Insights and guides on automating compliance evidence collection
AI-generated compliance evidence is transforming audits from manual evidence review (80% of auditor time) to risk assessment and strategic guidance (60% ). Auditors will validate AI decisions, not screenshots—reducing audit costs 40-50%.
No. Drata and Vanta automate infrastructure evidence via APIs but cannot capture application screenshots or workflow documentation. This article explains what screenshot evidence SOC 2 auditors require, why Drata and Vanta can't automate it, and how to automate screenshot collection to eliminate 40–60 hours of manual work per audit.
Yes, browser extensions automatically record application testing and convert it into SOC 2 evidence. This guide shows how testing-to-documentation systems capture screenshots, generate control descriptions, and create audit-ready PDFs—eliminating manual documentation and reducing audit prep from 80 hours to under 5 hours.
Auditors require visual evidence for 25-35% of SOC 2 controls that cannot be verified through logs or APIs alone—specifically access controls, UI security, approval workflows, and application-level protections.
Screenshot-based access controls, workflow documentation, application testing, and UI validations can be automated across all major frameworks—covering 20-30% of evidence that traditional GRC tools cannot capture.
Automate SOC 2 CC6.1 (logical access) evidence by capturing user permission matrices, role-based login tests, access denial screenshots, and audit logs. This guide shows how to document RBAC effectiveness with automated screenshot collection, reducing manual testing from 60 minutes to 5 minutes per quarter.
Browser extensions, RPA tools, and screen recorders can automate SOC 2 screenshots. This comparison shows which tools work best for SOC 2 evidence collection: browser extensions offer the best balance of ease-of-use (no IT setup), accuracy (90%+ vs 70% for RPA), and cost for compliance teams.
Install a browser extension that records your application workflows, automatically captures screenshots at each step, and uses AI to generate evidence descriptions mapped to SOC 2 controls (CC6.1, CC6.2, etc.). This approach reduces documentation time by 93%.
Yes, screenshot automation integrates with Drata and Vanta via PDF uploads, CSV imports, or API sync. This guide shows how to connect screenshot automation tools to your GRC platform, creating complete SOC 2 automation where Drata/Vanta handles infrastructure (80%) and screenshot tools handle application evidence (20%).
Automate SOC 2 PDF evidence pack generation by configuring tools to capture screenshots, generate AI descriptions, map to controls, and format with timestamps. This guide shows how to automatically create audit-ready PDFs from test execution, eliminating manual formatting and reducing documentation time by 90%.
Automate SOC 2 evidence collection beyond what Drata can do alone. Capture screenshots, generate audit-ready documentation, and integrate with your Drata workspace.
Compliance evidence automation uses AI agents and browser extensions to automatically capture screenshots, generate documentation, and organize audit evidence—transforming 60-minute manual processes into 3-minute automated workflows.