Evidence mapping
For each control, what would actually satisfy an auditor and which system already holds it.
Warden · Continuous Compliance
Collect evidence when it happens, not when the auditor asks
An engagement that replaces manual evidence gathering with automated collection into a write-once store, so the record is contemporaneous, attributable and verifiable without anyone taking a screenshot.
Retrospective evidence is weaker evidence
A screenshot taken in March to demonstrate a control that operated in October proves the control's state in March. Auditors increasingly say so, and evidence produced after the fact invites sampling you would rather avoid.
- Screenshots have no provenanceAn image in a shared drive cannot show who produced it, when, or from what system state.
- Collection competes with real workThe people who can produce the evidence are the people you least want spending a week producing it.
- The same evidence is gathered repeatedlySOC 2, ISO 27001 and a customer questionnaire ask for the same artifact in three formats.
How the engagement runs
Automate collection
Connectors pull the artifact on a schedule into write-once storage with a verifiable digest.
Close the manual gaps
For evidence no system produces, a lightweight attested workflow rather than a screenshot habit.
Prove the chain
Demonstrate integrity verification end to end so the store stands up to challenge.
What you hold at the end
- An evidence map: control, sufficient artifact, source system, collection frequency
- Automated collection running against your live estate
- A write-once evidence store with verifiable digests and retention aligned to your frameworks
- Attested workflows for the evidence that has no system of record
- An integrity verification walkthrough you can repeat in front of an auditor
What it runs on
Evidence that was true when it was recorded
Contemporaneous, attributable and verifiable. The three properties that stop an audit becoming an investigation.