COMPLIANCE VALIDATION
Compliance validation built into development
Validate playbooks against compliance standards for secure, compliant infrastructure.
- Prebuilt CIS benchmark policiesStart quickly with already available, prebuilt policies aligned with major CIS benchmarks.
- Add your own compliance policiesDefine your own compliance policies to ensure internal security and compliance standards.
- AI-powered policy generationGenerate new policies from plain language descriptions with AI.
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KEY BENEFITS
Ensure security and compliance are built into your automation from the very beginning
Shift left compliance validation
Spotter checks compliance during development so teams can detect and fix issues before they reach production.
Accelerate policy creation
Use AI-assisted policy generation to quickly transform security requirements into enforceable checks.
Spend less time on compliance audits
Automated checks help keep your infrastructure aligned with compliance frameworks while reducing manual audit effort.
Standardize security practices
Apply consistent security policies across teams and projects using reusable policy libraries.
Built-in CIS Benchmark policy library
Spotter provides automatically generated policies aligned with major CIS Benchmarks to help organizations enforce security standards. Available for:
CIS Cisco
CIS RHEL10
CIS RHEL9
CIS RHEL8
CIS Azure
CIS AWS
CIS Windows
Policies are delivered as REGO files that can be easily integrated into the Spotter platform through the Custom Policies interface or via the CLI.
Custom compliance policies
Spotter lets teams create and enforce their own REGO policies to meet unique security requirements.
Custom policies help:
Custom policies help:
- enforce internal security guidelines
- validate infrastructure patterns
- standardize naming, configuration, and architecture
- extend CIS policies with organization-specific rules
AI-powered policy generation
Spotter’s experimental interface lets users create REGO policies from plain language descriptions, making policy development faster and more accessible.
Benefits:
Benefits:
- accelerate policy creation
- simplify testing of new security checks
- quickly test new security checks
Generated policies can be downloaded as REGO files and imported directly into Spotter for validation.
How Spotter enabled Computer Space to scale its Ansible automation projects and create a centralized quality framework.
Computer Space was able to transform bank’s development workflow, increase productivity from a few automation projects to more than 20 automation projects, and establish a centralized quality control system that benefits both their team and the bank.
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FAQ
What types of policies does Spotter support?
Spotter supports prebuilt CIS Benchmark policies, custom REGO policies created by your team, and AI-generated policies from plain language descriptions.
When are compliance checks performed?
All compliance checks are performed during development, allowing you to detect and fix issues before they reach production.
How do I integrate CIS or custom policies into Spotter?
Policies are delivered as REGO files and can be uploaded through the Custom Policies interface or imported via the Spotter CLI.
Can I create my own policies?
Yes. Spotter allows you to define custom REGO policies to enforce internal security standards, validate infrastructure patterns, and extend CIS policies with organization-specific rules.
How does AI-powered policy generation work?
You provide a plain language description of your security requirement, and Spotter automatically generates the corresponding REGO policy. These policies can be downloaded and imported directly into Spotter.
Are these policies final and fully accurate?
Spotter’s policies are functional and continuously refined. We recommend validating results, as false positives or negatives may occur.
Which CIS Benchmarks are included?
Spotter currently includes:
- CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Benchmark v2.0.0 (RHEL9)
- CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Benchmark v3.0.0 (RHEL8)
- CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark v4.0.0 (Azure)
- CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark v5.0.0 (AWS)
- CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Benchmark v1.0.0 (Windows)
