In this special episode of Compliance Technologies, we announce the launch of the Compliance Signal Enumeration (CSE) Registry, a public, open-source infrastructure for defining and referencing compliance signals.

Modern compliance frameworks increasingly rely on automation, tooling, and continuous evidence collection, yet the industry lacks a shared vocabulary for describing what is actually being measured. Without a canonical way to reference compliance signals, evidence becomes ambiguous, integrations become brittle, and trust degrades across tools, vendors, and audits.

The CSE Registry addresses this gap by providing a framework-agnostic, machine-readable, and human-auditable registry of compliance signals. It is designed to support compliance platforms, security tools, evidence pipelines, and audit workflows by offering a stable reference point for observable, reproducible, and verifiable compliance facts.

This episode explains why the registry exists, how it is intended to be used, and why treating compliance as infrastructure, rather than documentation, is essential for the future of continuous and provable compliance.

The CSE Registry is publicly available at cseregistry.org, with the open-source repository hosted on GitHub.