From yearly audits to evidence on demand
Continuous compliance
Last year's audit describes last year's system.
Audits, renewals and access reviews are re-attestation for organisations. Continuous compliance is continuous attestation for policies. The same idea runs through both: trust is earned again, on a schedule and after every change, and the evidence is kept.
Who this is for
- Heads of security and compliance, tired of the yearly evidence hunt
- Auditors and assessors, who want evidence they can check again
- Compliance tool vendors, adding technical evidence to their product
When trust has to be proved again
A certification or audit comes dueMachine evidence collected all year beats screenshots collected in a week.
Access is reviewedPeople attest that access is still needed; systems can attest what access exists.
A control driftsA public bucket or disabled encryption should raise an alert in minutes, not at the next audit.
What we deliver
- A map from your attestation evidence to the controls your auditors test (ISO 27001, SOC 2, sector rules).
- Evidence retention and reporting that serves both engineers and auditors.
- A plan to replace periodic attestations by people with continuous ones by systems, where that is safe.
Questions worth answering
- Which of your controls could be proved by machine evidence?
- How old is the evidence behind your last certificate?
- Who signs off when a control drifts?
Across the life cycle
DesignBuildMake or deployOperateUpdateRetire
The stage that decides here: operate. Auditors look at a period. Evidence has to be produced during operation, on every day of that period. See attestation in the product life cycle.
Rules and standards your buyers cite
ISO 27001 and SOC 2DORANIS2Cyber Resilience Act
Industries that use this
Healthcare and medical dataLegal services and digital trust
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Who builds in this area
From our public landscape: Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, Sprinto, Anecdotes, Hyperproof, Scrut Automation, RegScale.
Not quite your case? Need the numbers for your board? The business case. Which rule applies to you? Regulations.
Working on Continuous compliance? A first call takes 30 minutes and commits you to nothing. Bring your product and the one question that worries you.
Next fixed date: EU Digital Identity Wallets are due in every member state on 24 December 2026, 42 days from now.
Concepts: Re-attestation · Continuous attestation · Remote attestation · IETF RATS architecture