CIS benchmark compliance, as code in your pipeline.
CISGuard integrates into CI/CD as a policy gate, scans Kubernetes workloads alongside traditional infrastructure, and forwards drift events to your SIEM, making compliance a velocity-neutral platform concern.
What DevSecOpss actually need from compliance tooling.
DevSecOps teams are increasingly the front-line owners of compliance evidence, because the evidence comes from infrastructure they provision. The friction is that traditional compliance tooling assumes a long manual review cycle that does not fit modern CI/CD pace. CISGuard inverts this: CIS benchmark scanning runs as a CI policy gate (failing builds that introduce non-compliant configuration), continuously scans Kubernetes workloads alongside traditional VMs and bare metal, and forwards every drift event to the SIEM your operations team already uses. The compliance team gets continuous evidence; the platform team gets fail-fast feedback in the development cycle. Both stop treating each other as compliance overhead.
What you get with CISGuard.
CI/CD policy gate
Run CISGuard checks against infrastructure changes before merge. Fail builds that introduce non-compliant configuration. Promote compliant changes automatically.
Kubernetes + container scanning
CIS Kubernetes Benchmark coverage at the cluster, namespace, and pod level. Cloud-native workloads scan with the same tooling as traditional infrastructure.
SIEM event forwarding
Every drift detection forwards to your SIEM via syslog or webhook. Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar, Sumo Logic, and Elastic accept events natively.
Infrastructure-as-Code feedback
Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, and Crossplane definitions scan against CIS benchmarks before deployment. Compliance feedback in pull-request comments.
Honest answers to common pushback.
- "Compliance scanning will slow our pipeline": CISGuard's scanning agent is lightweight; CI integration adds seconds, not minutes.
- "Our infrastructure is ephemeral, traditional scanners can't keep up": CISGuard scans on schedule and on-demand, with per-deployment evidence retained for audit history.
- "We use cloud-native and Kubernetes, not VMs": CIS Kubernetes Benchmark coverage is first-class, not retrofitted.
- "Compliance teams want spreadsheets, we want APIs": CISGuard has both. Compliance gets Framework Coverage Reports; platform gets REST API, webhooks, and CLI.
DevSecOps questions, answered directly.
How does CISGuard integrate into a CI/CD pipeline?
CISGuard provides a CLI and REST API for invocation from any CI runner: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Buildkite, CircleCI. Run CIS benchmark checks against infrastructure changes before merge, set pass/fail thresholds, post results as PR comments, gate deployments. Standard CI integration takes a few hours.
Does CISGuard cover Kubernetes and container workloads?
Yes. CISGuard implements the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark with coverage at the cluster (kube-apiserver, etcd, kubelet, scheduler), namespace (RBAC, network policies), and pod (security context, capabilities) levels. Major Kubernetes distributions (EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift, Rancher, K3s) are all supported.
Can CISGuard scan Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)?
Yes. Terraform plans, Ansible playbooks, Pulumi stacks, and Crossplane manifests can be scanned against CIS benchmark expectations before deployment. Pre-deployment scanning catches policy violations in PR review rather than after provisioning, which is the workflow most DevSecOps teams prefer.
How does drift detection forward to our SIEM?
Every drift event (configuration regression between scans) emits a structured event via syslog, webhook, or direct integration. Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar, Sumo Logic, Elastic Security, and Datadog all consume the events natively. Field mapping is standardized so events fit existing detection content without custom parsers.
Will CISGuard work with our existing observability stack?
Yes. The platform exposes Prometheus-compatible metrics, OpenTelemetry traces (where applicable), and JSON-formatted logs. Existing observability tooling (Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Honeycomb) ingests this without custom integration. CISGuard is designed to fit into a modern platform-engineering stack, not to require its own observability surface.
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