Continuous Compliance
What is Continuous Compliance?
An approach to compliance that replaces periodic point-in-time assessments with ongoing automated monitoring and evidence collection. Continuous compliance provides real-time visibility into the organisation's compliance posture.
Terms that appear alongside continuous compliance
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as continuous compliance. The number is how many controls name both.
- compliance 11 shared controls
- audit 3 shared controls
- integrity 3 shared controls
- container security 3 shared controls
- configuration management 3 shared controls
- cloud security 3 shared controls
- hardening 3 shared controls
- compliance monitoring 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern continuous compliance
What the standards actually require on continuous compliance
Requirements naming continuous compliance across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Continuous compliance monitoring, which ISO/IEC 27001 does not cover: the CSP gives customers a way to monitor compliance continuously.
mtcs-singapore::10.7 · Continuous compliance monitoring →Produce continuous compliance reports for the mobile estate covering enrollment, posture, application inventory, and exceptions.
800-124r2-8.2 · Continuous Compliance Reporting →A method is set for gathering evidence about data protection controls; evidence showing that sensitive data is protected and conforms to its classifications, handling policies and regulatory obligations is collected proactively, automatically where practicable...
edm-council-cdmc-cloud-data-management-capability-framework::4.1.2 · 4.1.2 Implementation of data security controls is evidenced →Providers must establish and document a post-market monitoring system proportionate to the nature of the AI technologies and to the risks of the high-risk AI system.
EUAI-Art.72 · Post-market monitoring by providers and post-market monitoring plan for high-risk AI systems →ISMAP Cloud Infrastructure controls cover the underlying compute + network + storage + management plane. (1) Virtual Network Segmentation: VPC Virtual Private Cloud isolation + subnets + security groups + NACLs + microsegmentation + service mesh (Istio + Linke...
ISMAP-CloudInfrastructure-NetworkSegmentation-Container-Serverless-WorkloadProtection-Hardening-ConfigManagement · ISMAP Cloud Infrastructure - VPC Network Segmentation + Container/Serverless Security + Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) + Image/Template Hardening + CIS Benchmarks + Configuration Management + IaC →Apply NIST SP 800-146 Chapter 7 IaaS operational recommendations to every IaaS service consumed. Coverage must include (a) infrastructure-as-code as the canonical provisioning method (no manual console provisioning of production), (b) base image and template h...
NISTSP146-4 · IaaS Operational Recommendations and Workload Hardening →Questions people ask about continuous compliance
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