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Regulatory Compliance & Governance Auditing

The Compliance management module (/compliance) enables enterprise organizations to enforce security baselines, monitor regulatory posture in real time, and generate audit-ready evidence for industry compliance frameworks.

Compliance Center Overview​

The Compliance Center evaluates your infrastructure configurations, access control policies, encryption standards, and backup frequencies against international compliance benchmarks.

Nife Compliance Auditing Dashboard

Supported Regulatory Frameworks​

Nife provides out-of-the-box policy rule packs for:

  • SOC 2 Type II: Verifies access controls, automated audit trail immutability, data encryption at rest and in transit, and continuous disaster recovery testing.
  • ISO/IEC 27001: Enforces information security management system (ISMS) controls across container lifecycles, network perimeters, and key management.
  • HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act): Assesses electronic protected health information (ePHI) isolation, audit logging, and data backup integrity.
  • PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard): Audits firewall configurations, TLS 1.3 enforcement, zero-trust network policies, and vulnerability management.
  • CIS Kubernetes Benchmark: Evaluates control plane and worker node hardening against Center for Internet Security standards.

Continuous Compliance Controls​

1. Automated Policy Assessment​

  • Scans cluster manifests for security policy violations (e.g., privileged containers, root user execution, unencrypted environment variables, missing resource limits).
  • Assigns a live Compliance Health Score (0–100%) with passed, warning, and failed control breakdowns.

2. Audit Evidence & Artifact Export​

  • Download comprehensive PDF and CSV compliance audit packages with one click.
  • Provide cryptographically verified audit trails of user access, deployment history, and configuration changes to external auditors.

3. Remediation Guidance​

  • Detailed step-by-step instructions and kubectl command snippets to remediate non-compliant controls and maintain certification readiness.