Sicura + RegScale: Automating Infrastructure Security and Compliance

Threats are evolving at exponential rates. Securing your environment manually doesn’t scale and leaves your valuable data vulnerable. The only way to keep up with monitoring and remediation of dynamic endpoints and workloads to prevent configuration drift, protect against the latest threats, and eliminate alert fatigue and human error is through automation.  

It’s not just security that has to evolve. As your security posture adapts to new threats, compliance and risk need to know what’s changed and why, to provide the most accurate picture to executive leadership teams and auditors. From NIST and SOC 2 to PCI-DSS and FedRAMP, compliance mandates touch every part of the enterprise—IT, product, security, and beyond.  

Continuous Compliance Automation (CCA) is a rapidly growing market helping organizations automatically monitor and enforce internal policies and regulations in real-time. With the help of CCA technology from companies like RegScale, mentioned for the third year in a row in Gartner’s 2025 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for I&O Automation*, compliance and risk management has become a seamless part of the Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) and DevOps process.  

This blog explores the drivers and challenges behind automating infrastructure security and compliance. It also provides actionable advice for organizations seeking to automate and bridge security, risk, and compliance with RegScale and Sicura. 

Challenges to Automation: Organizational Quicksand

Automating infrastructure security and compliance is easier said than done — especially because departments are often siloed and at odds. Development wants to move quickly, security is seen as a speed bump, and compliance is treated as a checkbox documentation exercise that benefits almost no one. This leads to gaps in policy and operational reality, which in turn can expose the organization to threats and regulatory recrimination.  

The disconnect stems from several factors, including:  

• High audit fatigue from repeated evidence collection and lack of reuse. 
• Slow responsiveness to new frameworks or policy changes. 
• Lack of SME involvement leading to misaligned rules and potential security and risk issues. 
• Manual reporting that slows down fast-moving development and business cycles. 

There are also technical hurdles to overcome, i.e.: 

• Integration complexity: Not all systems have available or mature APIs. 
• Toolchain readiness: DCCA requires secure, change-managed pipelines and disciplined DevOps processes. 
• Disjointed tooling: There’s often a lack of integrations across security, IT, and DevOps systems. 
• DevOps acceleration: Continuous delivery demands continuous compliance, and manual controls simply can’t keep up.  

Because of these challenges, automating infrastructure security and implementing Continuous Compliance Automation remains an obstacle for even well-resourced teams. Ultimately, it requires not just the right tooling but also the right culture, process, and stakeholder alignment. 

Sicura + RegScale Makes Automation Easy 

Sicura is a security and compliance platform that enforces and remediates technical security controls, bridges the gap between security and engineering teams, and puts a stop to manual fixes of misconfigurations, driving automated security remediation across the OS and up the stack.  

The partnership between Sicura and RegScale offers an easier way to introduce automation. With RegScale automating compliance and Sicura enforcing security in real time, organizations gain a closed-loop system for continuous security and compliance. This ensures: 

• Faster regulatory approvals (ATO, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX, etc.) 
• Lower compliance costs through automation 
• Real-time risk visibility & security enforcement 
• Seamless integration into DevSecOps workflows 

Compliance doesn’t have to slow down innovation — it can accelerate it. By introducing AI and intelligent automation into your processes, CCA not only reduces overhead but also becomes a driver of business agility, stakeholder confidence, and stronger security and compliance. 

Specifically, the RegScale-Sicura collaboration offers: 

• AI-assisted compliance mapping: Intelligent mapping of frameworks to controls, reducing manual interpretation. 
• Automated evidence collection: Ingest artifacts from security, IT, and cloud tools with context-aware matching. 
• Integration with DevOps pipelines: Embed controls in CI/CD workflows with real-time policy enforcement. 
• Real-time dashboards and reporting: For audit readiness, board reporting, and proactive remediation. 

The future of GRC is real-time, risk-informed, and developer-integrated. The future is Continuous Compliance Automation.  

Replacing outdated, manual compliance processes with an automated, continuous approach, RegScale and Sicura enable highly regulated organizations to stay ahead of evolving threats and compliance demands, fueling innovation and growth for the future.