Systems and methods detect and prevent changes in business applications that modify its state to non-secure and/or non-compliant. A system may include a processor set up to perform: defining a compliant state of a computer software configuration, monitoring a state of the computer software configuration, detecting a change in the state of the computer software configuration, wherein the change causes a changed state, and comparing the compliant state and the changed state, wherein if the changed state conflicts with the compliant state, stopping the change.