Compliance Server Remediation Workflow Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for ensuring compliance with industry and internal standards in computing resources, such as password length and registry settings, lack efficient monitoring and remediation processes, leading to potential non-compliance issues.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a compliance server and target host, where the compliance server determines compliance by analyzing changes in settings and configuration parameters, generates reports, and initiates remediation workflows for non-compliant items, involving approval and execution of remediation processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual monitoring and remediation processes are used, then human review and control are maintained, but compliance monitoring efficiency and speed are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service through automated remediation workflows where the compliance system automatically identifies non-compliant settings, generates remediation work orders, executes remediation scripts, and verifies compliance without requiring continuous manual intervention. This allows the system to monitor and remediate compliance issues autonomously while maintaining human oversight through approval mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by proactively monitoring settings changes and configuration parameters before compliance violations occur, generating advance notifications and remediation work orders. This allows organizations to prepare and execute remediation actions in advance, preventing non-compliance rather than responding to violations after detection.
2Reliability
If comprehensive monitoring of all computing resources is implemented, then compliance coverage is improved, but system complexity and resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the compliance monitoring function into distinct modular components: policy definition module, setting change detection module, compliance evaluation module, work order generation module, remediation execution module, and verification module. This segmentation allows each component to handle specific tasks independently, improving reliability while reducing overall system complexity through clear separation of concerns.
Solution Approach 2:
The compliance system is designed with multi-functionality to handle various compliance standards and monitoring scenarios through a unified platform. The same core system can monitor different settings, evaluate against multiple policies, and execute various remediation actions, reducing the need for separate specialized systems and thereby reducing overall complexity.
3Productivity
If automated remediation workflows are implemented, then remediation speed and consistency are improved, but control over remediation actions is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where remediation work orders require approval from authorized users before execution, and where the system provides feedback on remediation status, success/failure outcomes, and compliance verification. This feedback loop maintains human control and oversight while enabling automated execution, ensuring that operators retain authority over critical remediation actions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides dynamic control where the level of automation can be adjusted based on the specific remediation task and organizational requirements. Critical remediation actions can require manual approval and verification, while routine actions can be executed automatically. This dynamic configuration allows the system to adapt between high automation for speed and high control for critical operations.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and articles associated with remediation workflow. A method may include determining one or more test failures related to a policy test within a computer network, and reviewing the one or more test failures. The method may further include, based upon a result of the reviewing, creating a remediation work order that includes at least one of the one or more test failures. Each test failure within the remediation work order may be approved or denied. For each test failure that is approved for remediation, a remediation process may be executed.