// GLOSSARY

Audit-ready Evidence Package

A package presentable in a defensible form before management, an independent auditor or a regulator, carrying the technical-validation summary, control mapping, executive summary, prioritized remediation plan and closure evidence as a single whole. The output of a security engagement often becomes useless at audit time, because the technical report has not been translated into the auditor's language and the bridge between 'what was found' and 'which requirement was met' is missing. This package builds that bridge in advance: it maps findings to the control items of frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2 or OWASP ASVS, so the auditor can verify the evidence against their own checklist. It is not the same as portable assurance for a customer security review; it is a separate assurance line (S4-B). The difference is in the counterpart: portable assurance tells the customer 'you can trust us', while the audit-ready package tells the auditor 'the requirement is met, here is independently verifiable proof'.