New analyst report
IDC on the end of point-in-time security assessments
Read IDC’s assessment of TrustCloud Application Assurance — the AI-native platform replacing quarterly snapshots with continuous control monitoring.
What IDC says
The analyst verdict
“A meaningful advancement in AI-native GRC transformation.”
– IDC · June 2026
The results, covered by IDC
Numbers that move the board
Return on investment, validated across Fortune 100 deployments
Average reduction in residual risk after deployment
Application landscape covered — vs. roughly 20% with manual methods
Days saved per user, per year, across GRC teams
Days to first findings from 20+ controls after deployment
28→3
Days — internal audit cycle cut from 28 days to three
Why point-in-time is over
The snapshot era ends where your risk begins
Quarterly assessments capture a single moment in a landscape that changes every day. Every hour between assessments is an hour attackers can exploit what you haven’t seen yet.
Application Assurance replaces the snapshot with continuous, AI-native control monitoring — mapping every business application against its risk surface, dependencies, and control status in real time, and translating technical findings into business impact leaders can act on.
The point-in-time problem
Manual questionnaires cover ~20% of the landscape — and are stale the moment they're collected.
The other 80% of your application landscape operates without verified control assurance. TrustCloud is the only platform that continuously monitors 96% of it and ranks every finding by business impact.
Assure every application, continuously
