Save up to 52 hours per audit cycle by consolidating frameworks
Consolidation pays your team back. Pair SOC 2 with ISO 27001, for example, and save up to 52 hours through consolidated auditor meetings, automated evidence matching, and evidence reuse across frameworks. Honed across 36,000+ engagements, our blend of expertise, rigorous methodology, and audit management technology makes every audit as smooth and efficient as possible.
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Shave weeks off your audit calendar
We look for time savings in every detail of your audit. Harmonized auditor meetings across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI alone give clients 40+ hours back per cycle. And because the same audit team returns year over year, interviews shrink, evidence requests don’t repeat, and the load on your compliance team keeps dropping.
Engineered to help you succeed
A-LIGN combines human expertise and robust processes with cutting-edge technology to help clients achieve compliance, grow their business, and expand into new markets — without sacrificing rigor.
Stay ahead of what's next
New frameworks shouldn't mean new vendors. A-LIGN is already accredited and active in emerging mandates, like CMMC, ISO 42001, and FedRAMP 20x, so when the next requirement hits your customers' RFPs, your audit partner is already there.
What an efficient audit looks like
For companies with growing audit complexity, our audit harmonization process offers a tailored, integrated compliance framework that aligns business and compliance goals, mitigates risk, and refines audit efficiencies to save you time and deliver a seamless experience.
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Stop matching evidence by hand
A-SCEND’s AI Evidence Matching analyzes a file’s name and contents and matches it to requests on the Information Request List. Each match returns a confidence score, High, Medium, or Low, and a technical summary explaining how the file satisfies the request. This reduces the time spent figuring out which file covers which request and cuts down on clarification cycles with auditors. For SOC 2 and ISO 27001, this saves you 5 hours.
Submit evidence once, satisfy multiple frameworks
Many frameworks share requirements, so evidence that satisfies one often satisfies another. When that mapping happens automatically rather than manually with A-SCEND, the redundant work disappears. For SOC 2 and ISO 27001, that’s 31 hours back.
We’ll consolidate auditor meetings and save you time
Separate audits mean separate coordination: kickoff calls, status updates, and review meetings running in parallel rather than together. Our experts merge those parallel tracks into a single meeting cadence, so every call moves both audits forward. For SOC 2 and ISO 27001, that’s another 16 hours saved.
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SAS
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Butterfly Network Inc.
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Island
Clients save time with a tech-enabled audit
Hear from organizations that transformed their compliance programs with A-LIGN.
"There’s no way that we could do all of our assurance engagements if we did them contiguously. There’s just not enough time in the year – A-LIGN harmonized our audit efforts, greatly saving our team valuable time and resources."
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Cathy Smith
SaS
"Centralized evidence collection, control mapping, and auditor communication eliminated manual tracking and back-and-forth emails — reducing evidence gathering and validation time by ~30–40% and audit prep effort by ~25%."
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Ciro Peña
Teleperformance
“Partnering with A-LIGN allowed us to consolidate our audit processes across multiple frameworks, reducing complexity while maintaining the highest standards of quality. Their expertise in global compliance ensured that our security practices remained world-class, even as we scaled rapidly.”
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Patricia Leppert
TeamViewer
"We don’t want to be in a constant state of audit. Having an assessment firm like A-LIGN, which has conducted an independent assessment across hundreds of requirements and artifacts to obtain multiple high-quality audit reports, is truly a badge of honor.”
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Mike Tiemeyer
Butterfly Network
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Frequently asked questions
What is audit harmonization?
Audit harmonization is the practice of running multiple compliance audits as a single, coordinated engagement. When the scope and review period of frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, FedRAMP, and PCI align, A-LIGN performs fieldwork once and reuses the evidence across reports, eliminating duplicate interviews, evidence requests, and control testing.
Which frameworks can A-LIGN harmonize?
A-LIGN harmonizes major frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, FedRAMP, and PCI under one engagement. We are also accredited for emerging mandates such as CMMC, ISO 42001, and FedRAMP 20x, so new requirements can be folded into your existing program rather than requiring a new vendor.
How much time does harmonization actually save?
It depends on the combination of frameworks, but for example, clients running SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI together save 40+ hours per cycle on auditor meetings alone. Customers using our A-SCEND platform have also reported a ~30–40% reduction in evidence gathering and validation time and a ~25% reduction in audit prep effort.
Will I work with the same audit team each year?
Yes. A-LIGN keeps you with the same general audit team year over year. Continuity reduces ramp-up time, eliminates redundant context-setting, and lets the team build a deeper understanding of your environment and controls.
Does consolidating audits compromise rigor?
No. Harmonization changes how evidence is collected and reviewed, not the standards applied. Each report is issued against its own framework requirements, with the same depth of testing a standalone audit would require.
What credentials does A-LIGN hold?
A-LIGN is the #1 SOC issuer in the world, a top ISO certification body globally, a top 3 Federal assessor, and an authorized C3PAO for CMMC.
How do I get started?
Contact A-LIGN to scope your frameworks, review periods, and current audit calendar. We'll identify where harmonization opportunities exist and build a multi-year roadmap aligned to your certification demands.