Controls
Mapped to the requirements being assessed.
Audit Management
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Be ready before the auditor asks.
Bring controls, evidence, documentation, gaps and audit requests into one structured workspace. Secusy Audit Management helps your team prepare for assessments continuously, collaborate with auditors more efficiently and track findings through closure.
Audit workspaceOne central workspace
Evidence readinessCurrent and control-mapped
Assessor collaborationStructured requests
FindingsTracked to closure
The definition
What is audit management software?
Audit management software helps organizations organize assessment scope, controls, evidence, requests, findings and remediation through a structured workflow. For cybersecurity compliance, it can help teams maintain readiness for external assessments and internal audits.
Evidence
Current, timestamped and tied to controls.
Requests
Assessor requests managed as structured activities.
Findings
Tracked through remediation to closure.
Audit preparation should not start when the audit starts.
For many organizations, an assessment begins with a scramble.
- Teams search shared drives.
- Control owners recreate screenshots.
- Policies are checked for approval dates.
- Security teams export reports from different tools.
- Compliance teams build evidence trackers.
- Auditors send requests through email.
- Nobody is sure which version of a document was already submitted.
- Then findings and remediation are tracked somewhere else.
The problem is not the audit itself.
The problem is that the information needed for the audit has not been maintained as part of the normal security program.
Secusy changes that model.
Make audit readiness an output of your security program.
Audit preparation should not be a separate annual project. If your organization continuously maintains the following, much of the information required for an assessment already exists:
Secusy brings that information together so the audit process becomes: Review what is already available → Identify what is missing → Respond to assessor requests → Manage findings → Close remediation — rather than starting to collect everything again.
- Controls
- Control ownership
- Policies and procedures
- Supporting evidence
- Risk assessments
- Vulnerability remediation
- Compliance gaps
- Review records
Audit Management brings the Secusy platform together.
Audit Management sits at the end of the compliance operating cycle. Audit readiness should be the result of operating the platform — not a separate activity performed before the audit.
OneCSF
Defines the organizational controls and maps them to applicable framework requirements.
Compliance Automation
Manages owners, tasks, recurring reviews and remediation.
Automated Evidence Collection
Collects and organizes supporting evidence.
Security Documentation
Maintains policies, procedures, approvals and versions.
Cyber Risk & Vulnerability Management
Tracks relevant risks, technical findings and remediation.
Audit Management
Organizes the complete control environment for assessment.
OneCSF · Compliance Automation · Automated Evidence Collection · Cyber Risk Management · Vulnerability Management · Security Documentation
How it works
How Secusy Audit Management works
- Step 1
Select the assessment
Define the standard, framework or assessment being prepared — for example ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HITRUST, internal security audits, customer security assessments or other supported assurance programs.
- Step 2
Establish audit scope
Record the applicable legal entity, systems, locations, business processes, applications, infrastructure, control environment and assessment period. The exact scope requirements remain dependent on the relevant framework.
- Step 3
Review control readiness
Use OneCSF to understand which organizational controls map to applicable assessment requirements.
- Step 4
Review evidence
Confirm that relevant evidence is available, current and associated with the correct controls.
- Step 5
Identify gaps
Determine where controls, documentation or evidence require additional work before assessment.
- Step 6
Assign preparation actions
Create tasks and assign ownership for missing evidence, remediation or documentation updates.
- Step 7
Collaborate with the assessor
Where supported, provide controlled access to relevant audit information and manage assessor requests through a structured workflow.
- Step 8
Track findings
Record assessment observations, nonconformities, exceptions or findings as applicable.
- Step 9
Manage remediation
Assign actions, maintain responses and track findings through closure.
Know what is ready — and what is not.
Audit teams need a simple answer to a complicated question: “Are we ready?” A readiness view can help teams understand areas such as:
Instead of relying on a manually maintained assessment spreadsheet, the audit team can work from the same environment used to operate the security program.
- Controls assessed
- Controls requiring action
- Evidence available
- Evidence missing
- Evidence requiring refresh
- Documents awaiting approval
- Open compliance gaps
- Outstanding remediation
- Assessor requests
- Audit findings
Give every request a structured answer.
Audit requests frequently ask for evidence such as:
- Policies
- Configuration records
- Screenshots
- User lists
- Access reviews
- Vulnerability reports
- Penetration test reports
- Training records
- Risk assessments
- Supplier reviews
- Change records
- Incident records
- Management approvals
Secusy can connect this evidence to the underlying controls and applicable requirements, making it easier to answer
- What evidence do we already have?
- Which period does it cover?
- Which control does it support?
- Is it still current?
- What still needs to be collected?
Explore Automated Evidence Collection → · Use continuously maintained evidence during assessment preparation.
Replace audit-request email chains with a structured workflow.
During an assessment, auditors and assessors may request:
- Additional evidence
- Clarification
- Samples
- Revised documents
- Interviews
- Control explanations
- Follow-up responses
For each request, maintain
- Request description
- Related requirement
- Responsible owner
- Due date
- Response
- Evidence supplied
- Status
- Assessor feedback
This gives the audit team one view of outstanding requests instead of maintaining a second spreadsheet specifically for the auditor. Request management is available where this feature is enabled.
Share what the assessor needs — not your entire security environment.
Where assessor collaboration is enabled, external users are given controlled access only to information relevant to the engagement, such as:
Access follows the organization's permissions and engagement requirements. The purpose is not to give an auditor unrestricted access to Secusy. It is to create a controlled assessment workspace.
- Applicable controls
- Selected evidence
- Relevant policies
- Requested records
- Responses to audit requests
Prepare once around the control — not separately for every framework.
Instead of organizing your security program separately for each standard, Secusy maintains a common organizational control environment through OneCSF.
Access Review Control
The organizational control.
Supporting evidence
User list, quarterly review record, manager approval.
OneCSF mappings
ISO 27001 requirement, SOC 2 criteria, PCI DSS requirement, HITRUST requirement.
Where evidence genuinely supports more than one requirement, it can remain attached to the underlying control rather than being recreated for each framework. Framework-specific evidence requirements still apply. Explore OneCSF →
Know what needs attention before assessment begins.
This turns audit preparation into a measurable workflow instead of an open-ended consulting exercise. A typical readiness workflow might look like:
- Assessment selected
- Applicable requirements identified
- Existing controls mapped
- Evidence reviewed
- Documentation reviewed
- Readiness gaps identified
- Actions assigned
- Gaps remediated
- Evidence updated
- Assessment begins
Make sure the policy you submit is the policy actually in force.
Assessors often require documented policies and procedures. Secusy Security Documentation can help maintain:
- Current approved version
- Document owner
- Approval
- Effective date
- Review date
- Previous versions
- Applicable controls
This helps avoid common audit problems
- Submitting an outdated policy
- Missing evidence of approval
- Different teams supplying different versions
- Policies that do not match current processes
Provide assessors with the current approved policies and procedures supporting your controls.
Turn readiness gaps into accountable actions.
Identifying a missing control or missing piece of evidence is only useful if someone fixes it. Secusy Compliance Automation can turn readiness gaps into structured activities. This keeps audit preparation connected to the wider compliance workflow.
Explore Compliance Automation →
Turn readiness gaps and audit findings into accountable remediation workflows.
- Gap identified
- Owner assigned
- Action created
- Due date established
- Remediation completed
- Evidence added
- Readiness updated
The audit does not end when the assessor finds a problem.
Assessments may produce:
- Findings
- Observations
- Exceptions
- Nonconformities
- Opportunities for improvement
- Remediation requirements
Secusy can connect findings to
- Requirements
- Controls
- Owners
- Remediation actions
- Evidence
- Target dates
- Closure status
The terminology and treatment should follow the applicable framework and assessment methodology.
Turn audit findings into security improvement.
Consider a finding that privileged access reviews are not consistently documented.
Assessment finding
Privileged access reviews are not consistently documented.
OneCSF control
Privileged access management.
Compliance Automation
Quarterly review assigned to the responsible owner.
Evidence
Review records maintained.
Finding closure
Supporting evidence supplied for review.
The assessment becomes part of the security improvement cycle rather than a report that sits in a folder.
Some audit findings are also cyber risks.
A compliance finding and a cybersecurity risk are not necessarily the same thing. But some assessment findings reveal meaningful business exposure, and Secusy can allow significant findings to be connected with Cyber Risk Management.
Audit finding
No effective privileged access review.
Cyber risk
Unauthorized privileged access may remain undetected.
Treatment
Implement stronger access governance and recurring reviews.
This allows management to prioritize findings using more than compliance severity alone. Connect significant audit findings to business-level cyber risks.
Keep testing evidence and remediation connected.
Security assessments often rely on vulnerability or penetration-testing evidence. Secusy can connect the following with the relevant security controls and audit requirements, creating continuity between security testing and assurance.
Explore Vulnerability Management →
Maintain scan, remediation and retest records as part of audit readiness.
- Vulnerability scan results
- Penetration-testing reports
- Remediation records
- Retest results
- Exceptions
Stop rebuilding the evidence room for every assessment.
Organizations may undergo several assurance activities within the same year, and many of these assessments evaluate overlapping parts of the security program. OneCSF and Audit Management allow organizations to maintain controls and supporting information centrally while preparing framework-specific assessment views.
The assessment requirements remain separate. The security program does not need to be.
- ISO 27001
- SOC 2
- PCI DSS
- Customer security assessments
Maintain evidence throughout the SOC 2 reporting period.
For SOC 2 Type II, operating effectiveness is evaluated over the defined review period. Waiting until the end of that period to reconstruct evidence can create significant work. Secusy can help organizations continuously maintain the following before evidence is supplied to the CPA firm performing the examination.
- Controls
- Control ownership
- Evidence
- Policy documentation
- Review activities
- Remediation records
Prepare your ISMS for certification and surveillance audits.
ISO 27001 assessment preparation can involve the information listed here. Secusy can help maintain the underlying controls, evidence, documentation and actions supporting the ISMS. Certification decisions remain with the accredited certification body.
- ISMS scope
- Risk assessment
- Risk treatment
- Statement of Applicability
- Policies and procedures
- Internal audit records
- Management review
- Control evidence
- Corrective actions
Organize your PCI DSS assessment evidence.
PCI DSS validation requires evidence and testing according to the applicable PCI DSS assessment methodology. Secusy can help maintain the items listed here. ValueMentor's PCI DSS services can then provide the applicable QSA or assessment support where required.
- Applicable controls
- Supporting evidence
- Vulnerability information
- ASV scan records where applicable
- Penetration-testing records where applicable
- Remediation activities
- Policies and procedures
Prepare the control environment before formal HITRUST assessment.
Secusy can help organizations organize the items listed here. For formal HITRUST assessment services, ValueMentor is an Authorized HITRUST External Assessor.
- Applicable controls
- Policies
- Evidence
- Readiness gaps
- Remediation
- Assessment preparation
When software is not enough, bring in the assessor or advisor.
Audit management software can organize the program. It cannot replace the professional judgment required for formal assurance and certification activities. Secusy connects the platform with cybersecurity and compliance services delivered by ValueMentor.
ISO 27001 Implementation
Prepare your ISMS and control environment for certification.
Learn moreSOC 2 Type I
Prepare the control environment and coordinate the applicable CPA examination.
Learn moreSOC 2 Type II
Prepare the control environment and coordinate the applicable CPA examination.
Learn morePCI DSS Level 1 for Startups
Access ValueMentor QSA and PCI assessment capabilities.
Learn morePCI DSS SAQ A Compliance
Self-assessment support for merchants who fully outsource cardholder-data handling.
Learn moreHITRUST e1
Prepare for and undertake applicable HITRUST assessment activities with ValueMentor.
Learn moreHITRUST i1
Prepare for and undertake applicable HITRUST assessment activities with ValueMentor.
Learn morePenetration Testing
Expert-led testing that produces evidence for your assessments.
Learn moreASV Scanning
PCI DSS external vulnerability scanning through ValueMentor.
Learn morevCISO Services
Ongoing cybersecurity leadership to oversee readiness, risk, remediation and governance.
Learn more
Give your vCISO visibility from governance through audit.
Your vCISO should not discover audit gaps when the auditor does. Secusy gives your cybersecurity leadership visibility into the items listed here. A ValueMentor vCISO can use this information to help prioritize the security program before, during and after assessment.
Secusy provides the operating platform. ValueMentor provides the cybersecurity leadership.
Monitor assessment readiness, findings and remediation through Secusy.
- Control readiness
- Open compliance gaps
- Missing evidence
- Policy reviews
- Vulnerability remediation
- Cyber risks
- Audit findings
- Outstanding corrective actions
Keep what you learned from the last assessment.
Every audit generates useful organizational knowledge. Secusy is designed to help retain the information listed here, so the next audit begins with what the organization already knows — not with another empty spreadsheet.
- Previous requests
- Evidence supplied
- Findings
- Corrective actions
- Closure evidence
- Assessment history
From security control to assessment evidence.
Most audit-management tools begin when the audit begins. Secusy starts earlier.
OneCSF
Build the common control environment.
Compliance Automation
Operate the compliance workflow.
Automated Evidence Collection
Maintain supporting evidence.
Security Documentation
Govern policies and procedures.
Cyber Risk Management
Prioritize meaningful exposure.
Vulnerability Management
Track technical remediation.
Audit Management
Bring everything together for assessment.
ValueMentor Services
Access implementation, assessment, testing and cybersecurity leadership when required.
The complete lifecycle: Define → Operate → Evidence → Assess → Remediate → Improve.
Audit management for organizations that want fewer surprises.
Startups
Prepare for customer-driven SOC 2, ISO 27001 and other assurance requirements without building an oversized internal compliance team.
SaaS companies
Maintain audit evidence continuously while engineering teams remain focused on product delivery.
Mid-market organizations
Coordinate multiple assessments without recreating evidence rooms for every standard.
Compliance teams
Replace disconnected audit trackers with structured evidence and request workflows.
Security teams
Connect assessment findings with actual security risks, vulnerabilities and remediation.
Executives
Understand whether major assurance programs are on track without reviewing individual audit requests.
vCISOs
Manage readiness and remediation across the organization's wider cybersecurity program.
Traditional audit preparation vs. Secusy Audit Management
| Traditional Audit Preparation | Secusy Audit Management |
|---|---|
| Starts shortly before the audit | Continuous readiness |
| Spreadsheet readiness tracker | Structured readiness workflow |
| Evidence scattered across folders | Evidence connected to controls |
| Repeated evidence requests | Reuse where appropriate |
| Auditor requests through email | Structured request management |
| Policies checked manually | Governed security documentation |
| Findings stored in audit reports | Findings connected to remediation |
| Remediation tracked separately | Integrated corrective-action workflow |
| Each framework managed separately | OneCSF multi-framework architecture |
| Audit history lost between cycles | Persistent assessment history |
Secusy does not guarantee audit, attestation or certification outcomes; those depend on your implementation of the required controls and the independent assessor's judgment.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Explore vCISO Services → · Explore the Secusy cybersecurity platform.
Make the next audit a review — not a reconstruction project.
Maintain controls. Keep evidence current. Know your gaps. Respond to requests. Track findings. Drive remediation to closure.
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