NovaCove — security posture platform
Win the deal now. Get audit-ready later.
Enterprise deals stall on one question: “Do you have SOC 2?” The audit costs $30–80k and 6–12 months. NovaCove replaces it with a queryable view of your posture — real controls, evidence your buyer verifies themselves.
The comparison
The SOC 2 audit is a luxury tax.
Deals stall on one question: “Do you have SOC 2?” Until now the answers were spend or lose — $30–80k and 6–12 months for a Type II report, or walk away from the deal. There is a third option.
The audit — SOC 2 Type II
- Readiness and tooling
- weeks of engineering
- Observation window
- 3–9 months
- Deals while you wait
- stalled
- Evidence at the end
- one PDF, stale on arrival
the tax
$30–80k
plus the two or three quarters of revenue you wait for.
The third option
Give your buyer a URL, not a questionnaire.
Turn NovaCove on and your controls start generating evidence, mapped to the SOC 2 requirements buyers actually ask about. No audit-prep sprint, no observation window.
When the security review lands, send a link instead of a PDF. Your buyer runs the queries themselves, at the access tier you set.
show me access reviews for the last 90 days
12 reviews · all SSO-authenticated · evidence attached ↗
“Why should I trust this over an independent auditor?”
Fair question. An auditor samples the past; NovaCove shows the present. Access is brokered — SSO-gated, least-privilege, short-lived, logged — so the evidence is generated by how access works, not claimed after the fact. Your buyer verifies it themselves.
Every access authenticated
SSO-gated, least-privilege. No standing credentials. Identity is enforced, not asserted.
Every credential short-lived
Access expires automatically. No stale permissions, no drift between audit windows.
Every action logged
A tamper-evident trail your buyer can query. Evidence generated, not claimed.
02 / How it works
From exposure to proof
Three steps. Find what's exposed, fix it with controls that fit your stage, and give your prospect something they can verify themselves.
Discover what's actually exposed
You can't secure what you can't see. NovaCove surfaces the OAuth apps your team installed this week, the cloud resources nobody remembers provisioning, and the documents shared beyond their intended audience. Findings are ranked by what would actually hurt, not by generic severity scores.
- OAuth apps your team installed this week
- Cloud resources outside your known inventory
- Documents shared beyond their intended audience
Shadow IT visibility
OAuth apps, browser extensions, and SaaS tools your team uses without IT approval.
Risk-aware prioritization
Findings ranked by actual business impact, not generic severity scores.
Protect with controls that fit your stage
When you find something that needs fixing, fix it. Revoke risky OAuth permissions, tighten document sharing, apply network rules. One click for the common cases, clear guidance for the rest. Controls match your company's maturity.
- Revoke risky OAuth permissions directly
- Tighten document sharing with owner context
- Apply network security rules without guesswork
- Corporate to Cloud: authorized. Allowed by policy.
- Corporate to Vendors: blocked. Stopped by policy.
- Cloud to Vendors: observed. Traffic seen. No approval implied.
- Cloud to Vendors: proposed. Suggested, not in effect.
- Observed
- Authorized
- Proposed
- Blocked
- Unverified
Positions are schematic.
One-click remediation
Revoke access, tighten sharing, fix misconfigurations from the dashboard.
Stage-appropriate controls
Controls matched to your company's maturity. Not enterprise overkill.
Prove it without the audit
Hand your prospect a URL instead of a questionnaire. They run pre-canned queries against your posture and verify your controls directly. When you do want SOC 2, the evidence is already collected. No audit prep sprint.
- Live, queryable security posture
- Pre-canned queries that replace the security questionnaire
- Evidence that maps to SOC 2 requirements when you pursue certification
- Evidence collected
- 214
- Queries run by prospects
- 36
- Security questionnaires
- 0
Queryable posture
Pre-canned queries your prospect can run. Replaces the security questionnaire.
SOC 2-ready evidence
When you want certification, the evidence is already collected. No audit prep sprint.
03 / Where we fit
Not another trust center or compliance dashboard
SafeBase and Conveyor document your posture. Vanta and Drata automate your compliance paperwork. NovaCove brokers and enforces the access, so evidence is generated by how your systems work.
| Capability | NovaCove | Trust centers SafeBase, Conveyor | Compliance auto Vanta, Drata |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broker & enforce access controls | Yes | — | — |
| Queryable security posture | Yes | — | — |
| Evidence generated (not asserted) | Yes | — | — |
| Share docs & SOC 2 reports | — | Yes | Yes |
| Automate compliance workflows | — | — | Yes |
| Identity & access management | Yes | — | — |
| Agent-ready identity plane | Yes | — | — |
NovaCove doesn't replace your compliance automation or trust center. It feeds them. When you do get SOC 2, NovaCove's evidence maps to the audit requirements. Until then, your prospect verifies directly.
04 / Questions
Frequently asked
Yes. Most enterprise deals don't legally require SOC 2. They require evidence that you have real security controls. NovaCove gives buyers a queryable view of your posture, which answers the same questions a SOC 2 report would.
$30–80k and 6–12 months from readiness to Type II report. The auditor fee is the headline cost, but the bigger issue is time: a Type II requires an observation window of several months. Deals that hinge on SOC 2 can stall for two or three quarters.
By exposing a verifiable, queryable view of your actual controls. NovaCove brokers and enforces access: SSO-gated, least-privilege, short-lived, logged. The evidence is generated by how access works, not claimed after the fact. Your prospect runs queries against it directly.
A security platform that gives growing companies real, stage-appropriate controls and a queryable view of their security posture. NovaCove is not an auditor. It provides the controls and evidence that enterprise security reviews look for, and that evidence maps to SOC 2 requirements when you're ready for certification.
Next step
Stop losing deals to a checkbox
Turn on NovaCove and your prospects get a queryable view of your security. Real controls. Evidence that maps to SOC 2 when you're ready. No audit required to close the deal.