FEATURE evidence of good intentions increasingly inadequate. That pressure is now being reflected in business priorities. According to an Information Systems Audit and Control Association( ISACA) survey published in 2025, 66 % of businesses now regard regulatory compliance as a major priority, closely followed by business continuity and resilience at 62 %. Organisations are beginning to realise that they need to start thinking beyond the next audit.
Why‘ point-in-time’ compliance is breaking down
Traditional compliance models were built around infrastructure that changed slowly enough to be inspected at fixed intervals, so day-to-day checks were never really an issue. In the age of hybrid infrastructure, however, things look a little different. Cloud deployment pipelines, infrastructure-ascode updates, container orchestration and vendor-managed services have introduced a near-constant stream of changes, each of which can alter an organisation’ s security and compliance posture from one hour to the next.
The structure of modern applications makes this especially difficult. A single business service might combine a public cloud front end, an on-premises database, authentication delivered through a SaaS provider and connections to several thirdparty APIs. Different teams may own each component, apply different controls and work through different management platforms. Every team can follow its own procedures correctly while gaps emerge between them, particularly where application traffic crosses environments or depends on infrastructure nobody can
Gal Yosef, Regional SE Director at AlgoSec www. intelligentcxo. com
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