Before state
A captured baseline of the relevant system state before the event — scoped to what matters, not a bulk dump.
Core capability
System-state preservation: capture what a system was, so it can be proven later.
When a meaningful or unauthorized change happens, teams usually reconstruct it later from broken logs. AuditTrace preserves a decision-grade record at the moment of change — a before/after snapshot of system state with integrity hashing and a documented chain of custody.
Why it matters
Reconstruction fails. Preservation holds.
A record rebuilt after the fact from screenshots and partial logs falls apart under scrutiny. A preserved, hashed, before/after record does not. This is the difference between evidence that is dismissed and evidence that is relied on.
The change
The triggering event and the resulting delta — what was added, removed, or modified, with timestamps.
After state + integrity
The post-change state with SHA-256 integrity hashing, so the record is tamper-evident and verifiable later.
Built on a clear doctrine
User-initiated. Bounded. Deterministic. Integrity-first.
AuditTrace's preservation approach is event-initiated and scoped to what the user calibrates as important — not always-on monitoring. It records the decision path and system state, never employee behavior.
Scoped, authorized testing
Always-on monitoring
Event-initiated capture
Cybersecurity services
Integrity-hashed, tamper-evident
Threat detection service
Documented chain of custody
Surveillance or behavior scoring
Who uses it
When a change has to be provable.
Before maintenance
Capture state before and after a change window so you can prove what the work actually altered.
Staff departure
Preserve a clean record of system and account state around an offboarding or suspected misuse.
Suspected incident
Preserve evidence early, before volatile state is lost, so an investigator has something to work from.
Dispute readiness
A documented, hashed record that holds up when counsel or an insurer needs to rely on it.
Request preservation
Tell us the system and the event.
Describe the system in general terms, the change it is tied to, and what you need the evidence to answer later.
Prefer to start offline? Download the fillable State Preservation intake form, complete it, and email it back to contact@audittracelabs.com.
Download the State Preservation intake form (PDF)
Download the State Preservation intake form (PDF)