What’s more useful to your organization: understanding your compliance posture today or where you stood six months ago? Drata’s Alev Viggio talks about the business enabler that is continuous compliance.
Imagine a home security system, complete with smart locks. Now imagine you leave your house to go to work but can’t remember whether you locked the front door. You query the app, and it cheerfully responds that you locked the front door six months ago. Is the information accurate? Sure. Is it helpful? Absolutely not.
In the security and compliance world, information becomes obsolete quickly. It doesn’t matter that you locked your door six months ago — it matters whether your door is locked right now. Why, then, are so many organizations satisfied with periodic audits and point-in-time snapshots when it comes to compliance?
Recent research conducted by Drata revealed that just 40% of organizations review the status of their compliance controls continuously and in real time, while just 2% have reached complete continuous, automated compliance. Today that just isn’t good enough. It can cost organizations business and expose them to regulatory penalties — not to mention it may leave them at risk for an attack.
