Automation of Cloud Infrastructure, Audit and Compliance

As an infrastructure leader for several successful startups, I've been through some unique experiences with audits. From startups to industry leaders, infrastructure is always changing.

What I have found is that even the most diligent infrastructure teams struggle to grow their infrastructure at the pace of the business. The impact of which results in incomplete or missing policies and controls. Come audit time, delayed or denied certification becomes a real possibility. Not to mention the distraction and opportunity cost lost due to pulling teams off of other critical work to dive in and help.

The issue we face is that each company starts from a different technology baseline. There are tools and compliance frameworks that help us, but knowing which tool and which standards apply is arduous, expensive, and often impractical. Throw in business growth, or initiatives like cloud migration and the highest priority becomes keeping the business running. Compliance and audit are likely the first to suffer.

This blog isn't about me pleading for more diligence in your infrastructure teams. What I propose is a shift in our thinking.

What if we could create a baseline for all of our cloud infrastructure, that meets a minimum, publicly verified compliance level? What if we could then ensure that baseline applies to all cloud infrastructure components, and is updated in real time as requirements are changed or added?

Lastly, what if your infrastructure audit artifact is simply granting read only access for your git repo to your audit team?

Until now, this type of platform wasn’t something you could just buy. The biggest barrier to adopting this cloud-native methodology was that you had to build it yourself. (Until now)

The infrastructure I have always had to build myself, with complete infrastructure auditability, is now just one component of a much larger solution, and it is available out of the box. Adding to this exceptional capability is that SigmaCloud customers will have a fully compliant, rapidly auditable cloud infrastructure by the end of our standard, 14 day onboarding process.

Remarkable.