Cloud Compliance Rules Engine Automates Multi-Environment Checks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current IT compliance methods are error-prone and time-consuming, especially in cloud environments, where they are inflexible and require significant software development efforts, making it difficult to manage rapidly changing IT environments and hybrid IT setups.
Innovation Solution
A rules engine and domain-specific language that allow for writing statements to evaluate and take action across multiple cloud environments, enabling rapid application development with minimal software development overhead and increased reusability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional IT compliance methods are used in cloud environments, then compliance checking can be performed, but the process becomes error-prone and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual, mechanical compliance checking processes with an automated rules engine that executes compliance rules programmatically. This substitution eliminates human error in compliance assessment while accelerating the process through automated evaluation of cloud resource configurations against defined compliance requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The compliance system enables self-service through automated rule execution and evaluation. The rules engine automatically assesses cloud resources against compliance rules without requiring manual intervention, allowing the system to self-evaluate and identify compliance violations autonomously, thereby reducing both time and error rates.
2Reliability
If compliance management is implemented in rapidly changing cloud environments, then compliance can be monitored, but the system becomes inflexible and requires significant software development efforts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic compliance management through a rules engine that can execute and update compliance rules without requiring software redevelopment. The system adapts to changing cloud environments by allowing compliance rules to be modified and re-executed programmatically, enabling real-time adaptation to new cloud services and configurations while maintaining continuous compliance monitoring.
Solution Approach 2:
The rules engine serves multiple functions: it evaluates compliance rules, identifies violations, and can trigger remediation actions across diverse cloud environments. This universal platform handles various cloud service providers and compliance frameworks through a single system, eliminating the need for separate software development efforts for each compliance scenario.
3Reliability
If manual compliance processes are used, then compliance checking can be performed, but development lead time and expenses increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual compliance verification with automated rule execution embedded in the CI/CD pipeline. This substitution ensures compliance assurance is maintained while dramatically accelerating development speed by integrating compliance checks into automated build and deployment processes, eliminating manual review bottlenecks.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary compliance evaluation by executing rules against cloud resource configurations before deployments reach production. This advance compliance checking prevents non-compliant configurations from progressing through the development pipeline, ensuring compliance assurance while maintaining rapid development cycles through early detection and correction.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for compliance management across multiple cloud environments. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a rule, the rule using one or more statelets, wherein at least one of the statelets represents information procurable from a second cloud environment, wherein the second cloud environment is external to the first cloud environment; procuring the information from the second cloud environment; and executing the rule within the first cloud environment.