ReferenceUse Cases

Use Cases

How founders with no security team, CISOs and GRC leads use Aegis, from standing up a whole security program to multi-framework governance at scale.

The scenarios below are the ones Aegis is built for. Each names the situation, the pain, and how Aegis changes the shape of the work.

You have no security team

Situation: Nobody owns security. There is a to-do list, a cloud account, a code base and a team installing whatever tools they like, and no one whose job it is to turn that into a program.

With Aegis and Argus: The interview builds the program around your real business: controls, policies, a risk register, a vendor list and an evidence backlog. Connect your identity provider, cloud and source control, roll out the device agent and the default security training, and the program starts evidencing itself. Connect Argus and the security work, scanning your code, opening fixes as pull requests, flows into the same program as risks and evidence. You review and approve; compliance frameworks fill in as a by-product of the work actually being done.

Your CISO is buried in the grind

Situation: You have a CISO, vCISO or fractional CISO, and most of their week goes to chasing evidence, rewriting policies, answering questionnaires and reconciling the same control across frameworks.

With Aegis: The drafting, mapping, evidence collection and questionnaire answers are done for them, so their time goes to the decisions only they can make. Role-based access and the auditor view let one program serve the security lead, the team and the assessor.

Your first SOC 2, on a deadline

Situation: A customer will not sign until you produce a SOC 2 report, and you have no GRC function.

With Aegis: The interview materializes a full SOC 2 program in an afternoon, controls, policies written in your context, an evidence backlog, a risk register. You connect your identity provider, source control and cloud, and evidence starts collecting itself. Instead of months of consulting, you spend your time assigning owners and closing real gaps, then invite your auditor to the read-only auditor view.

Adding a second and third framework

Situation: You have SOC 2, and now a European prospect wants ISO 27001 and an EU AI Act story.

With Aegis: Because of the shared-control model, most of ISO 27001 is already covered by the controls you built for SOC 2. Aegis shows you only the genuine delta, and evidence you already collect counts toward every framework it maps to. A second framework is a delta, not a restart.

Getting AI governance under control

Situation: You are shipping AI features and need a defensible answer to "how do you govern AI?", for ISO 42001, the NIST AI RMF, or the EU AI Act.

With Aegis: You get the AI frameworks as first-class citizens, and Shadow AI turns "which AI tools are we even using?" into a reviewable inventory you classify as sanctioned, unsanctioned or prohibited. AI risk sits in the same register as everything else, mapped to controls and treated with tracked tasks.

Killing the security-review bottleneck

Situation: Every deal stalls on a security questionnaire and a demand for your policies and reports.

With Aegis: A hosted Trust Center answers most of it before a call, with sensitive documents gated behind access requests and NDA. The questionnaires that still arrive go through questionnaire automation, which drafts grounded answers from your published policies. Security review stops being the thing that blocks the close.

Maintaining compliance between audits

Situation: You passed last year's audit, and the program has quietly gone stale since.

With Aegis: Integrations and cloud tests keep evidence current continuously, recurring tasks regenerate access reviews and attestations on schedule, and the Overview dashboard shows live coverage. You are audit-ready most of the time, not in a scramble once a year.

Running third-party risk properly

Situation: Your auditor wants a vendor risk program, and yours is a spreadsheet nobody updates.

With Aegis: Every tool you connect becomes a vendor with an automatic AI risk assessment and a residual band. The register is populated with real analysis the moment a vendor exists, and you review rather than start from zero.

Proving device and endpoint controls

Situation: Your framework requires encrypted, patched, access-controlled endpoints, and you cannot prove it across a remote team on their own laptops.

With Aegis: The device agent reports endpoint posture continuously, so device controls evidence themselves, and the software inventory lets you answer "who is running this?" across the fleet the moment a new CVE lands.

Next steps

Getting Started

Turn any of these into a running program.

Capabilities

The full feature reference.

Frameworks

The shared-control model that makes multi-framework cheap.

FAQ

The questions buyers ask most.

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