Setting up for success - AI in security and compliance

AI has transformed industries left and right. From automating tasks, analyzing massive datasets, and streamlining complex decision-making. At first glance, compliance should be the perfect AI use case. After all, compliance is an intricate web of policies, controls, evidence, risk assessments, and more, scattered across dozens of systems and processes. AI can already generate policies, review documentation, and assess risks faster than any human. So why hasn’t AI completely revolutionized compliance?

The answer isn’t about AI’s capabilities, it’s about what AI is working with.

The three limiting factors of AI in security compliance

AI has the potential to change the game in compliance. But three fundamental challenges hold it back from fully cracking security compliance.

1. Compliance is too dispersed and AI can’t see the full picture

Compliance is an organization-wide effort scattered across many systems. Security configurations, human security practices, risk assessments and policies aren’t in one place, they’re scattered across cloud platforms, HR tools, code repositories, ticketing systems, and more. And AI? It’s only as powerful as the data it has access to. Without centralized, structured compliance data, AI is forced to operate in silos, making assumptions based on partial information. It might be great at generating or reviewing a policy document, but if it can’t see the evidence that backs it up, it’s not truly solving compliance.

How our AI-powered audits solve this
Platforms like Vanta and Drata are critical to compliance. They automatically pull data from hundreds of integrations into a structured compliance framework, providing AI with a complete, connected view of a company’s security posture. With this foundation, our AI-powered audits can go from scratching the surface to providing real compliance intelligence.

2. Compliance is a three-party relationship and AI has to work for everyone

Unlike most business processes, compliance isn’t only internal. It’s a three-way relationship between:

👤 The business (implementing compliance)
👤 The enterprise customer (relying on third-party compliance)
👤 The auditor (verifying compliance)

Even if a business uses AI for auditing, it doesn’t mean that external customers and auditors will trust or use AI themselves.

How our AI-powered audits solve this
Compliance needs a structured program that connects AI to recognized industry control frameworks. We help bridge this gap with AI-powered auditing to verify compliance with industry and enterprise standards.

3. Compliance metadata: the missing piece for AI

It’s easy to think of compliance as a set of rules that apply to every company in the same way. But in reality, compliance is dynamic and it depends on your business, industry, infrastructure, and tools.

For example, even two companies both using AWS will have completely different compliance needs if:

• One is serverless, while the other uses virtual machines
  
• One handles financial data while the other hosts public web content
  
• One operates globally while the other is regional-only
  

AI can generate security policies, but without compliance metadata and the context about how your business operates, AI can’t generate truly accurate or useful compliance programs.

How our AI-powered audits solve this
This is where we specialize. Our tools map compliance metadata, ensuring that AI-powered compliance is tailored to your exact infrastructure, tools, and regulatory requirements. This not only improves how businesses implement compliance but makes the audit process smoother, faster and more effective.

AI-powered compliance starts with the right foundation

For AI to be most effective for compliance, it needs all aspects of compliance brought together, rather than working in Silos. It needs: 

👉 A structured, integrated foundation of documents and data

👉 Auditors that work with AI

👉 Compliance metadata to align the unique aspects of your compliance

We partner with Vanta and Drata to provide the right foundation for scalable compliance. Our AI-powered audit product seamlessly integrates with these platforms, ingesting your compliance data and documents and pushing audit results back into your chosen platform. This comes with our free compliance mapping tools, ensuring your program is optimized for AI-driven security compliance and built for long-term scalability. Alongside full-scale audits, we offer our AI Compliance Accelerator Program, designed for startups looking to maximize AI in security compliance. Chat with our team today to see if this pathway is available for you!

Win more revenue, onboard enterprise customers faster, and scale compliance effortlessly. Learn more about the AI Compliance Accelerator Program.