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

PolicyCortex is the cloud governance and compliance platform that finds violations, fixes them under your approval rules, and turns the results into audit-ready evidence. It is built for defense contractors facing CMMC deadlines, national laboratories, healthcare systems under HIPAA, and federal integrators who need NIST 800-53 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 full 110-practice CMMC Level 2 / NIST SP 800-171 catalog and the complete NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 catalog (1,196 controls) with FedRAMP Low, Moderate, and High baselines. 28 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 eMASS XML and NIST OSCAL 1.1.2 JSON, each with a SHA-256 integrity manifest. AWS Config results become CMMC evidence automatically. 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 CMMC, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and HIPAA controls. Every fix runs in a single-use, network-isolated container sandbox using secretless workload-identity federation, never inside shared infrastructure. Remediation is approval-gated by default with risk-tiered approvers; autonomy is opt-in per rule, 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 in isolation, 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 IaC pull requests for violations before they merge. 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 and SAML SSO with just-in-time provisioning, 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. 4 U.S. patent applications filed.

Getting Started

Connect a cloud account and a 14-day free trial starts automatically. No credit card and no sales call required. Modular pricing is indexed to your cloud spend, with an ATO and CMMC Acceleration add-on for regulated customers. Visit policycortex.com/request-demo for a guided demo.