How to collect soc 2 audit evidence on Starch

SOC 2 evidence collection is the part of an audit where you prove that your controls actually work — not just that they're written down somewhere. Auditors want logs, screenshots, exports, and records showing that access was reviewed, changes were approved, incidents were responded to, and data was handled correctly, across a defined observation window that usually runs three to twelve months. The work itself isn't technically hard, but it's operationally exhausting: dozens of evidence requests, each one requiring you to pull something from a different system, rename it correctly, and drop it into the right folder before a deadline.

What this looks like varies by how your company is set up — which tools you run, how your team is organized, who owns security versus engineering versus HR. But the underlying problem is the same: audit evidence lives in ten different places, nobody owns the collection process end to end, and the auditor's requests arrive faster than you can respond to them.

On Starch, you end up with a single place where incoming audit requests get triaged and tracked, evidence tasks are assigned with due dates and priority levels, and your internal documentation — policies, runbooks, access review records — is searchable so you're not hunting through Drive folders under pressure. When a request comes in, you have the context to respond the same day instead of the same week.