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GoldDisk Plus™ for Amazon Web Services™
Revolutionizing STIG Compliance in the Cloud
GoldDisk Plus is a DoD STIG- hardened Windows 2008 R2 or 2012 R2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI). GoldDisk Plus allows customers to quickly establish DISA Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) compliant servers in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment. As a lead-ing provider of information assurance (IA) products, SteelCloud developed GoldDisk Plus as a direct result of our real-world DoD customer experience. The real “plus” in GoldDisk Plus is the unique technology that SteelCloud de-veloped to automate ongoing STIG policy maintenance. GoldDisk Plus can reduce IA costs by more than 70%, while increasing systems availability by dramatically reducing down-time due to policy or configuration maintenance er-rors. GoldDisk Plus allows government customers, and those organizations that support them, to reduce the cost and effort for implementing and maintaining compliant sys-tems in the Amazon cloud environment.
The Server Policy Problem
Maintaining server STIG policy settings is by far the most time and labor intensive of the systems administration func-tions. Frequently, the manual policy implementation and update process results in unplanned server downtime, negatively impacting costs and user productivity.
In working with our customers, we calculate that the government spends thousands of dollars annually, per server instance (both physical and virtual), to maintain server security policy compliance. While cloud services provides tremendous speed and flexibility in establishing and supporting IT infrastructures, STIG compliance has remained a manual labor-intensive task — until now!
Revolutionizing STIG Policy Support with ConfigOS™
GoldDisk Plus goes well beyond providing a simple up-to-date STIG-complaint OS image. The “plus” in GoldDisk Plus is ConfigOS, our revolutionary tool for STIG policy interroga-tion and remediation. ConfigOS utilizes this new patent-pending technology, that converts STIG policy into machine readable secure XML signatures, to automate the remedia-tion of production servers. ConfigOS automates security policy remediation by applying simple XML signatures – even across disconnected networks and security domains.
The traditional multi-day/multi-week STIG policy update and testing process now takes as little as 5 minutes - reducing server security policy maintenance expenses by over 70%. Additionally, ConfigOS is a low disruption platform, requiring no security, network, or infrastructure changes.
GoldDisk Plus Impacts Ongoing Expense Reduction
Implement new applications with “commercial” agility
Reduces staff requirements for policy/STIG implementation/testing
Increases systems availability by eliminating policy-related errors
Consistent STIG policy update process - easy to implement, document, and support
ConfigOS is the PLUS XML signatures validate STIG
policy and system configuration
Option for automated validation and/or one button remediation
Unique ConfigOS signatures can be created in minutes
And being a started task, ConfigOS will not affect throughput or AWS machine sizing or capacity.
Now is the Time
Take advantage of cloud services today without the traditional effort to establish and maintain STIG-compliant systems. Move your applications into the cloud at “commercial speed” with GoldDisk Plus. Whether establishing new or maintaining an existing AWS infrastructure, SteelCloud can help to signifi-cantly reduce your organization’s cost and effort for maintaining STIG compliance. And, GoldDisk Plus with ConfigOS, pays for itself the very first time you use it!
Reducing the Cost for Implementing and Supporting STIG Compliant Systems in AWS
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GoldDisk Plus™ for Amazon Web Services™
Revolutionizing STIG Compliance in the Cloud
Configuration Control Maximizes Consistency, Security, & Uptime
ConfigOS provides benefits to any organization that wants to establish and maintain configuration control on systems components, infrastructure, and policy across a complex AWS implementation. And, most importantly, ConfigOS was developed to work on systems already in production with the least possible interruption in availability.
The ConfigOS Control facility instantly validates system components and IT infrastructure based on application-specific requirements. Through its XML secure signature technology, ConfigOS defines the configuration and infrastructure “rules” that must be validated to ensure that applications can be installed and supported properly.
ConfigOS Control typically addresses versions and levels of critical software applications, operating systems, and components. Additionally, ConfigOS validates local/enterprise firewall port communica-tions, database settings, web & URL access, security settings, Active Directory permissions and server policy.
About SteelCloud
SteelCloud is located in Northern, VA (metro Wash. DC area). Across the DoD, we have been making “hard things, simple” by “turning projects into products.” SteelCloud has implemented STIG-compliant technologies in every DoD Service, both in the U.S. and around the world. We have years of experience in automating STIG and policy compliance. GoldDisk Plus is one of our very best solutions. Let us help your organization today!
ConfigOS - Maintaining Security Policy in the Cloud!
ConfigOS was developed for government customers and those integrators and ISVs that support government custom-ers. Unlike typical “boil the ocean” enterprise projects, ConfigOS represents enterprise efficiency without the over-head - easy to implement - easy to support—just like AWS!
How Does it Work
ConfigOS is built utilizing SteelCloud’s patent-pending technology that encompasses the functions necessary to automate the creation of STIG-compliant policy signatures and the updating of AWS machines.
SteelCloud creates and maintains standard Windows 2008 R2 STIG policy signatures. These signatures can be used to support and maintain any AWS GoldDisk Plus AMI server.
Optionally, the customer can completely control the ConfigOS signature creation process. By utilizing the ConfigOS Foundry, the user can publish both standard STIG signatures as well as “cloned” policy signatures from existing accredited servers. The ConfigOS Foundry combines XML policy data, optional configuration control data, along with user documentation to create a secure signature that can be utilized in both a customer’s cloud and private infrastructures. The compare and policy update process takes less than 2 minutes.
Simple to Get Started!
Available on the AWS Marketplace, GoldDisk Plus is the fast-est and simplest enterprise technology your organization will ever implement. And, just like AWS, GoldDisk Plus is simple - giving you concrete results in minutes.
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