The use of automation to support ongoing assessments facilitates all but one of the following. Response:

Automation significantly increases the volume of security checks and assessments that can be performed across an IT environment, making it a key facilitator.

While automation provides data and results, the ultimate verification of those findings-that is, confirming their accuracy, validity, and contextual relevance, especially for complex compliance or security posture evaluations-often requires human judgment and expertise. Automation assists in collecting information for verification but does not inherently perform the qualitative act of verification itself.

Automated tools can scan a broader range of systems, configurations, and vulnerabilities, thus improving the coverage of assessments across an organization's assets.

Automation enables assessments to be run much more frequently, shifting from periodic manual checks to continuous or near-continuous monitoring, improving the timeliness of security insights.