Trace defensible provenance for continuously collected evidence
Evidence can be present without being easy to defend.
Traceability, context, and auditor expectations often diverge before a control appears to fail.
“We have the evidence, but every hard question turns into a scavenger hunt.”
Ama Mensah · GRC Program Lead
Coordinates audit preparation for a fast-growing software company using automated evidence across multiple frameworks.
What pulls against what
- audit narrative vs. system traceability
- thin evidence vs. decisive action
- broad coverage vs. meaningful lineage
What is at stake
Automated evidence only reduces audit work when its lineage can be explained. The task is to find the reliability outcome that genuinely lowers reconstruction burden
Why Vanta
At Vanta, this may matter because continuous evidence tends to be judged by both its content and its explainability.
Written for
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.