IT security audits

Thoropass vs. Traditional Audit Firms: A Smarter Way to Compliance

If you’re considering Schellman, A-LIGN, Coalfire, Big 4, or similar audit firms, you’re likely looking for a way to achieve SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or HIPAA compliance. While these firms provide audits, they lack the technology-driven efficiency and year-round guidance that modern companies need.

Traditional audits are often slow, manual, and disjointed—leading to unnecessary delays, rework, and higher costs. Thoropass changes the game by combining compliance software, AI automation, and in-house auditors in a single platform.

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The Problem with Traditional IT Audit Firms

Most audit firms rely on manual processes and don’t integrate seamlessly with compliance automation tools. This leads to:

Longer Audit Cycles

Audits are slow and tedious, requiring extensive back-and-forth.

Manual Evidence Collection

Clients must gather and submit evidence manually, creating inefficiencies. When automated evidence is used, it’s often rejected by auditors.

Limited Real-Time Visibility

There’s no proactive insight into audit progress or compliance readiness.

Separate Compliance & Audit Workflows

Compliance automation tools (like Drata or Vanta) don’t connect seamlessly with audit firms, leading to handoff issues and rework.

Hidden Costs & Unpredictable Pricing

Compliance automation tools (like Drata or Vanta) don’t connect seamlessly with audit firms, leading to handoff issues and rework.

Thoropass solves these challenges with an AI-powered, fully integrated compliance and audit solution.

Traditional IT Audit Firms vs. Thoropass:
What's the Difference?

Thoropass is built to close the audit gap, ensuring you move seamlessly from compliance prep to certification—all within one platform.

Why Traditional Audit Firms Fall Short

Traditional IT audit firms are audit-only providers, which means they don’t integrate compliance automation into their workflow. This creates inefficiencies such as:

1. Manual evidence collection & validation

Traditional firms require clients to manually gather and upload compliance evidence. If anything is missing or incorrect, they send it back for revisions—creating delays and rework.

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➡️ With Thoropass, our AI-powered First Pass Evidence Review automatically validates your evidence before the audit starts, ensuring it’s correct the first time.

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2. No real-time compliance visibility

Traditional audits operate in a black box—clients don’t know where they stand until they receive feedback weeks or months later.

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➡️ Thoropass provides a live compliance dashboard, allowing teams to track audit readiness and progress in real time.

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3. Siloed compliance & audit workflows

Most companies using compliance automation (like Vanta or Drata) still need to find an external auditor, which leads to handoff inefficiencies and miscommunication.

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➡️ Thoropass eliminates the handoff—our auditors are built into the platform and work alongside your team from day one.

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4. Surprise costs & unpredictable timelines

Audit firms charge based on time and effort, meaning extended timelines, duplicate audits that could be combined, and rework drive up costs.

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➡️ Thoropass offers transparent, predictable pricing—our integrated approach and one-audit, multiple-framework approach reduces time spent on audit prep by up to 67%.

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Thoropass: A Smarter Way to Manage Compliance

Thoropass delivers end-to-end compliance automation and audit services in a single platform:

AI-Powered Compliance & Audit

Automates evidence collection, control monitoring, and readiness validation.

Built-in Auditors

Compliance professionals help interpret controls, review evidence, and guide your audit prep.

Real-time Expert Support

Certified CPA and HITRUST auditors conduct your SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, or HIPAA audit directly within Thoropass

Driving better outcomes

“Some of the best money I ever spent. Thoropass and being compliant ended up helping us close our second-largest customer.”

Benefix understood that compliance isn’t just best practice, it’s good business.

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AN INDUSTRY LEADER

“When one certification is done, we just push one button and it pulls all the evidence and policies that we need for the other one—saving us so much time.”

Elestio was looking to expand and move up-market in Europe. Thoropass’s multi-framework approach helped them achieve additional certifications quickly.

How Thoropass helped Elestio

ALL-IN-ONE Solution

“The centralized Thoropass system housing documents, processes, control evidence, and vendor management all in one place proved to be the deciding factor.”

Monit needed only one tool to seamlessly complete tasks while saving countless hours documenting and maintaining their compliance posture.

The power of automation

Your team of experts

“I’ve never worked with a group of people that clearly care so much about my success. Several times they went above and beyond.”

Stylo wasn’t just looking for compliance automation—they were looking for a team to guide them through the process.

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Ditch the Manual Audit Hassle

Traditional audit firms leave compliance and audit disconnected—leading to extra work, unnecessary costs, and extended timelines.

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With Thoropass, you get compliance automation and audit in one place—powered by AI and built to remove audit friction.

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✅ No more manual evidence collection
✅ No more audit delays & rework
✅ No more last-minute surprises

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Get compliant faster and with less work. See how Thoropass can simplify your audit process today.

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