<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" >

<channel>
	<title>unified automation &#8211; SteelCloud</title>
	<atom:link href="https://www.steelcloud.com/tag/unified-automation/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>https://www.steelcloud.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:24:20 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>
	hourly	</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>
	1	</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4</generator>

<image>
	<url>https://www.steelcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/favicon.png</url>
	<title>unified automation &#8211; SteelCloud</title>
	<link>https://www.steelcloud.com</link>
	<width>32</width>
	<height>32</height>
</image> 
	<item>
		<title>Customization is the Key to Continuous Compliance</title>
		<link>https://www.steelcloud.com/customization-is-the-key-to-continuous-compliance/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[All Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIS Benchmarks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ConfigOS MPO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Continuous Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unified automation]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.steelcloud.com/?p=91666</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>5 Signs Your Compliance Program Is Operationally Fragmented</title>
		<link>https://www.steelcloud.com/5-signs-your-compliance-program-is-operationally-fragmented/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[All Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIS Benchmarks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compliance program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unified automation]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.steelcloud.com/?p=91517</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[5 Signs Your Compliance Program Is Operationally Fragmented Compliance programs don’t just suddenly fail. They quietly erode over time. Baselines slowly drift out of alignment. Tools don’t recognize agreed upon policies and procedures. Audit cycles become cumbersome. And multiple versions of the truth begin to define your program. Many consider this chaos the nature of ...]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Leaving SCAP Behind for a Unified Automation Solution</title>
		<link>https://www.steelcloud.com/leaving-scap-behind-for-a-unified-automation-solution/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[All Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SCAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unified automation]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.steelcloud.com/?p=91503</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Leaving SCAP Behind for a Unified Automation Solution Open-source STIG tools like DISA’s SCAP are a popular choice because they can automate scanning and relieve some of the effort involved in STIG compliance. But once agencies use these types of tools for a while, they all seem to come to the same conclusions—the tools don’t ...]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>INDUSTRY BRIEF: The Operational Policy Breakdown &#8211; Why Hardening Fails After the Audit</title>
		<link>https://www.steelcloud.com/industry-brief-the-operational-policy-breakdown/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[All Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collaterals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Download]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baseline hardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unified automation]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.steelcloud.com/?p=91491</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[The Operational Policy Breakdown Most organizations don’t fail at hardening during the audit — they fail at sustaining it afterward. Baselines are documented, findings are closed, and dashboards show green. Yet over time, policy drifts from enforcement, validation falls out of sync, and confidence begins to erode. What looks secure on paper becomes fragile in ...]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Customer Success Story: Going Nuclear on STIG Compliance and Achieving Game-Changing Results</title>
		<link>https://www.steelcloud.com/going-nuclear-on-stig-compliance-and-achieving-game-changing-results/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[All Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collaterals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Download]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Use Cases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unified automation]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.steelcloud.com/?p=91440</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Customer Success Story: Going Nuclear on STIG Compliance and Achieving Game-Changing Results Key Department of Energy (DoE) groups responsible for stewarding the nation’s nuclear stockpile and supporting national security missions are mandated to implement the federal government’s strictest cybersecurity standards: Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs). But manual tailoring, quarterly updates, limited reporting capabilities, and prolonged ...]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>DATA SHEET: Why Unified Automation Is the Readiness Multiplier</title>
		<link>https://www.steelcloud.com/data-sheet-why-unified-automation-is-the-readiness-multiplier/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[All Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collaterals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Download]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyber Readiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unified automation]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.steelcloud.com/?p=91429</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Why Unified Automation Is the Readiness Multiplier Cyber readiness in 2026 is defined by: Speed Consistency Sustained operations under pressure Maintaining that posture requires more than point tools. It requires unified automation. Download the data sheet to learn more!]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why Every Industry Needs a STIG-Level Security Mindset</title>
		<link>https://www.steelcloud.com/why-every-industry-needs-a-stig-level-security-mindset/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[All Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIS Benchmarks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyber Readiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unified automation]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.steelcloud.com/?p=91341</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Why Every Industry Needs a STIG-Level Security Mindset As in every previous year, cyberattacks were up again in 2025, intensified by AI-powered attacks and increasingly sophisticated ransomware tactics. Key trends included double extortion, supply chain attacks, distributed denial of service, phishing and the exploitation of IoT vulnerabilities. In an unsurprising turn of events, the US ...]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>How to Achieve Cyber Readiness in 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.steelcloud.com/how-to-achieve-cyber-readiness-in-2026/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Collaterals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Papers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIS Benchmarks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Continuous Monitoring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyber Readiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unified automation]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.steelcloud.com/?p=91335</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[How to Achieve Cyber Readiness in 2026 Each year, bad actors increase the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber attacks. They uncover new vulnerabilities and increasingly use AI to multiply their efforts. Many organizations are still responding with manual processes and fragmented tools. Scanners can surface issues, but remediation, validation, and reporting often remain manual. ...]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>From Year-End Spending to Year-Round STIG Compliance</title>
		<link>https://www.steelcloud.com/year-round-stig-compliance/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[All Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ConfigOS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STIG compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unified automation]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.steelcloud.com/?p=90611</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Year-Round STIG Compliance Automation: Year-End Spending for Continuous Year-Round STIG Compliance Results How unified STIG automation turns year-end spending into lasting results Where do you want your cyber compliance program to be three months, six months, or a year from now: right where it is today? Or stronger, faster, and always audit-ready? Most leaders would ...]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Unified STIG Automation Frequently Asked Questions</title>
		<link>https://www.steelcloud.com/unified-stig-automation-frequently-asked-questions/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[All Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collaterals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RMF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unified automation]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.steelcloud.com/?p=90571</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[FAQ: Unified STIG Automation Looking for expert responses to Unified STIG Automation frequently asked questions? This one-pagers offers clarity on key topics such as RMF workflows, AI integration, and system deployment considerations. Click here, or the picture below, to download!]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
