compliance-drift

Compliance drift detection identifies gaps between your declared compliance posture for frameworks like SOC 2 and GDPR and actual observed practices. It serves as an early warning system before audits by surfacing deviations, pinning rubrics, gathering evidence, and creating remediation tasks.

You can detect compliance posture deviations on-demand by running a drift check when a CLO flags an incoming audit. This initiates a targeted scan across your active frameworks to identify breaches, pin required rubrics, gather evidence, and generate remediation tasks.

You should run compliance drift checks monthly across all active frameworks, on-demand when the CLO flags an incoming audit, after incidents like secrets leaks, and quarterly when paired with portfolio audits to ensure continuous governance posture alignment.

Yes, compliance drift detection actively supports SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, and state privacy frameworks. It evaluates declared compliance postures against observed practices across these active governance frameworks to identify drift and generate remediation tasks.

Compliance drift represents an early warning deviation between declared posture and observed practice, whereas a breach constitutes an actual finding. Both drift and breach results are reported, and both trigger the creation of remediation tasks to resolve the gap.

To remediate compliance drift after an incident like a secrets leak, run an on-demand drift check to evaluate exposed controls. The system will pin rubrics, gather evidence, and automatically create remediation tasks for any detected drift or breach.