Koop automates the compliance operations that traditionally consumed weeks of manual work: evidence collection, control monitoring, vendor questionnaires, policy management and audit preparation. CyberFortify provides the manual offensive security testing that validates whether those controls actually work under adversarial conditions. Together, the combination delivers what neither provides alone - a compliance programme that is both efficiently maintained and genuinely tested.
// 01 The problem both companies were built to solve
The security and compliance problem for growing technology companies has two distinct failure modes. The first is organisational: without structured compliance tooling, compliance becomes a spreadsheet nightmare - manually collecting screenshots, chasing engineers for evidence, re-doing the same work every audit cycle. This is the inefficiency problem.
The second failure mode is technical: without active security testing, a compliance programme that looks perfect on paper can coexist with exploitable vulnerabilities in production. The SOC 2 Type II report gets issued on Tuesday. The pen test that would have found the critical IDOR vulnerability didn't happen. This is the protection gap problem.
Most organisations solve one or the other. The partnership between Koop and CyberFortify addresses both simultaneously - Koop eliminating compliance inefficiency, CyberFortify closing the protection gap.
// 02 What Koop brings to the programme
Koop is a compliance automation platform built for modern software companies. Its core capability is continuous automated evidence collection - integrating directly with the cloud infrastructure, identity providers, code repositories, and SaaS tools that engineering teams already use, and continuously collecting the evidence that compliance frameworks require.
Automated evidence collection
Koop integrates with AWS, GCP, Azure, GitHub, Okta, Google Workspace, Jira, Vanta, and dozens of other tools to collect compliance evidence automatically. Access reviews, encryption configurations, MFA status, patch levels - collected continuously, not manually before each audit.
Multi-framework mapping
A single control implementation maps to multiple frameworks simultaneously - SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR. When a control satisfies CC6.1 (SOC 2), Koop maps the same evidence to A.8.3 (ISO 27001) and Req 7 (PCI DSS) automatically. No duplicate work across framework audit cycles.
Vendor risk management
Automated vendor security questionnaire collection, risk scoring, and ongoing monitoring. When a critical vendor's SOC 2 status lapses, Koop surfaces it - before your auditor does.
Audit-ready posture dashboard
Real-time compliance posture across all active frameworks, control failure alerts, and a shared evidence room for auditors. The compliance programme operates continuously - not as a 12-week sprint before each audit window.
// 03 What CyberFortify brings to the programme
CyberFortify provides the manual, adversarial testing layer that validates whether the controls Koop monitors are actually enforced under attack conditions. Where Koop answers "does the control exist and is it configured?", CyberFortify answers "can an attacker bypass it?"
Web application pen testing
Manual OWASP-aligned testing of the application layer - the surface that Koop's automated evidence collection doesn't cover. Access control policies are documented in Koop; CyberFortify tests whether the code enforces them.
Cloud infrastructure pen testing
IAM privilege escalation, misconfigured S3 buckets, container escapes, serverless attack chains. Koop monitors that encryption is enabled and MFA is configured; CyberFortify tests whether the IAM role can be escalated to access all encrypted data anyway.
API security testing
BOLA, mass assignment, JWT abuse, rate-limit bypass across REST and GraphQL APIs. The API surface is where most SaaS application vulnerabilities live - and where compliance evidence collection has no visibility.
Compliance-mapped reporting
Every CyberFortify finding is mapped to the relevant compliance control - SOC 2 CC6.1, ISO 27001 A.8.29, PCI DSS Req 11.4. The pen test report imports directly into the compliance evidence workflow, closing the loop between testing and auditable evidence.
// 04 How they work together: the combined programme
The combined programme operates as a single security and compliance lifecycle rather than two parallel workstreams:
- Koop's gap assessment identifies which controls are missing or only partially implemented - giving CyberFortify's pen test a prioritised list of high-risk areas to focus on.
- CyberFortify's pen test validates whether the controls Koop monitors are enforced under adversarial conditions - and surfaces vulnerabilities that compliance monitoring cannot see.
- Joint findings-to-controls mapping ensures that pen test findings become compliance control updates: a finding that access control is bypassable triggers a control failure in Koop, not just a finding in a separate report.
- Koop's continuous evidence collection monitors that the remediations are implemented and maintained - not just fixed once and forgotten.
// 05 Three use cases where the combination is decisive
First-time SOC 2 Type II certification
Koop handles policy library, evidence workflow, and auditor-ready documentation. CyberFortify provides the penetration test required by CC7.1. One coordinated engagement window, one set of deliverables, one audit submission. Time-to-certification typically cut by 40% versus running both engagements independently.
Enterprise deal unblocked by security questionnaire
A SaaS company faces a six-figure deal blocked by a CISO security review requiring both a compliance report and a recent penetration test. Koop provides the compliance posture evidence; CyberFortify provides the pen test attestation. Both deliverables in the same engagement cycle.
Post-incident programme rebuild
After a security incident, the organisation needs both a compliance programme to satisfy regulatory requirements and active testing to validate that the root cause is fully remediated. Koop rebuilds the programme structure; CyberFortify validates the technical remediation and surfaces adjacent vulnerabilities.
Multi-framework certification at scale
A fintech company targeting US and EU markets needs SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS simultaneously. Koop maps all three frameworks to a unified control set. CyberFortify's pen test report maps findings to all three - one test, three compliance evidence artefacts.
Interested in the combined programme?
CyberFortify's compliance consulting and pen testing services are designed to integrate seamlessly with Koop's compliance automation platform. Contact us to discuss a coordinated engagement.
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