How to Simplify the Shift to Continuous ATO

Your developers ship with AI agents. Your pipelines deploy through DevSecOps. Your infrastructure scales in the cloud. Then the ATO process stops everything cold, still running on spreadsheets and point-in-time snapshots that are out of date the moment they are signed.

What if authorization could move as fast as everything else?

In this interview, GovLoop and RegScale break down how agencies are trading periodic, manual ATO for continuous authorization. See how a compliance-as-code approach built on OSCAL turns Risk Management Framework controls into real-time, machine-readable monitoring, so systems stay secure and compliant as they change, not just on the day they are assessed.

What you’ll learn:

• How to use OSCAL to assess security in real time
• How to enforce cyber policy in real time
• The emerging role of AI agents in continuous authorization

Walk away knowing what cATO actually takes to implement, why real-time monitoring beats a point-in-time snapshot on both security and speed, and how compliance-as-code keeps authorization moving at mission speed.