RegScale has been named a Sample Vendor in the Cybersecurity Continuous Compliance Automation category of the new Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for AI Governance Technologies, 2026. While Gartner has tracked AI governance for some time, this is the first time it has published a dedicated Hype Cycle report on the topic. We feel that this speaks to the growing impact that AI systems are having on organizations in general and the GRC space in particular.
We believe the report by Priya Sundararaman, Lauren Kornutick, Sumit Agarwal and Svetlana Sicular adds extra weight to our Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) message, by describing the many drivers and key business impacts associated with this approach. It’s a model which customers can use to manage risk and compliance across their AI and wider technology stack.
Only Gartner subscribers can access the full report, but our main takeaways are below.
C3A and CCM
Gartner defines Cybersecurity Continuous Compliance Automation (C3A) as tools that assist cybersecurity leaders in streamlining compliance audit and certification processes with selected standards and regulations, offering capabilities such as integrations with multiple IT and cybersecurity tools, automated evidence gathering and often complete support of external audit and certification processes.
In our opinion, this maps extremely closely to the CCM approach pioneered by RegScale. RegScale empowers organizations to automatically monitor and evaluate their security controls and compliance processes in real time, correcting compliance drift where necessary. The platform does this by integrating with third-party IT and security tools; using automation to streamline evidence collection and trigger workflows; and harnessing AI to generate documentation, explain controls, identify controls gaps and recommend remediation.
We believe that C3A is built for a GRC world of complexity and volume. Of proliferating regulatory mandates that seem to touch every part of an organization, many of which have overlapping requirements. And IT complexity that grows with each new digital investment. Those investments are non-negotiable in a world where every organization is striving to do more with less, create new customer experiences, enter new markets and make the most of their in-house talent. But resulting compliance risk must be managed.
Gartner summarizes the business impact of C3A as reducing the risk of penalties by increasing visibility into control gaps that can be managed dynamically, facilitating ongoing compliance monitoring and audit readiness, improving compliance precision while freeing resources for other tasks and reducing the need for manual intervention by risk analysts and auditors.
We believe these also describe well the value that RegScale delivers. Additionally, our approach can help to reduce compliance cost, complexity and effort by mapping controls across multiple frameworks simultaneously. Transitioning from static compliance to a continuously managed effort also drives genuine improvements in operational security which can help to reduce breach risks.
RegScale Takes C3A to the Next Level
RegScale’s AI engine RegML is a key part of our approach. Among other things, it helps organizations by auto-generating compliance documents, demystifying technical controls for users and identifying controls gaps and recommending improvements. It also drives control mapping across 250+ frameworks, ensuring new requirements can be easily absorbed to reduce cost and effort.
Now we’re adding agentic capabilities to supercharge GRC. These help customers by:
- Generating assessment questions to check whether controls are working
- Drafting assessment tests to measure whether controls are working effectively
- Producing Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) to accelerate remediation
- Recommending existing controls to mitigate identified risks via a Risk Control Mapper
- Drafting mitigation plans based on the Risk Control Mapper
- Reviewing and scoring completed questionnaires and providing feedback
Because they work autonomously, these agents can free your smartest people to perform only high-judgment work, while saving costs, improving efficiency and eliminating human error and rework elsewhere.
Next Steps from Gartner
Organizations wanting to take the next steps towards full C3A implementation have this advice from Gartner: identify compliance requirements to determine where C3A can help streamline and improve the compliance and auditing process; evaluate the potential benefits of deploying a C3A tool, considering its capability to integrate with existing systems and automate tasks such as monitoring or evidence collection; and assign responsibilities for managing compliance, including reviewing and uploading evidence where it is not fully automated.
We believe the same actions would be a great start for any organization looking to adopt a CCM approach.
The Benefits Are Clear
Gartner assesses the maturity of C3A as emerging, yet says the benefit rating of the category is high, meaning it enables new ways of performing horizontal or vertical processes that will result in significantly increased revenue or cost savings for an enterprise.
Gartner also describes the potential financial benefits elsewhere in the report, with a strategic planning assumption that by 2028, governance technologies will decrease regulatory compliance costs by 70%, enabling 10% more investment in strategic growth initiatives.
Therefore, for the vast majority of organizations yet to embrace C3A, we believe the opportunity is clear. Modernize compliance with a continuous approach that reduces risk, enhances efficiency and improves audit readiness. RegScale is ready to turn that vision into reality.
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This post originally appeared on RegScale.com, and is re-published with permission.
Gartner, Hype Cycle™ for AI Governance Technologies, 2026, Priya Sundararaman, Lauren Kornutick, Sumit Agarwal, Svetlana Sicular, 7 August 2026.
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