1. A computer system, comprising: a policy update system configured to generate policy definition user input mechanisms that are actuated to define a compliance policy update; a schema generator component configured to generate a unified compliance policy update, using a hardware computer processor, based on actuation of the policy definition user input mechanisms, wherein the unified compliance policy update represents the compliance policy update according to a unified schema that is consistent across a plurality of different workloads, and wherein the unified schema represents a rule, a condition that corresponds to the rule and is to be present in an item at a given workload for the rule to apply, and as action to be taken relative to the item when the rule applies; and a policy distribution system configured to send the unified compliance policy update to at each of the plurality of different workloads, each workload having a component configured to deploy the compliance policy update based on workload-specific data.