Vanta automates 80% of compliance evidence. The remaining 20% is application-level testing proof that your team still assembles manually: screenshots, spreadsheets, Confluence pages. Zerocheck closes that gap automatically.
“The guts of a SOC2 audit are a giant spreadsheet questionnaire and a battery of screenshots serving as evidence for the answers in the questionnaire.”
Thomas Ptacek, Fly.iosource
“Evidence collection becomes a quarterly scavenger hunt - a tax on engineering velocity that produces almost no security value.”
Ederasource
“If your evidence collection process is 'take a screenshot on Tuesday,' your evidence is already stale by Wednesday.”
Ederasource
SOC 2 requires evidence for 200+ controls per audit cycle
Vanta and Drata leave a '20% manual gap' for application-level testing evidence
2 engineers x 2 weeks per audit for manual evidence collection
Compliance platforms (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe) automate infrastructure evidence. They can confirm 'MFA is enabled.' They cannot prove 'the login flow actually works on this commit.'
No E2E testing tool generates audit-ready artifacts. CI logs expire. Dashboards aren't formatted for auditors. The bridge between 'test passed' and 'auditable proof' is entirely manual.
The result: 2 engineers spend 2 weeks per audit mapping Jira tickets to test runs to screenshots to Confluence. 200 pages assembled. The auditor flags gaps. Repeat annually.
SOC 2 audit window opens. Compliance officer asks for evidence of change management controls (CC7.2, CC8.1). Engineering team manually maps Jira tickets to test runs to screenshots. Two engineers spend two weeks assembling 200 pages. Auditor flags gaps: some controls lack continuous evidence, some show point-in-time screenshots.
Tests tagged with control IDs run on every PR. Every merge generates a signed, timestamped evidence artifact: test name, control ID, pass/fail, commit SHA, screenshots. Compliance officer opens dashboard, selects CC7.2, clicks export. PDF generated in seconds. Two-week sprint becomes a two-hour review.
Tag tests with SOC 2 control IDs (CC7.2, CC6.1, CC8.1)
Tests run on every PR, generating evidence artifacts automatically
Evidence accumulates continuously, not once a quarter
Export auditor-ready PDF/JSON in one click
Vanta automates infrastructure evidence: MFA enabled, access reviews completed, encryption configured. Zerocheck automates application testing evidence: login flow works, access controls behave correctly, change management tested. Together you cover the full 100%, not just 80%.
The evidence is not AI-generated. It is the factual output of real test execution: timestamped pass/fail, screenshots, step traces, commit SHA. The AI writes the tests. The evidence is what happened when those tests ran. Same standard as CI logs, formatted for auditors.
Two minutes to connect your repo and staging URL. Tag tests with SOC 2 control IDs. Evidence starts generating on your next PR. Most teams go from zero to continuous evidence in under an hour.
Evidence artifacts are timestamped, commit-bound, and immutable. They include the test specification, execution result, screenshots, and the exact commit SHA. We recommend auditor review of the format before your first audit.
E2E testing built for audit season. Evidence on every PR, not once a quarter.
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