Four industry overlays. No generic checklist.
Each overlay opens with sector-specific risks, high-scrutiny controls, evidence scaffolding, and auditor-focused prompts - so teams start from a working baseline, not a blank page.
AFEND helps teams move faster by loading the controls, evidence expectations, and risk language their auditors will actually care about. Less setup. Less guesswork. Better readiness from the start.
All four industries
Overlay
SaaS
Built for cloud-native teams facing enterprise security reviews.
Pre-loaded for tenant isolation, secret handling, backup discipline, OSS risk, and audit evidence.
What ships pre-loaded
- Cloud misconfiguration and secret leakage
- Multi-tenant data isolation
- OSS supply-chain visibility
- Backup and restore discipline (real restores, not just backups)
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Financial Services
Built for regulated operators under active scrutiny.
Pre-loaded for privileged access, segregation of duties, transaction evidence, resilience, and provider governance.
What ships pre-loaded
- Privileged access and segregation of duties
- Trading and payment system continuity + failover
- Transaction logging and dispute evidence
- Liquidity and payment provider governance
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iGaming
Built for operators and vendors working across licensing and player-risk obligations.
Pre-loaded for player data protection, fraud controls, KYC/AML evidence, and vendor oversight.
What ships pre-loaded
- Player PII and deposit history protection
- Payment fraud and bonus abuse monitoring
- Platform provider and studio governance
- KYC, AML, and responsible gambling obligations
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IT Services / MSP / Cloud
Built for service firms selling into security-sensitive clients.
Pre-loaded for multi-client access control, change management, asset visibility, and contractual security evidence.
What ships pre-loaded
- Multi-client data isolation and least-privilege access
- Formalising an SDLC and change management without slowing delivery
- Asset inventory and shadow IT cleanup
- Client contract security clauses and SLAs
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Generic content is slow. Industry content is useful.
Every AFEND overlay is built from three inputs: the controls we see auditors press on for this vertical, the evidence customers repeatedly have to produce, and the mistakes we watch teams repeat. That work is done once, so every new workspace starts from a better baseline than a blank page offers.
Start from content, not a blank SoA.
Pick an industry at setup and the risk library, high-scrutiny controls, and evidence scaffolding are already in the workspace. The first decision you make is always more valuable than the first decision about which decisions to make.
Auditor prompts your team will actually hear.
Auditors don't ask generic questions. Financial-services auditors want the dual-approval log; SaaS auditors want the secret-rotation cadence. Each overlay ships with the real opening prompts, not clause citations.
A clearer path to readiness.
Less setup. Less guesswork. The controls, evidence expectations, and risk language your auditors will care about are loaded on day one, so the team can focus on decisions that move the programme forward.
What actually lives inside an overlay.
Same structure across all four industries; the content inside is what changes.
- Sector risk library
- Industry-specific risks pre-seeded into the risk register with likelihood × impact defaults mapped to Annex A controls. Accept, tweak, or dismiss; AFEND records the reasoning either way.
- High-scrutiny Annex A controls
- Six controls per overlay flagged as 'audit will press on this' with a sector-specific 'why it matters here' note. These move to the top of the SoA approval queue.
- Evidence scaffolding
- Specific evidence artefacts per vertical (restore-from-backup record, privileged-action log, vendor attestation set, etc.) with the review cadence each expects.
- Auditor focus brief
- Real questions an external auditor opens the Stage 1 interview with - in your vertical's vocabulary, not clause wording.
- Sector pitfalls + fixes
- The anti-patterns AFEND sees teams repeat, paired with the fix that actually closes them. Written by people who have walked programmes through audit.
- FAQ that sells internally
- Pre-answered buyer questions you can copy into an internal brief when a CFO or CTO asks 'do we actually need this?'.
Open a workspace with the overlay you need already loaded.
14-day trial, no credit card. Choose an industry at setup and the risk library, high-scrutiny controls, and evidence scaffolding appear in the workspace the moment it provisions.