Compliance Automation: Fixing the ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Evidence Grind
Network Intelligence, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Network Intelligence argues continuous compliance automation should replace manual ISO 27001 and SOC 2 evidence collection.
Network Intelligence argues that manual evidence collection for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 audits produces stale snapshots, consumes weeks of staff time, duplicates work across frameworks such as HIPAA and India's DPDP Act, and yields inconsistent results.
It proposes compliance automation with continuous, timestamped collection from cloud, identity and security tools, a shared evidence model mapped to multiple frameworks, conversational tools to query control owners, and a living record of control status.
The article notes automation does not replace external audits and mentions Transilience AI and Network Intelligence's Rainier platform.
It offers a checklist for evaluating automation claims.