Shifting Compliance Left with IaC Scanning + Mapping

Compliance Control Mapping for IaC Findings in CI/CD

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Customer Type: Cloud-Focused MSSP Supporting DevOps Clients

Primary Framework(s): SOC 2 / ISO / PCI / HIPAA

Workflow Type: IaC Scanning → Compliance Enforcement

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Customer Profile

• MSSP supporting cloud-native engineering teams
• Clients use Terraform / CloudFormation / Kubernetes
• Needs to provide compliance assurance pre-production

The Challenge

• IaC scanners produced findings without compliance context
• Clients couldn’t prove compliance posture before deployment
• Remediation was expensive once infrastructure was live
• Auditors needed evidence tied to controls, not just scanner output

How They Used CMAI

• Ran IaC scanning tools pre-deploy
• Sent findings into CMAI API for control mapping
• Identified impacted controls across target frameworks
• Blocked deployments tied to critical compliance controls
• Generated audit-ready reports showing compliance posture pre-production

Implementation Pattern

Terraform Scan Findings → CMAI API → Compliance Control Tags → CI/CD Gate + Audit Report

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Results Delivered

• ‍Shift-Left Compliance built into delivery workflows‍
• Reduced Remediation Cost by catching issues early‍
• Audit-Ready Evidence generated automatically from pipeline activity

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Why This Was a Fit

They needed a compliance mapping layer that could sit inside DevOps workflows without changing tools or adding compliance analysts.

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Drop-In Compliance Annotation (Universal Pattern)

CMAI is deployed as a stateless API inside existing pipelines to automatically tag findings, policies, and questionnaires with structured control mappings—without requiring platform migration or centralized data storage.

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