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Compliance has always been a pain point for engineering teams—tedious, expensive, and often disconnected from real-time security practices. Shrav discusses the shift away from that model—toward continuous, automated compliance. The change is especially urgent in the federal space, where complexity, scale, and national security implications make traditional approaches increasingly untenable.
With a background in engineering and product development, Shrav mentions how outdated the compliance process used to be—even as recently as a few years ago. Security certifications like SOC 2 or HIPAA often took a year to complete. Many organizations were stuck maintaining compliance through screenshots, spreadsheets, and sampling audits that left room for blind spots. For large environments running hundreds of services, that’s not just inefficient—it’s dangerous.
While still in early stages, the move toward automation in federal compliance is now underway. Rather than mandating a top-down framework, federal leadership is encouraging open standards shaped by industry collaboration. That means shared discussions, public code repositories and a new mindset around compliance as real-time, not quarterly or annual. It’s clear that this isn’t just a logistical improvement—it’s imperative to national security. Federal agencies rely on software that must be hardened and continuously monitored — sampling methodologies miss things, attackers don’t. With cloud services expanding across regions and providers, manually checking for misconfigurations or open ports is not viable. The only realistic path forward is automation, with humans managing and validating the systems that do the heavy lifting.
As security frameworks grow in number and complexity worldwide, continuous compliance is no longer a luxury or trend. It’s a foundational necessity for organizations that want to stay secure, meet regulatory demands and operate with confidence in a high-stakes threat environment.
