews, providing only 3 engineering managers while omitting contractors and DevOps staff causes an immediate testing failure.

Untraceable Change Management

Pull requests merged without formal peer approvals or emergency bypass logs that lack retrospective post-mortems trigger automated CC8.1 Common Criteria exceptions.

Comprehensive Packaging

The 5 Core Evidence Categories We Map

We systematically collect, redact, and package evidence across all technical and operational domains.

1. Cloud & Infrastructure Configs

Terraform/CloudFormation state files, AWS IAM policy dumps, Azure RBAC exports, encryption at rest KMS keys, and VPC flow logging configurations mapped to CC6 and CC7.

2. Identity, Access & Offboarding

HR employee rosters synchronized with Okta/Google Workspace, quarterly user access review sheets, 24-hour employee termination revoke logs, and privileged access ticket proofs.

3. Change Management & SDLC

GitHub/GitLab branch protection rules, mandatory code review approvals, automated SAST/DAST scan outputs in CI/CD pipelines, and change authorization approvals for production deploys.

4. Vulnerability & Pentest Reports

Third-party penetration testing reports, executive letters of attestation, monthly vulnerability scanning reports, and remediation verification tickets with CVSS scores.

5. Policy Sign-offs & Training

Employee security awareness training completion percentages, annual policy acknowledgment records, background check confirmations, and vendor risk assessment evaluations.

6. Availability & Disaster Recovery

Annual table-top disaster recovery test results, automated backup restoration verification logs, RTO/RPO measurement records, and incident response drill retrospectives.

Methodical Execution

Our Pre-Audit Evidence Assembly Process

1

Auditor Request List Intake & Normalization

We ingest your CPA firm's Prepared-by-Client (PBC) request list or automated compliance platform task list (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe) and map every item to internal system owners.

2

Automated & Guided Evidence Pulling

We guide your engineers through exact API pulls, CLI scripts, and configuration exports to produce evidence with compliant timestamps and clean boundary validation.

3

Independent Pre-Audit Quality Check

Our senior assessors scrutinize every single screenshot, log file, and report before your auditor sees it. Incomplete populations, missing dates, and sensitive PII are resolved in advance.

4

Auditor-Ready Vault Delivery & Defense

We structure your evidence into an intuitive, indexed vault directly aligned with AICPA/ISO criteria. When auditor fieldwork starts, your team responds to requests in minutes, not days.

Frequently Asked Questions

Audit Evidence FAQ

We use Vanta / Drata. Why do we still need manual evidence mapping?

Automated compliance platforms capture roughly 60% of technical checks through API integrations. However, auditors always require manual sampling populations: quarterly access reviews, vendor risk assessments, incident drill notes, and penetration testing letters of attestation. We handle the 40% of manual evidence that causes 90% of audit failures.

Do you interface directly with our CPA audit firm?

Yes. We participate in auditor kickoff calls, review PBC request lists with the audit partner, and help your team defend evidence submissions during active fieldwork.

How are client secrets and customer PII protected during evidence collection?

All evidence collected is sanitized and redacted in accordance with Canadian data residency principles. Credentials, API keys, customer personal information, and proprietary source code are scrubbed before packaging.

Eliminate Audit Stalls with Pre-Mapped Evidence

Ensure your SOC 2 or ISO 27001 evidence passes auditor review smoothly on the first pass.

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