Audit failures don’t happen overnight—they start with gaps between policy and practice. In this ROCon 2025 session, Anu Kapil, Senior Manager of Product for Compliance Solutions at Qualys, and Joshua McDonald, Senior Policy Compliance Architect at Comerica, unpack how misconfigurations and missing evidence create cascading risks that can halt business operations and cost millions in fines. Kapil explains how Qualys Policy Audit unifies risk and compliance by continuously mapping evidence, frameworks, and misconfiguration data into a single, audit-ready system. With automated evidence collection, AI-powered prioritization, and TruRisk integration, Policy Audit helps organizations stay compliant across 200+ frameworks—from NIST and PCI to ISO and HIPAA—without relying on spreadsheets or manual fire drills. McDonald follows with a real-world case study from Comerica, showing how Policy Audit transformed their compliance process. By rebuilding asset tagging hierarchies, aligning with CIS benchmarks, and adopting the new Qualys Detection Score (QDS), his team achieved faster remediation, more accurate reporting, and measurable risk reduction. Together, they demonstrate how enterprises can: •Eliminate audit gaps before they happen •Automate evidence gathering across hybrid environments •Prioritize misconfigurations by business impact, not just count •Streamline audits with integrated dashboards and reports •Achieve continuous compliance and executive-level visibility Recorded live at ROCon 2025 – The Risk Operations Conference, presented by Qualys.

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