Compliance Certifications

Overview#

Compliance audits are expensive, time-consuming, and often repetitive. A financial regulator preparing for a PCI-DSS assessment might gather the same access log evidence it already collected six months earlier for its SOC 2 audit, simply because nothing mapped one to the other. Argus treats compliance as a continuous operational discipline rather than a periodic scramble. The platform automates evidence collection, maps overlapping controls across frameworks, and keeps audit packages current at all times.

Whether your organisation needs SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, or government certifications such as FedRAMP and CMMC, the same evidence base serves multiple frameworks simultaneously. Audit preparation time drops sharply, and continuous monitoring means gaps surface weeks before an auditor arrives, not the day before.

Key Features#

• Multi-Framework Compliance Management: Manage compliance across 35+ security and regulatory frameworks simultaneously. Overlapping controls are automatically mapped, so a single piece of evidence can satisfy requirements across multiple certifications.

• Automated Evidence Collection: Continuous, automated evidence gathering from cloud infrastructure, identity systems, security tools, and business applications ensures your compliance documentation is always current and audit-ready.

• Continuous Monitoring: Real-time compliance dashboards show your posture across all frameworks, highlighting gaps, at-risk controls, and upcoming deadlines so you can proactively address issues before audits.

• Gap Analysis and Remediation: Automated gap analysis identifies missing controls and evidence, with prioritised remediation recommendations and progress tracking to guide your compliance improvement efforts.

• Audit Readiness: Pre-built audit packages organise evidence by framework requirement, making auditor walkthroughs efficient. Immutable evidence with cryptographic verification provides tamper-proof documentation.

• Policy Management: A version-controlled policy library with automated distribution and acknowledgment tracking ensures your organisation's security policies are current and communicated.

Supported Frameworks#

Security Certifications#

• SOC 2 Type I and Type II
• ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018, 27701
• CSA STAR Level 1, 2, 3
• FedRAMP Low, Moderate, High
• StateRAMP

Industry Regulations#

• PCI-DSS v4.0
• HIPAA/HITECH
• GDPR
• CCPA/CPRA
• GLBA
• SOX (Section 404)
• FISMA
• FERPA

Government Standards#

• NIST Cybersecurity Framework v2.0
• NIST 800-53 Rev 5
• NIST 800-171 Rev 2
• CMMC Level 1, 2, 3
• CJIS
• ITAR
• EAR

Industry Best Practices#

• CIS Controls v8
• COBIT 2019
• HITRUST CSF
• SWIFT CSCF
• TISAX

How It Works#

Argus approaches compliance as a continuous process rather than a periodic exercise:

1. Framework Selection: Choose the compliance frameworks relevant to your organisation. Argus automatically maps the control requirements and identifies overlapping controls to eliminate redundant work.

2. Evidence Collection: The platform connects to your existing security tools, cloud environments, and business systems to automatically collect and validate compliance evidence on an ongoing basis. Evidence is mapped to the specific control requirements it satisfies.

3. Gap Identification: Continuous monitoring compares your current evidence and controls against framework requirements, identifying gaps and generating prioritised remediation plans.

4. Audit Preparation: When audit time arrives, Argus assembles evidence packages organised by framework requirements. Evidence artifacts include cryptographic verification and immutable timestamps to demonstrate integrity.

5. Continuous Compliance: Between audits, real-time dashboards track your compliance posture, alert you to control failures or evidence gaps, and help you maintain readiness at all times.

Evidence Sources#

The platform collects evidence from multiple categories:

• Technical Evidence: Cloud configuration snapshots, access logs, vulnerability scan results, encryption status, backup verification, monitoring alerts, and incident response records
• Administrative Evidence: Security policies, risk assessments, training records, vendor assessments, change management records, access reviews, and background check documentation
• Operational Evidence: Business continuity plans, disaster recovery test results, capacity planning reports, and service level performance data

Open Standards#

• NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5: Control families AC, AU, SC, and CM are directly assessed and reported against; the platform maps collected evidence to individual control identifiers and surfaces gap findings per NIST nomenclature.
• ISO/IEC 27001:2022: All four Annex A themes (organisational, people, physical, and technological controls) are evaluated automatically, with per-control pass/fail status and remediation recommendations generated against the 2022 revision.
• FIPS 140-2: Cryptographic module validation, TLS version and cipher suite enforcement, and key management practices are continuously checked for FIPS compliance; non-approved algorithms are flagged as findings.
• SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria (AICPA): The ten Trust Services Criteria categories (CC1, CC5-CC9, A1, C1, PI1, P1) are assessed in full for Type I and Type II readiness, with evidence mapped to each criterion.
• NIS2 Directive (EU) 2022/2555: Article 21 risk-management measures and Article 23 incident-reporting deadlines are tracked and enforced; automated notifications are generated when breach-notification windows are approaching.
• ETSI TS 104 008 (CABCA): Continuous auditing cycles for AI/ML components follow the ETSI Continuous Auditing of AI-Based Conformance Assessment specification, covering weekly, monthly, quarterly, and event-triggered assessments.
• Common Event Format (CEF): Audit evidence and compliance events are exported as CEF log lines for ingestion by SIEM platforms, enabling third-party verification and correlation.

Compliance#

Argus itself maintains the following certifications:

• SOC 2 Type II (Security, Availability, Confidentiality)
• ISO 27001 certified
• GDPR compliant
• PCI-DSS compliant

Availability#

• Enterprise Plan: Full multi-framework compliance management included
• Professional Plan: Single-framework compliance monitoring; additional frameworks available as add-on

Last Reviewed: 2026-02-05 Last Updated: 2026-04-14