Compliance in the AI Era: What changes in 2026 (and How to Keep Up)

Regulatory expectations for security and GRC teams are accelerating worldwide - reshaping how organizations design controls, deploy automation, and demonstrate assurance across regions, industries, and frameworks. In 2026, many organizations will face sharper enforcement, faster reporting timelines, and increased scrutiny on operational resilience and AI governance. Keeping pace requires more than tracking new rules; it requires an operating model that can translate change into controls, evidence, and action across the business.

Join OneTrust experts for a practical look at what’s ahead in 2026 and how leading teams are simplifying compliance across frameworks, geographies, and systems. We’ll explore how modern Tech Risk & Compliance programs move from manual, siloed efforts to a unified approach that maps requirements to controls, streamlines evidence collection, and applies intelligent AI automation to reduce review cycles and improve audit readiness.

Key takeaways:

• What’s changing in 2026: the global regulatory themes that most impact security, risk, and compliance programs 
• How to operationalize change: map evolving requirements to a unified control and evidence model across multiple frameworks
• Where automation helps most: accelerate evidence workflows, improve evidence quality, and shorten the path to audit readiness