✅ 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.
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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.
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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.