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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.

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.

What the standards actually require on continuous compliance

Requirements naming continuous compliance across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Produce continuous compliance reports for the mobile estate covering enrollment, posture, application inventory, and exceptions.

800-124r2-8.2 · Continuous Compliance Reporting

Violations of ARS Title 49 air quality provisions, permit conditions, or orders are subject to civil penalties up to $10,000 per day per violation under ARS 49-463. The attorney general pursues civil penalty recovery through superior court.

az-aq-adeq::49-463-penalties · Civil Penalties and Enforcement Actions
EU AI Act1 control

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 (Japan)1 control

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

Implement Logging and Monitoring + Compliance and Audit + Cloud Configuration Management + Cloud Security Monitoring + SLA Management per MTCS SS 584.

MTCS-Logging-Monitoring-Compliance-Audit-SLA-Configuration-SIEM-SOAR-Cloud-Monitoring-CSPM · MTCS Logging + Monitoring + Compliance + Audit + SLA + Configuration + SIEM + SOAR + CSPM

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

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.
Why is Continuous Compliance important for compliance?
Continuous Compliance is a key concept in Compliance. Understanding continuous compliance helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Continuous Compliance?
Continuous Compliance appears in the requirement text of NIST SP 800-124 Revision 2 - Guidelines for Managing the Security of Mobile Devices, Arizona Air Quality Regulations (ADEQ / ARS Title 49 / AAC Title 18 Chapter 2), EU AI Act, ISMAP (Japan), MTCS (Singapore). Across these standards we have identified 6 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Continuous Compliance?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how continuous compliance applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Continuous Compliance applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.