Integrations / Identity & access
Screenata + Auth0How do you prove SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA access controls in Auth0?
Quick answer
Auth0 is where logical access control is proved for your application's own users. It is the first thing an auditor samples under SOC 2 CC6.1, and the tenant roster is where access reviews of application accounts get their source of truth. An authentication policy existing on paper is not the control. The control is the enforced tenant setting plus the record that it operated for every user across the audit period. Screenata runs 8 native checks against that configuration on a schedule and turns each result into signed evidence mapped to the control it satisfies.
Screenata connects to Auth0 read-only and runs 8 native checks against your tenant: MFA configuration, brute-force protection, and password policies. Auth0 usually guards your product's own users, so these findings evidence the application-layer access controls buyers ask about in security reviews. Each finding is signed, timestamped, and mapped to SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 controls.
8 native checks · read-only · signed evidence
What it proves
Auth0 evidence, mapped to controls.
Multi-factor authentication settings on the tenant and which factors are enabled.
Proof that the authentication layer in front of your application supports and enforces strong factors.
Whether attack protection features are enabled: brute-force limits and suspicious sign-in defenses.
Proof that credential-stuffing and brute-force attempts against your users are detected and limited.
Password strength and history requirements configured on database connections.
Configuration snapshot showing the policy in force on the scan date.
Control references are the requirements each evidence area supports, via the shared control catalog. Your auditor decides sufficiency; the artifacts are theirs to verify.
Compliance checks
What Screenata checks on Auth0, and why each matters.
MFA Enforced
Adaptive-only or absent MFA lets many logins through with a password alone. An auditor verifies the tenant policy requires MFA for all applications rather than only low-confidence sign-ins.
Phishing-Resistant MFA Factors
MFA that offers only phishable factors can be defeated by adversary-in-the-middle attacks. Auditors confirm at least one phishing-resistant factor such as WebAuthn is enabled.
Brute Force Protection
Detection without blocking lets a brute-force attack continue while only generating alerts. An auditor verifies brute-force protection is enabled and set to block, not just notify.
Breached Password Detection
Credentials exposed in past breaches are reused constantly, so accepting them invites takeover. Auditors confirm breached-password detection is enabled and blocks known-compromised credentials.
Password Policy
Weak database-connection password rules let users set easily guessed passwords. An auditor verifies each database connection enforces a strong policy with an adequate minimum length.
Idle Session Lifetime
Sessions that stay alive through long inactivity extend the window an abandoned session can be hijacked. An auditor checks that the idle session lifetime is bounded to a short window.
Log Streaming
If authentication logs are not streamed to a SIEM, evidence can be lost and incidents go undetected. Auditors verify at least one active log stream ships events to an external destination.
Signing Key Rotation
A token-signing key that never rotates keeps every token ever issued forgeable if the key leaks. An auditor confirms the current key is within its rotation window and a successor key is staged.
Drawn from Screenata’s Auth0 check library. Control refs are the requirements each check produces evidence for; your auditor decides sufficiency.
How it connects
Read-only, revocable, yours.
Read-only by construction
OAuth scopes and IAM roles are scoped to read. Vera never gets write access to your systems.
Signed findings
SHA-256 per artifact, RSA/ECDSA signatures, RFC 3161 timestamps. Verifiable without a Screenata account.
Mapped to controls
Each finding lands on the shared control catalog, so one scan satisfies SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 at once.
What access does Screenata need to Auth0?
A machine-to-machine application scoped to read access that you create and control. Screenata uses it for scheduled scans and never receives write access to your tenant. You can revoke it at any time from the Auth0 dashboard.
Why does Auth0 evidence matter in a SOC 2 audit?
SOC 2 covers the controls protecting customer data, and for a SaaS product the authentication layer in front of that data is squarely in scope. Auth0 findings prove the application-layer access controls your system description and security questionnaire answers describe.
What happens when an Auth0 check fails?
Vera opens a ticket describing the failing configuration and re-verifies after a human applies the fix. Nothing in your tenant is changed by Screenata; the connection is read-only by construction.
What are the steps to implement SOC 2 with Auth0?
Connect the tenant read-only with a machine-to-machine application scoped to read access. Let the first scan establish a baseline so you can see which settings already pass and which do not. Fix what fails: enforce MFA for all applications rather than adaptive sign-ins only, enable a phishing-resistant factor such as WebAuthn, set brute-force protection to block rather than notify, turn on breached-password detection, tighten the database connection password policy, bound idle session lifetime, and keep signing keys inside their rotation window. Collect the passing results as signed evidence on a schedule, so you hold coverage across the whole audit period rather than one snapshot. Then hand the evidence package to an independent auditor. The audit is a separate engagement with a CPA firm; Screenata prepares the evidence and does not issue the report.
How do you automate user access reviews?
Auth0 supplies the authoritative list of accounts and entitlements in the tenant. The HR roster supplies who should still have them. Screenata reconciles the two, schedules the review, routes each account to the right reviewer, and records the reviewer's decision as signed evidence. The access decision stays with the human reviewer. What the automation covers is gathering, routing, chasing, and recording.
Do auditors accept evidence Screenata collects from Auth0?
Yes. Every finding is exported as a signed, timestamped artifact, a SHA-256 hash with an RSA or ECDSA signature and an RFC 3161 timestamp, that an auditor verifies outside Screenata with a free CLI. A person reviews and approves the evidence before it reaches the auditor. Screenata collects and signs it; it does not decide the audit result.