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This distinction is critical and affects how audits should be conducted to assess compliance. In addition, it allows the means by which they are met to improve and mature over time which is recommended Whereas, the previous approach is a remnant of prescriptive-based compliance focused on audits where

Prevention over Mitigation Feed-forward control over Feed-back control Evaluate / improve cycles over Audit

Optimize for Actual Value : Regularly audit your digital systems to identify over-processing, unnecessary

Audits, obligation registers, controls, risk measures, training; none of these by themselves is enough

This is usually performed by an external auditor or certification body. emissions by 2050 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Objectives Plant Manager Environmental Specialist Plant Managers / Supervisors Audit

No wonder the reactive approach to compliance based on audit-fix cycles as the primary driver for improvement

/ external inspections Internal / external reporting Internal / external issues Internal / external audit

Additional Considerations: Tailor the outline to your specific industry, regulations, and compliance Current State Assessment: Recent internal audits identified vulnerabilities in data access controls and

Unfortunately, for many organizations, compliance is seen only as one part that is "internal audit."

their systems learn and evolve, while engineered design provides verifiable compliance and defensible audit

to be the case for Compliance 1 which thinks of compliance in terms of passing a boundary (e.g. an audit compliance requires educating stakeholders who are assumed to have a “bounded-set” mindset which creates additional In addition, without structure and discipline these initiatives are often poorly managed which also contributes

To keep up at the speed that risk becomes a reality companies cannot wait for audit findings to make