From Failed CORA Audit to Continuous Compliance with Automation

Failing a CORA audit isn’t just a setback. It can put mission-critical operations, contracts, and organizational trust at risk. That was the reality for a Department of Energy lab supporting national security programs, facing a short window to remediate findings before a follow-up audit. Their existing approach relied on manual processes, fragmented tools, and time-intensive remediation, which was no longer sustainable.

In this Customer Success Story, see how the team shifted to unified automation, reduced effort, avoided millions in annual costs, and successfully passed their CORA reassessment. More importantly, they moved from point-in-time compliance to a posture that holds under real operational conditions.

What This Team Achieved

✔ Passed CORA reassessment within a six-month window
✔ Reduced engineer effort from 20 hours to 3 hours per endpoint
✔ Avoided an estimated $2.6M in annual compliance costs
✔ Achieved 60 to 75 percent reduction in overall compliance spend
✔ Maintained continuous STIG, RMF, and CORA compliance with minimal manual effort

Download the full customer success story to see how they did it.