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Compliance Automation

Automate regulatory reporting and compliance checks. Manual compliance is time-consuming and error-prone. Automation ensures continuous monitoring and reduces audit preparation time.

What Is Compliance Automation?

Compliance automation uses software tools and workflows to continuously monitor, document, and report on regulatory compliance requirements. For AI systems, this includes automated checks for data privacy, security controls, model governance, and industry-specific regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001.

Automation replaces manual spreadsheet tracking and periodic reviews with real-time monitoring, automated evidence collection, and continuous compliance validation.

Why It Matters

Reduce Audit Preparation Time

Automatically collect evidence and generate reports instead of scrambling before audits.

Catch Issues Early

Continuous monitoring identifies compliance gaps before they become violations or findings.

Scale Compliance Efforts

Monitor hundreds of controls across multiple AI systems without adding compliance headcount.

Improve Accuracy

Eliminate human error in evidence collection and reporting with automated processes.

Use Cases

Automated Evidence Collection

Continuously capture logs, screenshots, and configuration data required for audit evidence.

Policy Compliance Checks

Automatically verify systems meet security policies like encryption, access controls, and patch management.

Regulatory Reporting

Generate compliance reports for GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and other regulations on demand.

Risk Assessments

Automate periodic risk assessments and track remediation of identified issues.

Vendor Compliance

Monitor third-party AI providers for compliance with your security and privacy requirements.

Continuous Control Monitoring

Real-time validation that security controls remain effective across all AI systems.

Maturity Levels

Not Started / Planning

Manual compliance tracking in spreadsheets. Evidence collected only during audit preparation. Reactive approach to compliance.

In Progress / Partial

Some automated checks in place for common controls. Periodic automated reporting. Manual evidence collection still required for many requirements.

Mature / Complete

Comprehensive compliance automation across all AI systems. Continuous monitoring and evidence collection. Automated reporting for multiple frameworks. Integration with security tools and audit platforms. Self-service compliance dashboards for stakeholders.

How to Get Started

  1. 1.
    Map Compliance Requirements: Document all regulatory and internal compliance requirements for AI systems.
  2. 2.
    Select Automation Platform: Choose compliance tools that integrate with your existing security and AI infrastructure.
  3. 3.
    Automate High-Volume Checks: Start with controls that require frequent validation like access reviews and configuration checks.
  4. 4.
    Implement Evidence Collection: Set up automated capture of logs, screenshots, and artifacts required for audits.
  5. 5.
    Build Compliance Dashboard: Create real-time visibility into compliance status for leadership and auditors.

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