HIPAA PCI-DSS SOC 2 NIST CSF

Compliance Reporting Built Into Your Security Monitoring

Automated evidence collection mapped to HIPAA, PCI-DSS v4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and NIST CSF. Every alert is a compliance record. Monthly PDF reports delivered automatically.

Compliance Is an Ongoing Operational Problem

Most businesses treat compliance as a point-in-time audit exercise: scramble to collect evidence, engage consultants, pass the audit, move on. The problem is that modern frameworks don't work that way. SOC 2 Type II requires evidence of operating effectiveness over 6–12 months. HIPAA requires continuous demonstration of implemented safeguards. PCI-DSS v4.0 requires daily review of audit logs. These are not annual snapshot requirements — they are continuous operational requirements.

Without continuous monitoring infrastructure, reconstructing audit evidence is expensive, time-consuming, and often incomplete. ARIA solves this by making compliance evidence a byproduct of the security monitoring you're already running — not a separate project you scramble to complete before an audit.

HIPAA Security Rule Coverage

HIPAA's Security Rule has three categories of safeguards: administrative, physical, and technical. ARIA addresses the technical safeguard requirements directly.

HIPAA Security Rule — Technical Safeguard Coverage
  • §164.308(a)(1) — Risk analysis requirement: ARIA provides the continuous monitoring data that informs your risk analysis. You cannot assess risk without visibility into what is happening in your environment. ARIA's monitoring telemetry is the evidence base for risk analysis documentation.
  • §164.312(a)(1) — Access control: ARIA monitors who is accessing what, when, and from where. Anomalies are alerted: after-hours EHR access from unexpected locations, mass record download attempts, shared-credential usage patterns, account access after termination.
  • §164.312(b) — Audit controls: Every event is logged, timestamped, and correlated. ARIA generates and preserves the audit trail that the Security Rule requires for covered entities and business associates, with tamper-evident log storage.
  • §164.312(e)(1) — Transmission security: ARIA monitors for unencrypted data transmission and alerts on any PHI detected traversing unencrypted channels.

Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) are included for all HIPAA-covered clients at no additional cost. ARIA processes health-related telemetry as a business associate and operates under the BAA terms required by the Security Rule.

PCI-DSS v4.0 Coverage

PCI-DSS v4.0 (effective March 2024) tightened logging and monitoring requirements significantly compared to v3.2.1. The changes most relevant to small businesses with cardholder data environments are in Requirements 10 and 11.

PCI-DSS v4.0 Requirement 10 & 11 Coverage
  • Requirement 10.2 — Audit log events: ARIA captures all required audit log event types for system components in the cardholder data environment, including all individual user access to cardholder data, all actions taken with root or administrative privileges, access to audit trails, invalid logical access attempts, use of authentication mechanisms, initialization/stopping/pausing of audit logs, and creation/deletion of system-level objects.
  • Requirement 10.5 — Retain audit logs: ARIA retains audit logs for 12 months minimum, with the most recent three months immediately available for analysis — meeting the v4.0 retention requirements.
  • Requirement 10.6 — Synchronize time sources: Wazuh agent time synchronization is enforced, ensuring log timestamps are consistent across the environment.
  • Requirement 10.7 — Detect and respond to critical security control failures: ARIA's monitoring covers real-time alerting on logging failures and agent disconnections — exactly the "failure of critical security controls" the requirement targets.
  • Requirement 11.5 — Change detection mechanism (FIM): ARIA's file integrity monitoring directly satisfies the requirement to deploy a mechanism that alerts on unauthorized modification of critical files. FIM covers system executables, configuration files, and audit log directories.

SOC 2 Type II: The Hard One

Type I is a point-in-time snapshot: as of date X, your controls exist and are designed appropriately. Type II tests operating effectiveness over 6–12 months: did those controls actually work during the period? Enterprise procurement almost universally requires Type II — and most startups don't realize that until a Fortune 500 prospect asks for it in due diligence.

For SOC 2 Type II, you need 6–12 months of continuous, timestamped, organized evidence that your security controls operated as designed. Without monitoring infrastructure, you reconstruct this retroactively — at consulting rates, with incomplete records, and with real gaps in the evidence chain. Auditors notice gaps.

ARIA provides: continuous timestamped event logs with chain-of-custody integrity, alert-to-verdict trails (showing the control operated and what happened), monthly security reports with trust service criteria mapping, and an evidence package your auditor can use directly. ARIA doesn't certify you — qualified auditors do that — but ARIA is the operational layer that makes Type II achievable without a dedicated security engineering team.

SOC 2 Type II Trust Service Criteria Coverage
  • Security — CC6 (Logical and Physical Access Controls): ARIA monitors privileged access, account lifecycle events, authentication anomalies, and access control changes. CC6.1–CC6.8 are addressed by the monitoring telemetry ARIA generates.
  • Security — CC7 (System Operations): ARIA provides the continuous monitoring (CC7.2), anomaly detection (CC7.3), incident response evidence (CC7.4), and recovery monitoring (CC7.5) that CC7 requires.
  • Availability — A1 (Availability Commitments and System Requirements): ARIA monitoring covers system performance, agent health checks, and incident management documentation that supports availability commitments.
  • Confidentiality — C1 (Confidentiality Commitments): ARIA's data classification monitoring, access logging, and DLP-adjacent detection (mass download, exfil indicators) supports confidentiality control evidence.

NIST CSF Alignment

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework is the broadest alignment target and maps to virtually all other frameworks. ARIA's coverage tracks the five CSF functions.

Function What ARIA Provides
Identify Asset inventory via agent deployment (every monitored device is catalogued). Risk context from OSINT enrichment populates your risk register with real threat intelligence.
Protect Detection rules that enforce access control policies. File integrity monitoring for system integrity. Baseline establishment for behavioral anomaly detection.
Detect Continuous 24/7 monitoring across all surfaces. MITRE ATT&CK-mapped alerts with technique coverage documentation. Anomaly detection relative to behavioral baseline.
Respond Human-gated playbook execution. Incident timeline documentation. Client notification with structured incident reports. Analyst decision records.
Recover Post-incident reports with timeline reconstruction. Evidence packages for insurance and regulatory notification. Coverage gap analysis after confirmed incidents.

What the Reports Look Like

Monthly PDF compliance report delivered automatically by email on the first business day of each month. Contents include:

  • Alert volume and verdict distribution for the month (total alerts, bypass closures, AI-triaged, escalated to human, confirmed incidents)
  • Compliance control mapping — which events map to which HIPAA sections, PCI-DSS requirements, or SOC 2 trust service criteria
  • Anomaly summary — notable behavioral deviations detected and their dispositions
  • Open items requiring client action — misconfigurations identified, agents offline, pending remediation
  • Evidence log — timestamped, control-mapped entries suitable for direct use in audit packages

On-demand audit packages are generated for active audit periods. These include the complete event log for the audit window, the alert-to-verdict chain for all escalated incidents, and formatted evidence organized by control requirement.

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FAQ

Compliance Questions

Does ARIA make us HIPAA compliant?

No single tool makes you HIPAA compliant. HIPAA requires administrative, physical, and technical safeguards — ARIA addresses the technical monitoring piece. You still need a compliance officer, written policies and procedures, workforce training, physical access controls, and a risk management program. ARIA makes the technical safeguard piece significantly easier to implement and document, and provides the continuous monitoring evidence that supports your risk analysis. If you need help with the full HIPAA program, we can refer you to compliance consultants who specialize in healthcare.

When does ARIA generate reports?

Monthly PDF reports are generated automatically and delivered by email on the first business day of each month. Ad-hoc reports can be requested at any time from your account contact. Audit evidence packages — comprehensive exports organized by control requirement — are generated on-request for active audit periods, typically within one business day of the request.

Does ARIA replace a compliance consultant?

No. ARIA provides the technical monitoring infrastructure and continuous evidence collection layer. Compliance consultants (QSAs for PCI-DSS, CPAs for SOC 2, healthcare compliance attorneys for HIPAA) provide the interpretive and assessment layer that determines whether your program meets the framework requirements. ARIA makes your consultant's job significantly more efficient — there is organized, timestamped evidence to hand over rather than raw logs to reconstruct — which typically reduces consulting hours and therefore cost.

What is the difference between SOC 2 Type I and Type II?

Type I is a point-in-time assessment: as of a specific date, your controls are designed appropriately and exist as described. Type II tests operating effectiveness over 6–12 months: did those controls actually work during the observation period? Enterprise procurement almost always requires Type II because Type I only proves the controls existed on one day — it says nothing about whether they were actually operating. ARIA provides the continuous monitoring evidence that Type II requires, making the observation period practical to satisfy without a dedicated security engineering team.

Can ARIA generate evidence for multiple frameworks simultaneously?

Yes. The same underlying monitoring data maps to multiple frameworks simultaneously. A single ARIA deployment generates HIPAA §164.312(b) audit trail evidence, PCI-DSS Requirement 10 event logs, and SOC 2 CC7 monitoring records from the same event stream — without separate tools, separate data pipelines, or separate monitoring configurations. Evidence packages can be exported in framework-specific formats for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2 from a single audit request.