It’s 9:00 AM on a Monday. The notification lands: “External Audit starts in 10 days.”
For most engineering teams, this triggers a predictable chaos:
- Feature Freeze: All innovation stops.
- The Scavenger Hunt: Your best engineers stop coding and start digging through logs to find evidence that Incident #402 was patched correctly.
- The Screenshot Factory: Senior Architects spend hours taking screenshots of AWS configurations to prove encryption is “On.”
It is expensive, demoralizing, and ironically – it doesn’t actually make you secure. Continue reading “Compliance as a Code: The End of Audit Panic”