compliance-as-code
Compliance as Code
The traditional audit is a controlled panic: weeks of screenshotting console settings, chasing down who approved what, and hoping nothing changed between the evidence snapshot and the actual audit date. That process proves compliance at one instant in time and says nothing about the other 364 days of the year — which is exactly when the control usually drifts.
Compliance as code expresses each control as a check that runs continuously against real infrastructure, producing evidence as a byproduct of normal operation instead of a special one- time effort. The audit stops being an event you prepare for and becomes a report you already have.
If proving a control holds requires a human to go look, the control isn't actually enforced — it's hoped for.