Frontier Governancefor Continuous Compliance

Audit evidence collected all the time, not once a quarter.

Audits still run on screenshots gathered the month before. Agents check your controls against SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS every day, collect the evidence from your cloud accounts, identity provider and repos as it happens, and flag drift with the fix and the owner attached. When the auditor asks, the evidence is already there.

Daily control checkdrift found

SOC 2 CC6.1: MFA enforced for console access

Control
MFA required for every human IAM and Okta user
Checked
412 users across 6 AWS accounts and Okta
Drift
3 IAM users in account data-prod have no MFA device
Evidence
Credential report, Okta policy, CloudTrail
Fix
Ticket to the data platform team with the 3 users listed

Checked at 06:00. Evidence stored for the audit period

[The work behind every audit]

Your cloud changes every day.Your evidence is collected once a quarter.

01The manual work

Collect

An audit is weeks of screenshots, exports and follow-ups. Drift found in March was usually introduced in January.

02The agent handoff

Evidence ready

Frontier agents check each control every day, store the evidence and route any drift to the team that owns it.

03Your team’s role

Attest

Decide which controls matter and who owns them. Review the drift, approve the fix and sign off with evidence in hand.

[Where CloudThinker fits]

Your stack stays.Agents work inside it.

01Evidence sources

Already in your clouds

  • AWSAWS ConfigResource configuration and rules
  • AzureAzure PolicyCompliance state across subscriptions
  • Google CloudGoogle CloudOrg policies and audit logs
  • OktaAccess reviews and sign-ins
  • GitHubGitHubBranch protection and reviews

No change to your systems

02Controls

Your system of record

  • AWSAWS Audit ManagerFrameworks and assessments
  • TerraformInfrastructure as code
  • VaultVaultSecrets and rotation
  • JiraChange tickets and approvals

Controls stay yours

03Governance

CloudThinkerCloudThinker

  • CollectEvidence pulled on a schedule
  • MapEach item tied to a control
  • FlagGaps found before the auditor does
  • FixRemediation proposed to the owner

Read-only by default

04Audit

Evidence, not screenshots

  • Auditor portalSamples ready on request
  • JiraGap tickets with owners
  • SlackSlackWeekly control status
  • Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft TeamsApprovals in the thread

Every item time-stamped

Logos show common stacks. CloudThinker connects to each one through read-only access you approve.

[Example scenario]

Monday, 08:30. The SOC 2 auditor emails.They want 40 samples by Wednesday.

A 90-person B2B SaaS company with 6 AWS accounts, Okta, GitHub and Jira. One compliance manager, a Type II audit window closing this quarter.

  1. 08:30

    Evidence request landsSignal

    The auditor asks for 40 samples across access reviews, change management and MFA, covering the last 6 months.

  2. 08:32

    Agent maps the requestAgent

    Matches each sample to SOC 2 controls CC6.1, CC6.2 and CC8.1 and pulls the daily evidence already stored for those dates.

  3. 08:41

    38 of 40 readyAgent

    Credential reports, Okta policy snapshots, merged pull requests with approvals and the linked Jira change tickets.

  4. 08:44

    Flags the 2 it cannot proveAgent

    Two hotfixes in May were merged without a second approver. Drafts the exception note with the post-merge review attached.

  5. 10:15

    Compliance manager reviewsYour team

    Checks the two exceptions with engineering, edits the note and approves the package.

  6. 10:22

    Package sent, gap closedAgent

    Evidence shared with the auditor. A branch protection rule is proposed so the gap cannot repeat.

#soc2-audit4 messages
  • Audit portal08:30

    New request AR-17: 40 samples for CC6.1, CC6.2, CC8.1, period April to September.

  • CloudThinker08:44

    38 of 40 samples ready from stored evidence. 2 exceptions: hotfixes PR 4471 and PR 4502 merged with one approver. Exception note drafted with the post-merge reviews.

  • Compliance manager10:15

    Confirmed with engineering. Note edited. Approved, send it.

  • CloudThinker10:22

    Sent AR-17 to the auditor. Proposed branch protection on main requiring 2 approvals for hotfix branches.

to answer a 40-sample request
2 hours
samples ready from stored evidence
38 / 40
screenshots taken by hand
0

An illustrative example. Team, systems and times are representative, not a specific customer.

[Frontier governance agents]

Every control gets checked daily.Only the drift needs a person.

Agents map your controls to the systems that prove them, so compliance runs as part of operations, and audit week becomes a review instead of a scramble.

Map controls to systems
Each SOC 2, ISO 27001 or PCI DSS control tied to the accounts, policies and repos that prove it.
Collect evidence continuously
Configuration, access and change records captured daily and kept for the full audit period.
Route drift with a fix
A control that slips goes to its owner with the cause and a proposed fix, not a red cell in a sheet.
Hand auditors the record
Evidence exported per control and period, with a log of every check and every change.

[What changes]

Same team. Same tools.Far less of the work by hand.

MomentTodayWith frontier agents
Evidence collectionScreenshots in the weeks before the auditCaptured daily, stored per control
Finding driftMonths after it happenedThe day after it happened
Fixing driftA spreadsheet of open itemsRouted to the owner with a proposed fix
Audit weekEvery team pulled off their workA review of evidence already collected
Multiple frameworksThe same evidence gathered twiceOne check mapped to every framework it serves

[Integrations]

Connects to the rest of your stack.Read-only to start.

  • AWS Config
  • AWS Audit Manager
  • AWS Security Hub
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • Okta
  • Auth0
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Terraform
  • Vault
  • Wiz
  • Jira Service Management
  • ServiceNow
  • Slack

[Adoption path]

One pilot.Then company-wide.

The rollout follows the four phases of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, so it fits the plan your cloud team already runs.

  1. 01Envision

    Pick one framework

    Start with the framework your next audit covers. Connect read-only and let agents run the checks next to your current process.

  2. 02Align

    Agree control ownership

    Assign an owner to each control and decide which drift agents may fix and which needs approval.

  3. 03Launch

    Roll out across accounts

    Add every account, identity provider and repo on the same control map and audit trail.

  4. 04Scale

    Make it continuous

    New accounts and services launch inside the control map. Add frameworks by mapping, not by collecting again.

[Customer proof]

MSM.Results on the record.

A Vietnamese digital transformation partner consolidated code review, incidents, pentesting and compliance onto one governed CloudThinker platform.

Read the case study
lower tooling cost through consolidation
63%
for long manual tasks that took hours
Minutes

[Trust and control]

Agents do the work.Your team keeps control.

You approve every change
Agents propose. Nothing touches production until someone on your team says yes, and you set that rule per system.
Every action on the record
Each step is logged, attributed and reversible, ready for your auditors.
Certified for enterprise
SOC 2 Type II and ISO 42001, with reports in our trust center.
Runs where you need it
In our cloud, through AWS Marketplace, or inside your own account.

[Questions]

What teams askbefore they start.

Does this replace our auditor?
No. Agents collect and organize the evidence and flag drift. Certification and audit opinions stay with your independent auditor.
Which frameworks are covered?
SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS are the common starting points. Controls are mapped once and reused across every framework they serve.
What access does it need?
Read-only access to the cloud accounts, identity provider and repos you choose. Access is scoped per source and you can revoke it at any time.
Can agents fix drift on their own?
Only where your policy allows it. Most teams start with agents routing drift to the owner with a proposed fix, then let them close low-risk items once the results have earned trust.

Check every control, every day.Walk into the audit with the evidence.

Start with the framework your next audit covers, read-only. See the drift agents find before you grant a single permission more.

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