SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE

Improve security and ensure compliance across your playbooks

Identify vulnerabilities, follow compliance best practices, and prevent security risks before they impact your automation.
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Prevent security issues

Identify potential vulnerabilities in Ansible modules and Python packages.

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Ensure compliance

Follow established security frameworks and enforce custom policies.

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Proactively evaluate threats

Understand what will happen when playbooks run to minimize downtime and costs.

Embed security and compliance into every playbook

Manual playbook modernization
  • Time consuming and reactive security fixes
  • Manual effort to maintain compliance standards
  • Limited visibility into runtimes threats
  • Uncontrolled supply chain exposure in automation
The Spotter way
  • Automate security checks across Ansible playbooks and Python packages
  • Proactively detect misconfigurations and vulnerabilities before execution
  • Ensure compliance with industry security standards
  • Gain full control over third-party dependencies in your Ansible automation

How It Works

Steampunk Spotter guides your team through security and compliance validation at every step of the playbook lifecycle.

Scan for security vulnerabilities and generate actionable remediation guidance
Spotter inspects your playbooks and Python packages to identify outdated modules, known vulnerabilities, and risky configurations. Spotter provides clear, actionable recommendations to fix vulnerabilities, enforce compliance, and strengthen playbook reliability.
92%
reduction in manual effort
Validate against compliance standards
Automatically check your automation against established security frameworks and your organization’s custom policies.
Unlock safe use of community collections
Spotter enables safe use of community Ansible collections by providing SBOMs and rebuilds. Receive detailed SBOM, CWE, and CVE insights at module and collection level to support approval decisions.
82%
reduction in critical CVEs
Expand your content safely
Spotter helps enterprises extend Ansible usage while maintaining strict security and compliance rules. This allows enterprises to expand automation using low risk collections while avoiding those with extensive SBOMs and critical CVEs.
22%
broader automation coverage via automated third-party safety checks
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Spotter inspects your playbooks and Python packages to identify outdated modules, known vulnerabilities, and risky configurations. Spotter provides clear, actionable recommendations to fix vulnerabilities, enforce compliance, and strengthen playbook reliability.
92%
reduction in manual effort

Automatically check your automation against established security frameworks and your organization’s custom policies.
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Spotter enables safe use of community Ansible collections by providing SBOMs and rebuilds. Receive detailed SBOM, CWE, and CVE insights at module and collection level to support approval decisions.
82%
reduction in critical CVEs
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Spotter helps enterprises extend Ansible usage while maintaining strict security and compliance rules. This allows enterprises to expand automation using low risk collections while avoiding those with extensive SBOMs and critical CVEs.
22%
broader automation coverage via automated third-party safety checks
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Simplify compliance and achieve broader automation coverage

Explore Spotter’s compliance and security features.

Ansible Supply Chain Management
SBOM, CVEs and Security Reports
AI-Powered Compliance Validation
Custom Policies

Enterprise-Ready Migration at Scale

Spotter is designed for complex, high-volume enterprise environments in different industries, including banking, insurance, telecommunication, and more.

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Multi-workspace and team support

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Custom Policies and Ansible Supply Chain Management

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Integration with CI/CD pipelines

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Security and compliance built-in

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Secure Your Ansible Automation: Introducing SBOM and CVE Analysis
Secure Your Ansible Automation: Introducing SBOM and CVE Analysis

Gain full visibility into dependencies and vulnerable components.

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Supply Chain Management 101: Securing Your Ansible Automation with Steampunk Spotter
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A powerful enterprise-level tool that gives you complete control over which dependencies can be installed or used in your Ansible Playbooks.

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Achieve Compliant and Secure Ansible Automation
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How to get started with Steampunk Spotter on-prem

  • Book an assessment or demo
    One-on-one walkthrough with automation experts.
  • Run a full pilot
    Your team explores Spotter’s full capabilities on your own infrastructure.
  • Choose your best fit
    Decide how Spotter fits your workflow and the scale you need.
  • Conquer the errors
    Scan, rewrite, set policies, and achieve safe playbook execution.
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PLAYBOOK STANDARDIZATION

Standardize you Ansible Playbooks

Review playbooks for best practices, get actionable insights, and boost productivity.

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UPGRADE AND MIGRATION

Speed up Ansible Playbook upgrades and migrations

Seamlessly upgrade and migrate your Ansible Playbooks in minutes instead of hours.

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SAFEGUARD AAP WORKFLOWS

Cut playbook errors

Validate playbooks in the pipeline, safeguard workflows, and reduce manual review.

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