Continuous Assurance and Compliance Automation are essential components for establishing trustworthiness and building confidence in transactions, ensuring organizations achieve their mission goals while managing risks and remaining compliant with laws, regulations, and standards. Assurance, governance, and risk management play crucial roles in measuring and maintaining trust, where cyber assurance is driven by data and evidence-based practices following Zero Trust principles. Measuring and monitoring control performance, evaluating system effectiveness, and addressing compliance challenges become more manageable through automation and standardization
Modernizing the approach to assurance and compliance requires common control languages, machine-readable controls, clear metrics, and regulated entities to align with global regulations efficiently. The use of machine-readable formats, metrics development, and assessment alignment offer opportunities for improved compliance and assurance levels, aiding in risk quantification, resource allocation, effective governance, and operational management. ```https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/the-need-for-continuous-assurance-and-compliance-automation