Redefining compliance, one Excellence Award at a time. September 14, 2026 | By RegScale RegScale has been dedicated to taking the pain out of compliance for over five years. But RegScale know that organizations have been struggling with a growing regulatory burden for many more than that. RegScale understand that manual, documentation-heavy processes incur a tremendous human and business cost. And that there's a better way of doing things, with AI, automation and compliance as code lighting the way. So it's great to see its hard work validated and celebrated by the people who matter most: its customers. At Black Hat USA RegScale were delighted to be named a Cybersecurity Excellence Awards Community Choice Winner in the Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) category. It's recognition that its CCM approach is hitting home, and helping customers turn compliance from a cost of doing business into a growth and resilience advantage. The burden is real. Organizations are drowning in compliance. Regulatory mandates continue to grow and evolve. Ephemeral and dynamic cloud environments change faster than anyone can track. Stretched teams cannot hope to keep pace using existing tools and manual processes. Even if there's money to spare, there's not enough talent to sufficiently scale compliance. The burden is real. It costs money, demotivates staff, and impacts resilience. Its CCM report last year found that over half (58%) of respondents spend over 2,000 person-hours every year on evidence collection alone. Some 85% admit to delaying or scaling back important GRC activities due to resource constraints. Compliance also suffers. Over 80% say manual work causes moderate or major delays in meeting regulatory requirements. RegScale often think of manual, point-in-time compliance in terms of pushing a truck up a hill. You expend a great deal of effort to reach the top. Then what happens? Controls drift. New vulnerabilities emerge. People change roles. Pretty soon you find yourself right back at the bottom of the hill. This isn't the way compliance should be. The RegScale way. Its CCM approach is not about getting better at pushing the truck uphill, but levelling out the road. It's about understanding that things change over time, and that compliance should be treated as the foundation of an effective security program, not the finish line. The RegScale way is to empower customers to continuously gather evidence, evaluate controls and remediate failures. That way, they know the state of controls, vulnerabilities, assets, and risks at any given point in time. The audit simply becomes a validation of that knowledge, not a mad scramble for evidence that unearths more problems. Compliance as code is its not-so-secret sauce. Translating compliance requirements into executable rules means they can be managed like software, enabling automated checks and continuous monitoring to drive a virtuous compliance loop. It also means they can be built into CI/CD pipelines to prevent security and risk issues before they appear. AI lights a pathway. AI and automation play a critical role in delivering this value: streamlining workflows, explaining and assessing controls, and generating documentation. Control mapping, built on trusted SCF and CRI profiles, enables a "comply-once-satisfy-many" approach. AI and automation act as a force multiplier, helping teams apply those mappings more efficiently and reducing the burden on customers. Its AI has already helped organizations to benefit from: * A 10x boost in staff productivity * 80% improvement in accuracy * 92% less time to create new programs But RegScale don't stand still. The next evolution of AI is here, with embedded RegML agents designed to take the toil out of compliance. The result is that compliance teams spend less time on paperwork and more time on high-judgement work. Ultimately, that means more resources spent on improving security posture. AI might be accelerating threats and regulatory complexity, but it can also be a big part of the solution. The journey continues. This was the third year in a row RegScale has been privileged to be named a Cybersecurity Excellence Awards winner. It also follows a Gold Award for the Continuous Controls Monitoring category of the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, and a Gold, Best of Category for Continuous Controls Monitoring in the 2026 Globee Cybersecurity Awards. But it's not all about industry recognition. Its mission is not just to take the pain out of compliance. It's to reframe GRC completely. The truth is that organizations which rely on periodic assessments will stay reactive, resource-intensive, and increasingly exposed. CCM is a springboard to something better. It helps teams to cut governance debt, accelerate compliance, adopt AI safely, and build true business resilience. To find out how your organization could benefit from this fresh approach to GRC, book a demo today. 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How RegScale earned CMMC Level 2 by operating securely 90% faster. September 1, 2026 | By Dale Hoak When its security team set out to earn the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2, RegScale made one early decision that would shape everything: RegScale would not treat the assessment as a project. RegScale would let its security program speak for itself. A resilient program should do more than pass an assessment. It should continuously prove that its controls work. That belief is why I can share that RegScale is now CMMC Level 2 certified (requires a CAC/PIV to login) with 110 of 110 requirements met and zero POA&M items. Why RegScale pursued Level 2 after the pause. Even after the Department of War (DoW) paused CMMC Phase 2 implementation, RegScale chose to continue. Earning the trust of defense customers is not something I want to defer to a timeline that may shift again. CMMC Level 2 sets a high bar: 110 security requirements aligned with NIST SP 800-171, validated through an independent assessment by a Certified Third-Party Assessment Organization. If RegScale expect its customers to hold that line, RegScale should hold it ourselves first. RegScale did not prepare for an audit. RegScale operated. Most organizations approach CMMC as an evidence-collection sprint. They stand up a project, bring in outside readiness consultants, and reconstruct a point-in-time snapshot of their controls. RegScale built its program the other way around. Leveraging its own RegScale Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) platform, the security team monitored controls continuously, and RegScale collected evidence as a by-product of normal operations, from its delivery pipeline through production. When A-LIGN assessed RegScale, the proof was already there. RegScale did not have to go find it, repackage it, or rebuild it. What continuous assurance looked like under assessment. The results tell the story. RegScale met 110 of 110 security requirements and all 14 CMMC domains across 320 assessment objectives, with zero POA&M items. As a security leader, the most telling number is 76%. Of the 25 follow-up items the assessors raised, 19 were resolved live, while the assessor was still on the call, because the evidence and control context were already connected and available in the RegScale platform. Its documentation stayed alive throughout. 14 controls moved from N/A to Fully Implemented with revised SSP statements during the sessions, and its SSP implementation statements were 100% complete at close. That is the difference between a static compliance package and a living compliance system. The economics of operating this way. There is a cost argument here that security leaders will appreciate. The DoW models 286 hours of combined internal and external effort for a small entity to prepare for and support a Level 2 assessment. RegScale used 28 hours, roughly 90% less, and RegScale used no outside readiness consultant. I want to be precise on why. RegScale were able to shrink the preparation and support burden around the assessment because the security program was already doing that work every day with its own RegScale CCM platform. Compliance as a by-product of security. This is the philosophy RegScale build into its platform, and the one I would offer to any CISO: security operations should produce compliance evidence as a by-product, not as a separate project. When controls are monitored continuously and evidence is generated as part of normal operations, an assessment becomes validation of an existing posture rather than a scramble to reconstruct one. CMMC did not change how RegScale operate. It confirmed that operating securely and continuously produces compliance as the outcome. Its security program has evolved on purpose. CMMC Level 2 is another stepping stone in a deliberate climb, not a one-off certification, and proof of why CCM promotes good security. In the past few years, RegScale earned ISO 27001 in under 30 days, using its own platform. RegScale also became FedRAMP Class D (High) certified with agency sponsorship from the Department of Homeland Security. Now CMMC Level 2. Each standard is more demanding than the last, and RegScale pursued them on purpose because its customers operate under exactly these pressures, and they should see RegScale living them first. Here is the part I am proudest of. RegScale earned every one of these certifications by leveraging its own platform. The continuous controls monitoring, the compliance-as-code architecture, and the AI-driven evidence collection RegScale build for its customers are the same machinery RegScale use to meet these standards ourselves. Its security program compounds. Every certification makes the next one faster because the controls, evidence, and discipline are already in place. That is what a maturing security program looks like, and it is why I can stand behind its platform without hesitation: RegScale run its own company on it. What this means going forward. The commitment behind all of this is simple: prove it, continuously. If you are a security leader staring down CMMC, my advice is just as simple. Stop preparing for the audit and start operating the program that makes the audit a formality. To see what continuous controls monitoring looks like in practice, book a demo here. Ready to get started? Choose the path that is right for you! Skip the line. My organization doesn't have GRC tools yet and I am ready to start automating my compliance with continuous monitoring pipelines now. Supercharge. My organization already has legacy compliance software, but I want to automate many of the manual processes that feed it.