Even with the many challenges of managing today's complex IT environment, it's possible to achieve continuous compliance through proper organization, thorough processes and technology automation.
A Healthy Compliance Posture
Like a binge diet that only results in short-term weight loss, it's not unusual for an enterprise to intensively align its policies to pass a specific audit, and then go back to its normal workflow after the audit. Not only is this a resource-intensive approach, but it fails to improve security and validate the true nature of compliance. A better approach is to maintain continuous compliance with the overall security policy so that enterprise IT remains compliant and is ready any time for an audit.