FEATURE
Modern regulations are making that lack of visibility harder to ignore. NIS2, for instance, requires covered organisations to address cybersecurity risks within their supply chains and supplier relationships, while DORA establishes specific requirements for managing ICT thirdparty risk in financial services. AlgoSec’ s research also revealed that 65 % of security teams believe third-party and supply chain risk management requires significant improvement, suggesting that regulatory expectations are advancing faster than many organisations’ ability to meet them. Vendor inventories, contracts and periodic assessments remain important, but they only describe the relationship on paper. Continuous compliance requires application-level visibility into how external services connect to the business, what access they have, which controls govern those connections and how dependencies change over time.
It turns governance into part of the organisation’ s everyday operating model. When policies are enforced consistently, changes are validated before deployment, drift is identified early and evidence is generated automatically, teams can move faster with greater confidence and remain prepared for scrutiny at any moment. Put simply, continuous evidence of control keeps compliance aligned with the environment as it changes. x
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