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Security Hardening & Compliance Automation

Security baselines that live in a PDF get applied once and rot. We turned hardening into automation — scripts and policy-as-code that lock systems down to a standard, prove they stayed that way, and flag the moment they drift.

LinuxBashPythonCIS/STIGAnsibleCompliance as CodeAuditingHardening
Industry
Government / Regulated
Scale
Medium
Status
Deployed across server fleets
// Problem

The challenge

Hardening a server by hand against a benchmark is slow, error-prone, and instantly out of date. Across a fleet, manual application guarantees inconsistency — and the audit that follows becomes a fire drill of screenshots and spreadsheets.

// Solution

What we built

Hardening and compliance delivered as code, originally written for some of the most demanding environments in government.

  • UNIX/Linux security-hardening scripts that apply a defined baseline (CIS/STIG-style controls) consistently across systems
  • Continuous compliance scanning that re-checks posture and reports deviations instead of assuming
  • Remediation automation that brings drifted systems back to baseline
  • Audit-ready evidence generated automatically — the report is a build output, not a scramble
// Architecture

How it works

Baselines are codified and applied through automation (idempotent scripts / configuration management), so re-running is safe and convergent. Scheduled scans compare live state to the standard and surface exceptions; remediation closes the loop. The same definitions produce both the enforcement and the evidence.

// Outcome

Results

  • Consistent, repeatable hardening across the fleet instead of per-box variance
  • Compliance posture continuously verified rather than sampled once a year
  • Audit evidence produced on demand, dramatically reducing audit overhead
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