Federal GRC Engineering
Compliance-as-Code
The engineering discipline of expressing compliance controls and evidence in machine-readable artifacts (configuration files, policy code, infrastructure templates, automated tests) that are version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and enforced by the same continuous integration pipeline that ships application code. Open Policy Agent and Rego, HashiCorp Sentinel, AWS Config Rules, and OSCAL-based control catalogs are the visible expressions of this discipline. Federal cATO programs and FedRAMP 20x both depend on compliance-as-code; an authorization that requires manual screenshot collection cannot deliver continuous evidence at the cadence the model demands.