# Continuous Compliance Workflows

## Workflow 1: Control Monitoring Setup

1. **Control Inventory**: Map all privacy controls to regulations and frameworks
2. **Test Definition**: Define automated test criteria for each control
3. **Data Source Connection**: Connect monitoring system to target data sources (APIs, databases, logs)
4. **Alert Configuration**: Define severity levels, thresholds, and notification rules
5. **Dashboard Setup**: Configure real-time dashboards for each audience
6. **Baseline Scoring**: Establish initial compliance scores
7. **Go-Live**: Activate automated monitoring
8. **Tuning**: Adjust thresholds and alert sensitivity based on initial results

## Workflow 2: Alert Response

1. **Alert Triggered**: Automated test detects deviation from compliance threshold
2. **Auto-Triage**: System classifies severity, deduplicates, and correlates related alerts
3. **Assignment**: Alert assigned to control owner per routing rules
4. **Acknowledgment**: Control owner acknowledges within SLA (4hr critical, 24hr high)
5. **Root Cause**: Control owner investigates and identifies root cause
6. **Remediation**: Execute corrective action
7. **Re-Test**: System automatically re-tests the control
8. **Closure**: Alert closed with evidence archived; or reopened if re-test fails

## Workflow 3: Regulatory Change Integration

1. **Detection**: External feed identifies new regulation, amendment, or guidance
2. **Relevance Assessment**: Automated keyword matching plus manual review
3. **Impact Analysis**: Determine affected controls, processes, and systems
4. **Gap Assessment**: Compare current compliance against new requirement
5. **Remediation Planning**: Define control updates, policy changes, system modifications
6. **Implementation**: Execute changes with change management approval
7. **Testing**: Verify new controls via automated testing
8. **Framework Update**: Update control framework, scoring, and monitoring rules
9. **Communication**: Notify stakeholders of regulatory change and response

## Workflow 4: Evidence Collection Automation

1. **Schedule Definition**: Configure collection frequency per evidence type
2. **Automated Harvest**: System collects evidence via API calls, queries, and screenshots
3. **Timestamping**: Apply immutable timestamps and hash verification
4. **Storage**: Store in versioned, access-controlled evidence repository
5. **Quality Check**: Automated completeness and format verification
6. **Expiry Monitoring**: Alert when evidence approaches staleness threshold
7. **Audit Preparation**: Auto-generate evidence packages per auditor request