Compliance automation
Using automation to enforce regulatory requirements continuously rather than relying on periodic manual audits. Examples: automatically archiving email communications for FCA compliance, enforcing GDPR deletion schedules, and generating SOC 2 audit evidence.
Expert insight
Compliance automation reduces manual effort but doesn't reduce accountability, the business is still responsible for the outcome even when a workflow executes the compliance check, which means compliance automations need their own audit trail and periodic human review, not "set and forget" trust.
In a real workflow
Policy acknowledgements, training renewals and access reviews are tracked with reminders and evidence logs.
Common mistakes
- Automating the reminder but not the evidence.
- No review of changing regulations.
Complexity level
Requires some familiarity with automation concepts.
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