Device compliance is a snapshot, not permanent health
A compliance check tells you the state at the moment it ran.
Between checks, software gets uninstalled, updates get deferred and configurations change. Access decisions based on a compliance flag are therefore based on history rather than on current state, and the gap can be days. Continuous evaluation narrows it, and nothing closes it entirely.
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