Evidence tied to a control
Each finding and retest connects to the control owner, boundary and period.
Security evidence your SOC 2 work can trace
Pentest findings and cloud attack-path evidence, tied to your systems, controls and examination period.
Control to evidence
Control
Named owner and boundary
Authorized test
Scoped to the system
Evidence
Preconditions, steps, result
Retest
After the fix lands
From system boundary to retested evidence
01
Define the boundary
Name the in-scope systems, controls, examination period and authorized testing rules.
02
Collect current evidence
Run scoped application and cloud testing, then preserve findings with their context.
03
Map and review
Connect evidence to your controls with the owner and auditor expectations visible.
04
Fix and retest
Remediate confirmed gaps, replay the proof, keep both results in history.
Trident supplies technical testing evidence. An independent licensed CPA firm performs the SOC 2 examination and issues the report. Read the AICPA Trust Services Criteria.
Proof a reviewer can follow
Gaps tied to reachable risk
A control gap ranks by the application, cloud and data path it opens.
Reproducible findings
Preconditions, steps, request, response and retest result stay available for review.
Evidence history
When evidence was produced, which version it covered, and what makes it stale.
Application and cloud context
Web and API behavior reviewed alongside cloud identities, exposure and data access.
Remediation with a retest
Route the fix, preserve the original proof, verify closure after the change.
Current enough to trust
Scoped
To your system boundary
Traceable
From control to evidence
Reproducible
For technical review
Retested
After remediation
What auditors ask for, and where this fits
Mapped to the Trust Services Criteria most often cited in security testing observations.
Evidence boundary
SOC 2 requires that you can demonstrate your security controls operate over a period, not that you bought a particular product. Trident supports the testing side: a scoped penetration test with a documented methodology, findings with reproducible evidence, tracked remediation, and a retest that proves closure. Trident does not issue SOC 2 reports.
- Scoped, documented testing
- A defined target list, authorization, methodology and test window — what an auditor reads first when judging whether a penetration test was meaningful.
- Evidence per finding
- The request, response, affected identity and preconditions, so a reviewer can trace the conclusion instead of accepting a severity label.
- Remediation tracking
- Who owned each finding, what changed and when — the operating-effectiveness narrative a Type II report depends on across the observation window.
- Verified closure
- A retest that replays the original proof after the fix. Findings marked resolved without one are a common source of audit observations.
- Change coverage
- Evidence age tracked per critical path, so a test from the start of the window is not treated as current two quarters of releases later.
Questions auditors and engineering teams ask
SOC 2 prescribes no specific test. The criteria require that you identify and address vulnerabilities, and most auditors treat a scoped penetration test as the expected evidence. Your auditor and service commitments set the precise expectation.
Make the technical evidence easier to review.
See how Trident connects authorized testing, remediation ownership and retest history.
Evidence support, not an audit opinion.