Automating Compliance to Boost Security and ROI

RegScale's Dale Hoak on How Automating Telemetry Data, AI Improves Resilience Matthew Perry • November 26, 2025

Compliance no longer drags behind innovation - it drives it. Organizations that adopt compliance automation see stronger security, better customer relationships and cost-efficient operations, said Dale Hoak, CISO at RegScale.

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Automating evidence collection across frameworks transforms compliance from a one-time audit into a continuous, visible process that supports cyber resilience.

Security, development and compliance teams must break silos to close risk gaps, Hoak said. Automating telemetry data and applying controls as code helps teams identify vulnerabilities earlier and fix issues in real time. Artificial intelligence accelerates this by extracting documentation, drafting control implementations, performing gap assessments and reducing manual errors and subjectivity.

"Compliance does not equal security, but it is a road map," Hoak said. "If you use it and build the automations ...