Steelcloud, LLC

Brian H Hajost

Fredi Jaramillo

Bao Nguyen

Matthew Richard Heimlich

Fredi Jaramiilo

Embodiments of the present invention provide for a method, system, and apparatus for processing content during scan and/or remediation processing. The method includes receiving a scan request or a remediation request. Content from a datastore referencing one or more controls as well as one or more of a compliance value, remediation value, and an ignore switch corresponding to each control is then loaded. If a scan request is received, the computing environment is scanned to determine all controls in the computing environment and the current setting of each. Thereafter, a subset of controls is determined, where the current setting of each control in the subset is out of compliance, the out of compliance state for each control is not to be ignored, and a remediation value for the corresponding control is listed in the loaded content. Thereafter, information regarding each control is determined, captured, and then stored.

System for processing content in scan and remediation processing

A method for migrating security benchmark compliance content from a source platform to a target platform includes filtering a set of configuration parameters in a source platform to a subset of configuration parameters, each of the parameters corresponding to a respectively different entry in a security checklist of a security benchmark. Then, a listing is presented in a user interface of each of the configuration parameters and for each configuration parameter, a corresponding entry in the security checklist regulating the configuration parameter according to a range of values. Finally, the configuration parameters in the subset are applied to a target platform excepting for at least one of the configuration parameters. Instead, alternative value within the range is received as input in the user interface and is applied to the target platform in lieu of the at least one of the configuration parameters.

Automated compliance for security benchmark assurance

Guard-railed security benchmark compliance assurance includes storing in memory of a computer a multiplicity of specific parameter values, retrieving from memory, different parameterized operating system directives arranged together in a programmatic module, populating different parameters of the directives with respective ones of the stored specific parameter values and invoking each of the directives with the populated different parameters through a command line shell of an operating system executing in the computer, each invocation establishing a different configuration setting in a computing environment hosted by the computer.

Guard railed security benchmark implementation assurance

Embodiments of the present invention provide for group policy object (GPO) update compliance. A method for GPO update compliance includes selecting both a compliance update and also a computing system as an endpoint targeted for receiving the compliance update, directing execution of a remediation process that applies the compliance update onto the selected endpoint and performing a re-scan of the selected endpoint subsequent to the execution of the remediation process. The method further includes executing a GPO update within a threshold period of time after the re-scan and repeating the re-scan after the GPO update and then comparing a log produced by the repeated re-scan after the GPO update with a log produced by the re-scan before the GPO update, detecting an out-of-compliance update in the comparison and responding to the out-of-compliance update by directing a repair of the out-of-compliance update using a domain login for the selected endpoint.

Group policy object update compliance and synchronization

Embodiments of the present invention provide for a method, system, and apparatus for creating a publishable computer file. The method includes selecting a first computer file encapsulating a source security policy for a computing device and creating a second computer file using the source security policy of the first computer file to create a local security policy and to encapsulate the created local security policy and also an operating system security policy. The method further includes calculating a hash value for the second computer file and storing the hash value in a header for the second computer file. The method yet further includes encrypting the second computer file, wherein the encrypted second computer file once loaded into memory of the computing device is processed by the computing device.

Automating the creation and maintenance of policy compliant environments

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, and computer program product for debugging a computer environment. In an embodiment of the invention, an anomaly is detected in a computing environment of multiple different computing devices disposed in multiple different network domains. Thereafter, administrative network privileges to access the multiple different network domains are acquired and existing resources in the computing environment are identified. Additionally, a signature file is loaded into a memory of the computer, where the signature file denotes infrastructure requirements of the computing environment, and the existing resources and the infrastructure requirements denoted in the signature file are compared to determine whether a disparity exists between the existing resources and the infrastructure requirements. Upon determining that the disparity exists between the existing resources and the infrastructure requirements a configuration of the computing environment of the multiple different computing devices is adjusted to fix the disparity.

Verification of computer system prior to and subsequent to computer program installation

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, and computer program product for ensuring the veracity of a mobile application for deployment in a distributed computing environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for ensuring the veracity of a mobile application for deployment in a distributed computing environment is provided. The method includes detecting a mobile application being uploaded for deployment to a mobile computing device in the distributed computing environment, creating and then storing a fingerprint for the uploaded mobile application, calculating an offset value according to the fingerprint for the uploaded mobile application, and storing the offset value for the uploaded mobile application. The method further includes, prior to deploying the uploaded mobile application to the mobile computing device, validating the offset value for the uploaded mobile application to determine that the uploaded mobile application is an unaltered version of the uploaded mobile application.

Mobile application deployment for distributed computing environments

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, and computer program product for validating a computer environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a signature file denoting the infrastructure requirements of a computing environment to support a computer program to be installed in the computer environment of multiple different computing devices disposed in multiple different network domains can be loaded. Administrative network privileges to access the multiple different network domains in the computing environment can be acquired. Further, at least one deficiency in the infrastructure requirements corresponding to one of the network domains can be identified and the identified deficiency can be remediated. The identified deficiency can be reported.

Embodiments of the present invention provide for a method, system, and apparatus for creating a policy compliant environment on a computer. In an embodiment of the invention, an encrypted file can be loaded into memory of a computing. The encrypted file can define a security policy for the computing device. The method can further include validating the encrypted file to ensure an authenticity of the encrypted file and updating the security policy of a target computing device in response to a successful validation of the encrypted file according to the validated encrypted file.

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Great Falls, VA, United States of America

Brian H Hajost