DISA STIG Hardened Red Hat 10 AMI on Azure

The Sedetos DISA STIG Hardened Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 image on Azure provides a production-ready, compliance-aligned operating system for organizations operating in federal, defense, and highly regulated environments. This image is designed for FedRAMP-ready environments and supports control inheritance with secure cloud adoption strategies that streamline authorization paths. By reducing friction between security and development teams, our hardened images help foster DevSecOps practices that are critical for faster ATO approval. Reduces manual effort in generating compliance documentation and audit artifacts.

Designed for secure, repeatable deployments in government and regulated environments. This image is built for workloads deployed in FedRAMP-authorized Azure environments and DoD Impact Level 4 and Impact Level 5 scenarios, this hardened image supports secure-by-default deployments where consistency, auditability, and defense-in-depth are critical.

How This Image Supports Faster ATO Outcomes

• Pre-hardened security baselines aligned with recognized standards (such as DISA STIG or HIPAA), reducing the need for manual configuration and revalidation during security assessments.
• Secure-by-default configurations that support control consistency, repeatability, and reduced configuration drift across environments.
• Audit-ready system settings that simplify evidence collection for security controls related to access control, logging, auditing, and system integrity.
• Designed to integrate with automated compliance, vulnerability scanning, and continuous monitoring tools commonly used in DevSecOps pipelines.
• Optimized for deployment in FedRAMP-authorized Azure environments, enabling customers to leverage cloud control inheritance and reduce duplicated assessment effort.

Aligned with Continuous ATO (cATO) and DevSecOps Practices

Built-In Compliance Evidence and Assessment Artifacts

This image includes pre-generated compliance and security assessment artifacts designed to support authorization, audit, and continuous monitoring activities in regulated environments. By providing these artifacts at deployment time, customers can significantly reduce the effort required to collect baseline evidence during security assessments and ATO preparation.

Compliance artifacts are generated using automated security assessment tools and are available on the virtual machine under the /opt/compliance-reports directory.

Included Assessment Reports and Artifacts

• Security Benchmark assessments (Level 1 and Level 2) in both human-readable (HTML) and machine-readable (XML) formats to support security validation and automation workflows.
• DISA STIG assessment reports in HTML and XML formats to support defense and high-assurance environment requirements.
• HIPAA Security Rule–aligned assessment reports to assist customers operating in healthcare or privacy-regulated environments.
• PCI DSS assessment outputs to support secure system validation for regulated workloads.
• Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) artifacts, including SPDX JSON, RPM package listings, and dependency inventories to support supply chain risk management and vulnerability analysis.

How These Artifacts Support Faster ATO

• Reduces time spent generating baseline security evidence by providing assessment results at deployment.
• Enables reuse of standardized security artifacts across environments and programs where applicable.
• Supports continuous ATO (cATO) and ongoing authorization models through machine-readable outputs suitable for automation and monitoring tools.
• Improves transparency for security reviewers by making configuration state and security posture immediately available.
• Helps security, compliance, and engineering teams align more quickly during ATO reviews.

Intended Use of Compliance Artifacts

These reports are provided to assist customers with their own compliance, authorization, and risk management processes. Final compliance determinations, authorizations, and certifications remain the responsibility of the customer and their authorizing officials.

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