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title: ToolRouter — Workflow
description: A multi-tool workflow showing how to combine ToolRouter tools for a complex task.
url: https://toolrouter.com/workflows/compliance-security-audit
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# Compliance Security Audit

Audit systems against compliance frameworks using automated scanning, vulnerability checks, auth testing, and research.

Meeting compliance requirements for frameworks like PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 demands systematic security testing mapped to specific control objectives. Manual compliance audits are time-consuming and expensive, but automated tooling can cover the technical controls efficiently while producing evidence suitable for auditors.

This workflow combines automated vulnerability scanning with compliance-focused templates, known vulnerability exposure checks, active authentication testing, and deep research into specific compliance requirements. The result is an audit-ready assessment that maps findings directly to compliance control objectives.

**Tools:** security-nuclei, vulnerability-database, pentest, deep-research
**Category:** security

## Steps

### 1. Automated Compliance Scanning

Run compliance-focused vulnerability templates covering OWASP Top 10, CIS benchmarks, and common compliance requirements.

- **Tool:** security-nuclei
- **Skill:** scan_targets
- **Input:** Target systems and compliance template categories to scan.
- **Output:** Compliance-relevant findings mapped to specific control requirements and frameworks.

### 2. Check Known Vulnerability Exposure

Search for known vulnerabilities in your technology stack that would fail compliance requirements.

- **Tool:** vulnerability-database
- **Skill:** search_vulnerabilities
- **Input:** Software products and versions used in the target environment.
- **Output:** Known vulnerabilities with CVSS scores and compliance impact assessment.

### 3. Test Authentication Controls

Verify authentication and access control mechanisms meet compliance requirements through active testing.

- **Tool:** pentest
- **Skill:** test_auth
- **Input:** Authentication endpoints and access control boundaries to test.
- **Output:** Authentication and authorization weaknesses with compliance control mapping.

### 4. Research Compliance Requirements

Research specific compliance framework requirements and map findings to control objectives for audit preparation.

- **Tool:** deep-research
- **Skill:** research
- **Input:** Compliance framework name and specific control areas to research.
- **Output:** Detailed compliance mapping report with control requirements, current status, and remediation recommendations.

## Benefits

- Map security findings directly to compliance control requirements
- Automate evidence collection for SOC 2, PCI DSS, and similar audits
- Test authentication controls required by most compliance frameworks
- Research specific compliance requirements for your industry and jurisdiction
- Reduce audit preparation time with structured, repeatable assessments
