Continuous assurance

Assurance produced continuously from telemetry rather than at a point in time; the control's status is a live query, not an annual sign-off. It is Level 5 of the maturity model.

Developed in
ch. 05, Pattern: Continuous Assurance Telemetry
Chapters
ch. 04, The Stack · ch. 05, Patterns · ch. 07, Maturity Model
Source
Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source

Where it is used

13 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

14 pattern pages use the term; the 10 that use it most:

Sources

No external source: the term is coined or used in a specific sense by this Body of Knowledge, and the section linked under "Developed in" is its source.

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Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Continuous assurance. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/continuous-assurance. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026continuousassurance,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Continuous assurance}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/continuous-assurance}
}