Regulatory and compliance demands continue to intensify. For organisations operating in complex digital environments, maintaining compliance is no longer a periodic exercise but an ongoing operational requirement. Continuous monitoring and assessment are now essential to maintaining security, resilience, and trust. Without them, risk accumulates quietly across revenue, reputation, and regulatory exposure.
Every compliance framework, regardless of scope or geography, depends on one foundational capability: a clear and current understanding of the IT estate. Without accurate visibility of assets and configurations, compliance becomes difficult to evidence and even harder to sustain. Simply put, you cannot verify what you cannot see.
Every compliance framework depends on one foundational capability: a clear and current understanding of the IT estate.
This challenge is becoming more pronounced. New regulations are emerging while existing directives expand in reach and enforcement. For organisations operating across regions, aligning with frameworks such as DORA, NIS2, GDPR, PCI Compliance and the EU AI Act requires continuous adjustment rather than one-time certification. The margin for error is narrowing.
Despite this, many organisations still lack a complete, integrated view of their environments. Flexera reports that only 43% of IT professionals believe their organisation has full visibility across its IT estate and its impact on business outcomes, down from the previous year. Visibility gaps are not improving; they are widening.
Why Compliance Readiness Falls Short
The causes are largely structural. Legacy tools, fragmented platforms, and siloed operational models make it difficult to maintain consistent oversight. These constraints reduce visibility, complicate compliance, and weaken service resilience.
As environments evolve, assets are added or changed without clear ownership. Configuration drift goes unnoticed. Responsibility is spread across teams and vendors with limited coordination. Over time, vulnerabilities and compliance gaps emerge, often only becoming visible after an incident or regulatory review.
Manual approaches struggle to keep pace with this level of complexity. When engineers are required to gather logs, reconcile data sources, and manually validate controls, effort increases without delivering durable assurance. Compliance becomes reactive, consuming time without reducing risk.
At the same time, adversaries are increasingly using AI to identify and exploit weaknesses at speed. This shifts the balance further. Organisations need compliance processes that operate continuously and adapt as quickly as the environments they are designed to protect.
Applying Agentic AIOps to Regulatory Compliance
Agentic AIOps offers a practical way to address these challenges by embedding compliance into day-to-day operations.
Systal’s SAM (Secure AI Manager) automates the assessment of IT infrastructure against relevant regulatory and organisational standards in near real time. Rather than relying on periodic reviews, compliance is continuously measured and maintained.
SAM maps infrastructure to applicable frameworks, providing clear visibility and targeted remediation guidance. It supports a broad range of standards, including DORA, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI, NIS2, and ICO requirements, alongside organisation-specific policies. This allows compliance to be managed consistently across regions and multivendor environments.
By combining automation, continuous monitoring, and historical context, SAM evaluates environments daily, reducing manual effort and supporting more reliable compliance outcomes as regulatory requirements evolve.
What This Looks Like in the Real World
This approach is already being applied in multivendor operational environments. In a recent global manufacturing engagement, SAM was used to assess more than 4,600 firewall rules against defined compliance standards.
SAM was used to assess more than 4,600 firewall rules against defined compliance standards. More than 98% of the effort was automated.
The assessment was completed in under two weeks, replacing a manual process that would have taken several months. More than 98% of the effort was automated, allowing engineering teams to focus on oversight and remediation rather than manual review.
Find Out More
To learn how SAM delivers visibility while strengthening security, resilience, and compliance at scale, download our blueprint for SAM applying Agentic AIOps to regulatory compliance in complex, multi-vendor environments: Applying Agentic AIOps to Regulatory Compliance – Systal SAM
