Extract from Hanzo’s article “Native Web Application Preservation: A Smart Path to PCAOB Compliance”
Native preservation captures the audit platform itself, not just its outputs. Instead of relying on fragmented exports, it preserves the full engagement, working environment as it existed at a specific moment in time.
With Chronicle, this approach becomes scalable and audit-ready, ensuring:
- • Authenticity – Records reflect the true state of the application at capture, not a reconstructed version.
- • Defensibility – Evidence can stand up to regulatory scrutiny with complete, verifiable context, supported by immutable WORM (Write Once, Read Many) storage that prevents modification after capture.
- • Completeness – All data, metadata, interactions, and dependencies are retained.
- • Reproducibility – Auditors can revisit and validate the original environment, instead of a static snapshot.
Without native preservation, gaps are inevitable. Those gaps create delays, increase audit risk, and can ultimately impact compliance outcomes.
