Use Case

Continuous Controls Audits

Adaptive lets agents collect evidence for SOC 2, ISO, and HIPAA audits against real systems — without persistent credentials. You write the prompts and workflows; Adaptive provides the harness, tools, MCP registry, networking, and guardrails.

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Audit Items

access reviews· 124 users

privileged accounts· 18 accounts

review

key rotation· 42 keys

vendor re-assess· 6 vendors

blocked

evidence: auto

workflow: on

audit: on

The problem

Compliance auditing requires periodic access to production systems to collect evidence — access logs, configuration snapshots, security controls verification. AI agents can automate evidence collection, but granting them persistent access to production for compliance purposes contradicts the principle of least privilege that the audit itself is verifying.

480hrs

average annual time spent by engineering teams manually collecting compliance evidence for SOC 2 and ISO audits

34%

of audit findings relate to overly permissive access — including the access granted to automation tools collecting audit evidence

$3.6M

average annual cost of compliance program management, much of which goes to manual evidence collection and formatting

The irony of compliance automation is that the tools collecting evidence of proper access controls often have the most permissive access in the organization. Without ephemeral, scoped credentials, compliance agents create the exact risk they are measuring.

The solution

Ephemeral, scoped access for automated compliance evidence collection

Adaptive provides the harness, tools, MCP registry, networking, and guardrails — ephemeral credentials scoped to specific evidence collection tasks, activated only during scheduled audit windows, with every access logged as part of the evidence. You provide the prompts and workflows. The agent runs your collection logic inside Exo policy envelope, never outside it.

Benefits

How Adaptive helps

Scheduled Audit Windows

Compliance agents activate only during defined audit windows. Outside these windows, no credentials exist — eliminating persistent access risk entirely.

Configure audit schedules per compliance framework. SOC 2 evidence collection runs weekly, HIPAA reviews run monthly — each with its own credential scope.

Evidence-Scoped Access

Each audit agent gets access only to the specific systems and data needed for its evidence collection task. An access review agent cannot read application logs.

Write the prompts and workflows that drive the agent. Map audit control requirements to specific system access; Exo hands each compliance control a scoped credential set with read-only access to the relevant resources.

Self-Documenting Audits

The audit agent's own access is logged as part of the evidence. Auditors can verify that the evidence collection process itself followed proper access controls.

Include Adaptive access logs in your audit evidence packages. Demonstrate that evidence collection is as controlled as the systems being audited.

Multi-Framework Support

Run evidence collection for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and other frameworks from a single platform. Map controls across frameworks to reduce duplicate evidence collection.

Define control mappings across your compliance frameworks. A single evidence collection pass satisfies overlapping requirements across SOC 2, ISO, and HIPAA.