Continuous Compliance
Maintain Security Standards Automatically with Policy as Code
Continuous compliance is the process of consistently maintaining a security posture that complies with regulatory standards, best practices, and internal policies.
Continuous compliance is important whether you're one person managing hundreds of systems or a team managing thousands. Puppet makes it manageable with unified control and visibility across clouds and data centers to ensure continuous compliance.
The Continuous Compliance Challenges of the Operator Today
- Inability to keep up with the ever-shifting security policies (including but not limited to regulatory compliance)
- Inability to respond to configuration drift that requires immediate remediation when using commands, scripts, and playbooks
- Time-consuming, tedious, and expensive audit prep
- Manual security inspections of OS and middleware configuration that delay software deployments and creates poor developer experience
- Lack of visibility into continuous compliance status due to tool sprawl makes enforcement of compliance extremely complex and time-consuming
The Benefits of Puppet Technologies For Continuous Compliance
Using self-enforcing policy as code, Puppet helps you efficiently bring new and existing compute resources into continuous compliance, quickly update them as policies change, and easily demonstrate continuous compliance to auditors.
Puppet keeps the environment consistent and in its intended state. Having a consistent environment puts a limit on the unknowns, which is good for our security posture as well.—CHRIS VERVAIS, DIRECTOR, SITE RELIABILITY, SPLUNK
Stop Remediation Fire-Drills With Continuous Compliance
To maintain continuous compliance with policy as code, you simply use code to describe the desired state for your systems and watch the systems enforce themselves. This allows for easier configuration management and eliminates the risk of configuration drift, which can lead to security vulnerabilities and other issues.
Streamline Compliance Audits and Get Teams on the Same Page
Policy as code becomes a common language you can use to collaborate with security teams and has proven to be one of the strongest pieces of evidence of continuous compliance for auditors around the globe. This makes it easier for you to stay up to date with the latest compliance requirements and ensure your operations are continuously compliant. Stop sweating audits.
There is no proving anything, because [the internal audit team] has already looked in all of the code that underpins this. They know that if we say it's compliant, it's actually already compliant. So for us, that's removed a tremendous number of hours — I would say literally thousands of hours a year. — NATHAN KROENERT, ENTERPRISE PLATFORM SENIOR CONSULTANT, ANZ BANK
Improve Developer Experience With Self-Service Compliant Builds
Puppet’s robust APIs give you the flexibility to provide compliant build options in the appropriate interface for your DevOps teams. This ensures that the software meets compliance requirements and is released in a timely manner, allowing for a smoother, more efficient development process.
Get a Holistic View of Continuous Compliance Status
Puppet provides integration with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) and U.S. Federal Frameworks, allowing for an estate-level view of the compliance status of your systems with the chosen benchmarks. This enables continuous compliance monitoring of hybrid systems, both in the cloud and on-prem, with minimal effort and hassle. Puppet’s integrations ensure compliance with the latest standards, helping you stay ahead of security threats and maintain a consistently secure environment.
Get Continuous Compliance With Puppet
