---
title: "Continuous assurance"
description: "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."
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/continuous-assurance
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-24
---

# 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](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/patterns#pattern-continuous-assurance-telemetry)
- Chapters: [ch. 04, The Stack](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/the-stack) · [ch. 05, Patterns](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/patterns) · [ch. 07, Maturity Model](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/maturity-model)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-continuous-assurance

## Sources

Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source.