A healthcare enterprise configures an Assured Workloads folder using the US Data Boundary for Healthcare and Life Sciences control package to maintain HIPAA compliance. An engineering team requires a Google Cloud service that is covered under Google Cloud's HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) and supports US data residency and CMEK, but is not included in the control package's default service list. A cloud security engineer updates the gcp.restrictServiceUsage organization policy constraint on the folder to allow the service. Following this change, Assured Workloads continuous monitoring flags compliance violations on the modified resources. What action should the security engineer take to resolve the continuous monitoring alerts while maintaining a compliant posture?

Grant an exception for each reported violation within Assured Workloads monitoring.: ### What granting an exception in Assured Workloads is **Assured Workloads continuous monitoring** actively audits resources against the baseline requirements of the assigned compliance regime (such as HIPAA/HITRUST). When an administrator expands service availability by customizing the `gcp.restrictServiceUsage` organization policy constraint, Assured Workloads detects deviation from its preconfigured baseline and flags active compliance violations. Granting an **exception** in the Assured Workloads console acknowledges that the deviation was intentional, verified, and accepted by security administrators. ### How it meets the requirements - **Resolves compliance alerts**: Granting an explicit exception resolves the active compliance violation in the monitoring dashboard and suppresses ongoing alert notifications. - **Maintains compliance posture**: Because the added service was verified to support the **HIPAA BAA**, **US data residency**, and **CMEK**, the workload remains fully compliant under regulatory standards while maintaining an auditable exception record. - **Preserves folder governance**: The workload remains under the managed Assured Workloads boundary without needing to dismantle the organizational policy controls. ### Key advantages and capabilities - **Auditable tracking**: Every exception granted is recorded, providing an audit trail for external compliance assessors demonstrating that allowed non-default services meet regulatory controls. - **Continuous guardrails**: Monitoring continues to protect against unapproved configuration changes while accommodating approved exceptions. - **Granular control**: Exceptions can be evaluated and applied individually per violation rather than disabling monitoring globally. ### Why this is optimal This approach directly satisfies the operational requirement to allow HIPAA-compliant services outside the default baseline while preserving active continuous monitoring and generating a documented compliance record.

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