Gartner® Market Guide

65% of Organizations Will Automate Compliance by 2028. Are You Ready?

Compliance is no longer a periodic checkpoint — it’s becoming a continuous, automated output of the software delivery process itself. In our opinion, the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for DevOps Continuous Compliance Automation Tools makes the case clearly: AI, compliance-as-code, and DevOps pipeline integration aren’t emerging ideas. They’re the direction the entire market is moving. Heads of I&O, CISOs, and GRC teams should download this report to understand:

  • Why DevOps pipelines are becoming the authoritative control point for compliance enforcement
  • How OSCAL and compliance-as-code are making regulatory requirements machine-readable and continuously auditable
  • How AI agents are replacing manual compliance work — from policy generation to real-time remediation

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The report shares:

By 2028, 65% of organizations will have integrated compliance automation into their DevOps workflows, reducing compliance risk and improving lead time by at least 25% — and 75% of all DevOps continuous compliance automation processes will leverage AI technology to drive efficiencies in auditing, reporting, validating, and remediating regulatory compliance.

– Gartner Market Guide for DevOps Continuous Compliance Automation Tools, 2 March 2026

Gartner, Market Guide for DevOps Continuous Compliance Automation Tools, Daniel Betts, George Spafford, Chris Saunderson, Hassan Ennaciri, 2 March 2026

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