Evidence collection software for automated evidence collection, SOC 2 evidence and compliance evidence management

Evidence collection software gathers the proof that security and compliance controls are working, links each item to the controls it supports and keeps it current through the audit period. It pulls some evidence directly from systems such as AWS, GitHub or Okta and tracks the rest, such as policies and review sign-offs, with owners and due dates. Complies does both from $119 a month billed yearly.

Automated evidence collection means a tool reads settings and records from your systems through their APIs on a schedule, instead of a person taking screenshots. In Complies, connectors for AWS, GitHub, Okta, Google Workspace, Entra ID and Jira run daily and save each check as PASS or FAIL with its details and a dated history the auditor can sample.

No. System settings such as MFA, logging and branch protection can be collected automatically, but a large share of SOC 2 evidence is human: approved policies, access review sign-offs, risk assessments, vendor reviews and training records. Any vendor promising full automation is still asking you to upload those. The useful goal is automating the system checks and putting owners and dates on everything else.

SOC 2 auditors typically sample evidence for access control (MFA, user lists, access reviews), change management (approved and tested changes), logging and monitoring, incident response, vendor management, risk assessment, HR (background checks, training) and policies. For a Type 2 report they want proof the control operated across the whole period, which is why dated, recurring evidence matters more than one screenshot.

Published prices are rare. Complies includes evidence collection and its connectors in Growth at $119 a month billed yearly. Secureframe Fundamentals starts at $7,500 a year. Vanta, Drata and Hyperproof are quote-only, with Vendr medians of about $20,000, $24,868 and $41,400 a year. AWS Audit Manager is usage-based at about $1.25 per 1,000 resource assessments.

Complies connects to AWS (root user MFA, IAM password policy, S3 Block Public Access, CloudTrail logging), GitHub (required two-factor authentication, default branch protection, members and owners), Okta (password policies, MFA enrollment, users with a second factor), Google Workspace (2-Step Verification), Microsoft Entra ID (MFA and directory accounts) and Jira (change tickets resolved in the last 90 days).

Connector checks run once a day on paid workspaces, and a same-day re-run replaces its own entry rather than stacking copies. Manual evidence follows the cadence you set per item: one-time, monthly, quarterly, every six months or yearly. Each collection is kept in a dated log, so you can show the auditor the state of a control at any point in the period.

Yes. Complies files evidence against a shared control area rather than a single framework, so an item counts for every framework that control serves. A quarterly access review counts toward SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS together. Cross-framework mapping is part of Growth, which runs all five frameworks on one control set.

Not quite. Evidence collection gathers and maintains the proof; audit management covers the audit itself, such as requests, fieldwork and findings. Complies focuses on the first half and on readiness: it collects and tracks evidence, scores readiness per framework and exports the evidence index for your auditor, who runs the audit in their own tools.

No. Complies does not perform audits or issue SOC 2 reports, and the readiness score is not an audit opinion. It keeps your evidence current and organized so the audit goes faster. You hire an independent CPA firm for SOC 2 or an accredited certification body for ISO 27001, and give them Viewer access or the export pack on Scale.