Compliance Stuff

FedRAMP’s 2026 rule changes are significant, but the most important thing about them is not what they require — it’s about what they signal.  The federal government is telling the cloud market that point-in-time compliance is no longer sufficient. What agencies need now is continuous visibility into whether the controls protecting federal data are actually working every day, not just at assessment time. That is the right shift and it is one that many providers are not yet ready to make. For years, FedRAMP compliance has been understood primarily as a documentation challenge consisting of system security plans, assessment packages, monthly scans, plans of action and milestones. Those elements still matter, but the new model is built around continuous evidence and not static documentation. This changes the rhythm of how cloud security will work. Evidence needs to be current and vulnerability data needs to be actionable in near-real time. Ownership of risk needs to be clearly assign...

For most of my career, enterprise trust has worked one way: you prove you’re trustworthy by writing it down. Policies, audit reports, screenshots, certifications. Produce enough paperwork showing your controls exist and work, and you’ve shown you can be trusted . That worked for a long time, for one reason: the paperwork could keep up. Software shipped a few times a year, infrastructure sat still for months, and proving you were compliant once a year was a fair stand-in for being secure the other 364 days. But the systems we govern today look very different from the ones that shaped this model. We’re auditing a photo of a moving car Today, infrastructure spins up and tears itself down automatically. Teams ship to production dozens of times a day. Models get retrained, prompts drift, agents do work people used to. Modern systems are built to move, yet most of how we prove trust still assumes they’ll hold still long enough to pose for a photo. This creates a growing challenge at the hear...