This document discusses the challenges of audit compliance and proposes a continuous monitoring approach. It describes how organizations often scramble to prepare for audits in an unplanned, reactive way that disrupts work and does not maintain long-term compliance. The document proposes establishing security controls integrated with daily operations to make compliance a natural byproduct. It provides steps for continuous monitoring, including categorizing assets, determining risk thresholds, setting monitoring frequencies, and generating detailed reports to assess risk and guide security improvements. The benefits are presented as leveraging automation to reduce audit effort while providing objective data to address gaps and priorities.