Independent evaluators

Overview

Independent assessment requires an evaluator who can inspect reproducible evidence and challenge control results without unrestricted access to customer infrastructure.

• Grant time-bound least-privilege evidence access.
• Log every evaluator read, export, test, and decision.
• Separate evidence collection from assessor decision authority.
• Record conflicts of interest and remediation retests.

Production checklist

• Keep credentials in a server-side secret store.
• Set explicit cost, latency, privacy, provider, and regional constraints.
• Capture route and evaluation evidence for incident review.
• Test timeouts, cancellation, fallback, and denied-policy paths before rollout.