PolicyCortex: Cloud Governance, NIST/CMMC Compliance, Continuous ATO & AI Governance

PolicyCortex is the cloud governance and compliance platform that finds violations, fixes them under your approval rules, and builds your SSP, POA&M and assessment package from the evidence, for NIST 800-53 and 800-171, CMMC and continuous ATO. Your assessor or authorizing official can verify an exported package offline, without taking our word for it, through three proofs: Proof of State (what was true on any date), Proof of Change (what changed, and who approved it) and Proof of Agency (what automation was allowed to do). It is built for federal programs, national laboratories, organizations that handle CUI, federal integrators and healthcare systems under HIPAA that need NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, CMMC and FedRAMP documentation without hiring a dedicated compliance team. Azure and AWS are fully supported today, with GCP in early access.

Continuous Compliance and ATO

PolicyCortex ships the complete NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 catalog (1,196 controls and enhancements) with its Low, Moderate and High baselines, which FedRAMP builds on, and the full 110-requirement NIST SP 800-171 catalog that CMMC Level 2 assesses. 30 native Azure evidence collectors run continuously, so your evidence stays current instead of freezing at a point-in-time snapshot. The platform auto-drafts your System Security Plan (NIST SP 800-18) and Security Assessment Report (NIST SP 800-53A) as Word documents, builds your POA&M with two-way Jira sync, and exports assessor-ready packages in 8 formats including an eMASS POA&M worksheet and NIST OSCAL 1.1.2 JSON; the ZIP package carries a SHA-256 integrity manifest and an evidence chain with an offline verifier. CIS Benchmark and HIPAA reporting run on live Azure Policy data.

Governance and Safe Remediation

Azure and AWS violations flow into one lifecycle with real policy exemptions that scope from management group down to a single resource and auto-expire. More than 150 Azure violation types map to curated, deterministic remediation scripts pre-linked to NIST 800-53, CMMC, FedRAMP, and HIPAA controls. Fixes run as typed actions with the before and after state recorded, or as a script in an isolated container sandbox. Remediation is approval-gated by default with risk-tiered approvers; autonomy is opt-in, and success is reported only after the platform re-scans the resource and proves the violation actually cleared. This patent-pending Safety Sandwich pipeline (validate, execute, verify) is designed for change-controlled environments. Prefer GitOps? PolicyCortex generates the fix as Bicep, ARM, or Terraform and opens a pull request in your GitHub or GitLab repo, and it scans Terraform, Bicep and ARM for violations before you deploy. Drift detection catches click-ops changes and policy-assignment tampering, and new policy initiatives roll out with canary, wave, or blue-green strategies.

FinOps

Unified multi-cloud cost in the open FOCUS 1.x format. Budgets at any scope (subscription, resource group, management group, AWS account, or an entire cloud) with native cloud budget write-through. Reserved Instance and Savings Plan recommendations come live from AWS Cost Explorer and Azure Cost Management, multi-model anomaly detection ranks spikes by severity, tag-based chargeback allocates spend honestly, and AI spend guardrails catch denial-of-wallet bursts from runaway agents or leaked API keys.

AI Observability

Track models, tokens, spend, and latency across Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, and self-hosted runtimes. Map your AI defenses to 66 MITRE ATLAS techniques with honest scoring that shows a real zero instead of a fabricated number when no signal exists. Real-time guardrails block prompt injection and data leakage across 17 sensitive-data types, with NIST AI RMF maturity assessment built in.

Security and Trust

Microsoft Entra ID sign-in, persona-based access control, AES-256-GCM encryption for stored cloud credentials, per-request tenant verification, and a complete audit trail. Findings that resolve to NIST 800-53 controls are tagged with MITRE ATT&CK techniques, backed by a coverage dashboard.

Getting Started

Select Contact me, request access at policycortex.com, or book a call at policycortex.com/book. A person replies within one business day, and nothing connects to your environment until you agree on a read-only scope. Available on the hosted service, or as an installation in your own Azure subscription delivered with our engineers. Licensed per organization and quoted on request.