ISO 27001 evidence automation
ISO 27001's Annex A controls aren't a one-time checklist — access management, configuration management, logging and monitoring, and change control all need continuous, current evidence, both for initial certification and for the surveillance audits that follow every year. Manual collection slows both down. Chasa already runs an evidence-automation model in production for accounts receivable audits (see audit-ready workflows); we're extending that same approach to ISO 27001 next. Everything below is roadmap, not a shipped feature.
Annex A evidence is continuous, not a one-time checklist
ISO 27001 certification isn't a single point-in-time audit. Once certified, you sit through annual surveillance audits and a full recertification every three years — and Annex A expects the underlying controls to be operating continuously in between, not just documented on paper.
- Access control evidence goes stale between audits: who has access to what changes constantly as people join, move teams, and leave.
- Logging and monitoring evidence is scattered: proof that logging and alerting are actually working tends to live across several disconnected systems.
- Configuration drift is hard to evidence after the fact: showing a system was configured correctly on a given date usually means someone remembered to take a screenshot that day.
- Change management evidence is manual: tying a production change back to an approval record is often a spreadsheet exercise done right before the auditor arrives.
Multiply that across every Annex A domain and it's easy to see why teams treat certification season as a fire drill rather than the natural output of controls that were already running. The goal isn't a better checklist — it's evidence that collects itself in the background, so the audit becomes a formality instead of a scramble.
What we're building next
Roadmap only — none of this is available in Chasa today. See our full security and compliance roadmap for what's live vs. planned.
- Access control evidence: scheduled exports of who has access to what, mapped to Annex A access management controls.
- Logging and monitoring evidence: collected proof that logging and alerting controls are active, instead of a manual export before each audit.
- Configuration snapshots: point-in-time records of system configuration, so you can evidence a control was operating on a specific date.
- Permission exports: automatic, recurring exports of group and role membership across connected systems.
- Change-management evidence: linking approvals to the changes they authorized, pulled automatically rather than assembled by hand.
- Human-in-the-loop, same as our AR product: nothing gets packaged and sent to an auditor without a human reviewing it first.
Planned integrations
These are integrations on our roadmap, not integrations Chasa currently supports.
Why start with Chasa
Evidence automation is the core idea Chasa is built around, first proven on accounts receivable. Our SOX AR evidence automation and audit-ready workflows are live today — timestamped chase history, human-approval logs, and HMAC-signed webhook records auditors already accept. ISO 27001 evidence automation extends that same model to Annex A controls across your broader SaaS stack. See what's live vs. planned on our Trust Center, or read why evidence automation is the gap checks-only compliance tools leave open.
Try what's live. Get notified about what's next.
Chasa's AI-drafted invoice follow-ups, accounting sync, and role-based workspace access are live today — free to try. ISO 27001 evidence automation is on the roadmap above.
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