Still following up for evidence like it’s 2020?

Struggling with evidence collection? You’re probably taking on too much of the burden yourself; evidence collection need not be this hard in 2024! 

Evidence collection is a serious (and backbreaking) exercise! Evidence must be correct, and complete, and that’s not all. Your evidence collection process is necessarily a high-fidelity effort—it has to create an audit trail that auditors can trust because the proof is delivered by a source system rather than an individual.

Moreover, evidence collection is a second-order task. The primary task at hand is continuously detecting and remediating issues across your environment in line with the requirements of the security frameworks that your org has chosen to adhere to.

But ensuring compliance across a burgeoning application landscape isn’t easy. Attempting the above manually is stressful, backbreaking, and enough to drive even the most experienced security professionals crazy. It’s also not exactly humanly possible without an unrealistically large team, especially if you want to get most of it right in the first go.

Besides, when dealing with multiple audits for different compliance frameworks in a year, the stress, anxiety, and uncertainty around evidence collection escalate correspondingly. Why is evidence collection so backbreaking (and also sanity-stealing)?

The manual evidence collection struggle at a glance

What would a less burdensome evidence-collection mechanism look like functionally? Automatic evidence gathering, where controls are tested (in line with audit standards) and evidence is gathered in a way that proves that remediation was completed within SLAs. This might be made possible by the following:

De-stress evidence collection with automation Sprinto automates evidence collection and eliminates audit fatigue by 90%. Synced with your tech stack, Sprinto automatically delivers an inventory of your assets—across infrastructure, cloud, code, and employees—and a fine-grained view of controls. The platform’s rule-based, least-privilege (which means that it accesses only configurations, not data) automation then gathers accurate, time-stamped evidence. GRC and security leaders who use Sprinto confidently launch multiple audits at once. Here’s how:

Integrations enable automatic control enforcement Sprinto automatically aligns policies and controls with the compliance requirements of your selected compliance frameworks. Integrated with your tech stack, Sprinto goes the full length to enforce control and monitor effectiveness by automatic testing and validating. Cross-mapping reduces the evidence-gathering burden 

Goodbye, duplication! Sprinto intelligently links control evidence across various frameworks, eliminating the need for multiple tests or duplicate evidence. You implement and validate controls just once, and meet the evidence requirements for multiple frameworks, growing your compliance program without increasing your time and effort costs. System-generated evidence eliminates gaps As your unified compliance management platform, you can trigger automated and customizable evidence to match compliance requirements, and apply escalations whenever necessary. To sum up, Sprinto’s automatic evidence collection ensures a transparent audit trail from start to finish, with automatic control testing and validation, topped with time-stamped evidence gathering. This means you enter audits with full confidence and no evidence-gathering fatigue.