See what evidence you need. Create what you are missing.
Preparing for
SOC 2?
Get the evidence ready.
Compliance standards and regulatory requirements tell you what needs to be demonstrated. The next question is what evidence you actually need to provide. Continuity Strength helps companies and startups create the business continuity, incident response, testing, vendor oversight and cyber risk evidence they do not yet have.
Start with your requirements. See what evidence you need.
Most teams begin with the evidence checklist for the compliance standard, certification or regulatory requirement they are working toward. Then they work through the individual requirements and identify the evidence they already have and what still needs to be created.
1. Evidence List
What evidence do we need?
Start with the evidence requested for your audit, certification, regulatory review or customer security review. Continuity Strength focuses on the business continuity, incident response, testing, vendor and cyber evidence within that list.
2. Requirement
What does this requirement mean?
Each compliance standard or regulation uses its own language. One may address ICT readiness for business continuity, another contingency planning, incident response, availability, recovery or third-party oversight.
3. Missing Evidence
What do we still need to create?
Once the requirement is clear, the missing evidence may be a business continuity plan, incident response plan, business impact analysis, tabletop exercise record, vendor oversight record or cyber risk assessment.
Find your requirement. See the evidence Continuity Strength produces.
Compliance standards and regulatory requirements do not all use the same terminology or ask for the same evidence. This table shows the resilience-related requirements Continuity Strength supports and the evidence we can help create. Your exact requirements depend on your scope and the person reviewing your compliance program.
| Standard or Regulation | Requirement | Evidence Continuity Strength Produces |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Trust Services Criteria may include system operations, incident response, risk mitigation, vendor management and Availability criteria depending on the scope of the examination. | Business continuity plans, incident response plans, tabletop exercise records, vendor oversight records and cyber risk assessment. |
| ISO 27001 | Requirements include controls addressing information security during disruption, ICT readiness for business continuity, incident management, supplier relationships and risk management. | Business continuity plans, incident response plans, testing records, vendor oversight records and cyber risk assessment. |
| ISO 22301 | Business impact analysis, business continuity strategies and procedures, exercises, testing, review and continual improvement. | Business continuity plans, business impact analysis outputs, tabletop exercise records, findings and update tracking. |
| NIST CSF 2.0 | Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover outcomes include risk management, incident response, recovery and third-party risk. | Business continuity plans, incident response plans, tabletop exercise records, vendor oversight records and cyber risk assessment. |
| GDPR Article 32 | Requires appropriate measures supporting ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience, restoration of availability and access, and regular testing of those measures. | Business continuity plans, recovery procedures, business impact analysis outputs, incident response plans and testing records. |
| DORA | Requirements include ICT business continuity, ICT response and recovery plans, testing and third-party ICT risk management. | Business continuity plans, incident response plans, tabletop exercise records and vendor oversight records. |
| SEC Reg S-P | Requirements include written safeguards, incident response and service provider oversight. | Incident response plans, business continuity documentation, vendor oversight records and risk assessment outputs. |
| NYDFS Part 500 | Requirements include incident response and business continuity management, third-party service provider security, risk assessment and testing. | Incident response plans, business continuity plans, tabletop exercise records, vendor oversight records and cyber risk assessment. |
| FINRA Rule 4370 | Requires a business continuity plan covering specified areas including mission-critical systems, communications and third-party impacts. | Business continuity plans, recovery procedures, incident response documentation and vendor oversight records. |
| CMMC | Applicable requirements may include incident response, system recovery, risk assessment and third-party security depending on the CMMC level and underlying requirements. | Incident response plans, business continuity documentation, tabletop exercise records, vendor oversight records and cyber risk assessment. |
| HIPAA Security Rule | Contingency plan requirements include data backup, disaster recovery, emergency mode operations, testing and revision. | Business continuity plans, recovery procedures, business impact analysis outputs and tabletop exercise records. |
| FedRAMP | Requirements include contingency planning, incident response, contingency testing and risk assessment. | Business continuity plans, incident response plans, tabletop exercise records and cyber risk assessment. |
| FFIEC | Expectations include business continuity management, incident response, third-party risk management and examination evidence. | Business continuity plans, incident response plans, vendor oversight records and tabletop exercise records. |
| ISO 42001 | Requirements address AI risk management, operations, monitoring, incident handling and third-party relationships. | Business continuity documentation, incident response plans, tabletop exercise records, vendor oversight records and cyber risk assessment. |
| NIST AI RMF | Govern, Map, Measure and Manage functions address AI risk, accountability, third-party dependencies and ongoing risk management. | Business continuity documentation, incident response plans, tabletop exercise records, vendor oversight records and cyber risk assessment. |
| EU AI Act | Applicable requirements include risk management, quality management, serious incident reporting, cybersecurity and responsibilities across the AI value chain. | Business continuity documentation, incident response plans, tabletop exercise records, vendor oversight records and cyber risk assessment. |
The requirement is clear. Now get the evidence completed.
Some compliance evidence already exists in your systems. Other evidence has to be created, tested and kept current. Continuity Strength focuses on that work.
Business Continuity Plan
Document critical operations, dependencies, disruption scenarios, workarounds, responsibilities and recovery actions.
Business Impact Analysis
Identify critical processes, dependencies and business impacts to support continuity and recovery planning.
Incident Response Plan
Define incident roles, escalation, communications, response actions and recovery responsibilities.
Tabletop Exercise Evidence
Document scenarios, participants, decisions, findings, lessons learned and improvement actions from testing.
Vendor Oversight Evidence
Document and maintain the vendor oversight evidence required by your compliance program.
Cyber Risk Assessment
Assess public-facing cyber exposure and identify areas requiring attention.
Your compliance platform shows what is required. We help create the evidence.
Platforms such as Vanta and Drata help companies manage compliance requirements, controls, tasks and evidence collection. Continuity Strength helps create specific business continuity, incident response, testing, vendor oversight and cyber risk evidence when that evidence does not already exist.
Vanta, Drata and Other Compliance Platforms
Organize your compliance requirements, assign controls and owners, collect existing evidence and track the audit or certification process.
Continuity Strength
Create the business continuity, incident response, testing, vendor oversight and cyber risk evidence that your compliance process requires when those documents and records do not yet exist.
Compliance may be only one reason you need the evidence.
The same continuity, incident response, testing and vendor oversight capabilities can support customer reviews, operational preparedness, third-party risk management and transaction diligence.
Compliance evidence for companies and startups.
Companies and Startups Pursuing Certification
Teams preparing for a compliance audit or certification that have identified missing business continuity, incident response, testing, vendor or cyber evidence.
Teams Responding to Customer Security Reviews
Companies and startups whose enterprise customers are asking for continuity, incident response, vendor or testing evidence before onboarding or renewal.
Regulated and Registered Firms
Firms preparing evidence for regulatory requirements, examinations and recurring compliance obligations.
Teams Preparing for Renewal
Compliance and security teams that already have evidence but need to update it as the company, vendors, systems and responsibilities change.
Know what evidence you need. Get what is missing completed.
Whether you are preparing for a compliance standard, certification, regulatory requirement or customer security review, Continuity Strength helps create the business continuity, incident response, testing, vendor oversight and cyber risk evidence you still need.