Product In-Depth: Security and Compliance Posture Reports

Overview

Regulatory compliance requires implementing many standard security practices but mandatory compliance audits shouldn’t be the only deciding factor for having a security initiative. Unfortunately, the density of each regulation’s requirements can make enablement and enforcement of policies a difficult challenge. How do we know we are implementing the right security measures in a cloud-native environment and prove that it’s working?

PCI Enabled Policies

We’ve partnered with certified regulatory auditors to identify all the Magalix Policies covered by PCI-DSS, CIS-Benchmark, and others more to come, so you can begin knowing your compliance posture. With Policies preconfigured, enhance your understanding of your compliance state, out-of-the-box.

Reporting

1- Regulatory Compliance Reporting

Verbally confirming compliance is not enough. An auditor is looking for historical and real-time evidence of compliance. Using policy-as-code can provide protection and detection, but building a reporting system can involve additional people, and resources. Magalix ties existing Policies with preconfigured reports to provide a way to quickly digest the state of your clusters from a PCI perspective, and what your next steps towards compliance should be.

2- Cloud Security Reporting

Regulations don’t cover all best security practices. In addition to regulation coverage, Magalix provides general Cloud Security reporting so SREs and others can get a holistic view of their security posture. Create a custom report so you can break down how many Policy violations you have by category and severity, across all of your clusters.

Conclusion

A real-time dashboard is great for operations and day-to-day business, but seldomly does it show all the information required to understand what’s happening, and what has happened. Magalix provides pre-canned reports in addition to custom reporting so you can trim out the low-level details that may not be relevant for your intended audience. Different personas in your organization may be responsible for various parts of compliance so providing the right information to the right people at the right time should facilitate your certification process.