Building a SOC 2 Evidence Collector: A Small-Team Alternative to Manual Audit Prep
Building a SOC 2 Evidence Collector: A Small-Team Alternative to Manual Audit Prep By Suman Shashikumar Introduction SOC 2 compliance has become a near-mandatory requirement for any B2B SaaS company selling into the mid-market or enterprise — but for a small engineering team without dedicated compliance staff, the evidence-gathering process is still often manual: screenshotting IAM console pages,…
SOC 2 compliance has become mandatory for many B2B SaaS companies, but small engineering teams often struggle with manual evidence collection. Building a SOC 2 Evidence Collector is an open-source tool that pulls evidence directly from AWS and GitHub, mapping it to specific SOC 2 Trust Service Criteria. The tool consists of two read-only collectors: an AWS collector and a GitHub collector, both returning structured findings mapped to SOC 2 controls.
A dashboard triggers collections and displays results in readable tables. The tool's real-world validation involved testing against actual AWS and GitHub accounts, revealing edge cases that synthetic tests wouldn't catch. After remediation based on the tool's findings, the results were confirmed accurate. The article emphasizes the value of this approach for small teams preparing for their first SOC 2 audit.
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