✅ Evidence-Backed Compliance

Evidence-Backed
Compliance
Proven or Attested

A scanner can only prove the controls it can see. SBCMSP shows every control as automated, attested, or undocumented — then generates the shortest possible questionnaire to close the gaps honestly.

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NIST CSF 2.0 · evidence-backed
Encryption in transitAUTOMATED
Backup & recoveryATTESTED
Awareness trainingATTESTED
Incident response planUNDOCUMENTED
Vendor risk managementUNDOCUMENTED

Every Control Shows Its Real State

No control is ever quietly counted as a pass. Each one carries one of three honest states, and the badge tells you exactly how it’s backed.

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Automated
A live external scan, endpoint agent, or cloud posture check proves the control right now. The platform marks it automated — no human action, no questionnaire.
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Attested
Where nothing technical can see it, a named person affirms the control. The answer is stored with their email, IP, and a timestamp, and any supporting document rides along.
Undocumented
No live finding and no attestation yet. It shows plainly as a gap — the honest starting point the targeted questionnaire is built to close.

The Scan Already Answers the Technical Half

Every finding source feeds the same control catalog. A result proven in one place is mapped to the controls it satisfies, across all the frameworks you assess.

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External & Attack Surface
TLS, DNS, email authentication, and exposure findings map straight to the encryption, boundary, and configuration controls they prove.
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Endpoint Agents
Windows, Linux, and macOS agent checks — disk encryption, patching, local hardening — mark the matching technical controls automated.
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Cloud Posture
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Google Workspace and M365 / Entra posture results flow into the identity, logging, and network controls each framework expects.

One Short Questionnaire, Only the Gaps

For the controls no scan can see, an AI-generated questionnaire asks about the undocumented ones and nothing else — then writes the answers back as evidence.

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Targeted, Not Generic
The questionnaire is AI-generated to cover only the undocumented controls — the shortest list that can move them to attested. When the scan already covers everything, there is nothing to ask.
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Delegate Without a Login
Hand a client contact a secure link. They answer from a browser — no account, no portal seat — and the link expires once it is done.
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Answers Become Evidence
Each answer is written back as a timestamped attestation, attributed to whoever gave it. Because controls share concept families, one answer satisfies the equivalent control in every framework.

Live Findings Beat a Stale Claim

Evidence is ranked by who backs it and how recent it is — so the report shows what is true today, not what someone once ticked.

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Findings Override Old Answers
When a live scan contradicts an earlier attestation, the finding wins. A control is never shown as covered while the platform can see that it isn’t.
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Strength, Not Just a Checkbox
Attested controls are annotated with how well their supporting evidence holds up — strong, aging, or weak — read from an AI review of each uploaded document.
Freshness That Expires
Evidence carries effective and expiration dates. As it ages, the platform flags it for renewal, so nothing coasts on a document from years ago.

The Same Evidence Runs the Whole Platform

Compliance isn’t a separate silo. It reads the scanning, cloud, and agent data already flowing through SBCMSP, then ships the finished record to clients and auditors.

SCAN
External & Attack Surface
Exposure findings map to technical controls
AGENT
Endpoint Agents
Windows / Linux / macOS hardening, automated
CLOUD
AWS · Azure · Google · M365
Identity, logging & network posture
ATTEST
Attestation Center
Human-vouched controls, timestamped
MAP
Concept Families
One answer, every framework’s equivalent
SHARE
Reports & Client Portal
The record, shipped to auditors & clients

Common Questions About Evidence-Backed Compliance

What do automated, attested, and undocumented mean?
Automated means the control is proven by a live scan result or a connected evidence integration. Attested means a person affirmed it, recorded with their email, IP, and a timestamp. Undocumented means there is no scan signal and no attestation yet — the real gap.
Do I have to answer the same question for every framework?
No. Controls are grouped into concept families, so answering a control in one framework propagates the same evidence to the equivalent control in every other framework you assess.
Is the questionnaire AI-generated?
Yes. For the undocumented controls, the platform generates the shortest possible AI-generated questionnaire targeting only what the scanner can’t see. Your answers are cited in the report with a timestamp.
Does an attestation get overwritten by a scan?
No. A human attestation always outranks an automated sync. A nightly integration refresh can fill undocumented gaps but never overwrites an answer a person gave.

Prove Every Control, Honestly

Automated where the scanner can see it, attested where it can’t — with a date on every claim.

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Part of the SBCMSP Platform

Evidence-backed compliance sits on top of the same scanning, integrations, and framework mappings that run across SBCMSP — then ships the record to auditors and clients.