RealCISO adds continuous compliance checks across major cloud and identity platforms

RealCISO launched continuous GRC and compliance integrations that pull live evidence from AWS, Azure, GCP, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Okta every 4 to 24 hours. The rollout can automatically cover up to 60% of a security assessment and is aimed at replacing manual audit prep with continuously refreshed evidence.

Why it matters: - RealCISO is trying to turn compliance from a point-in-time paperwork exercise into a live control-monitoring workflow. - The integrations can automatically evidence up to 60% of RealCISO’s security assessment library without customers uploading documents. - In technical areas such as access control, platform security and monitoring, automated coverage reaches 80% to 96%.

What happened: - RealCISO announced continuous compliance integrations across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Okta. - The company said customers can connect those systems to get continuously refreshed audit evidence tied to the frameworks they are accountable to. - Continuous compliance is available now to RealCISO customers in the beta program. - Organizations can view live findings against their own environment by connecting an integration inside the platform.

The details: - The release uses evidence collectors that query more than 200 live data sources and generate more than 300 automated pass/fail findings. - Each collector pulls configuration from a connected system every 4 to 24 hours and stores a point-in-time snapshot as audit evidence. - Each finding evaluates that snapshot against a specific compliance check and maps the result to assessment questions and frameworks. - The system can check items such as whether all S3 buckets are encrypted. - Azure coverage at launch includes VMs, storage, SQL, Key Vault, networking, RBAC, backup, Defender, AKS and Cosmos DB. - AWS coverage at launch includes IAM, S3, EC2, RDS, KMS, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Secrets Manager, backup and security alerting. - Google Cloud coverage at launch includes IAM, Cloud SQL, GKE, KMS, firewall, logging and alerting, DNS, API keys and service accounts. - Microsoft 365 coverage at launch includes Entra ID identity and MFA, conditional access, privileged roles, SharePoint sharing, access reviews and device registration. - Google Workspace coverage at launch includes admin roles, 2SV/MFA, Drive external sharing, Gmail security, group governance and SSO. - Okta coverage at launch includes MFA enforcement, password and session policy, SSO coverage, network zones, device and access review. - Entra ID identity coverage through MFA, conditional access and privileged roles comes through either a Microsoft 365 or Azure connection. - RealCISO said additional integrations are in active development, including mobile device management, endpoint detection and response, version control systems, task trackers, HRIS, security awareness training and vulnerability scanners. - Brian Haugli, RealCISO co-founder, said compliance evidence has long been assembled as screenshots and spreadsheets before an audit. - Haugli said connecting cloud and identity systems lets RealCISO check the actual configuration every few hours and map results to customer frameworks. - RealCISO said the platform supports frameworks including NIST CSF, SOC 2 and ISO 27001. - RealCISO describes itself as a compliance intelligence platform for security leaders, consultants and managed service providers. - RealCISO’s website is realciso.io.

Between the lines: - The launch targets the most repetitive parts of audit preparation, especially evidence collection from systems companies already use. - By focusing on live configuration data, RealCISO is positioning compliance as an ongoing control check rather than a periodic review. - The beta-only rollout suggests the company is still validating the product in customer environments before a broader release.

What’s next: - RealCISO said more integration categories are coming soon. - The company plans to expand into endpoint, device, workflow and training systems that often feed compliance evidence. - Customers in the beta program can start connecting integrations now to see live findings in the platform.

The bottom line: - RealCISO is betting that continuous evidence collection will cut audit prep time and give security teams more time to fix control gaps instead of compiling documents.