Swimlane Tackles Compliance Chaos with AI-Driven Audit Automation Platform

Swimlane has unveiled the Compliance Audit Readiness (CAR) Solution—an AI-powered platform designed to streamline governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) workflows, and eliminate the chronic inefficiencies that plague audit preparation.

The CAR Solution, launched this week and built on the Swimlane Turbine hyperautomation platform, integrates seamlessly with the Secure Controls Framework. It promises a new operational model for compliance by automating control mapping, audit evidence gathering, and real-time risk-based reporting across over 30 regulatory frameworks, including ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and FedRAMP.

“Compliance isn’t just a GRC checkbox—it’s the backbone of a resilient security strategy,” said Michael Lyborg, CISO of Swimlane. “When security and GRC teams operate in isolation, gaps emerge, risks go unchecked and resources are misallocated. Swimlane’s CAR solution demolishes these barriers, transforming compliance from a fragmented burden into a streamlined, strategic competitive advantage that strengthens security and accelerates audit readiness.”

Why Now?

The timing of Swimlane’s launch is no coincidence. Regulatory pressure is intensifying across sectors, from finance to healthcare to tech. Yet most enterprises are still stuck in the manual audit loop—an inefficient cycle of tracking controls, generating evidence, and responding to auditors under tight deadlines. According to Swimlane’s research, over half of organizations spend more than five hours each week on manual audit tasks, while only 39% of those processes are automated.

Perhaps more concerning is the organizational divide: 90% of companies report poor collaboration between GRC and security teams, a structural flaw that makes compliance not only harder but riskier.

CAR aims to close that divide. It centralizes control inventories, pre-maps them to compliance frameworks, and builds a shared source of truth for audit evidence—all while giving both GRC and security professionals real-time visibility into compliance posture.

Features That Matter

Swimlane is betting that organizations will see value in CAR’s modular, scalable design. At its core, the solution offers:

Compliance Controls Inventory: A unified catalog that links to 30+ frameworks.
Audit Evidence Management: Flexible tracking and storing of evidence across control sets.
Compliance Dashboard: A real-time, multi-framework visual overview.
Audit-Ready Reporting: One-click generation of auditor-facing documentation.
Extensible Frameworks: Add-ons for DORA, NIST CSF, HIPAA and more.

“Compliance audits shouldn’t feel like a never-ending scavenger hunt,” said Jack Rumsey, Head of GRC at Swimlane. “CAR allows us to reclaim significant resources, shifting our focus from reactive audit responses to proactive risk management.”

Enterprise Impact

For organizations burdened by growing regulatory complexity, CAR offers more than a feature set—it’s a framework for modernizing compliance as a strategic discipline rather than a cost center. By moving from spreadsheets to structured, AI-augmented workflows, companies can reduce risk exposure, accelerate audit cycles, and free up GRC teams to focus on value-generating initiatives.

Swimlane is positioning itself not just as a vendor, but as an enabler of cultural change—one where security and compliance are tightly aligned through technology. The company will showcase the CAR solution at RSA Conference 2025 at Booth #S-2157 in San Francisco.

For practitioners ready to ditch the spreadsheet sprawl, Swimlane’s upcoming May 15 webinar, "From Spreadsheet Chaos to GRC Control," aims to offer a deep dive into how AI is reshaping compliance operations.

With the CAR solution now available in the Swimlane Marketplace, the company is making a bold bet: that the future of audit readiness isn’t about working harder—it’s about automating smarter.