Trust Telemetry: How KnoxAI Collects and Correlates Evidence for Always-On Audit Readiness

Audit season shouldn’t feel like DEFCON 1.
And yet, for most SaaS teams, it still does:

Manually collecting logs
Updating out-of-sync SSPs
Scrambling to find screenshots
Wasting hours proving what already happened

At Knox Systems, we believe evidence shouldn’t be something you gather.
It should be something your system emits—automatically.

That’s why we built the KnoxAI with a concept we call Trust Telemetry.

What Is Trust Telemetry?

Trust Telemetry is the KnoxAI's ability to continuously capture, timestamp, and correlate real-time control evidence—directly from your infrastructure.

It’s how we turn compliance from a checklist into a data stream.

KnoxAI integrates with:

• CI/CD pipelines
  
  
• GitOps workflows
  
  
• Container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS, Nomad)
  
  
• Cloud provider APIs (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  
  
• Logging + monitoring tools (CloudTrail, Datadog, Fluentd, etc.)

Everything becomes a source of verified evidence—linked to your control graph and automatically audit-ready.

How KnoxAI Validates Controls with Real-Time Evidence

Instead of waiting for a quarterly review, KnoxAI validates your controls as you deploy.

Here’s how:

1. Detects a control trigger (e.g., policy applied, user onboarded, service provisioned)
   
   
2. Captures artifacts (e.g., Git commit, deployment log, policy config, system event)
   
   
3. Timestamps and hashes the artifact
   
   
4. Links it to the relevant NIST 800-53 control
   
   
5. Stores it in your compliance graph and audit ledger
   
   
6. Surfaces it in SSPs, POA&Ms, and dashboards automatically
   
   

No screenshots. No drag-and-drop folders. Just real-time compliance evidence that audits itself.

Example: Evidence for SC-12 (Cryptographic Key Establishment)

Traditional method:

• Screenshot from AWS console
  
  
• Separate document explaining key policy
  
  
• Manually written SSP language

With KnoxAI:

• Pulls encryption settings from IaC + runtime
  
  
• Captures KMS key usage logs
  
  
• Hashes policy object + commit ID
  
  
• Links all to SC-12 in the compliance graph
  
  
• Writes evidence into OSCAL-formatted SSP in seconds

Audit Readiness Is Now Continuous

With Trust Telemetry, your compliance posture becomes:

Real-time
Inspectable
Immutable
Always up to date

3PAOs don’t have to ask for evidence.
You already have it—linked, validated, and ready to submit.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is Trust Telemetry in Knox AI?
Compliance Telemetry is Knox AI's capability to continuously collect, timestamp, and correlate real-time evidence from your infrastructure, turning compliance into an automated data stream.

2. How does Knox AI automate evidence collection for audits?
KnoxAI integrates with CI/CD pipelines, cloud APIs, and logging tools to capture artifacts like commits, configurations, and system events, linking them automatically to relevant NIST 800-53 controls.

3. How does Trust Telemetry improve audit readiness?
By continuously validating controls and recording immutable evidence, Trust Telemetry ensures every control is verified and audit-ready in real time without manual documentation.

4. What makes Knox AI's evidence validation different from traditional methods?
Unlike manual screenshots and reports, Knox AI automatically hashes, timestamps, and stores live control data, generating OSCAL-formatted SSPs and POA&Ms in seconds.

5. Why is continuous evidence collection important for SaaS compliance?
Continuous evidence collection provides always-on visibility, reduces audit stress, and ensures SaaS vendors remain compliant with evolving frameworks like FedRAMP and NIST.

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TL;DR

Evidence is no longer something you gather under pressure.
With KnoxAI, it’s something your system emits naturally—every time you ship.

Connects to your real dev workflow
Collects + correlates real-time artifacts
Ties every piece of evidence to specific controls
Powers always-on, audit-ready documentation

Manual audit prep is out.
Trust Telemetry is in.

Let’s move from compliance-as-ritual to compliance-as-signal with Knox.

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