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What is monitoring?

An ongoing compliance control that watches for changed sanctions or restricted-party risk through scheduled or event-triggered re-screening and review.

Last Reviewed: 2026-09-21Plain-English reference · not legal advice

Plain-English Summary

Compliance monitoring keeps existing relationships under review after the initial screen. It can use scheduled re-screening, source-list updates, transaction events, relationship changes, or other risk triggers. Monitoring does not have to mean real-time screening, and a periodic batch process should not be marketed as real-time.

Why This Matters

Sanctions lists and risk conditions change. OFAC’s framework expects risk-based controls to be updated as sanctions programs and lists change, while OFAC separately notes that its sanctions lists can change on an irregular schedule. Ongoing monitoring is one way an organization can respond to that changing risk.

Explanation Depth

Concept Explanation

Monitoring means checking existing parties again over time so changes do not go unnoticed. It might run on a schedule or after certain events. It is only useful if new alerts are actually reviewed.

When You'll See This in SecurePoint

In SecurePoint Education, monitoring is scheduled 30/90-day batch re-screening, default 30, and should not be described as real-time. In SecurePoint Visitor, Continuous Monitoring is a separate add-on built on scheduled workforce/vendor screening and alert/case policies; its monitoring action modes are alert-oriented rather than automatic compliance blocks.

What You Should Do Next

Choose monitoring triggers and frequency based on the organization’s risk assessment and document what happens when a new potential match appears. Reevaluate the schedule and controls when the business, counterparties, jurisdictions, or source-update patterns change.

What Can Go Wrong

Calling periodic batch re-screening continuous or real-time can overstate the control. Another failure is generating new alerts without a defined review path, leaving a monitoring program that detects changes but does not resolve them.
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