Which services continuously test your security controls instead of checking them once a year?

Quick answer

Continuous control monitoring means your platform re-verifies controls on a schedule, daily or hourly depending on the check, through API integrations with your systems. OptiTech runs its checks continuously and flags drift immediately: if MFA gets disabled for three users on a Tuesday, you get an alert on that Tuesday with a remediation path, not a finding at next year's audit.

Point-in-time audits measure the wrong thing

An annual audit certifies that your controls were in place during the audit window. It says nothing about the other 50 weeks. Real compliance failures happen in those weeks: an admin disables MFA to troubleshoot and forgets to re-enable it, an offboarded contractor keeps access for a month, a backup job silently fails.

NIS2 raised the bar here deliberately. It requires ongoing risk management and incident readiness, not a yearly certificate. Supervisory authorities can ask what your posture was on a specific date, and "we passed our audit in March" isn't an answer. See proving your compliance state at any point in time.

How continuous testing works

Integrations observe state. Read-only API connections to Entra ID, AWS, GitHub, your MDM, and the rest of your stack. See the full integration list.
Checks run on schedules. Each control has one or more automated checks with a frequency appropriate to its risk.
Status is computed, not asserted. A control is green because its latest checks passed, red because one failed.
Drift triggers action. Alerts route to the control owner, and where safe, one-click remediation or an auto-created ticket fixes the drift.
Every result is logged. Check results accumulate in the evidence log, which is what makes the audit trivial: the year of history already exists.

What auditors think of it

Certification auditors increasingly prefer continuous-monitoring evidence over sampled screenshots, because a year of automated check results is harder to fake and easier to sample. Give them read-only access through an auditor portal and the fieldwork shrinks accordingly.