Customization is the Key to Continuous Compliance

ConfigOS MPO Enables Customization for Continuous Compliance 

Cybersecurity frameworks such as DISA STIGs and CIS Benchmarks provide standardized security baselines designed to protect enterprise systems. However, real-world environments rarely match baseline configurations exactly.

Organizations often need to tailor security policies to support unique applications, operational exceptions and diverse infrastructure. You can manually customize your configurations, but when it comes time to scan and validate them using generic tools, you run into false results, alerts and a lot of rework. This lack of integrated customization capabilities reinforces operational challenges that keep programs stuck in cycles of inconsistent and unreliable audit readiness and compliance.

SteelCloud’s ConfigOS MPO platform addresses this challenge by enabling automated continuous compliance at scale while providing the flexibility needed to customize security policies and operational controls. It is a unified, agent-based solution that contains everything needed to maintain policy, scan, remediate, rollback and report all on the same unified platform using tools that were purpose built and integrated to work together.

Through its core components—Forge, Commander, Shield agents, and Desktop Client—ConfigOS MPO allows organizations to manage STIG and CIS Benchmarks compliance across large environments. And with its agent-based architecture, it is uniquely suited to maintain continuous compliance across remote, classified, or otherwise distributed or disconnected endpoints.

Below are several key MPO capabilities that enable organizations to customize compliance automation.

Customize Policy Creation and Management with MPO Forge

ConfigOS Forge serves as MPO’s policy management workbench, enabling security teams to build and manage customized compliance policies.

Using Forge, organizations can:

• Import SteelCloud baseline STIG and CIS Benchmarks policies
• Create customized baseline and operational policies
• Tune or edit existing policies to meet operational needs
• Compare policy versions and track configuration differences
• Validate against customized policy as opposed to generic policy

Forge also supports policy collections, which allow administrators to bundle policies, documentation and control files into a single package for deployment through Commander. Built-in workflow status and version control help teams maintain consistency across policy updates.

In addition, Forge allows administrators to write AutoSelect scripts that determine when a policy should run on an endpoint based on system conditions.

Create Custom Security Controls with VeraLogix

Many organizations require security controls beyond those provided by baseline compliance frameworks, such as for bespoke and legacy endpoints and applications. VeraLogix enables users to create custom security controls that extend MPO’s capabilities.

VeraLogix supports script-based automation for:

• Compliance scanning
• Remediation
• Rollback
• Reporting

Scripts can be written using PowerShell (Windows) or Bash (Linux), allowing organizations to automate virtually any operational security control.

Custom controls are created and managed in Forge, orchestrated by Commander and executed by Shield agents across endpoints. This architecture allows organizations to build a large library of operational security controls tailored to their environment.

Group Endpoints for Customized Policy Deployment in MPO

Large environments often contain thousands of systems that require different policies. Automated endpoint grouping simplifies policy deployment by dynamically organizing endpoints based on defined attributes.

This capability allows MPO to:

• Automatically ingest and classify endpoints
• Assign policies based on system characteristics
• Deploy compliance checks at scale

By automating endpoint grouping, security teams can enforce policies across large environments without manual system selection.

Integrate Manual and Automated Outcomes Via Result Templates

Not all cybersecurity controls can be fully automated. Some controls require manual validation or procedural verification.

MPO addresses this need through Result Templates, which allow organizations to integrate both automated and manual control results.

Templates can be created based on policies or compliance checklists and provide a unified framework for reporting across machine-generated and manually validated controls. This ensures organizations can achieve 100% coverage of STIG or CIS Benchmarks control requirements.

Test and Refine Policy with Rapid Policy Debugger

Developing compliance policies often requires testing against real systems to identify configuration conflicts or operational issues.

MPO’s Rapid Policy Debugger helps security teams quickly test and refine STIG or CIS Benchmarks policies. Using MPO’s remediation, rollback and reporting capabilities, administrators can validate compliance policies and harden configurations around application stacks.

This process allows teams to create portable compliance policies in a matter of minutes, accelerating both pre-production testing and production deployment.

Tailor Policy to Systems or Groups with Intelligent Policy Selection

Different endpoints often require different compliance policies. MPO’s AutoSelect capability automatically determines which policy should run on a specific system.

SteelCloud provides predefined pre-check logic with each supported STIG. Organizations can also customize this logic using simple PowerShell or Bash scripts.

AutoSelect reduces the number of policy collections that must be maintained in Forge while ensuring that endpoints always receive the appropriate compliance policy.

Schedule Scanning and Remediation on Your Terms with ScheduleMX

Continuous compliance requires regular scanning and remediation across large environments. ScheduleMX provides flexible automation for when policies run.

Key capabilities include:

• Multiple scheduling triggers
• Calendar-based scheduling
• Separation of local and server update activities

This approach reduces network traffic and data storage requirements while supporting efficient compliance operations. ScheduleMX can also replace traditional Group Policy Object (GPO) mechanisms for managing system-level cybersecurity controls.

Customize Compliance Automation to Fit Your Agency and Mission

Modern cybersecurity environments require both automation and flexibility. SteelCloud ConfigOS MPO delivers both through a set of customization capabilities that allow organizations to tailor compliance policies and operational controls to their infrastructure.

Organizations can implement a scalable approach to maintaining continuous STIG and CIS compliance by combining:

• Policy engineering with Forge
• Custom control creation through VeraLogix
• Automated endpoint orchestration
• Integrated compliance reporting
• Intelligent policy selection and scheduling

With ConfigOS MPO, compliance becomes more than a checklist—it becomes a customizable, automated process that scales across the enterprise.

Explore a More Tailored and Streamlined Approach to Compliance with MPO

A number of elements go into creating a unified automation solution that truly delivers on the promise of delivering continuous STIG and CIS Benchmarks compliance with 90% less time and effort than by manual and hybrid means. Customization is a huge part of that equation.

To our knowledge, nobody else delivers an agent-based, customizable, unified solution like ConfigOS MPO. Certainly nobody else has more than a decade of experience automating STIG and CIS Benchmarks security in some of the most complex environments on earth.

MPO’s customization capabilities represent a seismic shift in the way compliance gets done. Take a look for yourself. Schedule a live demo today.